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11 Beloved Inventions That Were Almost Canceled

Entrepreneur - Innovation

People tried to stop coffee, bicycles, comic books, and even birthday parties.

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16 Best Free Online Brainstorming Tools in 2021

IdeaScale

What are the best tools for brainstorming in 2021? COVID-19 has driven organizations to adopt digital tools that can improve their processes and deliver more effective results. Whether you’re brainstorming virtually or in-person, coordinating it can require a substantial amount of creativity on your part. These web-focused brainstorming tools will allow you and your team … Continued.

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Survivorship bias

Idea to Value

Survivorship bias is one of the most common selection biases, and can be extremely detrimental when assessing whether a new idea or innovation will work. Survivorship bias is the tendency for humans to be aware of an focus on thins (be it people or products) which made it past some selection process, and not pay attention to the other examples which did not make it through.

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Innovating in the midst of chaos and disruption

Jeffrey Phillips

There's a great poem by Kipling that I'm sure is now out of favor, but it has a central message that we all need to hear. The poem is "If" - and if you are interested in reading the poem you can find the link here. Go ahead and read it now. After the Biden inaugural, poetry is on the upswing in popularity and Kipling is a good poet. Plus, the poem has a message that we need to hear now.

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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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The Best 2020 IdeaScale Features

IdeaScale

It’s amazing how rapidly things change: ten years ago we didn’t have Uber, meal delivery kits, or Stranger Things. Now it’s hard to imagine life without them. It’s tough to keep up – especially when big things appear over the course of days, weeks, and years. A lot happened in 2020 and we’re on pace … Continued. The post The Best 2020 IdeaScale Features appeared first on IdeaScale.

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The Rise of Second-hand: Exploring the Opportunities of Re-commerce

The BMI Lab Blog

The fashion resale market is booming. By 2029, it is forecasted to reach a value of $80 billion , doubling the size of fast fashion. As used clothing is taking over our wardrobes, we have decided to explore the phenomenon of resale from a business model perspective – and investigate how it can be applied to other industries. Definition – What is a re-commerce business model?

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5 Tips on Coping with Failure

Innovation Leader

As a part of our recent Success Stories online event, innovation executives discussed their honest experiences with failure — including best practices for getting back on your feet.

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#2,098 – Bread Scaffold

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

For some reason baking bread during the pandemic has become all the rage. So much so, that even scientists are getting in on the fun with bread based scaffolding for growing cells. Futurism explains: “A team of scientists took pandemic baking to a new level — by using their doughy creations as a scaffold for lab-grown human cells. ‘It seemed like a fitting project for these times,’ lead author and University of Ottawa researcher Andrew Pelling told New Scientist.

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Innovation Series: Sharon Zickovic, Cofounder and Chief Innovation Officer at Wicked Lab

Collectivecamp

Sharon Zickovic is the cofounder and Chief Innovation Officer at Wicked Lab. Wicked Lab supports multi-stakeholder groups address complex social policy problems (wicked problems).?

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Innovation Answered: Taking You Inside the C-Suite

Innovation Leader

Innovation Answered is back for its fifth season. And, we’re going inside the C-Suite of well-known, well-established organizations.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with 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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Innovation Series: Adam Long, Chief Technology & Innovation Officer at UNICO

Collectivecamp

Adam Long is UNICO’s Chief Information Officer. He has over 27 years’ experience envisioning and delivering software projects and products.

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The Institute for Healthcare Improvement Model for Improvement

Kainexus

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Model for Improvement is a straightforward approach that many organizations use to structure their improvement strategies. The method focuses on setting goals and teamwork to achieve change. It promotes improvement by looking for answers to three questions: What are we trying to accomplish? How will we know that a change results in improvement?

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4 Tips on Recovering from Failure

Innovation Leader

As a part of our recent Success Stories online event, innovation executives discussed their honest experiences with failure — including best practices for getting back on your feet.

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The Source of Grit and Resilience

Rmukesh Gupta

In a recent post on HBR ([link] authors Rob Cross , Karen Dillon and Danna Greenberg talk about building resilience based on their yet unpublished research. They argue and I quote, A well-developed network of relationships can help us rebound from setbacks by: – Helping us shift work or manage surges – Helping us to make sense of people or politics in a given situation – Helping us find the confidence to push back and self advocate – Helping us see a path forward &#

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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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#2,096 – DALL-E

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

OpenAI is at it again. Last year it was the development of GPT-3 , a text generating AI that could democratize the process of literary creation, that took the world by storm. Now it’s DALL-E, an image generator that could democratize the process of artistic creation. Or at least create some interesting weirdness. NBC News sums it up best: “OpenAI, one of the industry leaders in artificial intelligence development, released evidence in early January of a leap forward of its capabiliti