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There are Knowns and Unknowns in Innovation: Let’s Manage Them Differently

Paul Hobcraft

This quote is from the former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Henry Rumsfeld, who mentioned: “unknown unknowns” (Rumsfeld, 2002). Since then, people have started using quadrants of knowledge, i.e., known known, known unknown, unknown known, and unknown unknown, to understand and explain the nature of risk but also of leading to an opportunity. For innovators so much of innovation is hard to detect, it needs discovery and working through these quadrants of knowledge as well.

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Embrace Today’s Crisis to Heal a Professional Rift

BrainZooming

I was talking with an executive about the dramatic changes going on in her organization. Everything is maxed out: expectations, pressure, stress, timelines. The whole nine. In the midst of it, two leaders who experienced a serious professional rift a number of years ago are simultaneously thrust into the center of today’s crisis. They are readjusting their roles, as they’re now required to always be on the same page publicly.

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Announcing the startups in the Village Xperience (VR/AR) Accelerator Program! | Collective Campus

Collectivecamp

Collective Campus is pleased to announce the startups that have been selected as part of the inaugural VR/AR accelerator program with Village Roadshow and Microsoft.

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PBTO S2E7: Fusion – How Integrating Brand and Culture Powers the World’s Greatest Companies with Denise Lee Yohn

Rmukesh Gupta

Who is on the show: In this episode, we host Denise Lee Yohn. She is a best selling author, keynote speaker and the leading authority on building great brands and exceptional organizations. Why is she on the show: Her book “Fusion” comes out today in which she shares her insights on the importance of bringing organisational culture & the power of branding together to create an organisation that can become a powerhouse of a business.

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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 Build an Innovation and Insights Group from Scratch

Innovation Excellence

Many of you reading this have created or operated innovation or insights programs for organizations of a variety of sizes, or are curious about how to go about it. Operating an innovation program or leading an insights group is definitely much different than creating one. In some ways it is easier, because things are already.

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Warren Buffett Is Loading Up On Apple – Why You Should Not

Adam Hartung

In February, Berkshire Hathaway revealed it had dumped its IBM position. Good riddance to a stock that has gone down for 5 years while the S&P went up! What did Buffett do with the money? He loaded up on Apple – making that high-flyer Berkshire’s #1 holding. So, one could say the smart thing to […].

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To Transform Your Business, Do This

InnovationManagement

When the Commission for Environmental Cooperation launched a challenge to the youth of North America , they received hundreds of unique, green business proposals. The young entrepreneurs competed for seed funding and came up with some truly disruptive ideas.

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PBTO S2E7: Fusion – How Integrating Brand and Culture Powers the World’s Greatest Companies with Denise Lee Yohn

Rmukesh Gupta

Who is on the show: In this episode, we host Denise Lee Yohn. She is a best selling author, keynote speaker and the leading authority on building great brands and exceptional organizations. Why is she on the show: Her book “Fusion” comes out today in which she shares her insights on the importance of bringing organisational culture & the power of branding together to create an organisation that can become a powerhouse of a business.

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Mind the Gap – Part 2

100%Open

In this previous post, Mind the Gap – Part 1 , we shared the top three challenges of collaboration between corporates and start-ups, based on our experience of facilitating many partnerships over the years: The Time is Money Gap – Firstly, collaborations fail due to a lack of momentum and unclear objectives. In other words, death by a thousand meetings and conference calls, and fuzzy and moving goalposts.

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Southwest Airlines President: ‘If You Don’t Like Change, You’re Going to Hate Extinction’

Innovation Leader

We spoke with President Tom Nealon about how Southwest is working to address customer and employee pain points.

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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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Choiceology Podcast with Dan Heath

Michael Roberto

Check out my appearance on the "Summit Fever" episode of Dan Heath's Choiceology podcast. You may know Dan as the best-selling co-author of books such as Made to Stick, Switch, Decisive, and The Power of Moments. His books, written with his brother, Chip Heath of Stanford, are just terrific.

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