Wed.Oct 04, 2017

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Putting some dynamic tension back into the innovation system

Paul Hobcraft

I have been having some writers block recently and I was not sure how to unlock some random thoughts I was having in the past weeks, then in a great conversation I had today, with a fellow innovation colleague, it started to “reveal itself” in where I needed to go to give a new sense of repurpose. A collaboration is being mooted between us but until there is a point of common understanding much stays under wraps until we both get to a more comfortable point, where we feel it can go f

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A Look Back at the Innovation Management Awards

IdeaScale

The Innovation Management Awards are in their fifth year and we thought it would be good chance to look back at all the past winners as we prepare to receive submissions from around the world in this year’s competition. We’ve honored a variety of organizations and companies in the past and we hope that we have just as much to learn this year. Learn more about any of these stories (2013 – 2016) by following the links in their summaries: 2013 : The Cerebral Palsy Alliance.

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6 Game-Changing Forces Driving a New Era of Entrepreneurship and Opportunity

Innovation Excellence

There’s a raging debate about the future of small business. On one side is a mountain of data that indicates entrepreneurship is slowing. On the other side is the rising sentiment that it’s easier than ever to start a new business, whether you’re a 13-year-old sneaker-head or a 65-year-old consultant. Part of the problem is.

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What Will We Do After Moore’s Law Ends?

Digital Tonto

The organizations who will most effectively compete will not be the ones with a capacity to disrupt, but those that are willing to tackle grand challenges and probe new horizons. Related. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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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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Top 20 Innovation Articles of September 2017

Innovation Excellence

Drum roll please… At the beginning of each month we will profile the twenty posts from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Innovation Excellence. We also publish a weekly Top 8 as part of our FREE email newsletter. Did your favorite make the cut? But enough delay, here are September’s twenty most.

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Culture of Innovation Lessons from CSAA

Planview

Large companies have a harder time creating a culture of innovation than startups – how many times have you heard this? While there is truth to that, CSAA Insurance Group – a 100 year old $3.5 billion dollar company with more than 3,800 employees – bucks conventional thinking. CSAA, a Spigit customer, is one of the top personal property and casualty insurance groups in the United States offering automobile, homeowners, and other personal lines of insurance to AAA members through partnerships wit

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Kwaku Addai

Innovation 360

Based in Ghana, Programs Director & Innovation Management. Background. Kwaku Addai comes from a strong background in finance and philosophy, focussing his skills to help organisation in Africa on organisation development, management consulting and innovation management. AREA OF EXPERTISE. 1. Investments Management. 2. Social Investment management. 3.

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SoftBank And Wellspring Announce Channel Partnership Agreement

Wellspring

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Boards of Directors Assessing Corporate Culture: It's About Time!

Michael Roberto

The Board of Directors bears responsibility for oversight and control of the management of an enterprise. Their duty to monitor management actions and performance includes assessing the risks that the organization faces. Unfortunately, many boards have been caught by surprise by recent scandals and crises at firms such as Wells Fargo, General Motors, Volkswagen, Uber, Toshiba, and Theranos.

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The Additive Manufacturing Maturity Model

Mike Shipulski

Additive Manufacturing (AM) is technology/product space with ever-increasing performance and an ever-increasing collection of products. There are many different physical principles used to add material and there are a range of part sizes that can be made ranging from micrometers to tens of meters. And there is an ever-increasing collection of materials that can be deposited from water soluble plastics to exotic metals to specialty ceramics.

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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.