BluePrompt – a new strategic technology for more sophisticated business prompts
Prompt IP Protection – and Open Source options when distributing prompts
Intelligent Prompt Distribution – ensuring recurring revenue  for prompt authors
Prompt Cost Estimation – Approximate cost calculation prior to prompt execution
Recurring Revenue for Prompt Authors – Prompt authors now determine their own price
Autosave feature – BlueCallom Prompt studio follows user suggestions.

BLUE PROMPTS (STRATEGIC TECHNOLOGY)

As you know, we see prompts becoming the most strategic Mind-Machine-Connectors. As such it became a strategic Technology at BlueCallom. Prompts are the foundation for Neuro-AI-Fusion and the smallest common denominator in a business task.

Some prompt objects in BlueCallom are unique to our platform. For instance, you can edit the response of the GPT system. This is currently only possible in BlueCallom. Over time we see many more of those enhancements. To make it more visible and also make clear that those prompt objects would not work on a Chat system like ChatGPT, we flag those objects as “BluePrompt Objects” and flag the prompts as BluePrompt. You can see them in the library with the little brain icon in your personal library.
The unique BluePrompt features include:
– Function Calling
– Custom Models
– Iterative Prompts
– Data Handling
As we advance with our technology we will add further intelligent prompt objects.
Already in the next few weeks, we will add “Expiring Prompts”, “Prompt Tags” and “Fixed Data Prompts”. Later this year you will get a series of far more complex BluePrompts for more sophisticated tasks.
KEY BENEFITS
1) You get additional power from BluePrompts that is not available by only using a chat system
2) You still have the underlying power of Open AI’s GPT model which we are using
3) The BluePrompt Architecture is designed so that your data will never be stored at any LLM

PROMPT IP PROTECTION & OPEN-SOURCE
(STRATEGIC TECHNOLOGY)

Prompts get sold for pennies by the hundreds. This is great to start but not a sustainable model for high-quality business prompts. At BlueCallom no prompt will be visible to the end user unless the Prompt Author decides to make it available as Open-Source Prompt. When you started with BlueCallom GPTBlue, all prompts were protected, you could share it with anybody by simply deploying the prompt on a public library or share it individually. So your Prompt IP was protected from day one.

As of today, you can make prompts Open-Source. This is not just great for collaboration with more people, but also help your clients understand how prompts get designed and inspire them to more sophisticated prompts. Moreover, you can share open-source prompts to show people what it takes to make high-performance, high-productivity prompts. Such an insight will put the build or buy question in a whole new light.

From our own experience, one of the most sophisticated prompts we built was for a financial services organization and it saves them approximately €15 to 20 Million each year. Four people including a high caliber financial industry consultant worked for three days on eight different prompts that had been combined into one. Our IP is protected and pricing had to be quite different.

Another experience was during the last three GPTBlue Boot Camps. Attendees needed to know what is inside the prompts we shared and the sharing was cumbersome. Now we can share those prompts as open Source and the can use it right away to learn from.
KEY BENEFITS
1) The IP protection is an obvious value. Not only for Prompt Authors but also for any organization as the prompt content is only known to a small group of prompt authors. The internal IT data security risk is still very present.
2) The Option to make a controlled Open Source version of prompts, is a great benefit when content shall be shared, used for education, or collaboration.

INTELLIGENT PROMPT DISTRIBUTION
(STRATEGIC TECHNOLOGY)

Another strategic technology we are introducing in GPTBlue Update April 2024/1, is “Intelligent Prompts”. With this new release, you distribute prompts with a unique URL. With that, the prompt carries the author’s name and the user status with it. That way a user, who “finds” such a prompt in the public can execute it. Those prompts are by default protected so nobody can see the inner workings of your prompt. Yet the author will know that a new user uses the prompt and will be paid its commission.
Moreover, if a person who is not yet a user finds such a prompt and activates their new account, the referral key is also activated so the author gets a referral fee and the new users an additional bonus.
Imagine you create prompts and share them freely on the Internet. As soon as somebody likes it and uses it, not only you get the commission for the use, you also meet your customer digitally. And the user can provide feedback that will be routed to you, no matter how many partners or people may have been in between that transaction.
KEY BENEFITS
1) You can now share any prompt on the internet and will be paid for any execution of that prompt.
2) The new intelligent prompt distribution is for Open Source prompts as well as IP Protected Prompts.

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AVERAGE PROMPT COST and ACTUAL PROMPT COST

In the GPTBlue Update April 2024.1 release, users will see an average prompt cost based on the prompt cost history. That way the user will know the approximate cost before they start it. Some of our more complex prompts, when using our internal Function Calls cost already ~5,000 coins, which is €1.50 without any premium.
With this new step – we make another leap in prompt cost transparency.

