Sat.Jun 13, 2015 - Fri.Jun 19, 2015

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Hackathons – 3 tips for getting started quickly

Imaginatik

It’s official: hackathons aren’t just for developers and entrepreneurs anymore. Now, corporations are lining up to use them as a means of developing ideas and driving engagement around innovation programs. Here’s an example from this month – just one of many. NBCUniversal held a successful hackathon in London June 6th & 7th – the winning results are already posted here.

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The Benefits of Reverse Mentoring

Destination Innovation

A Dutch nursing home lets university students live rent-free alongside the elderly residents, as part of a project aimed at warding off the negative effects of aging. In exchange for small, rent-free apartments, the Humanitas retirement home in Deventer , Netherlands, requires students to spend at least 30 hours per month acting as “good neighbors.

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Blog Migration

IdeaScale

Greetings IdeaScale followers, I wanted to let you know that we’ll ’ll be moving our blog to ideascale.com/blog and that your subscriptions will hopefully be going along with us. This is because, while you will continue to receive email notifications of new posts as before, WordPress.com followers will only see new posts in the Reader. You will not receive email updates unless you subscribe to receive those on your new site here: [link].

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Our predictions: what happened in the last 100 days?

Board of Innovation

When we run an intrapreneurship program in a large corporate, we aim to push participants out their comfort zone. During several exercises intrapreneurs have to brainstorm on what the future could bring to their organisation. Spotting emerging trends & technology is never easy. To speed up this process we’ve create a FutureScan Poster with +200 predictions.

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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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Brussels Cargill Event

Imaginatik

I am recently back from an event that we ran and was excellently hosted by Cargill at their R&D facilities in Brussels. I want to share some observations on what made this event so personally enriching for myself, and as was confirmed by many of the other attendees. 1. Doing, not just listening. This is an Imaginatik Innovation Leaders Forum. ILF is not your typical conference.

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You don’t need to be the first to be the best! with BitNexo

Rapid Innovation in digital time

Seedstarsworld competition in Shanghai has a winner! BitNexo, a Bitcoin-backed cross border commerce payment system between China and Latin America. Darren Camas, Co-Founder & CEO of Bitnexo, gently help us discover Bitnexo in more details.

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The Upside of Impracticality: Or Why I Left Congress for Brooklyn

Mills-Scofield

Caitie Whelan recently gave up the prestigious job of a Senior Foreign Policy Advisor in Congress to move to Brooklyn, NJ and write. Ayup! (Yes, she hails from the great state of Maine). Why? She wanted to make a dent in the universe (something she's done before). Read on. Be inspired. Think, ponder. and go make a dent. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~.

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Two New Books: The Innovation Formula and Soulful Branding

InnovationLabs

InnovationLabs and our partner firm FutureLab have two new books available for you, and we hope that you find them useful and interesting. The first, The Innovation Formula, is available as a free download from our web site (you may also see the link on the upper right side of this page); the second, Soulful […].

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Always hopeful yet discontent…

100%Open

The need for innovation never ceases. Whether it’s the pressure to find the next billion dollar business, or to find out how to most effectively support the most vulnerable people in our local community, there is always a very long list of problems to solve and opportunities to unlock by thinking and acting differently. The never ending pressure to innovate is often completely overwhelming.

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Value Shift: From Products to Data

Information Playground

Earlier this morning I presented at the first ever  EnterConf conference  in Belfast, Ireland. The event “ brings innovators who are building the business technologies of the 21st century together with IT leaders from the world’s largest and most-established companies.”. 'How much is Big Data worth? Nobody knows.' - @SteveTodd #EnterConf pic.twitter.com/QJj8R3yfVh. — Calantha Forde (@CalanthaForde) June 18, 2015.

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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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NBCUniversal Shares Its Hit Hackathon Formula

Innovation Leader

NBCUniversal’s chief technology officer and chief information officer share their advice on topics like how to link hackathons with business unit objectives.

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Improve Employees’ Productivity with these Tools and Apps

The Human Factor

Holly welcomes guest blogger Monique Rivers: In today’s office world, efficiency and productivity are top concerns of executives and business owners alike. We all want to complete more tasks in less time – fortunately, there are lots of smart technological solutions that can help managers to boost the productivity of their employees. Here are top 6 tools and apps that are crucial for making your employees more efficient in their daily work output.

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Why not here? Why not now?

100%Open

Why not here? Why not now? These two simple questions formed the theme for last Friday’s TEDxGlasgow at the amazing Tramway theatre which attracted 600 people and featured a series of diverse and engaging talks from the likes of Mark Beaumont , Judy Murray (below) and Amos Miller who turned down the lights and challenged us to light up the world through sound.

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Feature Friday: Scaling Evaluations

KindlingApp

In a recent Forbes interview, Garry Lyons, CIO of MasterCard, shared his team’s mantra: “ Innovation without execution is only ideation.” This is an apt principle for a CIO’s team because it states the goal of any innovation initiative: to narrow your idea pipeline into a strong core of implementable ideas. Doing that requires a solid decision-making process, which is why our goal for Kindling is that it helps you make faster, more informed decisions.

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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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How NTT Data Diversifies Innovation

Innovation Leader

In 2014, Tokyo-based NTT Data held 11 workshops in cities.

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US Citizens' (Small) Victory in Fight Against Govt. Search & Seizure

Outside Innovation

The Customer Revolution Continues.U.S. Patriot Act Expires. Thanks to courageous stands taken by Republican Senator Rand Paul and Democratic Senator Ron Wyden, and to an outpouring of calls and emails from American voters (thank you!), the three portions of the US Patriot Act that authorized the mass collection and data mining of the phone records of US citizens expired on June 1st, 2015.