Wed.Oct 03, 2018

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How To Prepare Your Organization For Innovation

Digital Tonto

It’s always better to prepare than adapt. By the time you realize you need to adapt, it might very well be too late. Related posts: Becoming A Successful Executive Doesn’t Prepare You To Innovate. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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If Every ‘New’ Idea is Derivative, Derive Them

InnovationManagement

Everything is derivative. Take advantage of that. “New” ideas are the next step in an extensive network of existing people and ideas. If we can get the data and reconstruct the network, we can analyze it and understand where branches of a network have the potential for innovation. Great ideas do not need to be created. They can be discovered.

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Training Your Team to Innovate

Innovation in Practice

To drive innovation across your company, you must train your employees how to innovate. Innovation is a skill, not a gift, and it can be learned like any other skill. Go back to your innovation competency model. Start there to think about the training needed to get employees up to speed. For example, for generating ideas, you could apply a method called Systematic Inventive Thinking, or SIT for short.

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Creating Innovation Value

IdeaScale

In a recent Harvard Business Review article, researchers Peder Inge Furseth and Richard Cuthbertson discuss their findings from a review of innovation case studies from corporate leaders such as Borders, Amazon, Apple, Xerox, and Kodak. They’ve found that oftentimes, companies spend more time and resources building out their innovation capacity, but not actually building out new abilities that will create more value for more people.

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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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How to Go From Idea to Inception, with Golden Krishna

Innovation Excellence

The Innovation Engine is a podcast series that discusses innovation through the lenses of corporate leadership, company culture, and emerging trends and technologies. The podcast features bi-weekly interviews with best-selling authors, C-Level executives, and innovation experts from around the world. It is available on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, Spotify, and SoundCloud.

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How the San Francisco 49ers are Gathering Real-Time Fan Data

Innovation Leader

Moon Javaid, Vice President of Strategy and Analytics at the 49ers, discusses his team’s goals, with a special focus on how they collect real-time data to improve the fan experience.

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4 pillars to let the innovation engine roar, at Total Booster

Rapid Innovation in digital time

The Booster is a corporate entity that supply other group's entities with an offering to support innovation and digital transformation. But it's also a state of mind.

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Steps To Making a Successful Online Business

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. The way that we shop has changed so much in recent years. Not to mention the ways in which we do business. We can talk to people all over the world with just a click of a button. Because the world has changed and so much of what we all do is online, it is of no surprise that online based businesses are going doing so well. People are online and on their phones now more than ever.

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Want to Teach in a Wonderful Islamic School in Australia?

Idea Champions

The forward-thinking Islamic school, in Melbourne, Australia, that I have been consulting with for the past year ( Al Siraat College ) has some new job openings for teachers in their Primary and Elementary schools. This is a great opportunity for an open-minded, committed, adventurous educator to make a big difference and have an extraordinary experience at the same time.

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Work on Employee Development to Boost Your Business

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. Helping your employees to develop themselves professionally isn’t just good for them. It’s also good for you and your business. By assisting them with their professional growth, you can ensure they continue to have the skills and knowledge that they need to do their jobs well. You can encourage them to climb through the ranks and take on new responsibilities, giving them more diverse capabilities.

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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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For innovation to flow, drive out fear.

Mike Shipulski

The primary impediment to innovation is fear, and the prime directive of any innovation system should be to drive out fear. A culture of accountability, implemented poorly, can inject fear and deter innovation. When the team is accountable to deliver on a project but are constrained to a fixed scope, a fixed launch date and resources, they will be afraid.

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Skills Kids Should Learn Today to Become More Successful Adults

The Human Factor

Contributed post – Today’s education system – according to some authors – is not preparing children for the challenges of the real life. If you would like to make sure that your kids will be successful and grow up to be productive and have good problem solving skills, you might need to have a closer look at what they watch, do in their spare time, and who they engage with.

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Reputation Is Everything: Simple Ways To Enhance Your Business Image

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. Did you know that around 90% of online buyers now consult reviews before deciding which products to pop in their cart? In the modern world, reputation is everything in business, and we hang on the words of others. If your brand has got a brilliant reputation , you’re going to find it a lot easier to keep the cash registers ringing than you would if your name was tainted or people were indifferent about your business.

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Less Time Wasting, More Sales: How To Boost Your Productivity

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. When you are a business owner it can be very difficult to switch off your brain and live a normal life. You are constantly thinking about what ventures to try out next and where your latest client is going to come from. Now that you have been running a fully fledged business for a while now, your goal is to work less and get more done , but how are you going to manage this?

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & 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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Keeping Your Computers As Secure As Your Brain

The Human Factor

Contributed post – Image source. Keeping a secret in your mind is fairly easy, as long as you keep yourself from writing it down. Most people have the willpower to avoid giving people information which they shouldn’t have, even if they are harassed for it, and this makes your mind very secure. Of course, though, it’s becoming more and more common for private information to be stored outside of the brain.

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How To Make A Great First Impression With Clients

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. Image source. Running a business gives us a lot of different opportunities over the years, and one of the main ones is to be able to meet other people in the industry and network with people from all over the world. When we arrange a meeting or we speak to a client , it can always be a time that we feel nervous and not good enough.

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How to Introduce Remote Working At Your Business

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. The digital revolution – which has really just got underway – has touched all aspects of society, and fundamentally changed the way we live our lives, including how we work. This has resulted in a dramatic shift in the workplace, the likes of which haven’t been seen since the industrial revolution. Because of the hyperconnectivity that we all enjoy, it’s possible to work from just about anywhere with an internet connection.

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Adding the ‘Trust Factor’ To Your Business

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. Entrepreneur’s spend a long time making sure they’ve got a business that offers high-quality goods and services, but sometimes make the mistake of seeing their customers in terms of dollars and buying personas. While there’s a window for this type of thinking, it shouldn’t form a large part of the thinking behind your company, if for no other reason that this isn’t what your customers are: they’re human beings.

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How Mature Companies Are Scaling Transformational New Businesses

Scaling transformational innovations in large companies is challenging due to ‘Company Fit’ issues, which arise when the resources, processes, and priorities (RPPs) of the core business are not aligned with the needs of the new business. Many companies have learned how ambidexterity—the ability to both ‘exploit the present and explore the future,’ can help them address these issues for ideation and incubation of new innovations, but scaling transformative business innovations remains a challenge

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5 Smart Ways Your Business Can Start Making More Money

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. If you want your business to start making more money, don’t just sit around and wait for those sales to ring in. Take action! There are probably a lot of things you can do that will help you to make more money, and here we have 5 suggestions that could make all the difference. Read on and see what you could do! Amp Up Your Marketing Efforts.