More Prompt Cost Transparency 
Creating a prompt is no rocket science. On the other hand just slapping together some questions won’t do the Generative AI  justice. The perceived savings of millions of Euro/Dollar/Franks does not quite come for free, but still with an instant ROI.
Prompt Authors in particular the most creative ones won’t be able to do prompts for pennies and cents.
KEY BENEFITS
1) You won’t be surprised by the cost of the prompt execution. And as prompts will soon make quite some leaps in cost, it is important to have that cost under control.
2) As prompt cost will rise with the significant quality improvements prompt analytics will need data that we deliver.

BlueCallom Studio
RECURRING REVENUE FOR PROMPT AUTHORS

Another cool feature of the GPTBlue Update April 2024.1 release is the ability of prompt authors to set a premium for their development work. That premium is paid every time a prompt is executed. Obviously those prompts are not kitchen recopies or email text writer prompts but those who develop complete business models, making a sound cashflow analysis, interacting with CRM or ERP systems and more. Usually it even takes some BluePrompts to make the function work so that customers pay the premium. At present the premium is between 1 cent and €/CHF 1,500 or equivalent currency.
The beauty of all those prompts is the ability to calculate the prompt productivity. The calculation is still the same. An estimated time the manual task would take of the 10 seconds for running the prompt and maybe a minute or two to fill in the required content.
KEY BENEFITS
1) Prompt Authors won’t need to “sell” their prompts but make them available in a pay-per-use model
2) Prompt Consumers won’t need to sign up for system subscriptions but only pay as they use it and gain productivity
3) Companies won’t need to go for complicated budget planning as a prompt must deliver an instant ROI and can be measured and compared with the cost
4) In this circular economy on the digital front, Prompt Authors are incentivized to maintain their prompts and increase their value over time. Moreover they get feedback from their users so they are so close to the market – like with no other product.

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AUTOSAVE  FOR POWER PROMPTER

We received several requests from power users to make saving prompt objects easier. Thanks for the request and here is the new solution and already implemented in the current release:

When in the BlueCallom Studio, you can switch “Auto Save” at any time on or off.
When autosave is “ON”
No need to manually save any entry. It is saved automatically as soon as you leave the input field.
Suggestion: If you edit an important prompt, keep autosave OFF (see below).
When autosave is  “OFF”
You save the prompt title and description with a separate save button as this is not part of the actual prompt. Then you can select any of the Prompt Objects and save manually one after the other or all together or any variation.
When EDITING a prompt you may use “Reload Page” as an emergency exit for when you are not sure whether all the changes you made are really good or you where distracted. The changes are only saved when you hit “save”.
KEY BENEFITS
1) You wanted it we built it – this is probably the biggest benefit
2) Now you know we listen and respond – and we will try very hard to keep it that way.

The next update GPTBlue Update April 2024.1 is already around the corner
Those who join the upcoming GPTBlue Boot Camp will see the Roadmap for 2024

Thanks you all. If you have any suggestions, please let us know. Feel free to post your response here in the comments.

#promptengineer #generativeai #promptip #promtcost #promptauthor #gptblue

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In 2023, Generative AI marked a significant milestone in AI’s evolution, with an impressive user base of around 200 million on ChatGPT alone. This year symbolizes the inception of a new era in software development, transcending the earlier transition from on-premise software to Software as a Service (SaaS). AI is not just altering the software delivery model; it’s reshaping the very foundations of software design. What began in AI consumer software is transforming business software in 2024, signaling a new software paradigm.

The Challenge with Conventional Business Software

The complexity of business software, especially in larger organizations, has reached a point of critical reflection. Many executives and board members express concerns about its evolution over the next decade. The appetite for “monster software” investments is waning. The business world, including mid-sized and small enterprises, is in dire need of simpler, faster, and less complex tools.

The Future of Business Software – a significant deviation.

Today, AI, particularly Generative AI, appears as the logical solution to remove complexity. However, it’s not about replacing one type of software with another. It’s about understanding the unique capabilities of Generative AI. Unlike conventional software, designed in a sequential linear fashion, our brains operate differently. Our Neuro-AI-Fusion model was developed to mirror the human brain’s creativity and ingenuity. This approach has enabled teams to generate disruptive innovations in weeks instead of months, potentially revolutionizing software development itself.

