Wed.Jan 02, 2019

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Selling A Rejected Idea Back to Them: The SoulMUCH Story

IdeaScale

Companies come to IdeaScale for a number of reasons. One of the reasons that they want a software solution to collect employee ideas is because they’re afraid that they’ll miss a great idea that comes from someone in their workforce. Of course, this means that a company needs to have the capability to recognize and act on great ideas when they arrive, as well.

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Lesson 5 from true innovation managers: promoting the initiative is essential

Exago

To mark Exago's 11th anniversary, we have put together our clients' pieces of wisdom to truly bring innovation together. This is lesson 5. The post Lesson 5 from true innovation managers: promoting the initiative is essential appeared first on Exago.

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The missing step for start-ups who want to scale-up

Rapid Innovation in digital time

There is less framework when it’s time to move your start-up to a scale-up in the corporate environment. Why not designing a canvas for scale-up, borrowing the familiar business model canvas structure?

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AI May Be The Key to Tomorrow’s Survival

Innovation Excellence

It’s easy to get wrapped up in the doomsday hype about AI, but the truth is that it may well be the doomsday antidote. AI has been getting a lot of attention lately. Much of it is fueled by the visibility it has received from a large number of well-respected people who have been warning.

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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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Steve Blank on Building Innovation Teams

Innovation Leader

Silicon Valley-based serial entrepreneur, Steve Blank shares how companies can set up a system that fosters innovation and effectively creates change.

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Top 20 Innovation Articles of December 2018

Innovation Excellence

Drum roll please… At the beginning of each month we will profile the twenty posts from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Innovation Excellence. We also publish a weekly Top 8 as part of our FREE email newsletter. Did your favorite make the cut? But enough delay, here are December’s twenty most.

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4 Tactics for Business Risk Mitigation During Innovation

Peer Insight

Corporate Innovation Groups (CIGs) are often on “offense” when it comes to new product development and technological innovation, particularly when it comes to engaging the market and mitigating market-facing risks. But CIGs also need to start being more offensive in the way they tackle internal risk, so they don’t get stuck playing a purely defensive game down the road.

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From Global to Local: Aligning SDGs with your Business Goals

Wazoku

A sustainable focus for 2019. The Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are an action taken by the United Nations and the world to address global challenges related to poverty, inequality, environmental degradation, prosperity, peace and justice. The 17 SDGs are all interconnected, and, as a global initiative, it’s up to local businesses to drive change.

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B L O C K C H A I N B L U E S or B L O C K C H A I N B L I S S ?

InnovationLabs

Have you overheard any conversations like this lately, or been in any yourself? “What’s a blockchain?” “Well, it’s like a database, but it’s decentralized. And it kinda relates to this Bitcoin thing, sorta. And a lot of companies have raised money with something called an ICO, which is like an IPO, only different because it’s […].

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#1,433 – 2019 Breakthrough Nominee: Molecular Computation

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

My whole life I’ve struggled to swallow pills causing me to suffer in pain and endure longer bouts of illness than I otherwise wouldn’t have needed to. However, we may soon have a pill that I’d be lining up to take as it soon may be possible to treat medical issues with specially designed DNA based pills that are programmed to respond to the needs of our specific cells.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and guest speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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Real Time Messaging Programs And Business Communication

The Human Factor

image source. Contributed post –. In the current day and age, businesses have a whole host of options available when it comes to communicating, including video calls, phone calls, instant messaging applications, email, and much more. Using these platforms wisely is key to communicating effectively and ensuring that both quality and productivity are at all-time highs.

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Sun Tzu on Preparation

Idea Champions

"Every battle is won or lost before it is fought." - Sun Tzu. What challenge or opportunity is coming up for you that will require a higher level of preparation than you usually make? What extra effort are you willing to make in order to prepare? What might prevent you from making the kind of effort you know you need to make? How can you create the support you need to ensure that your preparation efforts succeed?

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Creating Lasting Habits

Michael Roberto

As we begin January, many of us are thinking about goals that we would like to achieve in the coming year. Check out this terrific Fast Company podcast with best-selling author Charles Duhigg in which he talks about creating lasting habits. He's the author of a great book titled, "The Power of Habit" - published seven years ago.

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Novelty Stimulates Curiosity and Creativity

Michael Roberto

Source: Blue Diamond Gallery If you want to encourage creativity, exploration, and learning on your team, you should think carefully about how to introduce and provide novel experiences. Scientists Nico Bunzeck and Emrah Düzel have shown that the brain responds to novel stimuli in a manner that increases exploration and learning. As a leader, you can provide new stimulating experiences for your employees through travel, reading, training, or a challenging new assignment.

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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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New Facebook Professional Page

Michael Roberto

For those readers who are interested, I've launched a new Facebook Professional Page. I hope you will check it out. You also can follow me on Twitter if you wish.

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