Fri.May 12, 2017

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11 Great Things to See and Do in South Florida

Destination Innovation

Deering Estate. Many visitors think of Florida in terms of Orlando and Disney World. But I believe that once the children have grown up you will find that South Florida has much more to offer. Here are my picks for great things to see and do in South Florida. 1. The Florida Keys. This is a magical road trip. 800 islands are strung out mostly along a causeway with clear blue ocean on either side.

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Are We Crushing Real Innovation?

Paul Hobcraft

Well, this morning I came across an article in the UK’s Guardian newspaper, entitled “ America has become so anti-innovation – it’s economic suicide ” written by Ben Tarnoff, a writer on technology and politics, living in San Fransisco. This article did disturb me, it triggered a number of validations in my own mind. Once you get past the opening rant about the infamous Juicero juicer, that has now been used as an illustration of how investors funded something that automa

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Business Mentoring – Be Careful of Who Promises You Help

BrainZooming

Mess Wright, who just recently opened Mess Labs in Dallas , has been an online friend for many years, and an in-person friend since August 2016. . Invariably, Mess puts words to ideas that rattle around in my head in a half-formed state. Mess not only pulls ideas together; she puts herself out there by articulating them. Here’s the most recent example of this, with Mess weighing in on business mentoring and the importance of protecting your time and attention when you are trying to make things

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Inviting Your Prosumers Into the Innovation Process

Svava

Inviting Your Prosumers Into the Innovation Process While managing the risks involved In the first post, we introduced the idea or concept of how consumers have changed, morphed thanks to innovation in commerce and technology, into proactive consumers – or prosumers. In this post, we’ll take a look at how you can satisfy their […].

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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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Back to the Future: a history of content marketing [infographic]

Innovation Excellence

This fun infographic points out some of the most important landmarks and developments in content marketing's history. Courtesy of our friends at Hubspot and Uberflip.

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Inside J&J’s New Initiative to ‘Intercept’ Diseases

Innovation Leader

The pharmaceutical industry often develops drugs to manage diseases. But Johnson & Johnson posits a different model: What if you could identify people at risk and stave disease off?

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Putting the coordinates into your innovation World

Guide 4 Innovating

Innovation can be fairly complex in what needs to be pulled together as often it ‘flies’ in contradiction to normal organizations wish to work. One of the useful ideas of using an external resource is to put additional coordinates into your innovation world, they see different contradictions in a different way. I like practical advice with evidence.

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Embracing Open Innovation to Prevent Complacency

IdeaConnection

In an interview with The Nikkei , a daily financial newspaper, Honda Motor’s President and CEO Takahiro Hachigo talked about the importance of open innovation to his company. Among its principle reasons for reaching out to external sources of expertise is to continue to be competitive and to prevent complacency from settling in. Innovation is fast moving in the automotive industry, and the Japanese automaker, which sells fewer cars than Toyota and others, wants to keep up.

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Data Science Is Not AI and It Is Not Machine Learning

Linda Bernardi

Data Science is not AI and it is not Machine Learning: Here is what I am thinking about AI and the enterprise: 1. Almost on a daily basis I am meeting with, reached out by and running into companies that are calling themselves AI and Machine Learning companies. Almost none are. Almost all are […].

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Inviting Your Prosumers Into the Innovation Process

Svava

Inviting Your Prosumers Into the Innovation Process.

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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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Data Science Is Not AI and It Is Not Machine Learning

Linda Bernardi

Data Science is not AI and it is not Machine Learning: Here is what I am thinking about AI and the enterprise: 1. Almost on a daily basis I am meeting with, reached out by and running into companies that are calling themselves AI and Machine Learning companies. Almost none are. Almost all are amped-up Data Science companies. None want to be called data science companies any more!

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The Power of a Nudge: Persuading People to Take the Job

Michael Roberto

Knowledge@Wharton profi les some interesting new research regarding how to persuade people to commit to a new endeavor such as a job. Clayton Featherstone and Judd Kessler have written a paper titled, “Can Social Information Affect What Job You Choose and Keep?" They studied Teach for America, and they conducted an experiment to see if they could convince more young people to sign up for the program.

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