On January 29/30, 2024, we’re excited to introduce Neuro-AI-Fusion to Prompt Engineers at our Prompt Engineering Boot Camp. We’re transforming PROMPTS into AI Components within BlueAICONs – easily connectable, replaceable, adjustable, and maintainable structures. These represent a radical departure from conventional software design, evolving into an AI Application Network accessible to all employees, regardless of technical expertise.

Introducing GPTBlue: The Core of AI Components

At the heart of AI Components is the PROMPT – the crucial element for AI understanding and execution. Developing, testing, and deployment cycles are key to creating effective prompts. GPTBlue, our professional Prompt Management System, caters to these evolving professional requirements. Imagine having the capability to personalize responses to social media posts rapidly or to intelligently sort through hundreds of job applications – all with a single prompt in GPTBlue.

Now – Think of Professional Social Media Support functions. We are having a way to comment on 50 posts within minutes with a post-specific and very personal touch. A post Comment Creator Prompt can do that. In our system, it is a single prompt.
Or think of your Talent Development Team, needing to review hundreds of job applications. Having a way of letting the AI do a first match and a smart ranking and rating instead of just a “go or no go” is of great help. Also, this is a single prompt created on GPTBlue.

We have developed nearly 100 powerful prompts, shared as source code for customization in GPTBlue. These prompts span various departments, offering significant efficiency and productivity boosts.

To make it easy for any starter, we crafted approximately 10 Delta Prompts for every typical department we came across. We classify prompts into different groups. For instance, A DELTA PROMPT is a powerful prompt that makes a difference and specifically increases efficiency and productivity.

Developing Your Own DELTA PROMPTS with GPTBlue

GPTBlue DTD is our development, testing, and deployment engine for crafting powerful prompts. This new approach to AI application development is suitable for enterprises and small businesses alike. BlueAICON Prompts can be shared electronically, simplifying the process for end-users who receive tailored, case-specific results.

A New Era of Professional Prompt Engineering, Testing, and Deployment

Consider a business scenario where GPTBlue PFD-Stations (Prompt Framing Designer) are used internally and by external partners. These powerful prompts can be customized for different markets or business needs. With version control, history management, and other features, GPTBlue PFD is a comprehensive tool for prompt development and management.

The GPTBlue PFD (Prompt Framing Designer) is the heart of prompt development. However, larger organizations with country offices, departments, business units, and possibly external business partners need a far more organized way of generating, releasing, and deploying Prompt or AI applications.

BlueCallom’s GPTBlue Network Architecture was developed to serve large enterprises and networked sales channels. The end users in departments or partners around the world don’t need any training, A BlueAICON will deliver its own help and support info as part of the prompt to the user. A sophisticated billing system is integrated into the corporate deployment network so departments can be charged individually based on the usage of the AI system which is part of the overall cost.

The Future of BlueAICON

BlueAICONs represent a sophisticated level of prompts, functioning as AI Components Over Networks. These include supportive information, visual aids, and user rights, and can act as Edge Computing Clients. Our focus on leveraging edge computing will be a significant aspect of our future developments.

Partnering with Professional Prompt Engineers and Consultants

Through BlueCallom’s Business Partner Program, businesses of all sizes can harness the power of the GPTBlue series. This includes developing professional prompts, deploying them to customers, and offering support and maintenance services.

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Join the Future of Business Software

This is an exhilarating time at BlueCallom. With the launch of GPTBlue, we invite you to join our journey, share your ideas, and influence the future of BlueCallom. Be part of our community in the World Innovations Form and engage with the BlueCallom “Circle.”

We welcome your thoughts, preferences, and suggestions for improvement.

Thank you,

@AxelS

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Human Intelligence Augmentation (HIA): The Future of Human-Machine Collaboration

The Dawn of HIA In 1961, Douglas Engelbart introduced the world to Human Intelligence Augmentation (HIA). Instead of technology replacing humans, Engelbart envisioned a symbiotic relationship, where machines would amplify our capabilities. While the technology of the time couldn’t fully realize this vision, today, we stand on the verge of Engelbart’s dream.

The Essence of Intelligence Historically, intelligence was viewed as our ability to acquire and apply knowledge. Today, our understanding is more nuanced; intelligence is multi-faceted, encompassing logical reasoning, creativity, emotional intuition, and more. While humans possess unparalleled creative problem-solving abilities, our capacity to handle hyper-complex problems is limited. On the other hand, AI excels at processing vast amounts of data efficiently, free from human fatigue and biases. But AI lacks understanding, empathy, and purpose-driven context. The solution? A collaborative approach, maximizing the strengths of both humans and AI, holds the key to untapped potential. In all of human history, homo sapiens turned out to be a master in building tools to overcome virtually any physical deficiency. Humans can’t lift tons of weight, so we created a crane. Humans can’t run at 100 km/h to get fast from A to B. So, we built cars after we created wagons pulled by horses. We cannot easily comprehend what is involved in creating breakthrough innovations, so we built computer software that can help us think through any aspect of the process. Today, we are at a point where, with the help of AI, not only can almost everybody do that task, but we can do it in a few weeks instead of needing a year or two. The Future of Mind-Machine Collaboration starts today.

