Tue.May 01, 2018

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Seven Innovation Fundamentals for Leaders

Gregg Fraley

Innovation Fundamentals for Leaders. First of Seven Blogs. Invest in Frameworks, But First, Establish a Culture Where Innovation Thrives. Leaders — How Are You Doing With These Basics? Success is built on doing the basics well. For results, leaders need to foster innovation fundamentals and integrate them into organizational culture. More structure is needed as fundamentals take hold, and that means an innovation process framework.

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This Non-Profit Is Building A Network To Innovate Education

Innovation Excellence

Talia Milgrom-Elcott went to Harvard Law School with the idea of making the world a better place. An early role model was Charles Nesson, a professor at Harvard who devoted his career to defending the downtrodden. One of his cases, involving a famous lawsuit, even became the subject of a hit feature film, A Civil.

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A Successful Product Improvement Workflow

IdeaScale

For the next three weeks, IdeaScale will introduce a proven IdeaScale workflow that is being used by our highest performing communities. Our hope is that these workflows become templates that you can use in your own communities. The first workflow that we’re going to examine is an innovation funnel that has successfully been used for product improvement ideas for product development collaboration : Ideation (Uses the Ideate Stage) : In this stage, idea authors offer product improvement ide

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Book in Brief: Orchestrating Experiences

Boxes and Arrows

Editors’ note: This “Book in Brief” feature here on Boxes and Arrows is from. Orchestrating Experiences: Collaborative Design for Complexity by Chris Risdon and Patrick Quattlebaum. We’ll publish an excerpt, up to 500 words, of your book. The catch is that we’ll only publicize one book a month; first come, first serve. Other rules will certainly occur to us over time.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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How to Make the Impossible Possible and Other Useful Tricks From Magicians

Stephen Shapiro

All the skills that make a magician great also apply to ambitious entrepreneurs. Do you have what it takes? I’ve always loved magic. For me, it went beyond entertainment; it was an intellectual endeavor. I enjoyed trying to figure out how an illusion was done. The actual solution didn’t matter because it was the process of thinking about the effect that I liked.

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Panamanian Innovation

Innovation Excellence

The country of Panama, which gained its independence from Colombia in 1903, is best known as the home of the path between the seas – the Panama Canal. The Canal was started by a French consortium in the late 1800s and completed by the United States in 1914. The Canal, with twin sets of locks.

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Dr. Taofeeq Ashiru

Innovation 360 Group

Based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dr. Taofeeq Ashiru is an innovative leader and strategic problem solver. He is an Innovation360® Licensed Practitioner, NVivo Certified Expert (qualitative analytics), Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Chartered Supply Chain Practitioner (MCIPS) with over 29 years’ experience spanning the energy industry, manufacturing and academics.

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Innovation Sighting: Amazon’s New Delivery - The Division Technique in Action 

Innovation in Practice

Amazon.com Inc., the largest internet retailer in the world, is paving the way for another delivery option by bringing packages directly to a customer’s car. As part of the Amazon Key Program that launched in 2017, customers with certain GM and Volvo models can now download the Amazon Key app, link their Amazon account with a connected car service, and allow Amazon drivers access to their vehicle for package delivery.

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Advice on Piloting and Scaling New Ideas in Healthcare

Innovation Leader

Few industries are as regulated as health care. Leaders from Anthem, Pulse@MassChallenge, and Boston Children's Hospital share their advice on innovating.

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#1,301 – Apple’s AR/VR Headset

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

As was to be expected, Apple’s ability to innovate has been in sharp decline since the passing of Steve Jobs. The Apple Watch hasn’t matched the success of the iPod, iPhone, or iPad, and even the recent iPhone X hasn’t met expectations. Apple is still the gold standard when it comes to aesthetics and design but the luster from their mystique has rubbed off a little bit.

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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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The Ex-Files: On The Front Lines of Corporate Innovation

Innovation Leader

What it’s really like on the front lines of corporate innovation, according to those who’ve been there.

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34 Quotes on Leadership

Idea Champions

1. "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." - Peter F. Drucker. 2. "If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny." - Dee Hock. 3. "A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say 'we did it ourselves.'" - Lao Tzu. 4.

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The Death Spiral at Struggling Restaurants

Michael Roberto

Source: Wikimedia I see it time and again. A restaurant begins to face declining revenues for competitive reasons. Perhaps fast casual restaurants begin to take share, as Panera and others have done. Perhaps dietary trends cause a shift in consumer preferences. As the restaurant grapples with declining sales, it makes two moves to try to reverse its fortunes.

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One Quality of a Good Executive

Idea Champions

38 quotes on leadership. Al Siraat college making a difference in the world. Idea Champions.

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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.