Fri.Apr 28, 2017

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The Creativity Crisis: It’s Getting Worse

Idea to Value

In this very special guest post by Professor KH Kim, we find out the updated facts of what is happening to people’s creativity levels over the past decades, now with updated statistics for 2017. This is a follow-up to what I consider to be one of the most important pieces of creativity research from the past decade. Children are born to be creative, like eagles are born to soar, see the world, and find food, not scratch and fight for scraps in a coop.

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Transform Your Customer Relationships

Daniel Burrus

These days, “talking about our relationship” means more than it used to. Now, it spells game-changing opportunity. For many, an organization’s relationship with its customers used to be largely limited to the point of sale. Thereafter, contact was a good deal more incidental—maybe a bit of anecdotal feedback or a response to a satisfaction survey, but that was usually it.

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Innovation – Why It’s Better Not to Go It Alone

Svava

Innovation – Why It’s Better Not to Go It Alone Why forming and tasking a group with innovation has better results While one person might be tasked with managing and reporting on innovation projects, they shouldn’t have to think them up all on their own. Really, it’s better for everyone if they don’t. Let’s […].

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Inspirational Quotes from Scientists and Inventors

IdeaConnection

Nurture your inventive inclinations with these wise, inspiring and thought-provoking quotes from some of the greatest inventive and scientific minds our planet has ever seen. “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” Albert Einstein. “There are no rules here–we’re trying to accomplish something.” Thomas Edison. “It had long come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them.

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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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Inside the Mind of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos

Planview

In an article on Innovation Excellence , Braden Kelley shares a letter written by one the most well-known innovators on the planet, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. In the letter, Bezos gives shareholders a glimpse into Amazon’s DNA as a company and where he puts the most value when it comes to operating the business. Here’s what innovation leaders can learn from the brilliant mind of Jeff Bezos.

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Transformational PLM is Hard – It’s Time to Rally the Troops

Innovation Excellence

In this blog series, I provide insights as to why PLM has true potential to be so transformational for life sciences companies, but many aren’t getting there. We have covered adoption obstacles and turned our attention to developing a business strategy focused on innovation and then a subsequent PLM strategy. We have talked a lot about.

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Innovation - Why It's Better Not to Go It Alone

Svava

Innovation - Why It’s Better Not to Go It Alone.

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It Pays to Plan

Michael Roberto

You are an aspiring entrepreneur. You would like to launch a startup. You've been hearing that writing a business plan is over-rated. You just need to do it. Mistakenly, some have counseled you that adopting a learning by doing approach somehow means not planning at all. New research by Francis Greene and Christian Hopp explores the question of whether it "pays to plan" as an entrepreneur.

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What Drives Your Organization?

Idea to Value

As strategy and innovation consultants, we get called in to organizations when they are exhausted from trying to grow significantly and not meeting their goals. In most cases, the organization is trying to do too many things without a way to tie them into a coherent meaning. Most of them need to either discover or rediscover and articulate what we call their Golden Thread, their driving aspiration.

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The Day after Disruption

Qmarkets

Sometimes it seems like organizations, even large enterprises, live and die by their ability to create disruptive innovations that completely redraw the market landscape, putting them at the forefront. But is this the correct way to go? Uber's fleet of self-driving cars had barely been on the road a month this March when a vehicle in fully autonomous mode was involved in a collision with a human-operated car in Tempe, Arizona.

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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.