Tue.Dec 03, 2019

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Innovation - fast and slow, for the right reasons

Jeffrey Phillips

For quite some time we've been hearing about how important it is to do things quickly, with many new adjectives placed in front of the word "innovation". These words include adjectives such as "lean", "agile" and "rapid", to make the point that innovation should be stripped to its bare components, move as fast as possible and create minimum viable solutions.

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Three Strategies for Becoming an Industry Game Changer

New Markets Advisors

Executives are under constant pressure to boost revenue and increase profitability. In the abstract, that’s fairly straightforward. When… Continue reading on New Markets Insights ».

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Is Your Office Design Stifling Creativity?

IdeaScale

Office design matters for innovation. . Without enough light, water, or the right mix of nutrients, a plant might live, but it may grow poorly, have droopy leaves and refuse to bloom. Similarly, your workers need certain things to thrive. You want your employees to bloom, don’t you? That’s why your office design matters. All manner of stimuli — or lack thereof — can get in the way of fostering an environment that promotes innovation.

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S3E47: Prof. Keith Sawyer – The Creative Classroom and improving learning outcomes

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value Podcast, we speak with Prof Keith Sawyer from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Prof Sawyer is an expert researcher on creativity, and we talk about what it takes for children to learn most effectively, how teachers and schools need to adapt to new ways of teaching, and how this can teach us about becoming more creative.

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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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Strategy Evaluation - How To Do It Correctly

Cascade Strategy

The process of strategy evaluation is often overlooked in the overall strategic planning process. After the flurry of activity in the initial planning stages, followed by the reality check of executing your strategy alongside business-as-usual, strategy evaluation is often neglected. When this occurs, strategies quickly become outdated and out-of-sync with the changing face of the organization.

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Mastering Business Testing: Formulating Strong Hypotheses

Strategyzer Innovation

When you are working on a new business idea, you may be confident that you are on the right path. However, each building block of your business model and value proposition represents an area of risk that needs to be tested: Customer segments, key resources, channels, value propositions, revenues and costs. In order to run good experiments to test our business ideas we need to formulate strong hypotheses that are testable, precise and discrete.

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What Large Companies Can Learn From Failure

Innovation Leader

Ari Ginsberg, professor of entrepreneurship and management at NYU, discusses gazelles, elephants, and why it’s important to build a company culture that talks about successes — and failures.

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How to Figure Out What Business Intelligence Tools Your Small Business Needs

InnovationManagement

Today, nearly every action taken by a consumer generates data, and the price point of data analytics technology is now within the budget range of most small-to-mid-sized firms. The post How to Figure Out What Business Intelligence Tools Your Small Business Needs appeared first on Innovation Management.

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Bournemouth University launches SPEED, part of a European funded project (Interreg 2 Seas) that aims to transform port logistics

Wazoku

New SPEED platform will use Wazoku to capture the ideas and innovation for Western European ports to meet industry challenges including carbon emission reduction 3 December 2019 – Bournemouth University is using Wazoku’s idea management platform, Idea Spotlight, to power the stakeholder engagement in the SPEED project, a major initiative that looks to gather and develop the ideas that will transform port logistics across Western Europe.

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10 Easy Steps for Writing and Publishing a Book in 2 Weeks

Stephen Shapiro

Writing and publishing a book can be easy when you know how… What if you could conceive a book, write the book, and have physical copies in your hand in just two weeks? And what if it cost you nothing (other than the cost of the books)? I did this for my first self-published book many years back – and used several of the steps for my next book, Invisible Solutions.

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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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Augmented Reality Ads: Tools to Help with Purchase Decision

Brunner

As features that provide consumers with more control over their data and restrict advertising continue to roll out, it’s more important than ever for brands to provide a personalized and interactive experience that feels authentic and is useful. Looking ahead to 2020, here’s a trend that your brand should consider as part of next year’s strategy. Augmented Reality.

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JSC IT-Partner awarded with Top InnovationIQ

Innovation 360 Group

JSC has been awarded the InnovationIQ of 71, which places them on the top 5 list in Europe. This an achievement that is extraordinary and the fruit of long and intensive work that has been done in partnership with Innovation 360 and the Swedish GrowKomp program. JSC has been profitably growing year to year with 20%, serving Swedish clients with efficient and innovative IT solutions, which also placed them on the top list of the best companies to work for in Sweden and as a Microsoft Gold Partner

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Innovation Essentials: Revera Senior Living

Innovation Leader

“How can teams use co-creation to innovate?” Innovation Leader’s Kaitlin Milliken discusses how the team at Revera Senior Living navigates this challenge.

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Are You Being Productive or Just Busy?

The Human Factor

In our fast-paced world we’re all busy, to the point where we spend time we swear we don’t have to complain about how busy we are. At the same time, “busy-ness” feels good because it seems like we’re getting stuff done. The question is, are we getting done what we need to get done day in and day out? Research suggests not. A study conducted by Rescue Time , a maker of a personal time tracking app, found that only 26% of survey respondents felt they often leave the office having accomplished the

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and Guest Speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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Getting Started with Industrial IoT Security

Taivara

You’ve already been hacked. That’s the point of view of cyber security professionals regarding your well-secured IT infrastructure. When it comes to your Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) security, what are the chances your trillions of connected devices are secure? Not very good. Ensuring the security, reliability, resilience, and stability of your IIoT systems is critical to ensuring trust and reducing business risk.

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Game Changers: How Citizen Science and Gamification Are Transforming the Business World

Qmarkets

The acclaimed educational reformer John Dewey once said, “every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination”. Today, this audacity is reflected in the rising influence of citizen driven innovation and science – that is, the collaboration of volunteer non-scientists with professional scientists in collecting data and analyzing it to resolve real-world issues.