Unleashing HIA’s Potential Several technologies are pushing the boundaries of HIA. Among these is Neuro-AI-Fusion, which leverages insights from neuroscience to activate brain triggers, enhancing human thinking. We’re also seeing advancements in Generative AI and Large Language Models, enabling a higher level of creativity and processing capabilities. Remember, the AI tools that are transforming industries today are augmentations of our abilities, just like vehicles or cranes have been in the past. As we gaze into the future, HIA promises innovations in record times, individualized learning experiences, and solutions to massive challenges like space colonization or environmental crises.

HIA in the Business Sphere The business landscape is changing, with a demand for rapid innovation and a growing skills gap. HIA has the potential to revolutionize this sector. For instance, managers can simulate decision outcomes akin to crash testing in vehicles. Moreover, with HIA, businesses can offer personalized customer experiences, optimize human resources, and foresee supply chain disruptions, giving them an unparalleled competitive edge. The era of raw data reliance is fading; businesses will soon harness the blend of human insight and AI precision. This blend is already realized today when predicting innovation success probability.

World’s first HIA application  A very timely example is the challenge of getting AI into all areas of a business to reduce the workload where employees are not best qualified and delegate those tasks to machines. The time gain allows everybody to do more creative work and increase productivity by an order of magnitude. In a way, everybody will become a manager, managing machines by delegating all kinds of work like research, report writing, documentation, review processes, validations, and much more to AI-driven systems. Such an AI Adoption Project may have taken one to three years in large global enterprises. Today, BlueCallom ADOPT helps teams manage the execution of such a project in a few weeks and delivers a magnificent outcome that is almost guaranteed. It is the first genuine Human Intelligence Augmentation solution leveraging Neuro-AI-fusion for direct brain access without touching the person. The Future of Mind-Machine Collaboration is now a reality.

HIA: Transforming Education Education disparities exist globally, with many facing unequal access to quality learning. HIA offers solutions: adaptive learning platforms, augmented reality tools for remote education, and AI-driven materials tailored to various cultural and linguistic backgrounds. HIA tools can bridge expertise gaps in specialized fields through simulated learning environments, AI-driven expert systems, and collective problem-solving platforms.

HIA: Rise of Super Humans  Even though HIA does not touch the brain or involve any medical or other modulations, it gives humans superpowers relative to anybody else. It allows individuals and teams to do things in a fraction of the time or reach ideas that are just not possible with brainstorming or other methods. Again, the first people who drove a car could span distances nobody else could before. Or people could fly what was impossible even to imagine before the inception of the first planes.  Mind-machine collaboration is now on its long journey to a world unimaginable for most of us.

In Conclusion  HIA isn’t about machines replacing humans or keeping us occupied in a technology-dominated age. It’s about embracing technology to enhance human abilities and forging a collaborative future. Through HIA, we’re charting a path to a future where humans are more insightful, connected, and capable. Embracing this collaboration doesn’t just redefine our work or learning; it reshapes our very essence in a digital age. As we venture into this intertwined future, we have to realize that HIA  is not a way to protect humans from machines; it is all about giving humans yet another power tool to do things that we cannot do with our abilities. But this time, it isn’t augmenting our muscle power but our brain power.  Hence our saying: AI is not replacing people, but people using AI will displace people who don’t. You have very, very limited chances to become a manager if you can’t read or write. The next generation, leveraging Human Intelligence Augmentation, will displace anybody without exception.

Meet the Mind-Machine Collaboration Human Intelligence Augmentation is here today and is demonstrated on Nov 30th at the Swiss Innovation Forum in Basel. You will be able to have a first live HIA experience at our booth by solving a complex problem within 180 seconds. You will become a Super Human for a few minutes without anybody touching you – it will blow your mind. Make sure you register for a time slot. The event is only one day !!!

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My name is Vera Mohr, and I am thrilled to join the BlueCallom team. My focus in BlueCallom is developing a solid neuroscience-driven competitive advantage for innovation management. Neuroscience and innovation are closely related to a better understanding of the human brain and its functions, inspiring new ideas and solutions in innovation. “We must start with our brains to understand how innovative ideas are created.”

