Wed.May 24, 2017

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Where does Triz fit within our growing organizational practices for Innovation?

HYPE Innovation

We have seen a consistent change over the years to move towards a more inventive engineering and discovery mindset within our innovation approaches. We started in manufacturing, continued in logistics and supply chain and have seen an evolution of our labs and thinking to keep advancing our processes, thinking and growth inside our organizations. Now we are looking far more outside, connecting into the customer’s specific needs.

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Five Tips for Truly Opening Your Mind

IdeaScale

Innovative thinking requires work. Here’s where to start. Can you truly change the way you think? We all have “thinking patterns,” ways and methods we tend to approach problems that we default to. But the old adage applies to problem-solving strategies as well as tools: When all you have is a hammer, everything starts looking like a nail. Here’s how to break out of thought processes that limit your innovation.

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Here’s How Technology Can Help Solve The Black Swan Problem

Digital Tonto

It seems clear that our technology will soon advance to the point where even the highly unlikely becomes a sure bet. Related posts: 5 Smart Technology Trends For The Next 5 Years. 5 Marketing. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Business Strategy – How to Handle Confidential Information

BrainZooming

Last week’s “Inside the Executive Suite” from Armada Corporate Intelligence featured ideas for how to handle confidential information. The business strategy focus revolved around how an executive can maintain confidences while employing confidential information to best benefit his or her organization. While passing along confidential information was more in the news last week than this week , it’s a daily issue in business.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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What’s the Secret to the Next-Big-Thing? Anticipation.

Daniel Burrus

Every organization, no matter what they do or whom they serve, is constantly watching for ways to increase the value of what they offer. Anticipation and being anticipatory is a very powerful strategy with which you can boost your overall value. That comes from understanding your customers’ present and future needs more thoroughly to leveraging the enormous impact of new technology and market disruption.

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Where to Start with Innovation? Begin by removing the Barriers

InnovationManagement

Surveys show that the large majority of senior executives see innovation as critical for their businesses but what if you want to make your organization more agile and innovative where should you start? You could launch a big initiative with grand statements, training classes and an ideas scheme but you tried all those last year and they fizzled out.

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Innovation is the Most Potent Form of Leadership Development

Innovation Excellence

Innovation is the most potent form of leadership development. You can’t outsource the important things. After working with more than 100 clients, we have noted one of the most critical factors in the success of an innovation project: if you outsource all of the work on your innovation projects, they will fail. It doesn’t matter.

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What’s an innovator to do?

Mike Shipulski

Disruption, as a word, doesn’t tell us what to do or how to do it. Disruption, as a word, it’s not helpful and should be struck from the innovation lexicon. But without the word, what’s an innovator to do? If you have a superpower, misuse it. Your brand’s special capability is well known in your industry, but not in others. Thrust your uniqueness into an unsuspecting industry and provide novel value in novel ways.

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The Innovator’s Dilemma: Lessons from Kodak

InnovationManagement

I guess everyone knows the tragic story of the EastmanKodak Company: founded in the 19th century, dominating the photographic film market during most of the 20th century and finally collapsing into bankruptcy in the early 21st century, shaken by a new technology they had once decisively initiated.

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Starting Intrapreneurs Studio at Orange

Rapid Innovation in digital time

Intrapreneurship is about opening the innovation doors to every employee, and build on his resilience to bring an innovative product faster to the market. What have we learned from creating the Intrapreneurs Studio at Orange? Surely that's intrapreneurship is not only about innovation, but also about human development.

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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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When the Blockchain Meets the Road

Innovation Excellence

An Exciting Future vs. Government Regulation -- The future of human travel is exciting. We conquered the skies when the Wright brothers took flight in 1903, only after turning our attention from the invention of the underground railway in London in the late 1800s. Since then, we’ve come to traverse the skies and subterranean tunnels packed in giant metal tubes, crammed.

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1776 President Peter Cherukuri on BigCo-Startup Collaborations

Innovation Leader

Startups want to engage with big companies. Companies know that startups are developing business models and technologies that will impact their industry. So where do things go wrong?

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Pharmaceutical: Accelerate Innovation With Software Technology

eZassi

Pharmaceutical Companies Accelerate Innovation with Software Technology. First, A Look at Deloitte’s US Life Sciences Outlook Report. Deloitte released the 2017 US Life Sciences Outlook and the report discusses some very important points for the pharmaceutical sector to consider. It’s a great report and one worth reading. Let’s compound this with a few other events occurring in this space: The healthcare bill on the senate floor that’s yet to be determined.

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Innovation formulation: How to innovate by industry

Wazoku

Coming up with new ideas when you are running a business of any size is a challenge. Whose responsibility is it to be innovative and where can you find inspiration are just two questions over which business leaders scratch their heads. However, for most companies the answer is staring them in the face — ideas come from people and from good communication, so you have to engage the army of potential innovators that every company has at its disposal.

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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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Ultimatum OR A Mindful Strategic Plan?

Linda Bernardi

Regarding this article: IBM tells thousands of remote employees to come back to office or find new jobs No question that to build and sustain a winning corporate culture, it is better if people have face to face interactions. However, the company has the responsibility to: 1. Explain and justify the radical change in decision […].

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Ultimatum OR A Mindful Strategic Plan?

Linda Bernardi

Regarding this article: IBM tells thousands of remote employees to come back to office or find new jobs No question that to build and sustain a winning corporate culture, it is better if people have face to face interactions. However, the company has the responsibility to: 1. Explain and justify the radical change in decision in a non-ultimatum format 2.

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