Tue.Oct 24, 2017

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Five Questions to Ask When Planning a Crowdsourcing Challenge

Yet2

Considering a challenge? While it may not be every company’s initial plan of action, it can lead to incredibly successful results and collaborations. Here are 5 questions to ask yourself when deciding if you should launch a challenge. 1. Who is the crowd? When it comes to a challenge, getting the best solution means getting the word out to the best crowd, and having a strong network for outreach is crucial.

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The Innovation Moai Test

Innovation Excellence

From an innovation standpoint, any innovator would be glad to find out that one’s creation continued to amaze future generations for hundreds of years. Yet I was struck by another analogy for innovation and the moai that could be relevant for modern practitioners.

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Wazoku News: New London HQ, 1 million+ user reach, Copenhagen expansion

Wazoku

Momentum is so important in many aspects of our lives. When we are ‘on a roll’ confidence builds, the daily bumps don’t impact you as much and good things seem to follow. Momentum is hard to achieve and even harder to sustain and it is therefore important to recognise it and celebrate it, especially with early stage businesses. At Wazoku, we have worked hard to achieve the momentum the business is currently experiencing and have some important milestone moments I wanted to recognise and celebrat

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An Innovation Coaching Methodology

Innovation Excellence

It often puzzles me the lack of investment we make in coaching, mentoring, or even facilitating around innovation, it simply is not enough with the use of an external innovation expert accelerating the process, stimulating the thinking and learning.

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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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Spigit Launches Fall Innovation Forum Series to Create a Gathering Place for the World’s Innovation Leaders

Planview

IBM , Pepperdine University , Pfizer , MetLife and more join us to share their experiences and key learnings around innovation. Today we’re thrilled to announce the launch of Spigit’s Fall Innovation Forum series! Following the huge success of Spigit events earlier in the year, this is the next evolution of Innovation Forums, hosted with strategic partner, IBM, and Spigit customers.

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Sales Summit 2018 for Licensed Practitioners

Innovation 360

Sales Summit 2018 for Licensed Practitioners. Welcome to two days focused in sales, with the best international speakers at Innovation 360 Group’s Office in Stockholm. This 2-day event will help you boost your sales immediately, we will cover sales tactics, pitching, Innovation Circle as a sales technique, pipeline for LinkedIn, the bew ISO and CEN standard in Innovation Management, etc.

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Voyage Dallas Magazine - Featuring Debra and William Miller

Values Centered Innovation

Voyage Dallas is an online magazine that shares inspiring stories about people and businesses in the Dallas area. We're delighted that they chose to feature an article about the co-founders of Values Centered Innovation, Debra and William Miller. Click here to enjoy!

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Overcoming Barriers to Innovation in Large Companies

Innovation Leader

We share 11 common barriers to innovation, present a list of the symptoms for each barrier, and provide questions that can help your colleagues and better understand the barrier.

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Sales Summit 2018: Get the Buy-In

Innovation 360 Group

Join our innovation movement and solve grand challenges. We will present the tools, methods, and network you need to become an Innovation Master of Excellence. Sales Summit 2018. Welcome to the home of innovation, where for two days we will focus on how to solve the biggest challenges our planet will face in the future. Meet experts from all over the globe and learn new ways of innovating, collaborating, and co-creating with others.

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What’s a Minimum Viable Innovation Team?

Innovation Leader

How do you put a strategic innovation strategy in place if you’ve got a shoestring budget, and you’re surrounded skeptics? Zeeshan Sheikh of Everbridge offers a blueprint.

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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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Amazon: No Need to Disclose (yet)

Michael Roberto

Shira Ovide has a terrific article for Bloomberg BusinessWeek titled, "Amazon Takes Secrecy to a Comic Extreme." She writes, Companies, of course, would prefer to reveal as little as possible. And then there's Amazon.com Inc., which takes financial disclosure stinginess to the next level. So far, investors have been fine with it. They see one of the world's most ambitious companies and a stock price that has quadrupled since 2012, and happily toss aside their Amazon spreadsheets filled with ques

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Courage to Fail

IdeaScale

Our attitude towards failure is an evolving concept and it also varies a lot depending on the country, the culture, and the individual. It can be very frightening. In fact, one study found that more people are afraid of failure than are afraid of spiders, ghosts, and being in an empty house. However, an investigation into failure shows that it is those among us that aren’t afraid to fail who will experience the most success.

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Bored by Strategic Planning? 11 Fun Strategic Planning Ideas NOT Stuffy for Work

BrainZooming

Are you in the midst of boring strategic planning meetings? Lots of people are right now enduring dreadful strategy meetings with all the same people, issues, and annoying behaviors they have been putting up with year after year. One executive facing the prospect of another round of boring strategic planning meetings asked what ideas we had for putting some fun into strategic planning ?

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Understanding the future leads to better innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

As many of you loyal readers know (thanks Mom!) I'm a big believer that success in life, as in innovation, is about understanding the future and bringing products and solutions to the market just as the market realizes its needs. This builds on the famous quip that to win the future you should create the future. The unspoken but obvious counterpoint is that you can wait to see what the future holds and then react to it.

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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.