Anaqua

APRIL 18, 2019

By Matt Troyer, Director of Patent Analytics at Anaqua. With sports fans around the world celebrating one of the greatest comebacks in sporting history after golfer Tiger Woods won the US Masters at Augusta, it is timely that World Intellectual Property Day on 26 April should be celebrating sporting heroes and the role of IP in sports. In golf, like in many sports, the margins between winning and losing can be extremely fine.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 19, 2019

There is always a time to reflect. It is when you have those spaces within your daily work you must take a view, a break, consider something that builds your energy up some more, to make it more resilient. Do you stop and reflect, do you “veg” out, do you seek alternative points of stimulus or find something completely different to go and do, read a book, listen to music, take a walk, climb a mountain or simply tune-out.

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helloFUTURE

APRIL 14, 2019

In every company, there are troublemakers. These are the radicals, those who don’t toe the party line, they use different processes, they don’t go through channels, they might say or do things that cause some discomfort. Some may describe them as “pains in the ass,” rogue elements which create all manner of disruption, and the… The post Are You Silencing Your Radicals?

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IdeaSpies

APRIL 16, 2019

In 1985, a relatively unknown professor at Harvard Business School named Michael Porter published a book called Competitive Advantage , which explained that by optimizing every facet of the value chain , a firm could consistently outperform its competitors. The book was an immediate success and made Porter a management superstar. Yet more recently Porter’s thinking has been called into question, most notably by Rita Gunther McGrath in her book The End of Competitive Advantage , which argu

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Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

If AI agents are going to deliver ROI, they need to move beyond chat and actually do things. But, turning a model into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. In this new webinar, Alex Salazar and Nate Barbettini will break down the emerging AI architecture that makes action possible, and how it differs from traditional integration approaches.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 17, 2019

For innovation to thrive in a company, it must be prioritized at every level. It’s not uncommon for corporate boards to lack strong expertise in the areas of innovation and technology. Taking an innovation project from idea through execution is challenging, and there can be obstacles at several places along the journey. When there is company-wide buy-in for an innovation project however, these challenges can be overcome more easily, and there is far less chance for the project to go uncompleted.

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Digital Tonto

APRIL 17, 2019

The quantum era will open up new worlds of possibility, enabling us to manage almost unthinkable complexity and reshape the physical world. Related posts: IBM Is Building A Network To Drive The. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Board of Innovation

APRIL 17, 2019

Use the 'Value Disc' to predict the future success of new products. Making long term predictions is hard, but we'll teach you to make reasonable estimates. The post How to predict the future success of new products? appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 18, 2019

Innovation can be sparked by anything, and these innovators can help. Innovation is all about a diversity of voices. The more perspectives on a problem, the more creative and effective the solutions to them will be. When building your innovation strategy, take a moment to check out these innovation leaders and how they’re approaching new opportunities.

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Digital Tonto

APRIL 14, 2019

Our most valuable resource is our human capital. If we can’t feed, educate and nurture that talent, our future will not be bright. Related posts: We Need To Revive Innovation And Entrepreneurship In. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2019

One of the more fascinating findings around creativity (especially creativity at work) is how important the social environment is to whether or not individuals tap into their creativity potential. Social Environment is one of four components that Teresa Amabile discovered were precursors to creative ideas. The social environment stimulates creativity by effecting collaboration, the safe.

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Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Gireesh Sahukar

Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.

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Norbert Bol

APRIL 14, 2019

Last week I wrote about the “ green finance gap “, where investments in green technology suffer from a lack of financial resources and less attractive risk-return expectations compared to other investments. There are however other possibilities to implement green technologies or sustainability where different sources of capital are being used and/or better financial metrics can apply also in a degrowth scenario (see also my blog Degrowth is more than an oxymoron?

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IdeaScale

APRIL 16, 2019

The word innovate comes from the Latin innovatus , where “in” means “into” and “novatus” is a form of the verb for “making something new.” The word eventually came to refer to bringing new things or changing established practices. Ideas grow stronger through connections with other ideas and idea-makers. Innovation can come from anywhere, anytime, and learning to encourage and manage innovation is a major competitive differentiator.

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InnovationManagement

APRIL 16, 2019

Digital and innovation - two big words that one defines, but are not always clear and precise. Many organizations of different sizes understand today that it is necessary to play in the Digital and Innovation fields in order to remain relevant, but it is not always clear how and how much.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 19, 2019

A patent can be taken out on almost any new implementable idea. It is not just about protecting your idea. Your patents are part of your Intellectual Property (IP) and can be valuable assets. Often a start-up company will be bought for its IP rather than its products or sales revenues. Here are some tips.