When we read these words, the photons associated with the patterns of the letters hit our retina, and their energy triggers an electrical signal in the light-detecting cells there. That electrical signal propagates like a wave along the long threads called axons that are part of the connections between neurons. When the signal reaches the end of an axon, it causes the release of chemical neurotransmitters into the synapse, a chemical junction between the axon tip and target neurons. A target neuron responds with its electrical signal, which, in turn, spreads to other neurons. Within a few hundred milliseconds, the signal has spread to billions of neurons in several dozen interconnected areas of our brain, and we have perceived these words. During this process, we probably didn’t even break a sweat.

When we sum up the process, it is just electrochemical reactions that make us think. External stimuli directly trigger thoughts…. a feather brushes our skin, we see these words on the computer screen, and we hear a phone ring. Each of these events triggers a series of signals in the brain. That’s why we can only think of something by relying on past experiences.

By holding a Master’s Degree in Neuroscience from Fribourg University, I conducted research on the neural mechanisms underlying the human default network, which explains how creative ideas get created. Also my bachelor’s degree in Psychology gave me a broad understanding of human behavior with environmental changes. During my schooling, I provided brain imaging techniques to the different fields of neuroscience, such as neural circuits involved in decision-making. I also had experiences in various international laboratories to improve my neuroscience understanding, including MIT Media Lab, National Magnetic Resonance Research Center, and Cognitive Neuroscience Unit.

The brain is the most sophisticated computing device we know of. Studying the brain’s neural networks allows us to develop more powerful ideas to make breakthrough innovations. A deep understanding of the brain and its functions is a valuable asset as it is necessary to innovate new technologies and products that improve people’s lives worldwide.

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As Vice President of Products, Robert is working on the BlueCallom AI-driven neuro innovation software that enables corporates to innovate and create business impact.

The BlueCallom Deep system is a cloud-based software aggregating thousands of data points and providing corporate innovation teams and management with the most advanced innovation KPI Framework.
Fast innovation is core to the company’s DNA.

Taking the lead for the BlueCallom product, Robert Schuette is developing a long-term product and technology vision in close collaboration with BlueCallom CEO Axel Schultze.

BlueCallom accomplishes enterprises’ innovation process needs with a solution, that aggregates tens of thousands of data points and provides corporate managements with the most advanced innovation KPI Framework plus insights into the complete innovation processes to fulfill all enterprises’ innovation requirements.

Robert’s deep understanding of cloud-based software services and IT security are also parts of his lectures at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW).

Robert Schuette “I’m happy for the opportunity to join BlueCallom and to lead the product team. Innovation is critical for all industries worldwide. We see many companies investing and experimenting in this area. BlueCallom is at the front lines to empower the world’s visionaries to deliver breakthrough innovations.

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Game-changing Innovation – Making Innovation Success Predictable

Today, innovation success predictability is still a dream for most executives. It took BlueCallom four years to find ways, algorithms, data, processes, and mechanisms to get to a prediction model that is garnered by an AI system and doesn’t require the innovation teams to drown in administrative work and reporting. But also we are just at the beginning. In the past six months, we found a stunning data correlation between innovation success and the cognitive abilities of the team. We recognized time is more than money and that a breakthrough innovation concept is done in four weeks or most likely never.

At the Copenhagen Innovation Summit, the BlueCallom team is hosting a round table to discuss the most important needs and opes from innovation executives to perfect a system that is mainly for C-Level executives.

Also, we will be officially launching our next-generation innovation solution BlueCallom DEEP-II with its game-changing AI-driven Intelligence Augmentation technology. Incorporated into this new technology is BlueCallom’s new Innovation KPI Framework that is centered around the Innovation Success Indicator (ISI), one KPI that indicates innovation success. Also, you can explore two of our brand new services (1) Method Migration Service –  from Design Thinking, StageGate, or Horizon to BlueCallom (2) Incubation & Hatch program for enterprises – how to structure your own successful incubator program.

To get a glimpse before the summit into the BlueCallom Innovation KPI Framework and mother of all Innovation KPIs attend our online event on April 5th at 11 AM CEST. We will take you on a journey on how AI helped us to create a massive KPI framework analyzing over 20,000 data points to predict the possible success of an innovation engagement in real-time. For more details and registration, visit Mother of all Innovation KPIs.

