Tue.Oct 02, 2018

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4 Pathways to Innovation

Rmukesh Gupta

I was facilitating a group of senior leaders who were tasked with leading the innovation effort in their respective organization and started the facilitation with the simple yet profound question –. “How do you define innovation?”. The best answer I’ve so far received to this question is the following: “Innovation is applied problem solving leading to generation of value.”.

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We moved our office to a French castle. Did it work?

Board of Innovation

How it all started… January 2018, I walked into the office at 8 AM still recovering from an early-morning bike ride. After grabbing some breakfast, I joined my colleagues for our monthly breakfast meeting. After some strategy insights from our co-founder Philippe, my colleague Arne got up to give us a “Summer Office Update”. At. Continue reading.

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Top 20 Innovation Articles of September 2018

Innovation Excellence

Drum roll please… At the beginning of each month we will profile the twenty posts from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Innovation Excellence. We also publish a weekly Top 8 as part of our FREE email newsletter. Did your favorite make the cut? But enough delay, here are September’s twenty most.

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Why Innovation Transformation Programmes Fail

Cris Beswick

Those of you who are regular readers of my thought pieces will know that I regularly reinforce the fact that ‘failure’ is a key mindset and component of the innovation equation. So, why do so many corporate innovation transformation programmes fail? Failure is supposed to be part of the formula not the end result, right? … Continued. The post Why Innovation Transformation Programmes Fail appeared first on Cris Beswick.

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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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Tech Scouting: When to Initiate an Anonymous Search

Yet2

Many of our clients engage yet2 for “traditional” tech scouting services – Strategic DealFlow , where we source step-change opportunities for clients, Topic Specific Scouting , which is when we are focused on finding the right solution to solve timely challenges with specific requirements, and Innovation Tours or Virtual Hubs , which has us scheduling meetings with 10-15 promising potential partners, or where we develop a regional innovation hub for a client.

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Accompanying European SMEs on their Open Innovation Journeys

Innovation Excellence

Within INSPIRE (standing for Integrated Support of oPen Innovation pRofessionalization initiative), a Coordination and Support Action funded by the European Commission under H2020, we have investigated in depth Open Innovation (0I) practices in SMEs across Europe with a view to distilling lessons about how to improve the supply chain and deploy a dedicated support package.

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We moved our office to a French castle. Did it work?

Board of Innovation

How it all started… January 2018, I walked into the office at 8 AM still recovering from an early-morning bike ride. After grabbing some breakfast, I joined my colleagues for our monthly breakfast meeting. After some strategy insights from our co-founder Philippe, my colleague Arne got up to give us a “Summer Office Update”. At. Continue reading.

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Those Darned Millennials

Innovation Leader

Are millennials really killing established brands? We sat down with Nondini Naqui, a millennial engagement consultant and former CEO of Society of Grownups, to find out.

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3 First Steps From Idea to Your Start-up

IdeaScale

Startups are all the rage these days. More and more people are starting up their own small businesses in the hope that they can grow their company and make a comfortable living. Thanks in large part to the internet, there’s never been a better time to try and get your ideas off the ground. However, even if you do have a sound idea, you’re going to need to put in a lot of effort to get the most out of it.

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Those Darned Millennials

Innovation Leader

Are millennials really killing established brands? We sat down with Nondini Naqui, a millennial engagement consultant and former CEO of Society of Grownups, to find out.

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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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The Danger of Innovating in a Bubble

Innocentive

If you only look at the data, it would appear that modern innovation is in a very poor state. Despite 84% of global executives saying innovation is important to their organization, nearly every single one of them, a full 94%, say they are dissatisfied with their innovation performance, according to a recent McKinsey poll. Thankfully, innovation is alive and well, mostly thanks to organizations who are willing to take one key step: opening up their innovation efforts to outside partners.

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Integrating Strategic Planning with Portfolio Management

Innovation Leader

Innovators face a common challenge: aligning their investments with product strategy.