Sat.Dec 23, 2017 - Fri.Dec 29, 2017

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As we enter 2018 we will need Knowledge Graphs

Paul Hobcraft

I received an early New Year present, actually, it came from Siemens. They had invited me to their Siemens Innovation Day in mid-December 2017. I really appreciated it, yet it took me time to absorb all that was provided, over these past two weeks. My early present, well actually an idea, came the day before the event. I was included in the Industry Analysts visit to the Siemens Technology Center, at Neuperlach in Munich.

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Best ads of December and best two of 2017 (maybe)

Exago

December means Christmas ads and one of our two top scorers for Nokia by Mother falls into that category just about; another variation on the recurring theme that Christmas is about bringing people together, not handing out prezzies. Mother, our Agency of the Year in 2016, has kept up the good work this year alongside.

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The 4 Dynamic Stages of Collaborative Innovation – Number 3: Idea Review

IdeaScale

What’s the best idea among the ones you’ve defined? You’ve collected ideas. You’ve refined them. Now it’s time to see what’s made it through the process and evaluate which to act on. But how should the process of reviewing ideas be engaged in? Who should be involved? What, in short, are the best practices of idea review?

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Two Contrarian Thinkers who went Unheeded

Destination Innovation

Lord Lansdowne. Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice (1845 – 1927), the 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, was a distinguished British statesman who held senior positions in both Liberal Party and Conservative Party governments. He had served as the fifth Governor General of Canada, Viceroy of India, Secretary of State for War, and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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How Crowdsourcing is Changing Education

Innocentive

In the quarter-century since the first website was published, the internet has changed our lives. Amazon puts access to over 500 million products before us, Spotify lets us stream over 30 million songs and Facebook allows us to connect with over 2 billion people around the world. We know that the web has transformed the way we shop, consume media and socialize.

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Top 12 ideation techniques to brainstorm your way to new ideas

hackerearth

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. –Thomas A. Edison. Does your ideation session with your teammates turn into just another meeting with a few people squabbling and the rest keeping quiet? How do you enhance the likelihood of having successful ideation sessions?

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?Making Innovation Personal: Resolutions for 2018, Part 1

Bill Fischer

Want to be part of an innovative organization? Change yourself first! In the spirit of making innovation more personal in 2018, I have asked a diverse and interesting set of innovation observers to each share a personal innovation resolution for the coming year.

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The Innovation Decision Tree

Board of Innovation

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Employee engagement and innovation

hackerearth

There’s a common belief in every industry that innovation is limited to the realm of research and development or technological advances. Companies often go to any lengths to develop their R&D department to foster innovation to stay successful in their industry. However, what drives the prized attribute of innovation in almost every company is not just R&D or its leaders but its employees.

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Génération2: The Social Good Accelerator

Innovation Excellence

Génération2 is a cooperative of advisors, working to increase and guide corporation, and social innovators’ partnerships, from Philanthropy to more business oriented solutions.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

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.

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The Evolution of New Ideas

Mike Shipulski

Before there is something new to see, there is just a good idea worthy of a prototype. And before there can be good ideas there are a whole flock of bad ones. And until you have enough self confidence to have bad ideas, there is only the status quo. Creating something from nothing is difficult. New things are new because they are different than the status quo.

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2017 Reflecting on the year that was

Board of Innovation

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How to encourage your employees to contribute ideas

hackerearth

In today’s technological landscape, new ideas can be more than worth their weight in gold. We don’t need to look further than ubiquitous products that are an integral part of our lives today; they got their start as a novel projects at companies - Netflix’s decision to branch out into online streaming instead of DVD rentals, Apple’s decision to invest in the smartphone market, the Facebook news feed - these are just a few examples of new ideas that led companies to pursue projects that paid off

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Nominate the Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2017

Innovation Excellence

Innovation Excellence loves making innovation insights accessible for the greater good, because we truly believe that the better our organizations get at delivering value to their stakeholders the less waste of natural resources and human resources there will be. As a result we are eternally grateful to all of you out there who take the.

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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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Certainty —The Ultimate Closing Tool

Daniel Burrus

We are all selling something. Talking with a customer? You’re selling, of course. Meeting with a business partner to consider staffing changes? You’re selling. Have you ever tried to sell someone on helping you with an idea or tried to sell the CFO on funding your team’s project? All sorts of factors can enter into a decision on whether to buy a certain product or support a particular idea.

