Sat.May 16, 2015 - Fri.May 22, 2015

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Fresh Air From Students' Open Eyes at ExxonMobil

Imaginatik

I had the pleasure of organizing a special future oriented ideation session for ExxonMobil with students of the Foresight program of the University of Houston College of Technology. Those students did a great job challenging the team of ExxonMobil by simply sharing their vision of the future. This vision is not something that the ExxonMobil team encounter in their day to day work.

Ideation 217
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Change the World – Step One

Braden Kelley

Do you want to change the world? Even just one tiny corner of your own world? Change often feels overwhelming, scary even, and frequently we don’t know where to begin.

Change 143
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Starting with a Great Strategy

IdeaScale

More and more these days, great organizations are employing innovation programs. These organizations have come to realize that, in order to stay relevant, it’s imperative to continue evaluating and growing. While deciding to incorporate an innovation program may be an easy decision, deciding the structure and strategy surrounding that program can be more difficult.

Strategy 135
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Do Your Internal Functions Have A Strategy?

Matthew May

A significant portion of my strategic facilitation work is with internal functions, a click or two below corporate and business unit strategy: marketing, human resources, purchasing, and even internal strategy groups. There is good news and bad news in this. The good news is that internal functions have recognized the need to be strategic, even if it is because higher level strategies demand supporting strategies.

Strategy 100
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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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This is what an internship in innovation looks like

Board of Innovation

As the years passed by, Board of Innovation saw many interns doing the same. In many companies, an intern, is … just an intern, but not here. That’s why we wanted to highlight what an internship in innovation (at Board of Innovation) looks like. Therefore we did a (small) interview with our latest asset, Simon Fourès who came all the. Read More.

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Living Innovation at Merck Serono, by Ulrich Betz

Rapid Innovation in digital time

Dr. Ulrich Betz is Head of Innovation & Entrepreneurship Incubator’ at Merck Serono. Merck Serono initiated recently a great variety of open and participative innovation initiatives: Innospire Idea Competition, Innovation Boost 2015, Innovation Cup, Open Compound, Open Call for drug discovery, and Outcubation.

More Trending

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Why Language Matters for Everything

Mills-Scofield

How many languages do you speak? Only 7% of American college kids study a language. Think this is a problem? It is a huge socio-economic-global-geopolitical-security one! Amelia Friedman didn't set out to start a business learning languages from her peers - like Bengali, Thai, Tamil. but she has. We need to communicate like never before - and language is how.

Culture 63
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How last year’s hottest startup is making money from their ‘free’ HR software

Board of Innovation

Recently, the hottest startup of 2014, Zenefits raised another $500 million and got a $4.5 billion valuation. Time for us to analyse their business model, how are they making money from their ‘free’ HR software? Let’s start with the product, Zenefits is offering free cloud-based HR software to any company. So companies can centralise all of their employees’ information in.

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PBTO22: Growing Your Business By Building an Army of Zombie Loyalists – @PeterShankman

Rmukesh Gupta

In today’s episode, we host Peter Shankman. He is an author, entrepreneur, speaker, and worldwide connector. He is recognised worldwide for radically new ways of thinking about Customer Service, Social Media, PR, marketing and advertising. The New York Times has called him “a PR all-star who knows everything about new media and then some,” Peter is a spectacular example of what happens when you merge the power of pure creativity with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) a

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Eric Ries interview: 4 Seeds for planting lean startup in the enterprise

Moves the Needle

Perhaps the most common question we hear is, “How do you get started doing Lean Startup in the enterprise?” Practitioners want to figure out how to get leaders involved; leaders worry about the level of effort required to implement a top-down rollout. We always get a kick discussing enterprise lean startup challenges with The Lean Startup author Eric Ries, so welcomed the opportunity to do so during his recent Kickstarter campaign.

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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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Organizational Debt is like Technical debt – but worse

Steve Blank

Startups focus on speed since they are burning cash every day as they search for product/market fit. But over time code/hardware written/built to validate hypotheses and find early customers can become unwieldy, difficult to maintain and incapable of scaling. These shortcuts add up and become what is called technical debt. And the size of the problem increases with the success of the company.

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TEDxGlasgow Labs

100%Open

We are very excited to be the Labs partner for TEDxGlasgow on June 12th at the Tramway Theatre. The theme will be “Why Not Here?” and we will be exploring some very important and interesting challenges throughout the Labs with some of the smartest people participating from the 600 delegates that are registered to attend. The graphic above shows the process that we have designed specifically for this event and can’t wait to get stuck in.

Design 40
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Comment on My SUCCESS Magazine Audio Interview by Edye Londer

Stephen Shapiro

Stephen, In your interview with Darren Hardy in May 2013 you reference to a study done in the Ukraine on education and the importance of parental involvement. In addition you referenced to a school in Bogota, Columbia that has/had 100% parental involvement and significant improvement in the education of those students. My son is in Isla Baru, Columbia right now teaching to students who need BIG TIME HELP.

Study 40
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Robots in Retail

Innovation 360 Group

We held a breakfast seminar on Omni-Channel 2.0 this Wednesday May 13th at our Stockholm Office. Read Saras’ post on it here. I spoke on how digitalization and automation can come to revolutionize the entire retail industry, and exemplified with what robots are actually used for in retail today. Here’s a quick recap: Sylvan Goldman invented the shopping cart in 1937 and since then progress on transportation of your goods in-store has been scarce.

Course 40
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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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Former Microsoft, PayPal Execs on Connecting with Startups

Innovation Leader

What's the right approach for big companies that want to plug into the startup world? Invest? Acquire? Be a customer? Get insights here.

Company 40
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Most Companies Fail at Innovation Because…

Braden Kelley

Most companies fail at innovation because they fail at change. There you go, there is the entire article in a single sentence.

Company 147
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Have the Banks already been Disrupted?

Matthew Griffin

“Banks were once the corner stone of the community but today their industry is being disrupted and disintermediated. Despite spending over £200 Billion on business transformation last year alone their industry is facing a Cultural Shift which will be more damaging than anything else they’re facing.”. Over the past two weeks I’ve talked to a number of senior C level executives from some of the UK’s largest retail banks to understand more about their views of the world and their perception of the

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Why It’s Crucial to Understand Your Company’s Innovation DNA

Innovation Leader

Every company has different DNA, which means innovation approaches need to differ.

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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