Thu.Aug 09, 2018

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Why Are We Making Innovation So Complex?

HYPE Innovation

It always amazes me how we limit growth by not investing fully in innovation. While most large companies want to become more agile and innovative, many of them fail to turn this wish into a reality.

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Is your finger on the pulse of your industry's innovation?

Wellspring

There’s a seismic shift underway in the nature of innovation management. All the momentum that was once with the wealthiest, most resource-rich enterprises has changed hands; it’s now at the command of organizations that pay the closest attention to externally originating innovation opportunities.

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What unicorns and nawhals tell us about innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

My lovely wife and I were returning from a long car trip, having one of those wide-ranging conversations about everything and nothing that consumes time during long periods of interstate driving. The topics were shifting and free-flowing, when suddenly she asked the question: what's the difference between a unicorn and a narwhal? After all, they both seem a bit mysterious and they share the uncommon attribute of possessing only one horn.

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The Subtle and Critical Art of Questioning

Rmukesh Gupta

Lawyers have known all along that the way word their question to a witness, determines the response they get from the witness. They have used this practical knowledge for decades to both right the wrongs and wrong some rights. . In a research paper titled, “ Eliciting the Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth: The Effect of Question Phrasing on Deception , ” Maurice Schweitzer (Wharton professor) & his team of researchers discovered that subtle tweaks in the way a question is a

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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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ITONICS mentioned in the Gartner Hype Cycle on Enterprise Architecture

ITONICS

The recently published Hype Cycle for Enterprise Architecture 2018 by Gartner deals with various technology-enabled business models and solutions within today’s enterprise architecture. Gartner considers four different phases: On the Rise (e.g. Trendspotting, Human-Centered Design, Customer Journey Analytics), At the Peak (e.g. Security Architecture, Design Thinking, Digital Twin), Sliding Into the Trough (e.g.

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The Best Reason NOT to Have a Backup Plan

Innovation Excellence

I’m going to challenge your intuition and sense of self-preservation. But I’m going to do it in the name of something much greater, self-fulfillment. Stick with me for a few short minutes. I don’t watch much TV or cable, but a few years ago I got caught up in the drama of a live broadcast.

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#1,351 – Antilibrary

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

I’ve always had a fascination with collecting things. It started with baseball cards when I was a kid, then morphed from there. A few years ago I became obsessed with collecting back issues of Wired magazine. Nowadays, the objects of my affection are antiques and used books. I have four bookcases in my apartment now, one a converted closet, one a converted magazine rack, and two revolving cases capable of spinning around on an axis when you want to show off your collection or just gaze

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What Business Leaders Can Learn from Sitting in an Orchestra

Idea Champions

Roger Nierenberg - Living the Classical Life: Episode 47 from Elyria Pictures on Vimeo. This is brilliant stuff. As it turns out, the creator of the Music Paradigm (Roger Nierenberg) and I went to elementary school, junior high school, high school, and summer camp together. We reconnected a few years ago after a long hiatus. If you are looking for a way to help the leaders in your organization make a quantum leap, consider The Music Paradigm.

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Bringing Your A-Game: What Game Theory Can Teach Us About Innovation Management

Qmarkets

If you’re one of the approximately 3-4 Billion people who have tuned into the world cup over the last month, chances are that work has taken a backseat to football on more than one occasion…. However, don’t start feeling guilty just yet. Beneath the excitement and panoply of the world cup lies a broad range of core mechanisms and mathematical formulae that are also highly relevant in the world of business.

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How Does Technology Influence Innovation?

IdeaScale

In a recent round of research, I was reviewing adoption rates for new technologies. It took over 55 years for automobiles to reach 80 million people, whereas the internet was able to achieve the same feat in less than 18 years. It reminded me of the staggering comparison: “It took about 75 years for the telephone to connect to 50 million people. It took Angry Birds 35 days.”.

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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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#1,350 – Panpsychism

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

What is consciousness? It’s one of the biggest questions left for mankind to answer and despite thinking about it for thousands of years we’re no closer to coming up with an answer. Or, at least we weren’t until recently when a new theory known as Panpsychism started to gain popularity. In essence, the theory puts forth the idea that everything, even rocks, have the potential to be conscious thanks to the fact that every single particle contains an inherent ability to be conscious.

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Beating Complexity with Flexibility: Corporate Innovation Insights and Inspiration with Dan Toma

Qmarkets

How can global companies overcome major innovation challenges? Qmarkets interviewed Dan Toma – influential speaker, entrepreneur, and co-author of the award-winning book The Corporate Startup – to gain his unique perspective on ideation, business transformation, and the current innovation climate. Qmarkets: On the modern business landscape, “Innovation” is an area which is often associated with jargon and buzzwords.