Destination Innovation

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury in England in 1809. His grandfather was Erasmus Darwin, a renowned doctor, scientist and poet. His father was a doctor who wanted Charles to become either a doctor or a clergyman and he was disappointed when his son chose a career in natural science. Charles graduated from Cambridge University whereon his botany professor John Henslow suggested that he take a position as the official naturalist aboard HMS Beagle, a ship that was due to take a five year sci

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Organizing the types of innovation can help streamline your processes and boost results. The pool from which innovation emerges is filled with big ideas and endless creativity. Thus, in a way, innovation is infinite, bound only by the depth of thought processes. However, without limits or structure, innovation can be impossible to harness, rendering it useless.

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Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 24, 2019

We live in an age in which change has become the only constant. So it’s not surprising that change management models have become popular. Executives are urged to develop a plan to communicate the need for change, create a sense of urgency and then drive the process through to completion. Unfortunately, the vast majority of.

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Innovation Leader

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Mike Proulx, Chief Innovation Officer at Hill Holliday, shares why his organization gives out an “Epic Fail Award” every year, and how it’s impacted the organization’s reaction to failure.

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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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InnovationManagement

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Awareness of neurodiversity has certainly increased over the past few years and workplaces are gradually becoming more accommodating and accepting of neurodiverse employees. But after years of neglect and of neurodiverse candidates being overlooked for roles for which they are inherently suited, there is still a lot of progress that needs to be made.

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The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 24, 2019

This article is not so much about innovation theater (although it does make an appearance) as it is about the constraints of ‘legacy systems’ that emerge over time in large organizations. Many of these legacy systems manifest themselves as processes the organization must follow. As the author states: As companies and agencies get larger, they start to value the importance of “process” over the “product.”… each layer of process reduces the ability to be agile and lean and — most importantly — res

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The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The concepts of complex system dynamics, represented by system dynamics models with stocks, flows, feedback loops and influence diagrams, have always held the promise of shedding light on business systems and models (we have used these tools ourselves to model the innovation process within large corporations). The problem has always been that they are, well, complex.

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eZassi

OCTOBER 24, 2019

If you are lucky enough to be on an innovation team you understand the need to deliver successful innovative solutions. In this contemporary world assessing your progress and allocating resources is always a priority. Recently, Innovation Leader published the report, Benchmarking Innovation Impact 2020 offering an in-depth look at innovation strategies, investments, and approaches that drive successful innovation.

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The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The recent innovation ‘wave’ (let’s not call it a fad) of corporate-startup collaboration has spawned all kinds of ‘new’ practices, and commentary. This article highlights some of the issues (myths) and promises (wisdom) with the current corporate-startup collaboration wave. To start, the author claims. best practices for leveraging startups in corporate innovation’ are not working: despite all the best intentions, ambitions are not being fulfilled.

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The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Intrapreneur is an amorphous term. It is intended to convey the attributes of an Entrepreneur leading a startup company to the situational context of a large company’s innovation efforts. Unfortunately, the term ‘Intrapreneur’ has been corrupted. As the author states: … intrapreneurship has been sold to companies as a catch-all solution for fostering innovation.

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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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