Tue.Jul 12, 2016

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Meet Exago’s new Head of Innovation Services

Exago

Ranging from China to the United Kingdom, Spain or Portugal, Francisco Bernardes’s multicultural and multidisciplinary experience now comes to the fore as he takes the lead in Exago’s Innovation Services team. Bernardes explains, ‘Our main goal, as a team, is. Read More. The post Meet Exago’s new Head of Innovation Services appeared first on www.exago.com.

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5 Essential Considerations to Be Ready for the IOT

HYPE Innovation

You have sensors on your 'things', and have connected them…now what? Now we wait for the business to transform in front of our eyes as this is what ‘they’ say will happen with the Internet of Things right? Not quite!

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5 Keys to Engaging Employees in Innovation Strategy – Our Buy-In Manifesto

BrainZooming

Reviewing the innovation strategy challenges business executives identified when downloading Brainzooming eBooks , they frequently mention gaining “buy-in” for significant change initiatives. That’s no surprise. There are so many ways to botch involving employees (and community members, if that’s your audience) in developing and successfully implementing an innovation strategy.

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Bridging different worlds – the power of recombinant innovation

HYPE Innovation

Wandering round Chicago in 1912 William Klann was a man on a mission. He was part of a team set up to explore ways in which they could reduce the costs of manufacturing a car to fulfil Henry Ford’s vision of ‘a motor car for the great multitude’. They had already developed many of the ideas behind mass production – standardised and interchangeable parts, short task cycle work, specialist machinery – but what Klann saw while walking past the Swift Meat Packing Company’s factory gave him an insigh

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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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Traditional vs Agile Project Management for Innovators

Innovation Excellence

Which is the superior approach to project management, Waterfall or Agile? After talking with an expert on project management, I learned that’s not the right question. Instead, we should ask.

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Strategic Change Delivery: The Value Of Getting Your Upfront Thinking Right

HYPE Innovation

When you were last involved in strategic delivery planning, did you have full sight of the operational reality facing your teams every day? How comfortable were you that you had a grip on the key challenges and opportunities to realistically deliver on your objectives? How confident were you that you had managed to avoid biased thinking based on inaccurate assumption, assertion, and stereotype?

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Bring Markets Into Perfect Focus by Defining Them Around the Customer’s Job-To-Be-Done

Strategyn

Companies often define the markets they serve around the technology in their product offerings… a technology that one day will become obsolete. Clearly, this is a mistake, but it’s one that has been repeated by hundreds of companies over the decades. Where are the companies that defined themselves around CDs? They spiraled to their death when MP3 technology came along.

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How Neglecting Innovation Impacts NPD, IPR and Growth

Innovation Excellence

There may be occasions when innovation isn’t appropriate, for example when a strategic decision is taking to deprioritise a business category. There’s nothing wrong with this, but a lack of innovation should be a conscious decision rather than one of neglect.

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How Jones Lang LaSalle Built a Revenue Engine

Innovation Leader

Innovation VP Alec Humphries discusses how his group inside the commercial real estate firm has begun generating millions in revenue within five years of its creation.

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Flash Mob

Svava

What is the Idea Hunt Flash Mob?

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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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Crossing the Chasm: Overcoming hurdles to scaling innovation

Imaginatik

To put it simply, everyone has good ideas -- and some have great ideas. But the imperative of any innovation program is in its ability to scale and realize its financial promise. We call this “crossing the chasm.”. It is critical in any development process that innovation ‘show stoppers’ are recognized and nurtured quickly. For some innovations, factors such as feasibility vs. infeasibility are very straightforward, almost intuitive, for a subject matter expert.

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How Should Customer “Needs” Be Defined?

Strategyn

Companies receive thousands of inputs from their customers every single day. They come from dozens of sources, including social media, the service desk, the sales team, customer advisory boards, and formal qualitative and quantitative research. Companies are not lacking customer insights. If anything, they are overwhelmed with data. Despite these efforts, most companies do not fully understand their customers’ needs.