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Sourcing Novel Timber Building Concepts with Open Innovation

IdeaConnection

To source innovative timber building designs Metsa Wood (part of the paper group Metsäliitto) invited architects, engineers and innovators to take part in the world’s first Open Source Wood Hackathon, which took place recently in Nantes, France. Participants formed three multidisciplinary teams to generate novel wood designs using a type of laminated veneer lumber. “This is the first Open Source Wood Hackathon, but also a pioneering event in the wood construction industry, “said Mikk

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Weekly Product Gallery: Pipe, valves and fittings

hackerearth

This week’s gallery shines the spotlight on pipe, valves and fittings: added sizes for grooved couplings and nipples; a female drop ear elbow for showerhead applications; a corrosive waste piping system for a variety of applications; residential plumbing lead-free brass valves for PEX; a one-piece supply line with stainless-steel braided connector and supply stop; and fittings for corrugated stainless-steel tubing.

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We Need To Stop Trying To Predict The Future And Start Exploring It

Innovation Excellence

In a celebrated 1995 article in Newsweek, astronomer Clifford Stoll blasted Internet visionaries. “Do our computer pundits lack all common sense?” he asked. “The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.

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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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Innovation of National Trade Associations

InnovationManagement

All over the world, members of most national trade associations, no longer wish to pay heavy dues just to wait a year to spend few days in an annual convention, receive quarterly newsletters and some educational webinars. They find all these too slow and very boring.

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Learning Design Thinking By Design Doing

Rmukesh Gupta

?. via GIPHY. I was invited by the organising team of the Society for Technical Communication’s India chapter conference to introduce the concepts of Design thinking to the participants. We did some brainstorming and decided that instead of giving a lecture for an hour about design thinking and walk off, it would be better if we can find some additional time and get the participants to experience Design thinking methodology by using the process to attempt to solve something that everyone o

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Everything you need to know about innovation management software

hackerearth

Although enterprise collaboration software market has been around for over 20 years, innovation management software is a specialized segment that helps companies guide and support their innovation process. With the right tool, the idea generation, implementation and evaluation, and market tracking phases can be managed to create successful business outcomes.

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How Gamification and Incentives Can Build Employee Engagement

Innovation Leader

Naureen Meraj, a training and digital transformation leader, discusses gamification and incentivizing participation in innovation. Find out more in this IL Confidential video.

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & 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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?Making Innovation Personal: Resolutions For 2018, Part 1

Bill Fischer

Want to be part of an innovative organization? Change yourself first! In the spirit of making innovation more personal in 2018, I have asked a diverse and interesting set of innovation observers to each share a personal innovation resolution for the coming year.

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Happy Birthday Co-Lab Test

100%Open

There have been over 5000 Co-Lab tests in the 4 years from its inception in September 2013. 100%Open devised the test to aid one of the tough tests for business collaboration – the collaborators’ relationships. Each of the 5000+ respondents has hopefully learned something useful about themselves and how they collaborate in internal teams and in external collaborations.

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Business model innovation: a core capability for disrupting your industry

hackerearth

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, just when everyone thought that Apple’s growth had reached a saturation point, the company made a game-changing move. In 2001, Apple introduced an array of products and services beyond hardware and software. The company’s new offerings, such as the iPod, the iPhone, and the iTunes skyrocketed Apple’s growth all over again, taking it to the zenith of its industry.

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Fast Prototyping and Feedback at Shell's TechWorks Innovation Lab

Innovation Leader

Julie Ferland of the Shell TechWorks innovation lab, offers an inside at the space; the types of projects it works on; and the team Shell has assembled from outside the oil and gas industry.

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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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Building an online Idea Generator

Board of Innovation

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5 Inexpensive Ways to Jump Start a Sustainable Culture of Innovation

Idea Champions

Trying to create a culture of innovation is a daunting task for even the most committed organization. Cultures take decades to form. Changing them is not an overnight phenomenon, no matter how many outside consultants you've gotten on the case. You might as well try to end world hunger or wipe out Aids overnight. It's gonna take a while. But if you and your colleagues are game, culture change is possible.

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Why use hackathon management software

hackerearth

Companies amass specialized knowledge with time and can address significant challenges by themselves within clearly defined contexts. Innovation, on the other hand, is a challenge because companies are unaware where these pockets of knowledge exist. Managers do not know, what skill-sets they might have within their reach, how to evaluate solutions, how to integrate these solutions into their workflows and much more.

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PepsiCo Exec on Business Unit Ties & the Perils of Too Many Ideas

Innovation Leader

Robert Perri of PepsiCo, talks about the importance of budget, borrowing resources when necessary, and close ties between innovation or R&D teams and their business unit partners.

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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.