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Ideation results from the YouthSpeak Forum 2018

Be-novative

The YouthSpeak Forum is an initiative held annually around the world, organized by AIESEC and supported by the United Nations to bring young people together in dialogue and action regarding the Sustainable Development Goals.

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The Secret to Organizational Innovation

Innovation Excellence

In my previous article (Why Innovation Remains Elusive), I identified a half dozen obstacles to companywide innovation. I also hinted at a grand unified solution in the form of a strategic innovation system. Allow me ease into it by way of story and analogy. Most people are familiar with the name Toyota. Most business people.

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Which Department Should be Driving Open Innovation?

Innocentive

Research and Development? Human Resources? Procurement? Marketing? Open innovation is still relatively new to a lot of organizations and impacts many areas. Consequently, there is not always a department or person that has open innovation explicitly under their purview.

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Is innovation really important to you?

Innovation Excellence

How can we establish Innovation as the vital link to a process of change and strategic direction options? One that lifts the debates of managing today’s business by linking it into the future and then turning this thinking into a series of plausible and coherent set of activities? Innovation can drive change, change is required. .

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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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Direct to Consumer Disrupting Established Markets

InnovationManagement

In 2010, the Gillette brand, which is owned by Proctor and Gamble, held 70% of the U.S. market for razors. It boasted continuous innovation in product design, and enjoyed a gross margin of around 60%. Its market share has now slid to around 50%. It has suffered at the hands of two start-up companies, which went direct to consumer (DTC). They are Harry’s and Dollar Shave Club.

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Innovation Success Through Teams and Networks

InnovationLabs

An interesting article in a recent issue of Science Magazine noted that the authors have observed that the current practice of scientific research is marked by a significant movement toward a team-based approach, as distinct from a more individualistic pursuit of knowledge. Further, the authors note that breakthroughs seem to come from smaller rather than […].

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Rethinking the Onboarding Process

Michael Roberto

How many companies bore the heck out of new employees during the onboarding process? Do they bury them under an avalanche of forms to be completed and powerpoints to be viewed? Recently, Dave Gilboa, co-founder of Warby Parker, sat down for an interview to discuss how his firm approaches onboarding. Here's an excerpt from the article: Many of the most memorable moments in any employee’s life cycle happen at the very beginning.

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Blockchain as Storage: Evolution not Revolution

Information Playground

Last year I purchased the book Blockchain Revolution by Don Tapscott. Once some of blockchain's privacy and commerce kinks solve, the book posits that the technology will be positioned to revolutionize different aspects of society (e.g., finance, government, voting, etc.). I've been thinking about blockchain as a storage system and have concluded that it is evolutionary and not revolutionary.

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SAAC-USA EXECUTIVE FORUM

Innovation 360

SACC-USA INVITES YOU TO THE EXECUTIVE FORUM. AN EXCLUSIVE NETWORKING EVENT FOR PROMINENT LEADERS IN SWEDISH-AMERICAN BUSINESS. The Swedish-American Chambers of Commerce of the United States of America (SACC-USA) cordially invites you to our agship event, the Executive Forum on May 24, 2018 in Washington, D.C. The event will be held in collaboration with the Embassy of Sweden.

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Blockchain as Storage: Evolution not Revolution

Information Playground

Last year I purchased the book Blockchain Revolution by Don Tapscott. Once some of blockchain's privacy and commerce kinks solve, the book posits that the technology will be positioned to revolutionize different aspects of society (e.g., finance, government, voting, etc.). I've been thinking about blockchain as a storage system and have concluded that it is evolutionary and not revolutionary.

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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.