Tue.Feb 21, 2017

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How will we Solve Problems like Global Warming?

Destination Innovation

The great advances mankind has enjoyed in health, prosperity, food production and longevity are largely taken for granted. Around one billion people have been taken out of extreme poverty in the last 20 years. The march of progress in technology is remarkable – the computing power in your mobile phone is many times that which first put men on the moon.

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Improving Workforce Engagement in Your Purpose-Driven Workplace

IdeaScale

It’s clear that consumers care about quality and price when purchasing products and services. However, did you know that company reputation and social responsibility, rank immediately after those two factors? And, when it comes to workforce engagement, exceptional employees care about work that has a positive impact on society. As a business, you need to satisfy both the consumer and employee side of the equation if you want your shareholders to be happy.

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How to tell if innovation matters to your CEO

Jeffrey Phillips

Thank the good folks at PWC for their latest survey of executives about innovation. The new article, optimistically entitled " Unleashing the power of Innovation " was recently published and surveyed approximately 250 senior executives about innovation. While interesting, there's not a lot "new" in the survey, and the authors give away the biggest challenge in the overview, by stating that: the problem is that while the eyes of the CEO are fixed on innovation, the body of the organisation may no

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Strategic Planning Activities – Preparing Mini-Plans for Uncertainty

BrainZooming

Every organization faces challenging, completely unexpected situations. It could be a surprise competitive move , an unanticipated external event, or a new type of internal crisis demanding attention. Some organizations stumble in these situations. Others deal with curves thrown their way seamlessly, functioning as if nothing out of the ordinary happened.

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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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Keep Faith in the Steady Progress of Innovation

Innovation Excellence

We must continue to have faith and invest in Science, Engineering, Technology, Research and the Innovation of our Enterprises. They and the steady march of improvement are what will deliver a better future.

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Marketing Innovation: Don't Fight Water and the Inversion Tool

Innovation in Practice

Jacob Goldenberg, in his book, " Cracking the Ad Code ," describes eight creative patterns that are embedded in most innovative, award- winning commercials. The tools are: 1. Unification 2. Activation 3. Metaphor 4. Subtraction 5. Extreme Consequence 6. Absurd Alternative 7. Inversion 8. Extreme Effort Out of these eight, the one that gives my students the most trouble is the Inversion tool.

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The Entrepreneur : Employee Ratio

100%Open

As Groucho Marx famously said “I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.” Similarly many talented people these days don’t want to work for a company that want to have them as an employee. By 2020, more than 40%-50% of the US workforce will be so-called on-demand workers. And even the very best companies are losing their most talented employees to entrepreneurial start-ups or freelance work, or are failing to attract them in the first place.

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Inside MasterCard Labs in New York City

Innovation Leader

MasterCard Labs in New York houses product and technology teams that build prototypes and collaborate with partners. See photos here.

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Should I Tell That Joke at Work?

Michael Roberto

The Wall Street Journal has a nice summary of recent research on humor in the workplace written by scholars Alison Wood Brooks and T. Bradford Bitterly. The scholars point out some of the positive effects of humor in the workplace. For instance, they cite one study by Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock. Here is the summary of those findings: Research led by Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock at VU University Amsterdam studied how patterns of humor in conversation—such as a joke followed by another joke or a joke fo

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How to Get Better at Working Remotely #FutureOfWork

Rmukesh Gupta

How to Get Better At working REmotely by Mukesh Gupta. We are entering an era where more and more of our work is going to be done not in office but elsewhere, either because commuting to office is getting worse due to traffic or because a lot of the people who work are not full-time employees but individual service providers or because of ubiquitous availability of connectivity.

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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

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Possibly a Significant Shift in the Innovation Consulting World?

Paul Hobcraft

It always catches you by surprise when one of the leading players within the innovation space makes a change. In this case, Innosight has been acquired by Huron , a fellow professional services firm, one that has the vast majority of their business in the United States. Huron focuses specifically on Healthcare, Education, and Life Sciences and has been to-date far more operationally driven in its delivery solutions.