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The Innovation Journey Map

Destination Innovation

The Customer Journey Map is a popular management tool. It is a visual representation of customer interactions with a company and a tool to investigate, analyse and thus improve customer experiences. The Innovation Journey Map (IJM) is a similar concept showing the journey that an innovation takes from initial conception through to final implementation.

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65% of Venture Capital-backed deals fail to return investment, and only 4% make substantial returns

Idea to Value

Everyone knows that investing in innovative new ideas carries a degree of risk. However, new data from Correlation Ventures shows just how risky investing in new companies can be. The chart above shows the financial outcomes for 21,640 different financing deals between 2004 and 2013 (note that these were the total number of deals, not individual companies).

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What’s Next For Steve Blank And The Lean Startup?

Digital Tonto

The Silicon Valley guru is on a never ending search to find a better way to solve problems Related posts: The Lean Startup Is Doing More Than Transforming Business, It’s Changing The World. The Lean. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Hospitality Industry Leading the Building of a Sustainable Future

Innovation Excellence

Hotel Terra in Wyoming is set on the edge of Grand Teton National Park and south of Yellowstone National Park, with some of the most breathtaking scenery you’ll find anywhere on the United States. It’s no wonder, then, that guests of the upscale 132-room hotel appreciate nature and choose an experience that helps to protect.

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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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Is finance too low-tech to support sustainability innovations?

Norbert Bol

In the october edition of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Christensen et al. (2018) conclude that they were surprised about the low-tech financial decision rules that are being applied to green office investments. Financial d ecisions to pursue energy e ffi ciency projects in the research study appear to be primarily the result of simple financial analysis such as: positive cost-bene fi t analysis calculations, payback period assessment, and/or estimated return on investment (ROI) f

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Qmarkets Provides Award-Winning Innovation Engine for Hyundai

Qmarkets

Leading automotive manufacturer Hyundai Motor America launched its BIG (Better Idea Generator) campaign – driven by Qmarkets innovation management software. Fountain Valley, California, October 15th, 2018- Hyundai Motor America has rolled out the Big Idea Generator (BIG) campaign as part of an annual drive to tap into the innovative potential within their organization.

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The single most important interview technique that nearly everyone leaves out

Innovation Excellence

Ignoring this foundational human ability will come back to haunt you each and every time. What’s Behind Door #2 Of all the things that I look for in people when hiring–for the matter in anyone I choose to build a relationship with–there is one that is without doubt the most important. It is the rock.