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Author Archives: Eugene Ivanov
In Silico Creativity. Part 2. AI and Music
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) keeps conquering creative fields, from visual arts to music, the debates on whether AI can be truly “creative” show no signs of abating. But a much more practical question is, do listeners perceive AI-composed music differently … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, art, Artificial Intelligence, Creativitiy, Music, Technology
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In Silico Creativity. Part 1. LLMs and Poetry (and Short Stories)
In my previous article, “In Silico Ideation,” I reviewed academic literature describing the application of LLM algorithms to generating new product ideas. Now, I want to review what is known about LLMs’ ability to generate other creative content. This article … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, LLM, Poetry, Technology
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In silico Ideation: How Large Language Models (LLMs) Help Generate New Ideas
As with every emerging general-purpose technology, Generative AI (GenAI) is searching for problems to solve. Finding the most fitting will take time. I consider it pointless to look for the things that GenAI can’t do; instead, I prefer focusing on … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Crowdsourcing, Ideation, Innovation, LLM, Open Innovation Tools, Technology
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Unlocking Novelty: How Organizations Can Select Novel Ideas
You may insist, as much as you want, that “the ideas are a dime a dozen,” but if you ever laid a hand on a real corporate innovation project, you would know that every NPD process starts with an idea, … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, Bias, Ideation, Innovation, Innovation Management, LLM
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Don’t Bring Me Eggs, Bring Me Chickens!
This image was generated with the help of Gemini Innovation managers hate the line “Don’t bring me problems, bring me solutions.” They insist that before the problem-solving process starts, a thorough analysis of the underlying problem must take place; collecting … Continue reading
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Tagged Innovation, Innovation Management, Portfolio Management, Problem Solving
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Size Matters
This image was created with the help of Gemini Of the many “rules” attributed to Jeff Bezos, his two-pizza rule is perhaps the most famous: every internal team should be small enough to be fed with two pizzas — ostensibly to make … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Business, Creativitiy, Innovation, Innovation Management, Jeff Bezos
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Innovation and Leadership
The image was created by Tatiana Ivanov A few years ago, I came across a report with the inspiring title Unleashing the Power of Innovation. Composed by a reputable management consulting company, the report set out to figure out what was going … Continue reading
Four Barriers to Adopting Open Innovation (and How to Overcome Them)
This image was created with the help of Microsoft Designer A friend of mine, an innovation consultant, likes to joke: “Innovation is simple…but not easy.” The same can be said about open innovation too. Prof. Henry Chesbrough, who introduced the concept of … Continue reading
In Defense of “Closed” Innovation
This image was created with the help of Microsoft Designer Remember the famed Bell Labs, once a powerful R&D center for the telecommunication equipment company Lucent Technologies? Bell Labs’ researchers are credited with the development of radio astronomy, the transistor, … Continue reading
The “French Perfume” Innovation
As someone who was born and grew up in the Soviet Union, I know a thing or two about the shortage of foods and goods. Our “out-of-office” life was a perennial chase of the hard-to-get stuff, which was pretty much … Continue reading
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