Tue.Apr 09, 2019

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Change the Point of Attack – Insights from Nelson

Destination Innovation

On October 21 1805, the French and Spanish fleets, consisting of 33 ships under the command of Admiral Villeneuve, were intercepted by a British fleet of 27 vessels under Admiral Nelson, off the coast of Cadiz in Spain. What followed, the battle of Trafalgar, was to determine the balance of power on the high seas and across Europe for the next century.

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What Happens in Melbourne Doesn’t Stay in Melbourne!

IdeaScale

Your intrapreneurs are just a desk away. This February and March, the Ideascale team toured Australia, running workshops in Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, Canberra, and Sydney to discuss crowdsourcing, open innovation, and most importantly, intrapreneurship, with a stop at the Brisbane Intrapreneur’s Summit. Based on our work there, we wanted to focus on what intrapreneurship means for organizations and how it can be encouraged from both top-down and bottom-up.

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Future of Work Freedom-Centric Leadership

Tullio Siragusa

Future of Work Freedom-Centric Leadership. Last summer I was looking to find a way to bring the freedom-centric culture of my company, Nearsoft to the public. A group of us started to put together some meetup groups with the intention to educate companies and people about the value of freedom at work. We wanted to share the impact freedom can have on the quality of life for people, as well as the health of the bottom-line.

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Fail it. Nail it. Scale it. Sale it

Innovation Excellence

Q: What are the three most common questions doctors, scientists and engineers ask about their new ideas, inventions and discoveries? A: What do I do next ? How to I find money? How do I scale my business? The answers are to 1)set up and fail at conducting the right business model and experiment to.

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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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Surveys Don't Cut It. Why You Need To Talk To Your Customers

Econic

Drake Stimson couldn't believe what he was witnessing. Here he was in the house of a lady with nine cats, where the odor was so bad that he could hardly breathe, yet she was completely oblivious to the pungent combination of urine, feces, and hairballs. As told in The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg, Stimson, a young marketing executive for Procter & Gamble was trying to find out why customers weren’t buying a new product that P&G had just released – Febreze.

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The Travel & Hospitality Industry is Being Disrupted – Again

Innovation Excellence

Airbnb disrupted hotels. Now big travel and hospitality companies are going after the next disruptive innovation themselves before getting blindsided yet again. If you’ve followed my Inc.com column, you know I work with both big companies and start-ups around the world. My research, consulting and speaking give me a glimpse into the fledgling trends and upstarts that will one day.

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Qmarkets forms Strategic Partnership with Multinational Digital Services Company

Qmarkets

RocketSource will include Qmarkets software as a recommended resource within their LevelNext MasterClass – a premium innovation and transformation workshop for forward-thinking organizations. Qmarkets will also offer customers RocketSource’s market-proven innovation methodology – which has benefited Fortune 10 to Fortune 1000 companies worldwide.

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The Major Consequences of Australia’s New Social Media Laws | Collective Campus

Collectivecamp

In the wake of the Christchurch shootings and the disturbing video that made the rounds on social media afterward, Australia’s Government expeditiously passed new legislation that puts the onus on tech companies to remove violent material from their platforms or face criminal charges.

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Surveys Don’t Cut It. Why You Need To Talk To Your Customers

Econic

Drake Stimson couldn’t believe what he was witnessing. Here he was in the house of a lady with nine cats, where the odor was so bad that he could hardly breathe, yet she was completely oblivious to the pungent combination of urine, feces, and hairballs. As told in The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg, Stimson, a young marketing executive for Procter & Gamble was trying to find out why customers weren’t buying a new product that P&G had just released – Febreze.

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Bringing Star Wars to Life at Lucasfilm’s ILMxLAB

Innovation Leader

What will the entertainment of the future look like? We sat down with Vicki Dobbs Beck of Lucasfilm’s Lucasfilm’s immersive entertainment ILMxLAB to find out.

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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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How to Improve Your Manufacturing Process

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. If you would like to make the most out of your business, it is important that you focus on making improvements every day. The manufacturing industry is highly competitive, and every company is aiming to reduce waste and cut costs without compromising the quality. If you are ready to launch your product or create a more effective system for manufacturing, chances are that you will need to take a step back and try to improve your processes by looking at your supply chain and ma

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What Powers the Business Models of Apple, IKEA, and Uber?

Innovation Leader

In this book excerpt, Langdon Morris lays out a framework and questions that can be helpful in designing new business models or improving existing ones.

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Here’s How You Maximize Customer Engagement

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. The people who use your company and purchase your products or services are incredibly important to your business. If it weren’t for them, there’d be no way you could turn over a profit at all and you might even have to stop trading. These customers will certainly have a lot of demands of your company and, to stay in their good books, you will largely have to offer them most of the things that they demand.

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Creating a collaborative workplace culture

ImagineNation

Some CEO’S, executive teams and leaders mistakenly assume that organizational culture is simply a social phenomenon that they have no control over, and cannot impact. Yet, according to Gallup , CEO’s, executive teams and leaders are the key catalysts towards creating a collaborative workplace culture. This is because culture is more about connecting with & sharing people’s values and beliefs, understanding & hearing their thoughts, developing positive rituals and supportive and aligned c

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How Automation is Driving Efficiency Through the Last Mile of Reporting

Speaker: Jamie Eagan

As organizations strive for agility and efficiency, it's imperative for finance leaders to embrace innovative technologies and redefine traditional processes. Join us as we explore the pivotal role of digitalization and automation in reshaping what is commonly referred to as the “last mile of reporting”. We’ll deep-dive into why digitalization is no longer a choice, but a necessity for finance departments to stay competitive in a fast-paced environment touching on: 2024 trends for the Office of