Thu.Sep 28, 2017

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Breakthrough Innovation or Disruptive Innovation?

IdeaScale

A breakthrough can be an even bigger deal than a disruption. Aren’t breakthrough innovation and disruptive innovation the same thing? It’s a common question when building innovation strategy. After all, the car, the telephone, the smartphone, the electric car, the solar panel, weren’t these all breakthroughs that were also disruptive?

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How to Hire an Innovation Manager

Board of Innovation

Definition & job description First of all, who is an Innovation Manager? By comparing multiple vacancies, job titles, and buzzwords, we’ve come up with the following overall definition: The Innovation Manager is the person that leads the research into strategic future business opportunities for a company. More specifically, she/he has to blend 3 main mindsets, HR-, tech- and business-related.

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6 Ways to Protect Customer Data

Daniel Burrus

We’ve all seen the headlines about the cost of cybercrime. According to one estimate from IBM, the average out-of-pocket cost of security breaches has now climbed to $4 million per incident—up nearly 30 percent in only a few short years. But protecting such data—specifically, personal customer data information—is more costly than just dollars and cents.

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Why Traditional Metrics like NPV, IRR and RONA Kill Innovation | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

“That which can be measured can be managed.” As such, 20th Century management science gave us a number of metrics to monitor the performance of a business venture, including return on investment (ROI), net present value (NPV) and internal rate of return (IRR).

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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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Should innovators trust their intuition more?

Innovation Excellence

A quick Google search churns up endless articles and blogs extolling the virtues of using instinct, intuition and gut feel for making better business decisions and being more innovative. In this article I pick apart what governs intuition and how to use it for better insight interpretations and marketing decisions. Where does intuition come from?

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10 Corporate Accelerators in Singapore You Should Know About | Collective Campus

Collectivecamp

In just the last two years, millions of dollars have been committed to numerous accelerator programs. Here are ten of the top corporate accelerator programs in Singapore, which combine both deep domain and startup building expertise.

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10 Products that Almost Never Saw the Light of Day | Collective Campus

Collectivecamp

Here are 10 products that would not have seen the light of day, had it not been the result of multiples failures, human error or serendipity.

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The Best of My Huffington Post Articles on Storytelling

Idea Champions

You may not know this, but I have been a Huffington Post blogger for the past five years. During that time, I've published a number of well-received articles on storytelling, with a special focus on storytelling in the workplace. Below are links to some of them. Each one will take you less than four minutes to read unless you are multi-tracking, catotonic, or heavily sedated.

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Disney Revamps Its Stores. Again

Michael Roberto

Disney has once again tried to overhaul i ts retail strategy. The New York Times reports today that Disney has opened a new prototype store in California. Reporter Brooks Barnes explains the changes in the store format: Quietly, like a mouse on tiptoe, Disney overhauled its retail store at the Northridge Fashion Center mall in late July. Out went the twisty Pixie Path aisles, the ornate displays, the green walls and the color-changing fiberglass trees.

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Innovative law: Interview with Shaun Temby from Maddocs

Idea Drop

Tell us about yourself, and your role at Maddocks. I am a Practicing Partner in our Commercial Disputes Team. I’ve been practising for about 20 years and have recently been given the position of the Head of the Innovation Committee, and been given responsibility for delivering on our Innovation Strategy at Maddocks. Congratulations! What does that mean for you?

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How Mature Companies Are Scaling Transformational New Businesses

Scaling transformational innovations in large companies is challenging due to ‘Company Fit’ issues, which arise when the resources, processes, and priorities (RPPs) of the core business are not aligned with the needs of the new business. Many companies have learned how ambidexterity—the ability to both ‘exploit the present and explore the future,’ can help them address these issues for ideation and incubation of new innovations, but scaling transformative business innovations remains a challenge