Tue.Apr 03, 2018

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Last Day to Submit to the CEC’s Youth for Innovation Challenge

IdeaScale

Last year, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation launched a fantastic challenge with inspiring results. Youth from across North America shared incredible ideas that included creating concrete from recycled plastic or powering grocery stores on food waste, and more. To learn more about last year’s challenge and winners, you can read the full case study here.

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The Way to Successfully Share a Strategy

BrainZooming

(Adapted from Inside the Executive Suite by Armada Corporate Intelligence). Two junior team members in chief of staff / program manager roles asked how to best align with senior leaders to successfully share a strategy across an organization. Each was concerned about having enough regular access to senior leaders to feel comfortable in delivering consistent communications relative to what they would be saying in other forums.

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Changing Corporate Culture to Encourage More Innovation

Innovation Excellence

I’ve written and spoken about the importance of corporate culture and its impact on innovation over the last 15 years or so. Heck, one of the underlying issues I address in my book Relentless Innovation (shameless plug) is the overwhelming challenge that corporate culture presents to an innovation team. I’ve argued that corporate culture, more than.

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These are the 14 Things That Kill Once-Great Companies

Innovation Leader

These are the 14 of the common things we at Innovation Leader see companies doing, thinking, and saying that lead to decline and eventual irrelevance.

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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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How Large and Boutique Consultancies Can Partner for Better Design

Boxes and Arrows

Which is the better athlete: the marathoner or the sprinter? Both focus on hitting the finish line but possess far different skill sets. Yet any successful track and field team needs both types of athletes to win awards and recognition. Having a collection of overlapping and complementary skill sets makes any group better able to confidently achieve desirable outcomes.

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Six Key Innovations Changing the World’s Future

InnovationManagement

Innovation has taken the world today by storm, leading to the development of new solutions to problems that humans have inherently faced. Since virtually every sector of life on Earth meets with some form of challenge, these innovations have touched on every aspect, including medicine, science, engineering and social life.

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#1,282 – Food Tracking Sensor

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Wearables offer a lot of promise for monitoring our health and improving our daily lives but they have yet to fully catch on thanks to fashion faux pas and privacy concerns. Fitbits may be here to stay but Google Glass is down and out for a ten count. The only real way to get around this problem and counteract societal norms is to either design something that is socially acceptable or make something so small as to be virtually undetectable.

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Can Spotify Grow Its Way to Profitability?

Michael Roberto

Shira Ovide has written a good column for Bloomberg BusinessWee k regarding Spotify's IPO. In the article, she highlights a crucial difference between the Netflix and Spotify business models. It's a distinction that I've discussed in depth with my students. It's a wonderful lesson in marginal vs. fixed costs. Here's an excerpt from Ovide's column: However much Spotify resembles Netflix in spirit and business approach, the services diverge in a way that makes Spotify’s path to profit significantl

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The Key to Great Corporate Innovation

CREATORS

Corporate innovation is a complicated issue. On the one hand, every company wants and needs to be innovative. On the other, there are so many different ways in which corporations may do it and there is definitely bullet-proof no one-size-fits-all model. We decided to create a comprehensive guide for all innovation champions out there who want to do corporate innovation right.

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Innovation Is Never One Thing (Actually It’s 3 Things)

Innovation Excellence

Every entrepreneur dreams of having that single moment of epiphany where everything falls into place. Many search for their entire careers for that one big idea that will make the difference between incredible success and frustrating mediocrity. Few ever find it and many that do end up crashing and burning along the way. The truth.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and guest speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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How to Avoid a Cliff

Mike Shipulski

Much like living organisms continually evolve to secure their place in the future, technological systems can be thought to display similar evolutionary behavior. Viruses mutate so some of them can defeat the countermeasures of their host and live to fight another day. Technological systems, as an expression of a company’s desire to survive, evolve to defeat the competition and live to pay another dividend.

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