Wed.Dec 22, 2021

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What are your innovation ambitions for next year?

Idea to Value

What are you hoping to achieve next year? No, I am not talking about what you and your company’s high level goals are: … Increase market share … … Improve profit margins … … Be innovative … I am asking what specific ambitions you and your company have for next year. Especially when it comes to what you want the creativity of your people to achieve.

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How Innovators are Working to Build Food Systems for the Future

IdeaScale

Overview: New agricultural, processing, and manufacturing technologies are changing what we eat, how long it keeps, and how we store it. What each of these innovations has in common is a thoughtful and different approach to common questions. The Challenge. While there remains some dispute about how many people the planet will need to support by the end of the 21st century, there’s no argument that there will be challenges.

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The Future of Student Transportation is Green

Business and Tech

School districts can take responsibility for the health of the planet through sustainable student transportation initiatives. Did you know that transportation accounts for the largest share of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States? What may surprise you even more is that the student transportation industry is a particularly egregious offender, with over 90 percent of the nation’s 500,000 school buses running on diesel and emitting 8.4 million metric tons of greenhouse gas annually — equi

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Balancing Function, Design, Process and Structure for Creative Tension

Paul Hobcraft

In the fourth conversation between Jeffrey Phillips and myself around parts of the Executive Innovation Work Mat, we took on several different issues around the design, function, structure and process needs for innovation. The conversation lasted nineteen minutes, and for some reason, I lost sound briefly at my end a few times, which was a pity. So I hope I can help fill those gaps and explore the what, why and how of having a dynamic functioning design and structured process to meet today’

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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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Plug In America Offers Programs to Help Drivers Go Electric

Business and Tech

Plug In America, PlugStar, and Drive Electric Earth Day help consumers learn about the benefits of EVs and make the switch. Plug In America is a nonprofit organization with a variety of resources that help consumers switch to an electric vehicle (EV) powered by clean, affordable, domestic electricity. This will reduce our nation’s dependence on foreign oil, improve air quality, result in better public health, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Technology Spotlight: Zoom Info Technologies Proving to be a Game Changer for Organizations Globally

Innovators Alliance

One of the biggest challenges organizations encounter today is how to generate quality leads. This means obtaining an accurate email address and telephone number for prospects. The pandemic and work from home phenomenon has made this even more challenging as many people are not available in their offices to answer a call. Instead, they are working from their cellphones which are less readily available.

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Set in Your Ways? Here’s how to Jumpstart your Next Big Idea.

Daniel Burrus

As entrepreneurs and business leaders, we get set in our ways. This is often a natural reflex; our products are fulfilling needs, our processes are working, our services are satisfying, and we are making money. Finding success in what works is not a bad thing whatsoever; you need to make money, after all! However, how this behavior becomes detrimental is when said business or organization protects and defends this status quo of what is “working,” even when profits stagnate, customers wane, and,

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How to Cope with the Climate Emergency

InnovationLabs

There does not seem to be any doubt now that there really is a climate emergency, but there is a lot of uncertainty about what we must do to address it. The COP 26 meeting in Glasgow in November 2021 clearly highlights the difficulties we have as a global society in coping with systemic problems of this magnitude. In Glasgow there was essentially no disagreement about the nature and scope of the problem, but a lot of dithering about what to do.

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2021 at Cascade

Cascade Strategy

Phew, as they say in Australia — “What a bloody great year!”.

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How Electric Charging Solutions Are Supporting the Energy Transition Journey

Business and Tech

Shell is supporting the transition to electric by offering new EV charging services that are convenient and easy to use. Half of all new passenger vehicles sold in the United States by 2030 will be powered by electricity. That’s the goal of the Biden administration as part of the country’s participation in the global Paris Agreement, which aims to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions.

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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.