Wed.Jul 19, 2023

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20 Questions to Ask When Your Team’s Vibe Is Off

Harvard Business Review

Has your team lost sight of its purpose and the goals you’re working toward together? If so, it might be time for a team reset that focuses on realignment. Or, maybe your team just doesn’t feel like a team anymore? Maybe team members feel disconnected, invalidated, or frustrated, and even minor issues are creating friction? In that case, your reset must focus on revitalizing your team dynamic.

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Navigating the AI Revolution

Innovation Excellence

Leveraging the Three Horizons for Tomorrow’s Triumphs GUEST POST from Teresa Spangler The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. As we stand at the dawn of the AI revolution, we must not merely adapt to change; we must anticipate it, shape it, and turn it to our advantage.

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How Taking a Vacation Improves Your Well-Being

Harvard Business Review

Making sure your employees regularly take time off is key to creating a more sustainable workplace. Research shows that taking time off benefits employees in three ways: 1) Mentally. Taking a vacation provides greater opportunity for rest and better sleep (both quantity and quality), which can help unclutter your mind to boost creativity. 2) Body. Relaxing on vacation can reduce the levels of your stress hormones and allow your immune system to recover, making you less prone to get sick. 3) Soul

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How to Use Technology to Run Your Company as an Executive with a Limitation

Entrepreneur - Innovation

A blind CEO shares ways to use the latest technology to keep executives on top of workflow, communication, environment and security to lead the company seamlessly.

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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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Research: How to Effectively Market Green Products

Harvard Business Review

A study, involving Edelman and nine major brands, finds that despite corporate hesitations, sustainable products are growing twice as fast as conventional ones, appealing across all demographics. Brands should ensure that product quality is not compromised while promoting sustainability. Combining sustainability claims with core brand attributes can broaden consumer appeal.

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Why Investing in the Accessibility Space Is a Smart Business Move

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Let's take a look at the cultural evolution driving entrepreneurs to innovate around accessibility, launch projects focused on inclusion and access and explore what's making accessibility a ripe space for entrepreneurs to enter.

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How Entrepreneurs Can Fuel Innovation and Push Societal Limits

Entrepreneur - Innovation

The most successful and influential entrepreneurs are those who are driven by the belief that they can make a difference in the world.

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The Best Leaders Are Also Technical Experts

Harvard Business Review

Having a deep understanding your organization’s core business is part of leadership.

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48-hour Flash Sale on Charting Change Hardcover

Innovation Excellence

with Free Shipping Worldwide* Wow! Exciting news! From now until midnight EST on July 21, 2023 you can get the hardcover version of my latest best-selling book Charting Change for 50% off! (USE CODE FLS23 at checkout) AND From now until July 28, 2023 you can get the digital version (eBook) for only $12.99!

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Overcoming the risks of Generative AI in Healthcare

Board of Innovation

Overcoming the risks of Generative AI in Healthcare Generative AI can be a game-changer for healthcare - however, as with any innovative technology, it comes with its share of risks and challenges. Author Pierpaolo Padula Principal Consultant Healthcare Key takeaways Protecting patient privacy Ensuring algorithmic bias mitigation Maintaining ethical use of AI-generated content Conclusion Let's chat In the realm of healthcare, the advancements in technology have revolutionized patient care and m

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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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Experiential Intelligence: Unlocking Untapped Assets for Breakthrough Growth

Innovators Alliance

What is the most important asset that can predict your team’s ability to innovate and drive the growth of your company? The answer might surprise you. It’s not their education or personalities. It has far more to do with the challenges they have conquered, personally or professionally, perhaps in a completely different industry, and how they have persisted in overcoming adversity.

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Unleashing the Power of Market Creation: A podcast with Stanford’s Graduate School of Business

Christensen Institute

In my time at the Christensen Institute, I’ve had the opportunity to record many podcasts. This one, however, about the power of market creation with Jeremy Johnson , co-founder and CEO of Andela, and Darius Teeter , the executive director of Stanford Seed is one of the most special. It not only describes the power of market creation and how it holds the key to job creation, societal advancement, and human flourishing, but it also does so with beautiful storytelling by Darius and incredible insi

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Why Too Many Goals Can Be Counterproductive

Michael Roberto

Increasingly, organizations face pressure to achieve a range of goals, extending well beyond profitability and shareholder value maximization. Many people note the benefits of this broader perspective. Interestingly, though, Dartmouth Professor Pino Audia's work highlights one potential negative effect of defining too many goals as an organization. Here's an excerpt from Kirk Kardashian's feature on the Dartmouth Tuck School of Business website regarding Audia's research: Conventional wisdom say

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The benefits of participating in cross-sector innovation ecosystems

Ecosystems4Innovating

I can remember getting completely “hooked” on Business Ecosystems by a series from Deliottes and one specific report, introduced and coordinated by Eamonn Kelley, with many contributors including Kelly Machese, Anna Muoio, John Hagel, and Larry Keeley. It was called “ Business ecosystems come of age ” and maybe it did not change my life, but it gave it a clearer focus- innovation ecosystems.

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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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Navigating 3 Common Challenges of PPM Transformation (Part 3) 

Planview

In the first two posts of this blog series, we shared how one large biotech company defined its pain points and business goals for its PPM transformation process and the five steps it took to beat the transformation odds. (If you’re just jumping in, read part one and part two of the story first.) In this post, we’ll examine the unanticipated challenges the PPM Transformation Team faced along the way and how they adapted to overcome them.