Paul Hobcraft
JULY 29, 2015
Often we forget to frame what we want to really achieve in our innovation activity, instead we simply dive in and start innovating. I believe until we know what solutions we feel we need or the market wants, we will more often than not, end up disappointed in our innovation solutions. Simply generating ideas, for ideas sake, just does not cut it at all.
Jeffrey Phillips
JULY 27, 2015
I'm back on my definitional soapbox again, so if you've had enough of my diatribes on the importance of defining innovation, I'm sure there's an interesting international market melting down or a distracting political movement somewhere. There. Now that all the folks who aren't interested in defining innovation have skipped away to other destinations, we can get down to serious business.
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Braden Kelley
JULY 31, 2015
August 1st is the last day to nominate someone for a 2015 Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement Award.
Leapfrogging
JULY 29, 2015
In the style of summer action movie blockbusters – a summer battle went down between Amazon and Walmart. Both retail giants offered discounts and promotions to rival those only seen during traditional Black Friday sales. These sales created the kind of hype associated with summer blockbusters and put the marketing punch for the new Terminator to shame.
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.
Exago
JULY 29, 2015
First, technological revolutions changed operating models. Next day, reorganised business models. The third wave is now forcing management models to evolve. Tomorrow’s success stories will be those of companies whose DNA and best practices enable them to transform their different. Read More. The post The new threshold of corporate revolution appeared first on www.exago.com.
Board of Innovation
JULY 29, 2015
Last week, we launched our Business Model Kit to the Product Hunt community. It was the first time Nick and I launched a product on PH, so this blogpost is a great opportunity to look back on this (great) experience. Our Project Unlike many other projects on Product Hunt, our business model kit is not a new product. We had. Read More. The post This is how launching on Product Hunt for the first time, hammered our expectations. appeared first on Board of Innovation.
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Leapfrogging
JULY 29, 2015
In the style of summer action movie blockbusters – a summer battle went down between Amazon and Walmart. Both retail giants offered discounts and promotions to rival those only seen during traditional Black Friday sales. These sales created the kind of hype associated with summer blockbusters and put the marketing punch for the new Terminator to shame.
Innovation in Practice
JULY 27, 2015
Innovation is all about creating products and services that make your company more competitive in the marketplace. Those actions typically include generating ideas , creating prototypes, building the business case, and getting alignment to launch. Marketers must develop a strategy to know where to focus their resources. They must segment, target, and position the offering.
Planview
JULY 28, 2015
You might have heard that crowdsourcing innovation is really hard to manage. Or that the business value won’t show itself right away, so it’s not worth the time and effort it takes to start a crowd-based innovation program. We’d like to set the record straight. Here are 4 crowdsourcing myths you’ve probably heard — and why you shouldn’t let them stop you from giving it a try. 1.
Hutch Carpenter
JULY 28, 2015
In the San Francisco Bay Area, home prices have seen significant appreciation the last few years: Source: Paragon Real Estate Group. In the Bay Area, skyrocketing home prices and rents have driven people out of the area. They look for homes in further-out suburbs and exurbs , extending their commutes to work. And the Bay Area leads the nation in the percentage of people who are mega-commuters ( pdf ).
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.
Mike Shipulski
JULY 29, 2015
Even after playing lots of tricks to reduce its energy consumption, our brains still consume a large portion of the calories we eat. Like today’s smartphones it’s computing power is too big for it’s battery so its algorithms conserve every chance they get. One of its go-to conservation strategies is to make mental models. The models capture the essence of a system’s behavior without the overhead of retaining all the details of the system.
Daniel Burrus
JULY 29, 2015
Shortly after the launch of Apple’s iPhone, corporate Blackberry users started experimenting with the iPhone, and it didn’t take long before we began seeing office workers and executives juggling two phones – the Blackberry because they had to and the iPhone because they wanted to. Blackberry was focused on the corporate market and they designed the product for corporate communication and email systems.
Adam Hartung
JULY 25, 2015
This week an important event happened on Wall Street. The value of Amazon (~$248B) exceeded the value of Walmart (~$233B.) Given that Walmart is world’s largest retailer, it is pretty amazing that a company launched as an on-line book seller by a former banker only 21 years ago could now exceed what has long been retailing’s juggernaut.
Information Playground
JULY 28, 2015
In a recent post I highlighted five recommendations that enable a corporation to transition their business into an environment where the economic value of data is monitored systematically. These recommendations have emerged from the Architecting for Value research being conducted by Dr. Jim Short of the San Diego Supercomputer Center. One of the key recommendations by Dr.
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.
Innovation Leader
JULY 30, 2015
Michael Dewar of the New York Times R&D Group discussed the various ways that his group can build awareness of its projects throughout the organization.
Michael Roberto
JULY 30, 2015
As this blog's readers know, I'm a proponent of Devils advocacy as a mechanism for enhancing decision-making effectiveness. However, some teams make a crucial mistake with regard to the timing of the devil's advocate. Specifically, they allow one or more people to begin playing the role of devil's advocate too early in the decision process. That early critique actually suppresses idea and alternative generation.
Hutch Carpenter
JULY 30, 2015
In a previous post, the benefits of crowdsourcing were described as follows: When trying to solve a challenge, what is the probability that any one person will have the best solution for it? It’s a simple mathematical reality: the odds of any single person providing the top answer are low. How do we get around this? Partly by more participants; increased shots on goal.
Innovation Leader
JULY 28, 2015
Dell's Jim Stikeleather opened a recent Brightidea innovation gathering in Austin with a talk about the importance of fostering divergent thinking.
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Michael Roberto
JULY 27, 2015
Patti Johnson has written a good Fast Company column titled, "8 Ways to Get the Most out of a Meeting with Your Boss." Johnson explores how you can prepare effectively for these meetings, as well as how to conduct yourself to get the most out of these interactions. Here's an excerpt: Think less about your slides and more about the discussion I once watched a colleague of mine endlessly tinker with the wording on his PowerPoint slides right up to the moment before his presentation.
Michael Roberto
JULY 29, 2015
Stanford Professor Yossi Feinberg has identified five common traps that trip up entrepreneurs. There's one trap that I think applies to any business, startup or large corporation. Here's Feinberg describing this particular trap: Don’t try and reinvent the wheel if you don’t need to. The Internet has democratized access to all kinds of information, and if a successful process or structure exists for a non-core element of your business, use it.
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