What to expect

BlueCallom will be visible at the Copenhagen Innovation Summit in many different forms. In the event hall, you can find our booth where our dream team is open to all your innovation questions and inquiries. Attend our Track talk presentation where our CEO, Axel Schultze will present on the Innovation KPI Framework and how one of our customers adapted it towards their business. You can get involved in the conversation by joining our Innovation Roundtable on May 11th where you can discuss should we have a free-flow innovation system or a process & KPIs, or both? Outside of these events, our BlueCallom team members are always willing to set up individual meetings to discuss your specific requests, provide personal demo presentations, or just general peer-to-peer innovation exchange.

Meet with us

Interested in learning more about BlueCallom, receiving a personal demo, or taking a lounge break with our CEO? Let us explore how we can help you best either at our booth or in our private executive space. Visit our Copenhagen Innovation Roundtable® Summit page and complete the meeting registration form.

About the Copenhagen Innovation Summit

WHERE: Copenhagen, Denmark

WHEN: May 10-12, 2022

The Copenhagen Innovation Roundtable® Summit is a three-day interactive conference with peer-to-peer exchange and learning on key innovation topics and challenges. Innovation takes effort and transformation. As a partner of the Summit, we understand the importance of the exchange of ideas to push the limits of what is possible. BlueCallom will be in attendance to demystify innovation and empower teams to perform beyond even their own expectations. Whether it’s in the event hall, at our roundtable session, in the executive lounge, or at the scheduled Track Talk, BlueCallom’s dream team is ready to learn more about your innovation experiences, questions, and challenges. We are showing game-changing innovation with our AI-driven Neuro Innovation Management Solution, making innovation success predictable.

Please join us?

This three-day event is open exclusively to innovation professionals in large multinational companies. Click below for a 20% early bird discount. When registering, don’t forget to answer “BlueCallom” to the question “How did you hear about / were invited to the Summit?”

Copenhagen Innovation Roundtable® Summit Online Registration

*Link for BlueCallom friends with a 20% discount.

We looking forward to seeing you at the 2022 Cophenhagen Innovation Summit.

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From randomness to strategic innovation

One of the biggest frustration for CEOs is the random experimentation with no results. The fact that all enterprises have the same challenge doesn’t set anybody apart. But that is the goal for several enterprises for 2022. Most innovation centers today end 2021 with several improvements but no genuine innovation. While almost all of today’s innovation methods help manage ideas to get to the prototype stage, non have reached the market. In a few cases, it did but died within a few months. It’s time to get strategic. There are 800 unicorns, bolstered with a billion $ or more, ready to disrupt whatever market they are looking at. One CEO asked, “Why did I never see a unicorn in the making? I saw hundreds of startups, but most didn’t make it.” An excellent question. We answered: “Because you saw only those who ran around from startup event to startup event, trying to raise capital.” A unicorn is far more strategic than most people think. They are relentless executors, have brilliant talents, and run faster than any other business. Many enterprise leaders have yet to learn what it takes to bring innovation successfully to the market. But there are several who just now do that – with a dedicated innovation development strategy.

From improvement to genuine innovation

Another early shift we saw for 2021 is that enterprises realize that improvement is not innovation. Improvement has been made for 200 years in every R&D center. Some enterprises have already learned the hard way: an R&D center is not an innovation space and cannot be just “tasked” to be done. Using improvement as a step-by-step path to innovation is like a sailor using a lake to prepare for circumnavigation. One major force to make a clear decision to engage in innovation is the CEO. Without a clear direction from the CEO, innovation cannot happen in any enterprise. That shift to genuine innovation bares the question, “Should that innovation center remains a department, be a business unit, or even a separate company?” The trend is already seen by companies like Kärcher who separated the innovation activities into a legally separate unit which is still owned by the mothership. There is a slew of advantages included above and beyond the risk mitigation. Those separate units don’t have to be integrated into the massive bureaucracy of the main enterprise, they may have different legal contract frameworks and more.

From Students to top-level teams with exceptional cognitive abilities

Another interesting trend comes actually from the innovation consultant space. Very often, students had been hired to innovate for a company. The task was simple, “find a great idea”. It has been that way for quite some time because innovation was associated with a brilliant idea. Only now do we understand that a brilliant idea is always coming from solving an existing or in the future envisioned problem. Today we know that a human is producing thousands of ideas every year. We are even drowning in ideas. Ideas are of no value. Solving a problem is a hard and complex task and the solution may be considered a brilliant idea. When Elon Mask hires people, he still focuses on people with exceptional abilities. When Amazon employs people, they spend more time on soft skills than hard skills. The search for people with exceptional cognitive abilities for the innovation job is on the run. Several software companies emerged from this trend, like Pymetrics, which exclusively focuses on a hiring process for those soft skills.

