Tue.Apr 02, 2019

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Top Challenges for Open Innovation and How to Solve Them

IdeaScale

Sometimes an innovation finds you. Innovation works best when it incorporates a broad network of perspectives. Open innovation, where a company invites outside groups such as academic organizations and non-profits to offer ideas to address challenges, can be a superb way to get those perspectives. However, some challenges must be addressed as you develop your innovation strategy.

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How to Awaken Curiosity and Activate Your Inner Anthropologist

Innovation 360 Group

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10 Rules of Innovation Management - Part 5: Evaluation and Recognition

HYPE Innovation

INTRODUCTION. This is the fifth and final part of the broader series on the 10 Rules of Innovation Management. Over the past few weeks, I've shared best practices for managing an online, collaborative innovation management program, whether you're already well on your way or are just starting to think about launching a program. Last week, I shared my views on communication and transparency , and this week it’s about evaluation and recognition.

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Confessions of a newcomer

Board of Innovation

In a few short weeks since my arrival at Board of Innovation, I’ve learned that this is a workplace culture that is exceptionally good at nurturing the full potential of its staff. The post Confessions of a newcomer appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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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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The Missing Step for Start-ups Who Want to Scale-up

Innovation Excellence

Last November, I attended the speech of David Skok at Web Summit 2018: it was related to startups scale-up in B2B business. I’m sensitive to the topic, being a participant of the Scale-Up Peer Group, and having drafted the Scale-Up Canvas for intrapreneurs who want to scale-up. Nevertheless, I was quite impressed by the quality.

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A New Value of Business Relationships

InnovationManagement

Small companies developing new technologies strive to survive the process of technology development: they have scarce resources to engage in business relationships. Is there any value on which they are missing out?

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Digital Innovation and Scaling-Up

Integrative Innovation

A new research report from Accenture, titled “ Rethink, Reinvent, Realize. How to successfully scale digital innovation to drive growth ” is hot off the press. It highlights the following key takeaways: Only 22% of large organizations are successfully scaling digital innovation proof of concepts (PoCs) to drive growth. Those ‘Champions’ enjoy up to 9.9% return on digital investments (RODI). ‘Champions’ approach the organizational challenges associated with inn

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What Changes When an Organization Implements a Lean Management System?

Kainexus

We talk to people who are interested in investing in software to support their continuous improvement efforts every day. Some of them are already using the Lean business methodology , others are just rolling it out, and still others are taking a “Lean light” approach by leveraging some of the principles without adopting all of the techniques. In any case, leaders want to have a good understanding of what to expect and how a Lean management system can help them achieve their goals.

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Innovation That Transforms Us

100%Open

100%Open Spring Union Report. Given that our Spring Union was hosted on the night before Brexit was supposed to happen we weren’t hopeful of either great numbers or maximum attention! Happily we were proved wrong on both counts with 80 Unionistas turning up, 9 excellent 5 minute presentations and a real buzz afterwards. Thanks @phillirose for the prototyped warm-up!

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Confessions of a newcomer

Board of Innovation

In a few short weeks since my arrival at Board of Innovation, I’ve learned that this is a workplace culture that is exceptionally good at nurturing the full potential of its staff. The post Confessions of a newcomer appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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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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Technology Spotlight: Major Technical Trends in 3D Printing

Yet2

In the course of our work – particularly our Strategic DealFlow and Topic Specific Scouting – we uncover pertinent technologies from all over the world. One of the sectors we’ve developed a great deal of depth in is the hot area of 3D printing. Our experience in investigating and analyzing 3D printing innovations has enabled us to identify the major technical trends in 3D printing.

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Playing In the Startup Sandbox

Innovation Leader

Should big companies even try to plug in to the startup ecosystem?” We talk with Arvind Purushotham, the Head of Venture Investing at Citi Ventures, and others to find out.

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Why You Need to Hire Physician Intrapreneurs

Innovation Excellence

… and what to do with them once you have them. Surthriving in the brave new world of sickcare requires not just a new playbook, but players with new skill sets to execute the plans. Knowledge technicians are as obsolete as an NFL team with a running game but without a passing and special teams plan. Unfortunately, HR.