AI - The Hype and the Reality
The IC Innovation Community Talking Innovation
Release Date: 06/09/2023
Increasing Productivity to Reduce Climate Change and Improve Living Standards
The IC Innovation Community Talking Innovation
There is a significant gain from increasing productivity – but the way we think about productivity is disconnected from the prevention of climate change and the improvement of living standards across the world. So why not change the message and put the challenge of preventing global climate change and poverty at the forefront of the productivity challenge? A shared purpose and shared goal will help us pick up speed to win the race to zero carbon.
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Experiential Diversity
The IC Innovation Community Talking Innovation
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Selling Innovation
The IC Innovation Community Talking Innovation
We work with innovative start-ups in the tech and AI sectors who often find it hard to create a company, product, and service narrative. Their inclination is to focus on what they see as the innovation – the technical detail - rather than what interests customers most. You need to know your technology to instil confidence in the customer that your products work, and your service performance is great. But creating a compelling narrative about your company, products and services is equally important when it comes to building relationships and winning business. It's often the...
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AI - The Hype and the Reality
The IC Innovation Community Talking Innovation
There is much misinformed hype about apocalyptic scenarios where Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes more intelligent than humans. But rest assured, whilst we need to accept the fact that the development of new applications made possible by AI will be as disruptive as the industrial revolution, and may be exploited by bad actors, the models that underpin AI, including deep learning using neural networks, will never make machines more intelligent than humans. It is simply not possible to take the step from what we know as AI today, to what we would describe as ‘general artificial...
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Creating Time to Think
The IC Innovation Community Talking Innovation
Creating time to think is a key enabler of innovation. Organisations that create the time and environments for their people to think, and increase the quality of their collective team thinking, can foster a culture that increases innovation – as well as many other benefits.
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Improving Your Return on Investment From Innovation
The IC Innovation Community Talking Innovation
We need to think differently about how we set businesses up to innovate. Our analysis of funding SME product development and research using the current traditional approach shows we need change - the return on investment is too small. But this can be addressed by investing in innovation enablers, which come at much lower cost. These enablers focus on making innovation business-as-usual, creating a shared organisational purpose, collaborating to innovate, and creating market contagion - and can make the difference between success and failure.
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Making Innovation Happen - the Railway Industry Association Perspective
The IC Innovation Community Talking Innovation
Listen to our Railway Industry Association guests’ thoughts on innovation, what it means, what the rail industry is telling them, and what they wished they knew about innovation 10 years ago. The Railway Industry Association’s Innovation Director, Milda Manomaityte, and Technical Director, David Clarke, joined us for a discussion on the topic of innovation in rail, along with the insights provided by Interimconsult's Making Innovation Happen framework and innovation consultancy experience.
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Strictly Come Dancing - A Contagious Innovation
The IC Innovation Community Talking Innovation
Many organisations have a plethora of great ideas but are unable to turn these ideas into some form of value. Innovations do not catch on and their potential impact is lost. The harsh reality is that it does not matter how good an idea is, there are a multitude of reasons why some innovations are not contagious. Connecting infection duration, opportunities, transmission and susceptibility is what we describe as joining the contagious innovation dots. And Strictly Come Dancing is a great example of how to join the dots to create a contagious and innovative franchise.
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The Making Innovation Happen Framework
The IC Innovation Community Talking Innovation
The Making Innovation Happen (MIH) framework, developed by Interimconsult, is built on 5 principles that underpin successful innovatiuon. Listen to the interview to find out more.
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Defining Innovation
The IC Innovation Community Talking Innovation
Innovation is a term that we hear more and more often as the pace of change around us accelerates – but what does it mean? And why does its definition matter?
info_outlineThere is much misinformed hype about apocalyptic scenarios where Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes more intelligent than humans. But rest assured, whilst we need to accept the fact that the development of new applications made possible by AI will be as disruptive as the industrial revolution, and may be exploited by bad actors, the models that underpin AI, including deep learning using neural networks, will never make machines more intelligent than humans.
It is simply not possible to take the step from what we know as AI today, to what we would describe as ‘general artificial intelligence’ - the human capacity for creativity, innovation and what is widely considered as just being “common sense”.