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Idea Drop is now an approved supplier on the UK Government Digital Marketplace

Idea Drop

G-Cloud Digital Marketplace was initiated by the UK Government and it allows public sector organisations to easily review and buy services. It has never been easier to access online database of suppliers, find eligible software providers, compare them and select the best one for the project. It essentially saves the public sector time and costs on the procurement of cloud services.

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7 Signs to Invest in a Social-First Content Strategy for Your Brand

BrainZooming

We still come across many companies, especially in B2B, that do not incorporate a content marketing strategy to effectively reach potential customers. The reasons they give for lagging in this area? A content marketing strategy is not a priority for them. They doubt whether social-first content strategy will work for their companies, because they are different or have customer bases that do not care.

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How artificial intelligence and innovation will interact

Idea Drop

The matter remains open for discussion but we are more interested in how the advent of AI will interact with innovation over the following months and years. “A.I. will replace up to 45 per cent of American jobs within 20 years.” Oxford University Study We have been aware of the potential for AI to take over the more repetitive and mundane tasks for some time now.

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Open Innovation Just Got Easier

100%Open

This week we’re launching our new free open innovation toolkit. Our existing toolkit has been a success – with over 3,000 subscribers globally – and we’re building on our experience these past 3 years by iterating! We have designed our toolkit to be used by those new to open innovation and old hands alike. It consists of 30 tools covering the whole open innovation journey from setting a strategy for collaboration to implementing mutually beneficial business models.

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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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Innovation = Finding New Problems X New ways to solve problems

Rmukesh Gupta

I read a post “ See differently, to solve differently ” by Mike Shipulski. He argues that innovation is all about solving problems (new/old) in different ways (new/old). There is great potential in solving new problems in new ways. He also argues that in order to solve new problems, we need to identify the new problems and one way of doing that is to look at the problem in new ways.

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Innovation Sighting: LG's New Smart Vacuum Doubles as a Home Security System

Innovation in Practice

The rush to put new technology in the home is heating up like never before. Challengers include Amazon (Echo), Google (Home), and soon we'll have Apple's Siri device. Microsoft can't be far behind. Now here's a completely different take on home technology, and it's a perfect example of the Task Unification Technique , one of five in the S.I.T. innovation method.

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Key Takeaways from 2017 Internet Trends Report [presentation]

Innovation Excellence

Greg Swan summarizes Mary Meeker’s famous annual Internet Trends Report. "Although never presented very clearly (in a creative sense), this is one of the most important milestones of aggregating trend data in our industry each year.".

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ITU Telecom World 2017: Exploring Smart Digital Transformation

InnovationManagement

Questions about the role of AI, IOT, fintech, and more are at the heart of ITU Telecom World 2017, the leading tech event for governments, large businesses and SMEs, organized each year by ITU, the UN’s key agency for ICT matters. This year’s event will be held in Busan, Republic of Korea, from 25 – 28 September, 2017, on the theme of smart digital transformation, its impact and opportunities.

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History Lessons for Innovators [video]

Innovation Excellence

Scott Bowden spends a great deal of time thinking about what he terms as “historical innovation,” which is the concept that one can improve the efficacy of modern innovation programs by studying examples of how people solved problems in the past , and applying those techniques to the challenges faced by current students of innovation.

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The New Normal

100%Open

We live in turbulent times. Yet the One Love concert in Manchester last night was a moving tribute to all of those who had been affected by the incidents in both London and Manchester in the past few weeks, and a powerful signal that we should always choose love not hate. Growing up in both Manchester and Berlin in the 1980’s has profoundly shaped my worldview.

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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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Do Reusable Grocery Bags Lead to Unhealthy Eating?

Michael Roberto

Scholars Uma Karmarkar and Bryan Bollinger have conducted fascinating new research regarding reusable grocery bags. Through both empirical data from the field and experimental studies, Karmarkar and Bollinger discovered how shopping with reusable grocery bags influenced consumer behavior. Not surprisingly, they found that people tend to buy more organic foods when they shop with reusable bags.

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Five Ways Incivility Decapitates Innovation

Gregg Fraley

A Culture of Incivility Harms USA Innovation. Five Ways Incivility “Decapitates” Innovation. The recent flap around Kathy Griffin’s posting a picture of a fake severed head, of our President, was a sad attempt at humor, but incredibly successful at provocation. It’s brought up the discussion, once again, of the civility of our discourse in America.