Wed.Apr 17, 2019

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Getting Board Buy-In for Your Innovation Project

IdeaScale

For innovation to thrive in a company, it must be prioritized at every level. It’s not uncommon for corporate boards to lack strong expertise in the areas of innovation and technology. Taking an innovation project from idea through execution is challenging, and there can be obstacles at several places along the journey. When there is company-wide buy-in for an innovation project however, these challenges can be overcome more easily, and there is far less chance for the project to go uncompleted.

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How to predict the future success of new products?

Board of Innovation

Use the 'Value Disc' to predict the future success of new products. Making long term predictions is hard, but we'll teach you to make reasonable estimates. The post How to predict the future success of new products? appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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Here’s What You Really Need To Know About Quantum Computing

Digital Tonto

The quantum era will open up new worlds of possibility, enabling us to manage almost unthinkable complexity and reshape the physical world. Related posts: IBM Is Building A Network To Drive The. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Six Trends Shaping the Future of Health Care

Leapfrogging

The healthcare industry is an ecosystem. So are the companies disrupting it. This article is one more in a series I call Everything Transformed where I’m highlighting the disruptive forces revolutionizing just about every industry on the planet, including packaging , travel and hospitality , industrial safety , and more. This time it’s healthcare.

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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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Uber’s Fatal Accident and the Future of Autonomous Cars

Innovation Excellence

Any sufficiently disruptive technology brings risk before it brings promise. On Sunday, March 18, 2018, an Uber Volvo XC90 in autonomous mode, with a safety driver as backup, hit and killed a 49-year-old Tempe, Arizona, woman, Elaine Herzberg. The NTSB is investigating. No doubt you’ve heard that last year, an Uber in Tempe, Arizona, operating.

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3 ways to put your mission statement to work

Focused Momentum

A mission statement can inspire and fulfill a unique role in your strategic management toolkit , but they often play a boring role in the organizations that have them. I confess, I too tend to overlook the mission statement when developing strategy with leadership teams, but it is NOT because I don't understand their strategic importance. It is because when given the chance, groups tend to want to spend our precious strategic thinking time wordsmithing.

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5 Business Innovators of 2019

InnovationManagement

Innovation is what creates progress and change. Without the introduction of new ideas and processes, we'd never get any further in life than where we are right now. In business, specifically, innovation means changes to technology and the economy. By always releasing a new, better product, companies constantly up the game to be better in every field.

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How to Fix Corporate Tech Strategy

Innovation Excellence

A large defense contractor is in the process of revamping their technology strategy. They want to see more return on investment, which totals more than $1 billion annually across headquarters and its business units. This money is meant to deliver the next generation of technologies their customers need. Recently, however, their success rate has been.

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The Truth About Electronic Suggestion Boxes

Kainexus

There are lies people tell for selfish or malicious reasons. They come up in business from time to time, but far more common are fairytales that are told out of a desire for the fiction to be true. Sometimes folks think if they repeat something often enough, it will become fact. We believe that’s the reason for so many of the myths we hear about the electronic suggestion box.

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Meet Thanos: the analog villain in the data era

mjvinnovation

*Thanos image: Marvel/Disney. In our story, the “Crazy Titan” is represented by the manager who still has an analog mindset. Managers and directors who ignore the need to develop a solid strategy for Big Data often make blind decisions. Instead of multiplying resources and generating more value, they prefer to “erase” the existence of the data – have you ever wondered why Thanos did not generate more wealth, but preferred to end half of life in the universe?

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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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Philips, GE Healthcare, Siemens CEOs Talk AI in Healthcare

Innovation Leader

Read highlights from a conversation with CEOs from GE Healthcare, Philips, and Siemens Healthineers approach AI at their companies.

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Why a Happy Workplace is in Your Best Interests

The Human Factor

image source. Contributed post –. Cultivating a happy and rewarding workplace is vital to business success and seamless operational functions. Employers have a lot to consider when they hire new staff and they obviously want to get the most out of their existing members of staff. However, when you’re hiring people it’s important to think about what the business can offer them, as well as what they can do for your business.

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Foundations: A Five-Day Email Program for Getting Corporate Innovation Started

Innovation Leader

Foundations: A Five-Day Email Program for Getting Corporate Innovation Started

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5 Ways To Improve Life In Your Office

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. Life in the office can be pretty stressful. After all, you and your team are always busy, and there are sometimes hiccups that cause real problems for everybody (and a lot of panicking as a result). Whilst these things are somewhat inevitable, the truth is that you can create an office environment in which people can relax a little more, things are dealt with quickly, and there is enough team spirit there to pick each other back up on those tough days.

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and Guest Speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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THE IDIOT SAVANT'S GUIDE to Becoming a Better Storyteller

Idea Champions

Click here to listen (and view) my November 22nd webinar on storytelling in the workplace. Entertaining, mind opening, and practical. Hosted by the good people at PatSnap. If you are interested in learning why and how storytelling is the ideal way to increase employee engagement, build community, transmit tacit knowlege, and spark a mindset of innovation, this will be a very good use of 48 minutes.

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Does Speaking Up Help or Harm Your Career?

Michael Roberto

Conventional wisdom, backed by plenty of painful examples, demonstrates that speaking up at work brings with it some serious risks. Some leaders do not appreciate dissent and they have been known to shoot the messenger who brings bad news. In contrast, a new study looks at how speaking up might have some beneficial effects for a person's career. Mona Weiss and Elizabeth Morrison have published a paper titled, "Speaking up and moving up: How voice can enhance employees' social status.

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Collaboration is the new competitive advantage

IdeaSpies

In 1985, a relatively unknown professor at Harvard Business School named Michael Porter published a book called Competitive Advantage which explained that, by optimizing every facet of the value chain, a firm could consistently outperform its competitors. The book was an immediate success and made Porter a management superstar. Yet more recently Porter’s thinking has been called into question, most notably by Rita Gunther McGrath in her book The End of Competitive Advantage which argued that sus