Tue.Mar 12, 2019

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Launch & Abandon Trap – Why Innovation Fails

Innovation Excellence

“People were so excited and then things just went back to business as usual.” “Leadership announced our new innovation initiatives at the company-wide meeting but then I didn’t hear another word about it.” “There was a lot of fanfare in the beginning but then it just fizzled out kind of like every other initiative so.

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Try this Brainstorm Method – The Contradictory Innovation

Destination Innovation

Image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay. Consider for a moment these self-contradictory innovations: The solar-powered torch (flashlight). The inflatable dartboard. The underwater hairdryer. The waterproof teabag. The concrete liferaft. At first sight they look silly but each contains the germ of an interesting idea. You can charge up a solar-powered torch in daylight and then take it into a cave.

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Calculating the ROI for Your Idea Management System Launch

IdeaScale

How is your idea management software performing? How do you measure the intangible? This is a particular struggle for innovation departments and committees launching an idea management system, who often need to come up with KPIs and metrics to explain what they’re doing and how it benefits the company. Here’s how to find the right way to measure the ROI of launching an idea management system.

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How to use AI in E-commerce

IdeaSpies

Do you run an e-commerce store that sells fast moving products or services? Well, if you do, then you are lucky. Research by Statistica shows that in 2018, total e-commerce sales hit $2.8 trillion. It is expected that this figure will significantly increase in 2019, and might hit $4.88 trillion by 2021. This means that, if you do everything right and reach a wider target market, your business will grow tremendously.

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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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Problem Seeking 101

Innovation Excellence

The 12 steps to biomedical innovation starts with being a problem seeker, not a problem solver. Eventually, to be successful, customer problems and solutions need to meld around a VAST business model i.e. one that is not just profitable, but that demonstrates: 1. Validity Regardless or which elements of your model you choose, they have to be valid. In other.

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How to use AI in E-commerce

IdeaSpies

Do you run an e-commerce store that sells fast moving products or services? Well, if you do, then you are lucky. Research by Statistica shows that in 2018, total e-commerce sales hit $2.8 trillion. It is expected that this figure will significantly increase in 2019, and might hit $4.88 trillion by 2021. This means that, if you do everything right and reach a wider target market, your business will grow tremendously.

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5 Innovative Careers That All Gen Zer’s Should Consider

InnovationManagement

Now is a time of transformation on the work landscape. Resultantly, newly minted professionals among Gen Z want future proof careers.

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6 Mistakes Your Law Firm is Making with Client Experience | Collective Campus

Collectivecamp

Law firms have long held a monopoly when it comes to providing legal services but changes in technology and just as importantly, client expectations, are transforming both the consumption and practice of law.

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Leveraging Networks in the Era of the Intelligent Enterprise

Leveraging Networks

Over the past few decades, technology has become an increasingly present force in our daily lives, both personally and professionally. Intelligent technologies have particularly made waves in virtually every industry, so understanding them (as well as how to use them to your advantage) can really be the game changer. Additionally, making sure that you not only understand all of these opportunities but are in regular communication with other networks, will keep you ahead of the game in an invalua

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An insight is like pole vaulting.

100%Open

I am in charge of teaching students from Ecole Crea in Lausanne (Switzerland) all about consumer intelligence. My course is centered around “insights”. To illustrate my view on insights, I conducted a series of videos on insight, with interviews from a wide range of experts, including creatives, strategists, marketers, researchers, etc. My first interview was with David Simoes-Brown from 100% Open.

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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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Looking For Ways To Finance Your Business? You Can If You Plan!

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. If all the business advice is to be believed, you need a pretty significant amount of capital to start a company. Things like product development and manufacturing certainly don’t come cheap. Not to mention that any business needs to pile a fair amount into things like marketing. But, does that mean starting something is off the cards if you haven’t got a few grand spare?

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How Chatbots Can Help Create A Culture of Analytics in your organization

Acuvate

Introduction. We currently live in an era where data is the oil that drives businesses of all sizes. Having data insights gives organizations a competitive edge and helps make well-informed decisions. Businesses today aggregate large sums of data involving customer profiles, sales and marketing statistics, financial metrics etc. in order to derive business insights from it.

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Managing Your Money: Avoiding Financial Ruin

The Human Factor

image source. Contributed post –. Getting your finances right is absolutely crucial if you want to lead the life you want. If you’re already struggling, even a minor financial issue can have a huge impact on your life, and mess things up for the foreseeable future. If you want to avoid financial disaster and also live better in the here are now, this is what you need to do.