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KPMG’s ‘Innovation Survey 2016’ reveals how collaboration is central to success

Exago

Exago has partnered with KPMG in Portugal to promote the first global ‘Innovation Survey’ to companies operating in the country. The post KPMG’s ‘Innovation Survey 2016’ reveals how collaboration is central to success appeared first on www.exago.com.

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America Isn’t Out Of Ideas. In Fact, A New Era Of Innovation Is About To Begin

Digital Tonto

What we really need is more ideas about how to translate our scientific prowess into tangible economic impacts. Related posts: We Need To Accelerate Innovation—Here’s How: How America Became. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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10 Questions to Identify Innovative Thinking in Salespeople

BrainZooming

Several people asked recently about questions to help identify innovative thinkers in sales. While we have done a bunch of strategic and creative thinking skills workshops for sales teams in the past several years , we have never put together a specific diagnostic on this topic. When multiple people ask a question, though, it is time to do something about it!

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Leveraging Organizational Identity to Foster Growth

Daniel Burrus

A quote often attributed to Oscar Wilde urges people to be themselves because everyone else is taken. In a way, that bit of wisdom certainly applies to organizational identity, where what you are serves to differentiate you from both partners and competitors. But in building and managing identity, anticipatory organizations are very much aware that a valuable identity is not a one and done proposition.

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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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What stops Us from Creating Breakthrough Innovations

Rmukesh Gupta

Have you ever been part of an innovation project that started off with big ambitions and dreams about coming up with disruptive innovations which are expected to be game changing and end with a me-too or a watered down incremental innovation to an existing product category? I have been part of a few such projects which start with much fanfare and later on become run-of-the-mill projects with no breakthrough’s to show for.

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Three Paths to Successful Organic Growth

Innovation Excellence

The inconvenient truth that most leaders understand yet neglect to appreciate is that organic growth is a 'one size fits one' endeavor and best practices will only get you so far.

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Achieving ‘Go-to-Market Fit’

InnovationManagement

MobileIron Co-Founder Bob Tinker describes the next challenge for a startup after figuring out product-market fit, and that’s achieving what he calls “go-to-market fit.” This entails three things: deciding on a sales model and committing to it, developing a repeatable sales and marketing routine that secures and delights new customers, and positioning the business so it aligns perfectly with the problem it is addressing.

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Seeker Spotlight: The Nature Conservancy

Innocentive

The Nature Conservancy , in collaboration with the US Environmental Protection Agency and the US Geological Survey , recently launched a Challenge seeking to identify and spur development of technologies to monitor nitrogen concentration in effluent from advanced Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems. The Challenge has a guaranteed award of $20,000 but up to $55,000 is available for awards.

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Innovation Teams & Business Units

Innovation Leader

Our report on building productive relationships between innovation groups and the business units includes insights and advice from AIG, Ralph Lauren, W.L. Gore and more.

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How Successful Leaders Make Decisions

Michael Roberto

Lydia Dishman has written a column for Fast Company titled, "How Leaders at Google, Buzzfeed, and More Make Decisions." She has a number of interesting tidbits from various leaders. A few key themes emerged: The Value of Seeking Small Wins: In a recent report for Fast Company, Harry McCracken asked staffers of Facebook how their leader has pulled off some of the company’s recent major achievements.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with 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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NRG’s Portable Power Kiosks from Concept to the Super Bowl

Innovation Leader

NRG Go’s automated kiosks rent out fully-charged battery packs so that people can recharge their phones and tablet on the go. Find out more.

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Podcast #005: Peter Cook – What businesses can learn from music

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value Podcast, we interview Peter Cook from the Academy of Rock. Peter takes lessons from his long experience in both the business and musical industries, and meshes them together to help companies improve the way they approach challenges. We go through some of the major things which businesses and leaders can learn from music.

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Will the profile of innovators change?

IdeaScale

A recent study by the ITIF (Information Technology & Innovation Foundation) gave us some inside information about who the innovators are in the United States. “Immigrants, we get the job done.” This is the cry of Lafayette and Alexander Hamilton in recent blockbuster musical Hamilton , and the ITIF study shows us it is no joke. More than one third of U.S. innovators were born out of the United States, including over 17 percent of whom are not U.S. citizens making enormous contributions to U.

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