Tue.Apr 23, 2019

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The 3 Crucial Pieces of Effective Innovation

Econic

The date on my calendar was approaching and my fear was growing…. Weeks earlier I had told my mentor and friend, Bill Eckstrom , about the project I was working on to help professionals flip anxiety from a negative emotion into a positive ally in helping them perform at their best. As soon as I told him about it, he told me about a summit that his company was hosting for 70 sales managers from around the country.

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How much is in your organization’s Innovation Reinvestment Account (IRA)?

Innovation Excellence

One of the best ways to reduce your tax burden and save for the future is to maximize contributions to your Individual Retirment Account (IRA) early and often, create the proper asset mix and periodically doing an asset allocation rebalance at the right time. Similarly, the future of most companies, organizations and universities depends on.

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Does Your Idea Management Software Go the Distance?

IdeaScale

Ideas are more than brainstorming. It’s easier to begin a project than to take it to fulfillment and easier to rest on your laurels than to keep pushing. We’ve all learned this, whether it’s that new hobby or a newly launched business, and it also applies to ideas. In the beginning stages, collecting ideas is easy. But does your idea management software help your team when the hill begins to slope upward?

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Use Your Next Leadership Retreat to Manage the Future

Innovation Excellence

Each year, thousands of organizational leaders head to the hills for an annual ritual: the strategic offsite leadership retreat. The purpose of such meetings, of course, is to get away from it all and strategize. To leave behind the quarterly pressures, and think big about the future. All too often, that’s not what transpires. Social events.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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The 3 Crucial Pieces of Effective Innovation

Econic

The date on my calendar was approaching and my fear was growing… Weeks earlier I had told my mentor and friend, Bill Eckstrom , about the project I was working on to help professionals flip anxiety from a negative emotion into a positive ally in helping them perform at their best.As soon as I told him about it, he told me about a summit that his company was hosting for 70 sales managers from around the country.

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When Daily Huddles Go Astray

Kainexus

When I decided to write this post, I thought it would be interesting to see what others have written about the practice of daily huddle meetings. Wow! There are a lot of ideas out there about what should happen during a huddle. It took me a minute to realize that not every organization gears its huddle toward continuous improvement. Some use the huddles for team building, status updates, training, or even employee performance evaluation.

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Help Us Prototype our Newest Course: Testing by Strategyzer

Strategyzer Innovation

Testing by Strategyzer, our newest online course, will walk you through the process of reducing risk and uncertainty around any new business idea. We are in the midst of developing the course, and we wanted to offer you a unique opportunity to co-create the course with the makers of the Business Model Canvas and Value Proposition Design. We have a limited number of licenses for the first 300 users that take us up on our offer to beta test the course.

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#1,484 – Space Week: Photonic Levitation, Lasers, and the Future of Space Travel

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

The vastness of space combined with the limitations of physics means it’s highly unlikely that we’ll be able to travel to our stellar neighbors anytime soon or within the time-frame of a normal human lifespan. But a new theoretical breakthrough involving lasers could alter that dire diagnosis making it possible for us to travel through space in a relatively short amount of time.

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Why Do Your Employees Lack Focus?

The Human Factor

Contribute post –. It’s no secret that the success of your business hinges largely on your employees. If they’re not working effectively, you don’t have a functioning business. That’s why keeping everybody motivated is one of the most important aspects of your job as a business leader. However, that’s often easier said than done and a lot of business owners find that their employees are productive when they first start working for them but after a while, they begin to lose focus and the qu

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#1,485 – China’s Artificial Ambitions

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

China is planning on creating both an Artificial Sun and an Artificial Moon in order to generate limitless clean energy and brighten up the nighttime sky. Surprisingly, the Artificial Sun project may actually be the more realistic of the two projects despite the fact that it involves achieving the elusive goal of generating fusion power. A long sought after milestone that may finally be within reach thanks to new breakthroughs.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and guest speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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Progressing Your Pieces Of The Business: What Do You Do If Your Employees Aren’t Developing As Much As You Want?

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. image source. The weight of expectation is something that we can all feel crushed by from time to time. From the perspective of any employee, there can be a pressure to always be performing constantly, but what about your opinion? How do you feel when your employees aren’t developing as much as you’d like them to be? Perhaps they are hitting their targets, but this isn’t enough.

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Innovators vs. the Rulebook. Who Wins?

Innovation Leader

How do you get innovation wins in a highly regulated industry?

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#1,486 – Black Hole Image

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

As we continue to worry about Climate Change, fret about the fate of our favorite characters on Game of Thrones, and shake our heads at the last thing that President Trump tweeted, it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that one of humanity’s greatest achievements recently occurred: taking a picture of a black hole for the very first time. An astronomical accomplishment.

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