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7 Best Practices for Your Next Innovation Training Session

IdeaScale

Working together means more creativity. Teaching people to think creatively may feel like a freeform exercise, and it can be. But even the loosest session will benefit from adherence to some best practices. Here’s how to ensure any innovation workshop is both creative and productive. Decide The Goals First Ideally, before everyone takes a seat, they should know what the goal of the workshop is.

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The Book that Took 9 Years to Publish

Stephen Shapiro

One week from today, my 6th book, Invisible Solutions , will be released. I’ve been asked, “How long did it take to write the book?” The answer is, “It depends.” It depends on how you look at it. December 2 – 10, 2018, I locked myself in a hotel room and started working on the book. Although I left the hotel with the first version of the manuscript, it took a lot longer to write than just one week.

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Biosensor Monitoring: an Emerging Hot Topic?

Yet2

If you’ve been following yet2’s active projects , you might have encountered two TechNeeds seeking biosensor monitoring technologies. We’ll let you in on a secret – there was a third one operating incognito as well. So not two, but THREE technology scouting projects looking for biosensor monitoring, though for different regions and target populations.

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Continuous Quality Improvement is Hard to Sustain. We Know Why.

Kainexus

Has your organization started a quality improvement program with great fanfare and a ton of enthusiasm only to see it peter out over time? If so, you are not alone. Starting down the path to continuous improvement is easy. Sustaining momentum is not. This post examines some of the most common reasons that CI programs go off the rails and how you can avoid or recover from them.

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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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Hydration Monitoring: an Emerging Hot Topic?

Yet2

If you’ve been following yet2’s active projects , you might have encountered two TechNeeds seeking hydration sensing technologies. We’ll let you in on a secret – there was a third one operating incognito as well. So not two, but THREE technology scouting projects looking for hydration monitoring, though for different regions and target populations.

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What is Crowdsourcing, and How Can it Add Value to Your Enterprise?

Qmarkets

Since the 2004 publication of James Surowiecki’s highly influential book, The Wisdom of Crowds , the idea that large groups of people can be smarter than a few individuals, no matter how brilliant, has been gradually gaining prominence in academic circles, business communities, and public opinion. Crowdsourcing is one of the most popular applications of this idea.

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Got Your Eye on a Career as a Senior Engineering Manager – How to Make Your Goal a Reality

The Human Factor

source. There are all kinds of goals you can set for yourself in life, ranging from personal health goals, to goals you set with your significant other, parenting goals, and of course career goals. The idea behind setting goals is to give yourself something to work towards. It motivates people to create a plan complete with realistic steps and milestones they need to achieve.

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Discovering the Trends of Tomorrow with AI

ITONICS

Many companies nowadays face the challenge of drawing the right conclusions and implementing them from a variety of technologies, trends, and innovations which are difficult to comprehend. How can AI support successful innovation management in this process? In this interview Christian Mühlroth, ITONICS CCO, speaks about AI bots, process change, and AI augmentation.

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How To Captivate Your Audience

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. Whether you’re pitching a new product or presenting information, standing up in front of a large number of people can be a very daunting experience. Being able to keep each person’s attention as you shuffle through your slideshow is really tough, as you need to take extra steps to ensure that you can really captivate your audience and keep them at the edge of their seat.

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Wild is the Game: the Art of Facilitation

Innovation Excellence

Julien Goby is the founder of Wild is the Game, initiated 10 years ago. Passionate facilitator, his ambition from the start was to build a structure in which learning and perfecting the profession of facilitation are a priority. Among the pioneers of the profession in France, he strives to ensure that Wild is the Game.

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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.