Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 11, 2017

Thank goodness for Twitter. What would we do without this constantly refreshing stream of bromides, insights, accusations and occasional bursts of wisdom? Just yesterday while perusing the Twitter stream I saw a quote attributed to Jonathan Ive that made me want to sit up and scream. The quote was relatively straightforward and seems innocuous on its face: "To do something innovative means you reject reason" Sounds about right, doesn't it?

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IdeaScale

JULY 11, 2017

How do you define innovation? I define innovation as creating and capturing new value as the Global Innovation Management Institute does. . We asked 930 companies in Japan the exact same question. Surprisingly, 0 companies had defined innovation for their company! Of course, there is no right or wrong answer, but we’ve been asking if shows that they might not have fully defined a strong innovation strategy.

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BrainZooming

JULY 11, 2017

What can you expect from a strategic planning process ? That question was the topic of several recent conversations. As I explained it, our objective when leading a strategic planning process is to make sure the result is an innovative, implementable strategy. 9 Things to Deliver in a Strategic Planning Process. That specific phrase (an innovative, implementable strategy) is very important to a strategic planning process.

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Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2017

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the people to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. I was visiting with an ex-student who’s now the CFO of a large public tech company. The company is still one of the hottest places to work in tech. They make hardware with a large part of their innovation in embedded software and services.

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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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Innovation Excellence

JULY 11, 2017

I firmly believe we are on the cusp of a new innovation era. When you step back and recognize all the different advancements we have been making in designing tools and frameworks, in understanding innovation, it holds promise.

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Innovation 360 Group

JULY 11, 2017

Focus on Organizational Development and tools for Innovation and Ideation. Accredited will have the right and possibility to sell Ideation360. Day 1: . Organisational Design, Implementation and Change. o Two Case studies – from analysis, design to implementing an innovation system. o Leadership for innovation in first, second and third horizon. o Linking Strategic Initiatives and Innovation: Methods, templates and cases. o Assessing complex organizations: Methods, templates and cases. o

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Innovation Leader

JULY 11, 2017

Dennis McGrath of Starbucks discusses how the company developed a new protocol for testing ideas, when to bring in stakeholders, and building a failure-tolerant culture.

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Bolste

JULY 11, 2017

In business, communication is of the utmost importance when it comes to getting work done. Staying up-to-date with your team, customers, partners and everyone else you interact with while doing your job, is key to accomplishing your biggest business goals. For many companies, the answer has become utilizing corporate instant messaging apps in order to support these efforts.

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Innovation Fixer

JULY 11, 2017

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Planview

JULY 11, 2017

In the wake of new technological advances in pretty much every industry, a growing number companies have identified a new way to surface new opportunities for driving both business and societal value. What is it? Crowdsourced innovation, managed by. innovation management software. Crowdsourced innovation is simply the process of gathering and surfacing ideas and solutions at scale from the people that know your business best – your workforce, customers, and partners.

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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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