Members-Only Meetings: Predictable Winners

We regularly convene IL members for discussions on topics of interest — which members suggest. These meetings take place on Zoom, and they are designed to be candid conversations among peers, as opposed to passive webcasts. If you’re a current IL member and are logged in, you will see a short registration form (or calendar links) beneath the description of each meeting. We always like to hear suggestions for future meeting topics from our members.

For a complete calendar of all of our in-person and online gatherings, please visit our events page.

April 4th at 12 PM ET: How can innovators beat the odds — and create more winners?  

For our April members’ meeting, we’ll be joined by  Stuart Jackson and Ilya Trakhtenberg, the co-authors of the new book Predictable Winners: A Handbook for Developing, Forecasting, and Launching New Products and Services. In it, they address the challenge that 80-90 percent of new product and service innovations fail. They say these odds can be improved with a leadership mindset that manages uncertainty through a systematic approach at each step of the innovation journey. We’ll dive into their ideas in our April conversation — including the biggest pitfalls to avoid.

Current InnoLead members will see a registration form below.

May 1st at 12 PM ET: Better Prompting, No Matter What AI Platform You Use  

As corporate innovators, we’re constantly scanning, reading, sense-making, ideating and ultimately pitching and demo’ing new initiatives and project ideas. This session on advanced uses of LLMs for innovation should have benefits for many parts of that flow.

To help us broaden our data inputs into our LLMs, you’ll learn some special techniques and prompts for converting odd data types into usable formats. To maximize the power of your own research and ideation work, we’ll share a foundational concept called Meta-Prompting, which puts the LLM to work writing better prompts for you. Lastly, to move more ideas through the funnel, to something leaders can react to, we’ll share several ways you can tap into code generation and no-code app building. 

The InnoLead members’ meeting will be fast-paced and hands-on through-out. No theory, all practice, and you’ll have lots of takeaways to share with your team. Led by AI expert and regular InnoLead contributor Curtis Michelson. Current InnoLead members will see a registration form below.