Fri.Apr 19, 2019

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Profit from Your Idea with a Patent

Innovation Excellence

A patent can be taken out on almost any new implementable idea. It is not just about protecting your idea. Your patents are part of your Intellectual Property (IP) and can be valuable assets. Often a start-up company will be bought for its IP rather than its products or sales revenues. Here are some tips.

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Essential Tips for Safeguarding Your Startup

InnovationManagement

Starting your own business can be an exciting but challenging endeavor. Even for those experienced in management, entrepreneurship can be daunting. With unexpected obstacles that constantly crop up, you need to protect your business from day one if you wish to succeed.

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Being on board with social evolutions

Beyond the Obvious

Every hot trend reaches a point I like to call the “Uncle Larry moment.” You know what I mean. It’s the juncture where one of your older relatives announces he’s taken up something that had seemed cutting edge, futuristic, and exciting up till that second. Facebook and Twitter have long passed the Uncle Larry moment. […].

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Extending innovations value- appreciating the whole system.

Paul Hobcraft

There is always a time to reflect. It is when you have those spaces within your daily work you must take a view, a break, consider something that builds your energy up some more, to make it more resilient. Do you stop and reflect, do you “veg” out, do you seek alternative points of stimulus or find something completely different to go and do, read a book, listen to music, take a walk, climb a mountain or simply tune-out.

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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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How to See Your Business Like Your Business Leader Does?

Ankush Chopra

Do you see your business the same way as your business leader does? The answer, unfortunately, is often no. And that leads to a disconnect between you and your business leader, making you feel you don’t ‘get it’, preventing you from making high impact, leaving you frustrated at times. And often business leaders scratch their head as to why others don’t see the world the way they do!

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Best Practices in Bioentrepreneurship Education

Innovation Excellence

Entrepreneurship education programs are expanding rapidly and recent polls indicate that 20-25% of B school applicants are interested in starting their own business. Many applicants, including medical school and graduate school applicants already have, but feel they lack the business skills to start and scale their companies. Consequently, there are more Masters in Entrepreneurship programs sprouting up.

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Tackling Agriculture, Water and Cybersecurity Issues with Open Innovation

IdeaConnection

Decontaminating water through water shield technologies, an AI-driven, seed-centric data collection solution for farmers and other winning innovations at this two-nation hackathon.

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How Hoshin Planning Aligns with PDSA

Kainexus

We get a lot of questions from leaders about which continuous improvement tools and techniques they should use. Is DMAIC better than PDSA? Should I do Gemba walks or daily huddles? When do I use incremental improvement vs. a Kaizen event? These are all reasonable questions, but the great news is that most continuous improvement tools, including those popular with organizations that use the Lean or Six Sigma methodology, work very well together.

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Startup Engagement: Best Practices for Large Organizations

Innovation Leader

Startups represent a tsunami of disruption that is about to crash into your industry. They also represent a source of high-potential new products and services, investment and acquisition opportunities, and partnerships that could help you stave off disruption. Learn how some of the top-performing organizations in the world design strategies.

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Iron Man: the hero of wearables and IoT

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The hero in a can is so dependent on and passionate about his gadgets that he has long and intense conversations with them. The Internet of Things is already a reality, but will be even more popular when we experience the connectivity leap of 5G. Autonomous cars and smart cities, for example, rely on the new connection to reach their full potential.

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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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3 Essential Considerations For New FinTech Startups

The Human Factor

Contributed post – Technology has changed the way we do just about everything. There isn’t an industry from agriculture to zoology that hasn’t been revolutionized by new, mostly digital, technologies. Technological advances which would have been considered the stuff of science fiction a scant few decades ago are now commonplace and quotidian. Yet, with any advance in technology comes risk.

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How To Successfully Implement Drug Testing In The Workplace

The Human Factor

image source. Contributed post – Drug testing in the workplace is something that has been used for a long time and for various reasons. Whilst some people may disagree with the practice, in many places it’s essential as part of an overall good health and plan. For example, those who are working with heavy machinery, dealing with people’s lives, or even dealing with dangerous situations, chemicals and weapons, or simply dealing with sensitive and personal information could pose, not only a

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