Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 6, 2018

When Enron was formed in 1985 through the merger of two natural gas pipeline companies, it became the second largest gas marketer in the America. Over the next decade the firm grew to be a dominant force in the industry and built a sophisticated trading operation that could compete with the biggest New York banks.

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Planview

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Ideating and selecting winning ideas – ideas deemed worthy of further development – is half the battle when it comes to crowdsourced innovation. The other half, which is arguably the most important part of the innovation process, is what you do after you’ve selected the top ideas from a crowdsourced innovation challenge. As you narrow down ideas and the best ones surface, you will generally find that they are still fledglings that require more development and firmer stakes in the ground.

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Exago

DECEMBER 6, 2018

To mark Exago's 11th anniversary, we have put together our clients' pieces of wisdom to truly bring innovation together. This is lesson 3. The post Lesson 3 from true innovation managers: go for global participation appeared first on Exago.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 6, 2018

At IdeaScale’s Open Nation this year, one of our speakers addressed the challenge of managing an innovation pipeline with only one dedicated resource: herself. Obviously, when you work at an organization with over 20,000 employees, the inflow of ideas can be difficult to manage on your own, but Alison Meyerstein has found a way to marshal part-time resources to her cause in the form of what she calls “SLAM Teams.”.

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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 Excellence

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Recently I had the opportunity to attend Siemens ConneCTs 2018 in Princeton, New Jersey, an event billed as a science fair for adults with a theme this year of AI & the Rise of Autonomous Systems. Dr. Kurt Bettenhausen, the Senior Vice President of Corporate Technology for Siemens US, opened the event and introduced a.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 6, 2018

I surprised a CMO the other day, telling her something she was NOT expecting to read in an introductory email. Here’s the story. A long-time friend was making an introduction between one of her current clients and me. The focus was her firm needing to develop its brand strategy. Following up the initial email exchange, I shared the following: “If you are looking to accelerate branding development, we use a streamlined process that is highly collaborative.

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Brainstorming is one of the most over-used words in business today, maybe even most over-used in all organizations. Any time people are trying to come up with ideas, they call it brainstorming. And as a result, the techniques, rules, and methods of brainstorming are twisted and abused to where everyone seems to hate brainstorming and.

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Moves the Needle

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Video Interview with Heather Hiscox Igniting an entrepreneurial spirit inside organizations in the social impact sector is something we have committed ourselves to at Moves the Needle, which is why we launched an entire division dedicated to addressing the challenges that many non-profit, government and philanthropic organizations may face. We work with city employees, non-profit professionals and philanthropic foundation leadership to inspire this new way of thinking and to tear down the divide

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MSSBTI

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Purpose driven strategies are more adaptive and more successful. The challenge for leaders is how to actually instill purpose into the organization and make it meaningful. Many companies have sought to establish their purpose (or pay consultants to do it) only to spend weeks wordsmithing a watered-down statement to hang in their office only to see it easily forgotten.

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Michael Roberto

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Source: Wikimedia Commons Ian Leslie has written a terrific story for The Economist's 1843 magazine titled, " A rocker's guide to management. " In the essay, Leslie describes four models for organizing a great rock band and draws some conclusions about how to run a start-up and later a more complex business. Leslie writes, "The history of rock groups can be viewed as a vast experimental laboratory for studying the core problems of any business: how to make a group of talented people add up to mo

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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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