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Going beyond the known of today

Paul Hobcraft

There are so many places where innovation is essential within the Energy Transition, due to the magnitude, size, and complexity of the change needed to achieve a decarbonized world. There is a world of innovating possibilities. One of the most important catalysts for changing the energy system into a sustainable green one is by taking our thinking beyond the known into the possibilities we need for a sustaining future, of energy based on the ability for renewables to generate all our electrifica

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4 Things Companies Need To Build An Innovation Ecosystem

Digital Tonto

The technology being developed today is simply too complex for anyone to go it alone, which is why the only viable strategy is to actively connect to ecosystems of talent, technology and. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Planned Obsolescence: How companies are deliberately making their products worse

Idea to Value

If you ever had the feeling that products don’t last as long as they used to, you might be right. It turns out that in order to keep consumers buying products year after year, some companies are actually deliberately reducing the quality of their products. In some especially nefarious situations, these companies may be updating their products through software even after you bought them, in order to make the performance worse.

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Harness the Random with this Method

Destination Innovation

The use of chance is a key element in lateral thinking. How can you deliberately introduce chance into your creative thinking? The Random Word method is very good. Here is another brainstorm method for you to try – Roll the Dice. It works well with groups of 4 to 6 people and is excellent for forcing unusual combinations of ideas and settings.

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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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Can Brands Meet the Challenge of Achieving a Sustainable Innovation Strategy?

IdeaScale

Overview: Sustainability approaches and innovation strategy go hand-in-hand, yet too often are seen as separate targets. The two need to be reconciled, especially as hitting necessary sustainability targets will be key to future business. Brands need to reframe the narrative, find value in sustainability, incorporate it into larger operational goals, make it part of the upgrade and repair cycle, and create a circular innovation process to constantly build on successes.

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Going beyond the known of today

Paul Hobcraft

There are so many places where innovation is essential within the Energy Transition due to the magnitude, size, and complexity of the change needed to achieve a decarbonized world. There is a world of innovative possibilities. One of the most important catalysts for changing the energy system into a sustainable green one is by taking our thinking beyond the known into the possibilities we need for a sustainable future of energy based on the ability for renewables to generate all our electrificat

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When it comes to understanding customers, you can't handle the truth

Jeffrey Phillips

With all due respect to Jack Nicholson, who said this line in A Few Good Men, and to Aaron Sorkin, who wrote the words, most companies cannot handle the truth about the wants and needs that their customers have, because the truth is inconvenient at best, and often ignored at worst. It is far easier to assume you know what customers want, and further to assume that they want what you have already.

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Can Brands Meet the Challenge of Achieving a Sustainable Innovation Strategy?

IdeaScale

Overview: Sustainability approaches and innovation strategy go hand-in-hand, yet too often are seen as separate targets. The two need to be reconciled, especially as hitting necessary sustainability targets will be key to future business. Brands need to reframe the narrative, find value in sustainability, incorporate it into larger operational goals, make it part of the upgrade … Continued.

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Going beyond the known of today

Paul Hobcraft

There are so many places where innovation is essential within the Energy Transition due to the magnitude, size, and complexity of the change needed to achieve a decarbonized world. There is a world of innovative possibilities. One of the most important catalysts for changing the energy system into a sustainable green one is by taking our thinking beyond the known into the possibilities we need for a sustainable future of energy based on the ability for renewables to generate all our electrificat

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You win or you learn

Idea to Value

There is a wonderful saying in the martial art of Jiu-Jitsu: There is no losing in Jiu-Jitsu. You win or you learn. This quote comes from one of the pioneers of Brazillian Jiu-Jitsu, Carlos Gracie Sr. What I love about it is how succinctly it demonstrates the value in learning from trying new things. When it comes to innovation and developing creativity, it is a necessity to try things which could not work out.

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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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Remote Teamwork: Selecting the Right Communication Channels

Strategyzer Innovation

Remote teamwork is here to stay and we’re not close to give up the office. Teams will increasingly have to juggle among communication channels and platforms to adapt to their rapidly evolving workplace.

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Innovation guardrails

Jeffrey Phillips

Have you ever been driving along a dark road at night, and been thankful for the guardrails that line the roadside? Of course, if the road is relatively flat and straight, guard rails are not very important, except to keep you out of the oncoming lane. But consider a high mountain pass, with rock facings on one side and a relatively sheer drop just off the other side.

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Leading a Balanced Life Enables Your Success in Business

Tullio Siragusa

Leading a Balanced Life Enables Your Success in Business. If you love what you do, you will never work a day in your life. There are many who take pride in waking up at 4am to get a jump start on their workday, and working till very late at night, they get little sleep and often say “I’ll rest when I die”. Is this living a balanced life? Are these people really successful?

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Bill Gates talks about the Green Premium, and what innovations are going to save the planet

Idea to Value

Bill Gates is an icon of innovation. Not only did he build up Microsoft to be one of the most innovative companies in the world, he has recently focused his efforts on philanthropic work to address some of the future’s greatest challenges, including eradicating diseases, poverty and climate change. In a recent extensive TED interview ( watch it at the top of this article ), he explains a new challenge for innovation: reducing the Green Premium.

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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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Evidence that Lean CLEAR-ly Works in Healthcare

Kainexus

Dr. John Toussaint has long been one of the world's leading practitioners and advocates in the world of Lean healthcare, so it's always great to see what he has to say and share.

