Wed.Apr 04, 2018

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The Four Steps to Building A Culture Of Innovation

Innovation Excellence

A Culture Of Innovation doesn’t just happen. It has to be built. Here’s How. I’ve often had CEOs tell me, “I want to build a culture of innovation. Can you come in and put one in place?” I feel like a Navy Seal called in to somehow covertly free the company from the shackles of.

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Why are some people creative and others not?

Michael Michalko

The key question isn’t “Why are some people creative and others not?” It is why in God’s name isn’t everyone creative? Where and how was our potential lost? How was it crippled? Why does education inhibit creativity? Why can’t educators foster more creativity instead of less? Why is it that the more expert people become in their fields, the less creative and innovative they become?

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Ignite Spotlight: An Interview with Johnson & Johnson’s Linda Lavelle

Planview

With over 120,000 employees and billions of dollars in revenue, Johnson & Johnson is one of the top consumer packaged goods companies on the planet. How, though, does a company of this size approach innovation? Especially in an industry that’s seeing new ecommerce startups popup that challenge traditional business models, and Amazon leveraging its distribution prowess for private label brands.

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IM Award Lessons: Rapidly Iterating on Promising Ideas

IdeaScale

This year, QED won the Innovation Management award for best innovation realized. The reason that they won this award is, because they were able to collaborate with other crowdsourcing platform TopCoder to test and prototype promising solutions right away – a great use of crowd resources. So we asked QED a few questions about their program and here’s what they had to say: IdeaScale : Why is innovation vital to your organization?

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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Idea to Impact: The Maturity of Innovation Programs

Planview

We recently published an article that introduced the shift from idea management to full lifecycle idea management. The main premise of the article was to shed a light on an important aspect of ideation and innovation programs: impact. In other words, it’s not enough to just come up with great ideas – that’s not the hardest part. What’s more important is what you do with these ideas and the impact they have on your business.

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A manager’s guide to disruptive innovation by Philippe Silberzahn (1/2)

Rapid Innovation in digital time

Philippe Silberzahn, a consultant, keynote speaker, and associate professor at EM Lyon Business School, works with large companies confronted to disruptions in their markets: it’s was natural that he summarizes the mechanisms of disruption, in his book A Managers’Guide to … Continue reading →

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Healthcare Innovation from the Leading Edge

Innovation Leader

Healthcare organizations are an extremely complex environments for innovation. Our report explores how healthcare companies have set up new initiatives that deliver results.

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HOW TO RAISE YOUR COMPANY'S CORE COMPETENCY OF INNOVATION (in 15 min. per week)

Idea Champions

Want to boost innovation in your organization, but have precious little time to do so? Our Micro-Learning for Innovators program may be just the ticket. And the fee? Name your own price. We be walking the talk. Here's what one of our clients says about it. Photo: Doran Erickson, Unsplash. Idea Champions.

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Here’s What Our Quantum Future Will Look Like

Digital Tonto

Those that win in this new age will not be the ones who can do old things faster, but those who can imagine new possibilities. Related posts: IBM Is Using The Crowd To Help Advance Its Quantum. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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When Saying Thank You Can Get You in Trouble

Michael Roberto

Jeremy Yip, Cindy Chan, Kelly Kiyeon Lee, and Alison Wood Brooks have conducted a study regarding competitive negotiations that, to some extent, is rather disheartening. They explored whether expressions of gratitude may be detrimental during negotiations. Specifically, they explored whether "negotiators are likely to respond selfishly and opportunistically to gratitude expressed in competitive deal-making situations.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Successfully shaping Digital Transformation

ITONICS

By Andreas Rusnjak. The digitalization of data and processes combined with delivery of excellent customer benefit along with digitized information and communication architecture will be an increasingly important strategic success factor for both established companies and young start-ups in the years ahead. New business models are needed to consolidate or expand company’s market position.