2022 Summary

In the past two corona years, businesses of all sizes learned to be far more agile or suffer enormously, if not pushed out of business. Innovation has shown its positive effect on some companies where it resulted in innovation efforts that brought even significant improvements to the market capitalization on the stock exchange. We see even a trend of amplification in innovation efforts as the past growth also encouraged investors and the capital market.

In 2022, we will see

• More enterprises investing in intelligent and strategic innovation, away from random experimentation.
• More explicit use of the term innovation by refraining from using “gradual innovation” as an excuse.
• A big challenge is finding talents with innovation-related soft skills.
• A surge in upskilling teams to gain innovative thinking and become more entrepreneurial.
• Finally, by the end of 2022, we may see some significant innovations created by enterprises.

We, the BlueCallom team, wish you all a happy, healthy, and innovative 2022.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

BlueCallom to change innovation landscape with AI, Genetic Computing, and Neuroscience

NOVEMBER 25, 2020 (Lucerne, CH) BlueCallom today announces its official launch as a Neuro Innovation Management software company. The organization’s vision is to provide groundbreaking change to innovation effectiveness and innovation economics. According to a UNESCO report, the investment in R&D has grown to $1.7 Trillion, with further growth by 2030. BlueCallom pioneered a neuroscience-based solution, challenging conventional ways of innovation, including brainstorming, working with paper stickers, random experimentation, expert-dominated innovation, and R&D.

By applying knowledge from recent neuroscience discoveries, we transformed innovation into a highly effective, far less costly, and manageable process,” said Axel Schultze, Founder, and CEO at BlueCallom. “A new understanding of the neural process in our brain opened unexpected opportunities.” BlueCallom offers software to help global innovation teams identify innovation opportunities, collaborate, ideate, validate ideas, prepare for innovation financing, and bring their innovation into global markets. As a result, teams are more efficient and able to generate a return-on-investment faster than previously capable.

The company aims to solve three major innovation problems: 1) lack of disruptive innovation, by providing a Neuro Ideation method to achieve groundbreaking innovation within less than six weeks in 85% of all attempts; 2) the struggle innovation teams face to launch innovations in global markets, by providing a comprehensive innovation management solution with a unique innovation-to-market method; and 3) lack of manageability, by providing executives with a dashboard to track innovation projects in real-time.

BlueCallom’s software is currently in beta-test with several early adopter firms, including a pharmaceutical company, a technology company, and a university. The software is presently available for enterprises and governments and the company expects it to be available for mid-market businesses in 2021. For more information, please visit bluecallom.com and find the company on social media @BlueCallom.
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About BlueCallom AG
BlueCallom’s vision is to leverage neuroscience for a groundbreaking enterprise-grade innovation experience. The cloud-based Neuro Innovation Management software empowers innovation teams to create lasting value through a new innovation life cycle, involving opportunity exploration, collaboration, ideation, idea validation, financial reasoning, and global market entry. Executives get consolidated innovation progress data in real-time. BlueCallom’s Deep Innovation Design model allows for collaboration with selected customers and partners. Founded in 2020, the company is headquartered in Lucerne, Switzerland.
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Cleo Dan | cleo@bluecallom com |

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A billion-dollar innovation is not done with a few brainstorming meetings.

We started with a big problem (see history below) and have the vision to develop technology for innovation teams to innovate like never before imaginable past brainstorming. Now we are ready to go.

Ready to Callomize

On Wed, Oct 15, we introduced our “Neuro Ideation” methodology. On Tue Nov 24, we will open up for Beta Teams to start beta testing the system and build groundbreaking innovations. The beginning of an amazing journey.

A billion-dollar innovation is not done with a few brainstorming meetings.

There is no free lunch and no brainstorming. And thinking 30 days to get rich isn’t helping you either. There is no known highly disruptive startup that got to their initial concept, product, and market validation in a heartbeat. And there has been no disruptive innovation from larger enterprises in the past 20 years.

Unlike conventional processes, where brainstorming plays an important role, we changed how to interact with your computer by helping you move from linear thinking to lateral thinking. You may already know from design thinking that iteration is a big part of the process. On our multi-user digital canvas, you see the facts, research, market data, or other given or provided information on the left-hand side –  right across your logical brain hemisphere. You see your creative responses and constructs, answers, or activities to your right, across your creative brain hemisphere. And the middle field, i.e., Field-9, is the “negotiated summary” or initial outcome. Very much like the brain halves exchange and negotiate information via the Center Callom (Corpus Callosum). Going further down, you find the execution of relevant information. When you start, you will possibly find it odd that everything is so small and so much information. Over time, however, you will not want to go back to lists of data where you need to go back and forth in that linear order. It takes a bit of mind training to get familiar with it, but your thought process will not only become much faster but less distracted. You will start innovating and experience less brainstorming.