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The Curious Case of the Artist in the Archives

Mills-Scofield

What did you do during the pandemic? That seems to be the question now. For Jessica Esch, her insatiable curiosity combined with her serendipitous discovery of oral histories in the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art led to the creation of a new form of art she calls typelooping. Totally – Jessica Esch: Fill in the Blanks, November 2020 ; Source Quote: Oral history interview with Kay WalkingStick, 2011 Dec 14-15.

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Increase Your Innovation Reputation and Velocity with an Innovation Evangelist

InnovationManagement

Building upon my popular article Rise of the Evangelist, I wanted to create an article for the global innovation community focused specifically on the importance of the innovation evangelist role. The post Increase Your Innovation Reputation and Velocity with an Innovation Evangelist appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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That stressful feeling you may be experiencing due to Lockdown is loss

Idea to Value

Have you recently seen the end of the tunnel of COVID lockdowns, only for it to get worse? This recently happened in Germany, and it is causing depression in a lot of people. Throughout December, January and February, nearly the entire country was in a lockdown, and people have been patiently waiting for the infection rates to decrease with the promise that the country would open up again.

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How Automation is Driving Efficiency Through the Last Mile of Reporting

Speaker: Jamie Eagan

As organizations strive for agility and efficiency, it's imperative for finance leaders to embrace innovative technologies and redefine traditional processes. Join us as we explore the pivotal role of digitalization and automation in reshaping what is commonly referred to as the “last mile of reporting”. We’ll deep-dive into why digitalization is no longer a choice, but a necessity for finance departments to stay competitive in a fast-paced environment touching on: 2024 trends for the Office of

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The 5 Benefits of Greater Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

CMOE

What if there were a way to increase your company’s revenue by up to 1,500% while simultaneously boosting innovation, performance, and brand image? You might say it’s not possible, but it absolutely is! How? Not by creating diversity programs, but by making diversity, equity, and inclusion a core business competency. Think about your boardrooms and C-suites.

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Let’s talk environmental impact in innovation

Board of Innovation

Board of Innovation meets Greenfish. An inspirational guide to boosting your company’s positive social and environmental impact. The post Let’s talk environmental impact in innovation appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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KaiNexus Office Relocating to Antarctica, Summer 2021

Kainexus

Companies around the world have spent the last year learning how to manage a remote workforce as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the globe. While many are looking forward to life getting back to normal, the KaiNexus team is looking to go in a different direction. “Our Austin office lease expired while our team was working fully remote last summer, and we realized that we had a golden opportunity to finally take the leap we’ve been dreaming about for years,” said KaiNexus CEO Greg Jacobson.

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How Chandra Ramanathan Overcomes Innovation Metrics Challenges at Bayer

Innovation Leader

Chandra Ramanathan, Global Head of Pharma R&D Open Innovation at Bayer, shares insights on what metrics his team measures, how he overcomes challenges in reporting…

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Implementing Intelligent Document Processing Solutions: Why It Works

See how companies like yours are tackling some of today’s most common business problems using AI-assisted automation for document processing. Manually capturing, extracting, and processing data within documents is a costly and outdated practice that’s holding your company back. IDP takes document processing to a whole new level so you can understand and use your data more effectively than ever before.

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5 Ways to Build Organizational Resilience

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Proactively building organizational resilience is good for business, especially with the rapid pace of change.

Change 101
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Why everyday workbench innovations matter?

Inspiring Next

Really? Safety and Innovations are both an outcome of mindset or a cultural issue. They both require constant situational awareness, creativity, ideation and risk reduction at operational level, and management commitment at the top levels. That mean Heinrich’s triangle for shop floor safety should also be applicable to enterprise innovation. Corporate Innovation Triangle Heinrich’s safety… Read More » Why everyday workbench innovations matter?

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Learning Machines: From 95/5 to 60/40

InnovationManagement

In this article, we look at the future of work: as technology helps to automate more of our day-to-day processes, can we spend more of our time and resources on learning and innovation? The post Learning Machines: From 95/5 to 60/40 appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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How Illumina is Building a Genomics Ecosystem

Innovation Leader

Amanda Cashin is the Global Head of the Illumina Accelerator, a startup accelerator that is dedicated to making human genome sequencing more accessible and useful. We spoke with Cashin about recent accomplishments.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Are you an Innovation Ostrich or Bear?

100%Open

Let’s not kid ourselves, the UK business environment is tough and won’t get much easier this year as uncertainty lingers and Brexit bites. In times of stress, we have noticed that large organisations line up into two camps, the Innovation Ostriches and the Innovation Bears. The first group, the Ostriches, conserve resources, put innovation off and wait for better times.

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are you afraid to have an eye to the future?

helloFUTURE

One of the key elements of my 25 steps “Foresight Leadership” process is determining inclination towards the past and the future. I get both a cultural and personal read of both individuals and the team’s sense of “time” – which can either be linear (time moves from past through the present to the future), parallel… The post are you afraid to have an eye to the future?

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Innovation in Focus: Private Equity and Institutional Actors

InnovationManagement

Private equity funds invest in many traditional companies. So do institutional actors. When asked, leading voices in this field often claim that they are not looking for the next big thing, but dominant companies in the field, with low risk and a relatively predictable and stable cash flow. The post Innovation in Focus: Private Equity and Institutional Actors appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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How Bayer's Open Innovation Chief Overcomes Metric Challenges

Innovation Leader

Chandra Ramanathan, Global Head of Pharma R&D Open Innovation at Bayer, shares insights on what metrics his team measures, how he overcomes challenges in reporting…

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.