Fri.Dec 01, 2023

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Discover your unique innovator’s Sensory Profile.

Paul Hobcraft

I had a most enjoyable and rewarding conversation last week on Innovation and Ecosystem design. It was partly through this conversation with Margot Nijkamp-Diesfeld and Rick Wielens of the Eco System Thinking Institute (ESTI), based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, that we got into the subject of creating different workshop concepts to stimulate those attending and draw out their greater awareness.

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What is Crowdsourcing? Definition, Types, Benefits, Examples and Best Practices

IdeaScale

Table of Contents What is Crowdsourcing? Crowdsourcing is defined as an innovative and decentralized problem-solving approach that harnesses the collective intelligence and diverse skills of a large community, known as the 'crowd'. This transformative method empowers organizations to outsource tasks, driving efficiency and creativity beyond traditional boundaries.

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Research: Setbacks Can Actually Boost Your Career

Harvard Business Review

If you’ve hit a big pothole on the road to success, take heart. Research shows that setbacks can galvanize your career in unexpected ways that make you more successful. Three practices are key to turning them to your advantage: exploring whether your goals still fit your aspirations, opening yourself to unorthodox opportunities, and adopting a growth mindset.

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Fun Facts About Concept Testing

IdeaScale

Purchase Intention: Predicting success in concept screening Companies spend millions of dollars every year using purchase intention as a way of predicting success in concept screening. Given the reliance on “purchase intention” as a key predictor or success, there probably isn't as much scrutiny of the measure as there should be. So here it is. [.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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To Scale GenAI, Companies Need to Focus on 3 Factors

Harvard Business Review

The risk with generative AI is not that leaders fail to try it, but that trying is as far as they get. Despite the progress made by vendors, using AI-enhanced productivity tools alone will not give you a competitive edge — just as provisioning smartphones, email, or web access to your team is nothing more strategic than providing electricity or running water.

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Skills versus Judgement

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski Best practices are good, but dragging projects over the finish line is better. Alignment is good, but not when it’s time for misalignment. Short-term thinking is good, as long as it’s not the only type of thinking.

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What It Takes to Build a Best-In-Class Company — 3 Essential Elements

Entrepreneur - Innovation

The journey to excellence is not a matter of chance but a deliberate pursuit to shape the future and raise the bar for all who follow.

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When Charismatic CEOs Are an Asset — and When They’re a Liability

Harvard Business Review

Starting in the 1980s, a generation of larger-than-life CEOs became full-blown celebrity, but over time, research suggested that charismatic CEOs tended to have drawbacks at leaders. However, charisma can be especially useful in two business concepts with big unknowns: entrepreneurial startups and corporate turnarounds. In these settings, when everyone — investors, employees, customers, suppliers — is dealing with enormous uncertainties, a leader’s charisma can give people the faith necessary to

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Top 10 Human-Centered Change & Innovation Articles of November 2023

Innovation Excellence

Drum roll please… At the beginning of each month, we will profile the ten articles from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Human-Centered Change & Innovation. Did your favorite make the cut?

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Mark Graban & Greg Jacobson: Thanksgiving Processes, the AME Conference, Technology, Favorite Books [Podcast]

Kainexus

Here's the latest episode of the KaiNexus Continuous Improvement podcast, this time featuring another conversation with Mark Graban and Greg Jacobson.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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The Critical Role of Culture for Innovation

Cris Beswick

Organisational culture plays an essential role in fostering successful innovation, yet it is often overlooked or discounted by those responsible for driving that growth, i.e. the executive team. But to drive tangible change and propel a business forward, there needs to be a conscious effort put into curating the leadership style of each internal group – from executive teams down to individual staff members.

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Solving the Personal Productivity Dilemma

Moves the Needle

The debate that has raged on since the pandemic; personal productivity. Brant would argue that being in the office does not make someone more productive than working from home. In this podcast from a recent LinkedIn Audio event, Brant will go over how to maximize personal productivity by the use of a KANBAN board. The post Solving the Personal Productivity Dilemma appeared first on Moves the Needle.

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Should We Micromanage Sometimes?

Michael Roberto

Source: [link] Adam Bryant recently posted a terrific interview on LinkedIn with David Wilkie, CEO of World50. Wilkie ended his comments with the following story: The other thing is that people often struggle with the sheer volume of work they face. I like to ask the CEOs I meet, what is your management hack? One gave me a great piece of advice. “Micromanage,” he said.

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How to Monitor Signal Evolution in Key Interest Areas | ITONICS

ITONICS

In the dynamic landscape of strategic foresight, staying ahead requires not just tracking signals but understanding their evolution over time.

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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.