Fri.May 26, 2017

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Persistence: The Key to Creativity and Innovation

Idea to Value

A persistent attitude is one of the 27 characteristics found in the greatest innovators (Kim, 2016). It is defined as continuously striving and committing to goals regardless of immediate rewards. It is one of the most critical creative attitudes. Innovators are passionate about and committed to their goals, which compels them to persist physically and mentally.

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Needing To Think Applied Innovation Services

Paul Hobcraft

We can simply go on and on in the many ways we have evolved our problem-solving techniques or methodologies, as those help the innovation and discovery process; incremental, piecemeal and experimental. Yet we still get caught out by no t resolving or addressing the essential building blocks of innovation (culture, environment, climate, governance, alignment.

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Reboot a Sluggish Brand: Part Two

Idea to Value

In last week’s column we explored the corporate psychological journey that happens to accept the fact that a once-leading brand needs to be transformed and relaunched. This column will walk you through how to do it. Allow me to be clear. I am not discussing refreshing a logo or crafting a new tag line, but rather. a Reboot means a radical and transformational change to the business model and every facet of the business itself.

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Branding Strategy – 3 Product Branding Ideas to Beg, Borrow, and Steal

BrainZooming

I snapped this picture at Target the other evening because of the intriguing product branding ideas it suggests. This is a ten-pack of 7.5 ounce cans of Diet Coke. Compare that to the typical Diet Coke configuration: twelve cans of 12 ounces. Doing the math, this carton has 75 ounces of Diet Coke vs. 144 ounces in the typical 12-by-12 arrangement we purchase like crazy at our house.

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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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How Dallas is Blossoming Into the Most Innovative City in the South

Qmarkets

With almost 1.3 million residents, Dallas is in fact home to more than 40,000 newly started businesses every year, boasting nine accelerator programs and 11 incubators within its municipal limits. However, Dallas is also home to over 20 innovative Fortune 500 companies, including Exon, Wal-Mart, and AT&T, with giants Toyota and FedEx also moving their corporate headquarters to the area in 2017.

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Innovation Myths Busted: Only Pros Can Achieve Innovation

Svava

Innovation Myth’s Busted: Only Professionals Can Achieve Innovation As a leader and pioneer in open innovation, we have come up a myth that we must break. It gives us heart that others in the industry are working to squash this myth as well. Through our work, building custom open innovation platforms that empower individual team […].

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The Future We’re Building — and Boring | Elon Musk

InnovationManagement

Elon Musk discusses his new project digging tunnels under LA, the latest from Tesla and SpaceX and his motivation for building a future on Mars in conversation with TED's Head Curator, Chris Anderson.

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One Simple Way to Ensure That Your Team Becomes High Performing

Idea Champions

If you are reading this, chances are good that you are currently a member of a team -- either at work, in your community, or as part of a volunteer organization. And if you aren't on a team now, chances are good that, at some time in your life, you were on a team. Yes? I thought so. In any case, it's more than likely that whatever team you are on, or have been on, has had some challenges along the way.

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Innovation Myths Busted

Svava

Only Professionals Can Achieve Innovation.

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Why Being #1 Should NOT Be Your Goal

Michael Roberto

This morning Kathy Chu wrote a Wall Street Journal article titled, "China's Lenovo to Reboot After Losing PC Crown to HP." Chu writes: China’s Lenovo Group is shaking up its operations as it seeks to reclaim the title of global leader in personal computers and shore up its smartphone business. For the first time in four years, Lenovo—a company that gained acclaim a decade ago for turning around storied U.S. personal-computer maker International Business Machines Corp.

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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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Innovation Myths Busted: Only Pros Can Achieve Innovation

Svava

Innovation Myth’s Busted:

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Open Innovation Meets Democracy on Malta

IdeaConnection

The island country of Malta may start to change the way it does politics, by taking an open innovation approach. The aim is to bridge the gap between politicians and the public, allowing individuals greater participation in the democratic process. Within the last few days the Nationalist Party, a Maltese Christian democratic and conservative party launched the IDEAT project to encourage citizen engagement.