Innovation is a highly unique process.

Hundreds of thousands of innovative concepts get turned down every year by CFOs in corporations or venture investors by startups. My blog post, “The Initial Value of an Idea is Zero,” is one of my most read blog posts.  And that addresses one of the biggest counterintuitive aspects of innovation. Why spending so much time on ideation if the value is initially zero. And since many executives know that the value is created in the execution, the ideation process became a second-class citizen. If we look at the full scope of the Innovation Life Cycle below, you will realize that many steps look like ordinary business activities like producing a prototype or go to market and scaling. But there is a reason we added them to the methodology toolbox of the “Deep Innovation Design” model.

Each of the steps that are supposed to make an innovation successful is profoundly different relative to bring an improved product to market. Market validation is not done when a prototype is created but before any penny is spent building one. Why? Because you can build a prototype of an existing but improved product, and it becomes quickly obvious if it will work or not. Not in the innovation space. With your next-generation product, you go obviously to your biggest customers first to get this massive initial volume you need to support the massive production line you have. There is no way to do that successfully with groundbreaking innovation. To gain fast access to global markets, you will probably need very different and far more creative ways to enter the markets than the growth strategy from existing improved products. On the other hand, scaling seems to be not a big deal in your existing production environment. The scaling of groundbreaking innovation is fundamentally different because your initial customer base of early adopters is by order of magnitude smaller.

The Deep Innovation Design process superseded any current innovation processes by its width of the end-to-end innovation lifecycle and the depth of the neuro ideation method.

Innovation Financing

Yet another big challenge is to get funding for an innovative project. You may get paid to innovate, but the innovation will not materialize. Or, as a startup, you build an amazing opportunity, but investors turn you down. Why is that? There is a multitude of reasons, but most have to do with “communication.” It’s an interesting pattern that most highly innovative businesses did not get any funding when they started. Google was not given the tiniest chance, yet the became the global leader. Salesforce had to initially bootstrap for the longest time to get of the ground with funding. Two of my companies are the same. The simple answer is:  any groundbreaking innovation is challenging to understand and hard to believe in becoming successful. Only now, when we understand how we compose ideas, going far deeper into our minds to answer, we know how difficult it was to cross the chasm of the obvious ideas and get to the impossible ideas and back to something we can start realizing. A CFO or investor needs to be taken on the very same journey to understand the concept AND its importance. Without a diverse innovation team, this is virtually impossible.

Ready to rock

We are exceptionally excited to open up the door for beta users to join us, help us shape the future of innovation, maybe even the future of learning, thinking, communicating, and a future of human collaboration. Please consider joining our Neuro Ideation intro on Wed, Oct 15, and if you like to beta test BlueCallum com to our beta test webinar on Tue Nov 24.  Or simply get in touch with us at any time. we would love to explore what YOUR ideal way to innovate would be.

P.S. History

Interestingly, we are a groundbreaking innovation in itself. 2016 we began to help startups methodically create disruptive business models. In 2018 we went deeper into how groundbreaking innovative ideas were created with little to no findings. The entire Internet could not provide an answer – we hit the wall, BOOM. In 2019 we ran by accident into some eye-opening presentations and talks from neuroscientists about how our neural system processes experiences and associates those experiences with each other on the fly. That it helped them to solve all kinds of brain illnesses was less interesting for us. But we found a way to apply those discoveries in the research to find out how innovation is created. After our amazing discovery, how our minds compose and process ideas, we feverishly created methods to apply the newly gained knowledge to innovate like never before imaginable. During initial work with a few big clients, we hit the wall again – BOOM. The early experiments showed that the participants created so many valuable ideas that it was impossible to capture the time [when ideas had been composed], and date volume killed our canvas-based model. With 25 people, it was easy to create 250 valuable idea snippets. If we included customers, we would run into the thousands. The only option to solve the problem was to build a computer model that could capture any number of idea snippets entered at any given point in time, including outside any brainstorming meeting, and include selected customers from around the world to contribute. Mid-February, when the earth seemed to stand still because of covid-19, we started our software development project. The first lines of code were written end of February. The early Beta (more an Alpha Version) was ready 6 months later, and a month later, we had the first two pioneer customers on the system. We knew that, when dealing with the brain, we are opening a can of worms. Today we know it isn’t just a can; it’s a full-size metal oil barrel. We realize we are at the beginning of an all-new era of cognitive technology.

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