Tue.Apr 18, 2017

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The Business Case for Incremental Innovation

IdeaScale

Innovation can start small and snowball over time. Does innovation have to be enormous and grandiose? We often like to fondly remember world-changing innovations as just that, but that ignores all the good ideas that were overhyped, poorly implemented, and quickly forgotten. Remember the hype around the Segway? Innovation doesn’t have to be, and sometimes can’t be, massive and world-changing.

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10 Free Change Planning Tools

Braden Kelley

Have you downloaded your ten free change planning tools?

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Disruptive Innovation: Drones

Collective Innovation

You can be sitting on a ledge enjoying the scenery when they come flying by you. Large, metal dragonflies which are delivering product or correspondence to someone miles away. Drones are an innovation that is beginning to catch the imagination of the marketplace more and more. Indeed, these little gizmos are flying delivery trucks for many companies.

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Five Ways Sustainable Innovation is Different from Normal Innovation

InnovationManagement

Today's innovation rules were forged in a world that paid little attention to sustainability, where profit was separate from this higher purpose. Yet the disruptive nature of sustainability must surely change the way we innovate too. We must continue to reinvent our innovation processes to ensure it is fit for a changing world, in the five ways highlighted here.

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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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Three Questions that matter the most for a Leader

Rmukesh Gupta

Questions that matter the most by Mukesh Gupta. When we look at all the aspects of leadership, there are three core and fundamental questions that matter the most to the people whom we intend to lead. Do You Know What You Are Talking About? The most important aspect of leadership, then is competence. Do we know what we are talking about? Do we know what the ground reality is?

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Fitting understanding into the innovation puzzle

Guide 4 Innovating

Formalizing a new Innovation learning-as-a-service is complicated, far more than I originally thought. Still, a certain course has been set and it is now working through much of its structure, learning much myself on the way to fit this within the innovation puzzle we all have. When I was thinking through this concept I fall back into onto one of my most valuable techniques to work through a set of questions and capture all the different thinking and that is in my use of Mind Mapping.

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Help Us Support Gender Equity on May 10th

Innovation Excellence

We are excited to announce on behalf of Innovation Excellence friend Tiffany Shlain that 50/50 Day is less than a month away and we can’t wait for this global conversation about gender equality! For those of you who haven’t signed up yet to host an event at your company, school, organization, or home, there’s still.

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Strong Opinions, Weakly Held

Michael Roberto

Jessica Stillman writes this week in Inc. about a new research study conducted at Duke University. Mark Leary and his colleagues conducted a series of studies examining the impact of "intellectual humility." Stillman writes, " In everyday language, it means the willingness to accept that you might be wrong and to not get defensive when arguments or information that's unfavorable to your position comes to light.

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AIGA to Live Stream Design Innovator Awards

Innovation Excellence

On Friday, April 21, don't miss the design social event of 2017 as design innovators in the creative industry celebrate this year's Medalists at the 2017 AIGA Awards Gala - together at Pier Sixty in Manhattan. Or, you and friends can join the evening via Live Streaming here.

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50 Awesome Quotes on Possibility

Idea Champions

1. "Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible." - St. Francis of Assisi. 2. "Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." - Lewis Carroll. 3. "The Wright brother flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility." - Charles Kettering. 4. "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." - Miguel de Cervantes. 5.

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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.