Thu.Oct 25, 2018

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How to Destroy Your Innovation Silos

Innovation Excellence

Sick care badly needs innovation if it is to become healthcare. Yet, it’s questionable whether it can be fixed from inside. Despite the popularity of open innovation and community based, participatory innovation networks, healthcare organizations and doctors seem to shun outside ideas and collaboration and are perceived as arrogant know-it-alls, stuck in the ivory.

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Five Questions that Spur Innovation in the Workplace

IdeaScale

A smart look at hard data can yield brilliant innovation. Any type of innovation can be traced back to a simple question of some sort. More often than not, that question boils down to “Why?” But just like “coffee” describes a host of different flavors, colors, and styles, it’s how, precisely, you ask “why?” that matters to innovation strategy.

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The Power Of Asking Why

Innovation Excellence

Today’s problems can sometimes seem almost insurmountable. Although we’ve made strong progress over the last decade in many areas such as violence, extreme poverty and global health, issues like climate change, income inequality and a rise in populist authoritarianism still loom large. Education could be a possible bulwark against many of these problems, providing a.

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My TEDx Talk: Do you have Impostor Syndrome … too?

Phil McKinney

What happens when you share the secret that has been feeding your impostor syndrome for more than 25 years? In this TEDx talk, I share a secret that I kept hidden for 25 years and the result of that secret being revealed on the front page of a national newspaper. Through this journey, I was forced […].

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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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Corporate meets Startup – Join the European Data Incubator with your Data Challenge

etventure

What is a Startup Accelerator? A startup accelerator support startups’ economic growth. These programs usually help young companies by offering funding, business and tech support over a short period of time. Several programs focus additionally on corporate and startup collaboration. 3 reasons why you should participate. etventure runs the European Data Incubator (EDI) together with 20 international Partners from 10 different countries.

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How to prepare for strategy discussions?

Focused Momentum

Strategic planning participants often express the desire to be well prepared before the first group meeting. It is understandable that a dedicated and diligent new executive or up and coming leader might experience anxiety as they think about their first strategy discussion. After all, their boss will be in the room, all their peers and possibly a colleague or two with whom they don't see eye to eye.

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How Successful Crowdsourcing Depends on Asking Interesting Questions

100%Open

The 100%Open roadshow has made its first stop in Washington DC at the lively Global Crowdsourcing Week Conference. We were lucky enough to be asked to speak. I thought I’d share the slides here so everyone can start asking more Interesting Questions ! I love this quote that I heard on the radio recently: To cut a long story short, crowdsourcing at its best and most effective depends on getting the question right.

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Scaling a Business with Innovation Teams

Peer Insight

This is one of the most difficult challenges facing large enterprises. It’s one thing to launch a new product within an existing line of business. That process is well understood. Breakthrough growth , however, demands that we continually explore ways to reinvent the core business or enter adjacent markets. For most large organizations, these explorations take place in a special incubator or accelerator.

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How Businesses Can Encourage Employee Innovation

Innocentive

The return on investment gained by innovation has been demonstrated time and again by many organizations. Businesses need to innovate to stay afloat in their respective industries, move head of their competition, create new ideas and products, better serve their customers, and so much more.

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Innovation Leader’s Impact 2018 Conference in Boston

Innovation Leader

Innovation Leader brought together 350 strategy, innovation, and R&D executives from around the world to Boston for Impact 2018. Photos from the conference inside.

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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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Questions You Should Ask Crowdsourcing Platforms

Innocentive

by Jon A. Fredrickson Vice President, Chief Innovation Officer.

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The Value of "Stupid" Questions

Michael Roberto

Source: Hyatt Hotels David Gelles interviewed Mark Hoplamazian, CEO of Hyatt Hotels, recently for the New York Times Corner Office column. In the interview, Hoplamazian describes his early days as CEO of Hyatt, when he was quite unfamiliar with the business. He explains why "stupid" questions proved quite powerful. It was pretty intimidating in some ways.

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#1,387 – Brixels

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

I think it’s safe to assume that anyone who is an architect probably grew up playing with Legos, the innovative toy that has long been credited with fostering creativity in children. And I think it’s also safe to assume that any architect would love to still be playing with Legos if they had the opportunity. Well, the architect of the future may very well get that chance thanks to the creation of a new Lego like building block.