Tue.Jan 08, 2019

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What to Do After Your First Year of Innovation Management

IdeaScale

This is one of the most common questions that Account Managers at IdeaScale address with our customers at the one-year mark. Our customers have run their first campaign, they’ve delivered on some community ideas, they’ve built some trust with their community and are wondering where to go from here. Here are a few steps to help you refresh and re-launch after your first year of innovation management.

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Disruptive Innovative Dominoes: How Great Leaders Inspire Innovation

Innovation Excellence

The world we live in is in a constant state of change. A 2014 study hinges on that axiom, attempting to quantify the accelerating rate of said change in a business/enterprise capacity by looking at the entry and exit of U.S. corporations in the S&P 500 index. “In 1958, corporations listed in the S&P 500.

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Fortune (500) Teller: Hedging our bets on the future

Board of Innovation

We've gazed into our innovation crystal ball and peered into the (fore)shadows to see what's on the horizon. Here's our 2019 Future scan tool, rolled out like a red carpet to the future. The post Fortune (500) Teller: Hedging our bets on the future appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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The Best of 2018: Sopheon Videos and Webinars

Sopheon

There remains an urgency for enterprises to truly transform the way they plan and operate. Here's a look back at some of the insights 2018 brought us. The post The Best of 2018: Sopheon Videos and Webinars appeared first on Sopheon.

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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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Innerpreneurs, entrepreneurs, wannapreneurs and intrapreneurs

Innovation Excellence

These days, you can’t be a hipster without being a -preneur. They come in all sizes and shapes. Ganjapreneurs sell pot or pot derivatives. Technopreneurs do online anything. And then there are the doctorpreneurs, physician entrepreneurs or medpreneurs. The list gets even more confusing since there are so many different kinds and definitions. Here is a brief.

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Non-Profit Innovation: NCARB Brings New Product to Market

Moves the Needle

How The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards Used Lean Innovation to Create New Value for Their Customers Take this Case Study with you! Click here to download. The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards ( NCARB ), a national non-profit organization, develops standards for licensure and credentialing of architects. The organization reached out to Moves the Needle to expose more of its staff and leadership to an efficient way to develop new ideas using Lean Innovat

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Beating the Odds - Lessons from 20 Years of Entrepreneurship

Focused Momentum

66% of small businesses never make it to year 10; yet we were just starting to expand when we hit that milestone. Now, in 2019, I feel like I beat the odds again. This year Focused Momentum® turns 20! The significance of 2019 almost slipped past me. We were so busy in the second part of 2018 that I was 100% focused on my next deliverable. However, on one of my long hikes, my true planner DNA naturally let my mind drift towards setting goals for the following year.

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#1,437 – Electric Chewing Gum

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

There’s a lot of things that you can do with gum. You can blow bubbles with it. You can stick it in your sister’s hair. If you’re MacGyver you can even use it to escape a room. There’s nothing that gum can’t do. No form it can’t take as it comes in all shapes and sizes. Sometimes it comes with a comic strip (Bazooka Joe), sometimes it comes disguised as chewing tobacco (Big League Chew), sometimes it even comes inside of a lollipop (Charms).

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How Technology Can Enhance Your Business Practices

The Human Factor

image source. Contributed post –. Most business should be using some form of technology by now, but there is a good chance that there is even more than you can be doing with it. Tech is allowing firms from around the world to communicate better than ever before, ensure healthier productivity and generally improve their workflow. With that in mind here are some technology ideas that you might want to consider implementing in your company.

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INNOVATION MICRO-LEARNING (in less than 15 minutes per week)

Idea Champions

This. Just. In. None of Idea Champions clients have any time. And because they don't, we have recently launched an exciting, new micro-learning service to help them stay on top of their innovation game. In less than 15 minutes per week. Virtually. At whatever time is convenient for them. Click here to take our micro-learning poll and see what micro-learning topics we are offering in 2018.

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How Mature Companies Are Scaling Transformational New Businesses

Scaling transformational innovations in large companies is challenging due to ‘Company Fit’ issues, which arise when the resources, processes, and priorities (RPPs) of the core business are not aligned with the needs of the new business. Many companies have learned how ambidexterity—the ability to both ‘exploit the present and explore the future,’ can help them address these issues for ideation and incubation of new innovations, but scaling transformative business innovations remains a challenge

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Money Matters in Business- Are You Managing Yours Effectively?

The Human Factor

image source. Contributed post –. Money is everything in business. You might have started your venture due to reasons other than purely profits, but when it comes down to it, you’re only going to be successful if you’re earning more than you spend. For this reason, money is something you need to be getting exactly right if you want to run a successful business both now and in the future.

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Now is the time to prepare

Innovation in Practice

Universities and colleges are often the largest single employer within their region. In the United States, Bureau of Labor Statistics data show there were nearly 1.9 million postsecondary teachers employed in 2014. If you want to be a professor, you need to land just one of these positions! The theme of my new book is how to jump to the front of the line and land a job as a professor.

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