Fri.Nov 16, 2018

article thumbnail

Interview with Launchstreet About How to Increase Organization Agility and Speed of Innovation

Braden Kelley

I was fortunate enough to join Tamara Kleinberg of GoToLaunchStreet, a TED speaker and entrepreneur recently for an interview for her Launchstreet podcast.

Agile 100
article thumbnail

How Does Amazon Do It? Five Critical Factors That Explain Amazon’s Incredible Success

Innovation Excellence

With Amazon edging towards becoming the world’s first trillion-dollar company, fresh attention is being paid to the factors that could derail its growth. The company slowed a bit this quarter, sending the stock down eleven percent. Nevertheless, this downtick should not distract from the reality that Amazon has emerged as the new model of innovation effectiveness.

Company 75
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Innosight’s Scott Anthony with 35 Lessons and Insights on Corporate Innovation | Collective Campus

Collectivecamp

I recently had Innosight Managing Director Scott Anthony guest on the Future Squared podcast and we riffed on all things corporate innovation, or being an entrepreneur inside a large, established organisation.

article thumbnail

How is Digital Health Entrepreneurship Different?

Innovation Excellence

Medical and health entrepreneurship, the pursuit of opportunity with scare resources with the goal of creating user defined value through the deployment of biomedical and clinical innovation, is growing quickly. After many years of either ignoring opportunities or being sidelined, physician entrepreneurs are finally throwing their hats in the ring. There are two basic categories of medical.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Idea Ranking

Beyond the Obvious

Once you’ve generated your ideas the next step is idea ranking to determine the potential to become innovations. So, how do you decide which ideas to work on? The typical innovation process leaves that decision to the senior-level managers, which seems like a logical choice. They’re senior, so they should have the wisdom to make the […].

article thumbnail

How to Be Half as Busy and Twice as Productive (and Effective!) | Collective Campus

Collectivecamp

As Warren Buffett put it, “the difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

How To 61

More Trending

article thumbnail

wavespace Berlin – Opening of the innovation hotspot

etventure

Berlin has gained a new innovation hotspot: On Wednesday evening in the heart of Kreuzberg the new wavespace was officially opened by etventure and EY, guests of honour such as Brigitte Zypries, former Federal Minister, as well as 200 other guests from business and the start-up scene. A milestone for etventure and EY and an enrichment for the capital. “We need places like this if we want our companies to continue to be among the world’s leading” Innovation and co-creation on mo

article thumbnail

Running More Businesses at Once: Micro-Management vs. Macro-Management

InnovationManagement

As a business owner, finding the right management style will be one of the most important things you do. Your management technique should benefit your employees and most crucially, your business. Unfortunately, getting the balance right between micro-management and macro-management isn’t always easy.

article thumbnail

How the Vine of Complexity Strangles Innovation

BPI Thought Leadership Commentary

As organizations grow in size they often become complex, complicated messes. More and more structures, middle managers, coordinating functions, metrics, reports, and templates are added to enable control and transparency of performance across the expanding web of sub-businesses. This incrementally increases complexity within a business and inevitably creates an environment that strangles rich i.

Report 40
article thumbnail

A Humble Request for Your Vote

Idea Champions

GOOD NEWS! The authors of this blog (Mitch Ditkoff and Val Vadeboncoeur) are finalists in the 2018 Business Innovation Brief MVP Awards. Our blog post, The Ten Personas of an Effective Brainstorm Facilitator was one of seven articles chosen (out of thousands) in the category of Innovation Strategies. Whoo hoo! Now comes the fun part -- voting. That's where YOU come in.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

The Dangers of High Expectations

Michael Roberto

Source: Flickr Hengchen Dai, Berkeley Dietvorst, Bradford Tuckfield, Katherine Milkman, and Maurice Schweitzer have published a fascinating new study about the dangers of high expectations. Their article is titled, "Quitting When the Going Gets Tough: A Downside of High Performance Expectations." They note that high expectations can be a very positive force.

Study 20