Mon.Nov 13, 2023

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Building a CFO-Ready Business Case for Innovation Management

HYPE Innovation

Learn why crafting a compelling business case is essential when implementing an innovation management platform. Make data-driven decisions for success.

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Generative AI – The End of Empty Textboxes

TechEmpower Innovation

We recently completed a web-based application that uses a unique algorithm to match professionals with new career opportunities. As part of the onboarding process, the app asks both job seekers and employers what they’re looking for - in a text box - while providing a few suggestions in a pop-up. If you’ve ever used a similar application, (or if you’ve ever used the Internet at all) you’ve probably seen this approach before.

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Surround Yourself with Colleagues Who Boost Your Performance

Harvard Business Review

When it comes to building a network, new research shows that there is no one-size-fits-all strategy; different kinds of people benefit from different kinds of networks. The key challenge, then, is to figure out the right kind of network for you. In this article, the authors share the findings of their research, which shows that the key to building a performance-boosting network is to include people who support you in areas where your cognitive style is not naturally suited.

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Capturing Attention in the Digital Age: A Design Thinking Approach

Tullio Siragusa

Capturing Attention in the Digital Age: A Design Thinking Approach In the modern digital landscape, attention is the new currency, surpassing traditional commodities in value. This blog explores how Design Thinking, with its human-centered, creative problem-solving approach, can be pivotal in capturing and sustaining attention in a world where it is increasingly scarce.

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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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4 Strategies to Cultivate an Authentic Corporate Purpose

Harvard Business Review

In today’s corporate sphere, a growing disparity exists between companies’ declared values and their actions, leading to stakeholder skepticism. This divide prompts discussions about the feasibility of genuine societal contributions within capitalist frameworks. Companies can tread three paths: transactional (profit-focused), toxic (misaligned actions under a guise of societal benefit), or transcendent (true alignment of values and operations).

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Simple Innovations Sometimes Are the Best

Innovation Excellence

by Braden Kelley Innovations don’t have to be complicated to be impactful. They just need to deliver enough additional value that existing solutions become widely replaced, or flipped around, for the new solution to be widely adopted. Recently I have been seeing a new simple, yet elegant, solution driving around the streets of Seattle.

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People Make the Difference: A Day in the Life of Senior DevOps Engineer Asare Nkansah  

Planview

While DevOps involves programming and engineering skills, its true center is people. See how senior DevOps engineer Asare Nkansah uses his love of working with people and his investments in personal development to keep DevOps focused on team members and customers.   Explain your role as a senior DevOps engineer and a few of your responsibilities. DevOps is in my job title, but it’s more than a set of tasks—it’s a philosophy.

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Research: The Benefits of a Pet-Friendly Workplace

Harvard Business Review

As leaders consider what their organization should look like in our hybrid world, one area they may not be considering is the benefit that pets can have in the office. But a new research study indicates that there’s a lot of upside for developing a pet-friendly workplace, including increased employee well-being and collaboration, as well as playing a key role in recruitment and retention.

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We Are Killing Innovation in America

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell Throughout America’s history, technological innovation has been key to security and prosperity. Whether it was through entrepreneurs like Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and Thomas Watson, or government programs like the Manhattan Project, the Apollo Program and the Human Genome Project, The United States has been on the cutting edge.

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So Many Feelings. Too Many?

Harvard Business Review

How to share with purpose, recover from an outburst, set boundaries, and provide solace.

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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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16 Ways to Customize AI Content to Ensure It's Yours

BrainZooming

AI platforms can quickly crank out tremendous volumes of content at amazing rates. Where does all that content originate? There’s not typically a good answer to this question. The challenge in answering the question isn’t dissimilar to the difficulty in parsing out all the learning, experiences, imagination, and everything else that goes into creating a specific piece of human-generated content.

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Should I Continue to Climb the Corporate Ladder?

Harvard Business Review

A leader who is questioning the leadership track she’s on must learn how to redefine what gives her meaning at work.

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Celebrating NetSuite's 25th: SuiteWorld Highlights Innovation and Business AI Insights for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneur - Innovation

I spoke at SuiteWorld – here's what I learned about how a small business can make the most of their tech.

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Attention all Leaders – You Need to Create Psychological Safety if You Want Your People to Innovate

Cris Beswick

As a leader, you need your people to perform at their best if innovation is going to happen. But as essential players in that process, people need psychological safety, i.e. when they feel they can comfortably express ideas and opinions without fear of repercussions or judgement. If you want your organisation to be able to innovate repeatedly, protecting the environment for healthy dialogue around differing views must become a regular part of the culture you create.

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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.