Tue.Jul 02, 2019

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Idea Management: Learning When and How to Say “Enough”

IdeaScale

We all know intellectually that sometimes projects fail, but that doesn’t necessarily make it easier when it’s our project that fails. If you have ever had to scrap a project, you’re in good company. Over one-third of projects fail , either not meeting their business intent, missing timelines, or going over budget. If you think of startup businesses as projects, nine out of ten of them fail.

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The art of innovation, helping cities and governments to make strategic choices

Innovation Excellence

Pierre-Alexandre Balland is Professor & Innovation Strategy Advisor at Utrecht University and visiting professor at MIT Media Lab, a renowned interdisciplinary research lab, founded in 1985 by Nicholas Negroponte, that encourages the unconventional mixing and matching of seemingly disparate research areas. Pierre-Alexandre research is about the art of innovation, and he advises companies, cities, and policymakers on.

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Where are the Sick Care Leaderpreneurs?

Innovation Excellence

Leadership is in crisis and the command and control model is bankrupt. In healthcare, we will need a cadre of physicians to lead us to the promised land. However, doctors don’t seem interested and are pre-occupied mostly with keeping their heads above water or putting them in the sand. Physician executives are not necessarily physician.

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Why the Next Technological Revolution in Alternative Meat Is Chicken

Entrepreneur - Innovation

By investing more research and development into plant-based chicken products, it may not be long before consumers are squawking for more of them.

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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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Strategic Planning Models: 3 Awesome Examples

Cascade Strategy

Strategic planning models exist as blueprints which we can follow when tackling the process of creating a strategic plan.

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Solving Societal Challenges with Open Innovation

IdeaConnection

Combating the global illegal fishing trade, transforming how people find volunteering opportunities and other winning ideas at an open innovation challenge for social good.

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Most consumer insights aren’t all that insightful

Brunner

It’s the key slide in the presentation. The one that precedes the creative. The one that sets up the creative. The one that will make the creative that follows a slam dunk. The heading on the slide says: Key Consumer Insight. And then, drumroll please, an insight is revealed that is not revealing. Nor inspiring. Nor insightful. (That’s a lot of nors for one slide.).

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#1,530 – The Sketchbook Project

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Not all libraries contain literary works. Some contain works of art. Or at least the Brooklyn Art Library does. For here resides a place where artists’ sketchbooks gather from all over the world as a means of documenting the human experience and providing inspiration to all who are lucky enough to gaze upon its collection. According to Atlas Obscura : “The Brooklyn Art Library houses the Sketchbook Project: a collaborative library of artists’ sketchbooks that’s grown every year since 2006.

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Leveraging More Personal Experiences on Facebook

Brunner

And, no, we don’t mean just sharing the intimate details of your life. Over the past year, Facebook has undergone a lot of changes largely due to data security breaches and consumer concern about the platform’s handling of their information. With new limitations in place for brands, and yet, new opportunities to engage customers in a meaningful way, there are two emerging platform opportunities that play upon the idea of more deeply connected experiences between brand and consumer.

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Corporate Procurement is Killing Startup Innovation

Collectivecamp

Speed is absolutely fundamental to innovation.

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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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There’s No Room For Multitasking In Your Business

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. The typical image of the successful business person shows them juggling with multiple tasks at the same time and without breaking into a sweat. It’s the boss lady who advises her teenage daughter about boys while running an important phone conference with Chinese partners and creating her presentation deck for her afternoon pitch, preferably while being perched on high heels and tapping her perfectly manicured nails onto the desk.

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Bubble PPM | G-Cloud 11 (G11) Approved Project Portfolio Management supplier | PPM software

Bubblegroup

Bubble PPM – G-Cloud 11 approved Project Portfolio Management software The UK Government’s Crown Commercial Service selects Bubble Innovator Ltd as a G-Cloud 11 supplier on the 2019-20 Digital Marketplace, opening up further opportunities for Project Portfolio Management (PPM) services to the public sector. Bubble, a leading provider of cloud-based Project Portfolio Management Software, today announced it has been accepted as a G-Cloud 11 (G11) supplier in the latest iteration of the UK Go