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Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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Tullio Siragusa

APRIL 15, 2019

The Key to Leave The Self-Worth Roller Coaster Ride. Throughout my life I’ve reached new levels of achievement and success, only to find myself sabotaging or starting over. What I mean by success isn’t just about business, it includes friendships, relationships, my emotional and spiritual state, and my physical health. I spent over 40 years being a student of spirituality, self-development, and various streams of consciousness.

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Daniel Burrus

APRIL 17, 2019

During the digital transformation, we have witnessed traditional forms of physical media fall out of favor as users abandoned their treasure trove of CDs, DVDs, books, magazines and even photo albums to partake in an entirely clutter-free life. Digitally optimizing our lives has enabled us to remove shelves, cabinets and dust magnets while we get our entertainment fix from the likes of Netflix, Spotify and the endless list of streaming alternatives.

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Svava

APRIL 15, 2019

The first step in design thinking: empathy mapping.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 17, 2019

Any sufficiently disruptive technology brings risk before it brings promise. On Sunday, March 18, 2018, an Uber Volvo XC90 in autonomous mode, with a safety driver as backup, hit and killed a 49-year-old Tempe, Arizona, woman, Elaine Herzberg. The NTSB is investigating. No doubt you’ve heard that last year, an Uber in Tempe, Arizona, operating.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Ankush Chopra

APRIL 19, 2019

Do you see your business the same way as your business leader does? The answer, unfortunately, is often no. And that leads to a disconnect between you and your business leader, making you feel you don’t ‘get it’, preventing you from making high impact, leaving you frustrated at times. And often business leaders scratch their head as to why others don’t see the world the way they do!

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InnovationManagement

APRIL 15, 2019

Now, more than ever, the corporate innovation industry grows as quickly as the technology that drives it. Thus, corporate innovators must set up the right foundational framework to kickstart their efforts.

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mjvinnovation

APRIL 16, 2019

“Wait, but what does this have to do with Data Science?” Calm down, we’ll get there. In MJV, the infinity of the universe is represented by the amount of data we generate every day. It’s Big Data itself! After all, when we say we produce hundreds of zettabytes of data annually, we’re talking about something as abstract as the infinity of the universe, aren’t we?

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 19, 2019

Entrepreneurship education programs are expanding rapidly and recent polls indicate that 20-25% of B school applicants are interested in starting their own business. Many applicants, including medical school and graduate school applicants already have, but feel they lack the business skills to start and scale their companies. Consequently, there are more Masters in Entrepreneurship programs sprouting up.

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Strategyzer Innovation

APRIL 15, 2019

Uncertainty is the central characteristic of innovation. While generating new ideas and inventing new technologies is important, it is even more important for innovators to identify the unknowns that have to be true for their ideas and technologies to succeed in the market. We can only claim to have succeeded at innovation when we find the right business model to profitably take our idea or technology to market.

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Rapid Innovation in digital time

APRIL 15, 2019

Tobias Taut is venture builder at Deutsche Bahn. He explains how Deutsche Bahn Intrapreneurship includes both employes, and business units.

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mjvinnovation

APRIL 15, 2019

In the coming weeks, we will post a series of posts here on the blog, where we will explain the details of the transformations guided by the new Data Age – which still faces a lot of different organizations. To make matters even more fun, let’s do this from the Avengers. Since you cannot talk about movies without running into spoilers, here’s one about the digital revolution: data is the new digital strand of business!

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 16, 2019

Drum roll please… At the beginning of each month we will profile the twenty posts from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Innovation Excellence. We also publish a weekly Top 8 as part of our FREE email newsletter. Did your favorite make the cut? But enough delay, here are March’s twenty most.

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Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 19, 2019

What exactly is innovation? Is it about creating a new product or simply being creative? Is innovation itself something that we can create within our businesses and if so how? Do we even understand the impact that innovation can have within an organisation? Let’s face it there are thousands of books out there on business … Continued. The post Innovation demystified; The innovation-leadership challenge appeared first on Cris Beswick.

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Acuvate

APRIL 16, 2019

Innovation practice has made some amazing progress over the last few years. Large enterprises are trying various programs to foster new innovations in an attempt to find the best way to change course for their big ships. Despite size or sector, businesses are striving to keep up with the pace of growing customer demands and emerging technology. To resist ever-growing challenges, organisations are increasing their investments in innovation and deploying a variety of strategies.

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The Human Factor

APRIL 15, 2019

If you’re feeling the need for more peace and quiet these days, you’re not alone. One of the latest trends sweeping the business world is the “pod” – a small, free-standing soundproof space that can comfortably hold one or two people. If you look around, you’ll notice them sprouting up in offices, airports and other public places where people need temporary privacy from noise and other people.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 15, 2019

Scenario: WebCo, a company with about 200 contributors, was having trouble keeping projects on schedule. An analysis of the root causes showed that engineers worked long days. Many of these workdays included many meetings that were not about their highest priority project. The VP of Engineering suspected that her staff were getting stretched too thin.

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