Author Archives: Eugene Ivanov

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About Eugene Ivanov

Eugene Ivanov is a business and technical writer interested in innovation and technology. He focuses on factors defining human creativity and socioeconomic conditions affecting corporate innovation.

The End of the Crowd? (Why AI Won’t Fully Replace Human Crowdsourcing — Yet)

Posted on May 12, 2025 by Eugene Ivanov

AI has already claimed its seat at the innovation table — and it didn’t even knock. It barged in, armed with large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4, reshaping how companies ideate, prototype, and solve problems.  With astonishing speed and minimal … Continue reading →

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Knowing Where You’re Going and Who’s Driving: How AI Is (and Isn’t) Reshaping Human Work

Posted on March 25, 2025 by Eugene Ivanov

Integrating AI into business practice has gone from a fringe conversation to a boardroom imperative. From productivity gains to fears of de-skilling, the debate is divisive—some see AI as a game-changer for human potential; others worry it’s a slippery slope … Continue reading →

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In Silico Creativity. Part 3. AI and Creative Art

Posted on March 4, 2025 by Eugene Ivanov

In Part 1 and Part 2 of this three-part series, I reviewed what is known about AI’s ability to generate poetry and music. This article is about what AI can do for creative art.  As AI systems like DALL-E, Midjourney, … Continue reading →

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In Silico Creativity. Part 2. AI and Music

Posted on March 1, 2025 by Eugene Ivanov

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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In Silico Creativity. Part 1. LLMs and Poetry (and Short Stories)

Posted on February 25, 2025 by Eugene Ivanov

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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In silico Ideation: How Large Language Models (LLMs) Help Generate New Ideas

Posted on February 11, 2025 by Eugene Ivanov

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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Unlocking Novelty: How Organizations Can Select Novel Ideas

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Eugene Ivanov

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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Don’t Bring Me Eggs, Bring Me Chickens!

Posted on November 18, 2024 by Eugene Ivanov

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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Size Matters

Posted on November 4, 2024 by Eugene Ivanov

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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Innovation and Leadership

Posted on October 30, 2024 by Eugene Ivanov

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 →

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