Sat.Mar 14, 2020 - Fri.Mar 20, 2020

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What the Heck Does Exponential Mean?

Kainexus

It’s been 24 hours since my last post , and I’ve come to see that part of the problem is that people don’t understand what the word “exponential” means. The word exponential has been floating around a lot lately as concern about COVID-19 grows and spreads around the world. It’s perhaps the most important word in understanding all of this, and since it’s been a while since most of us took a math class, I thought this would be a good time to review the concept and how it relates to the current pan

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Navigating through Chaotic Times

Innovation Leader

Do you feel like challenging times may be ahead? Experts with experience at DuPont, Starbucks, Bayer, and more discuss how they’re reading the tea leaves.

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5 Ways to Boost Productivity as a Busy Medical Professional

The Human Factor

As a busy medical professional, you are being pushed to the limit right now. Whether you’re resources are being cut or the staff members in your practice are low, you always need to be on your A game. It’s no secret that doctors, nurses and physicians are busier than ever and this isn’t going to change anytime soon. Even though you’re busy seeing patients, you may not be carrying out your jobs as effectively as you think.

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How to Create the Foundation for a Corporate VC Program

Innovation Leader

Amish Parashar, a Silicon Valley-based venture capitalist, share tips for building more successful corporate venture programs. Get tips on staffing, collaboration, and more.

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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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12 Ways To Make More Time In Your Day

The Human Factor

source. One of the biggest complaints people have in work and in their personal life is being time-poor. There just aren’t enough hours in the day, there is always so much to do and so little time to do it in. So how can you claim back some of those hours and get more done with your day? Start your day earlier. Before you dismiss the idea, think about it.

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Is Investing In Property The Right Move For You?

The Human Factor

Investing in property can be an excellent way to grow your portfolio and build your financial future. If you’ve got a sum to invest, then property can provide more security than stocks and bonds, and could easily add to your wealth over the years. While investing in property sounds very appealing to most, it isn’t a solution for everyone. Here are some things to consider to work out if investing in property is the right move for you.

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Low Risk Business Ideas For New Entrepreneurs

The Human Factor

Let’s pretend that we’re not in a state of great economic and commercial flux. Let’s pretend that markets aren’t responding and reacting to a global pandemic. Let’s pretend that the face of business is changing by necessity all around the world. Even if legions of people weren’t finding out that their jobs and their careers aren’t as secure as they thought they were, even if employers weren’t letting scores of employees go out of sheer panic.

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The History of Coronavirus in Patent Literature

Anaqua

Matt Troyer, Senior Director of Analytics at Anaqua. What can patent data tell us about the world’s past research and response to Coronaviruses (CoV)? In this article, I present a brief survey of patent filings that reference “Coronavirus” or “Corona virus” in their title, abstract or claims. I then compare the same set to those having keywords for both SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) and MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome).

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Open Source Respirator and Low Cost Ventilator Efforts to Fight Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Innovation Excellence

Calling all doctors, nurses, designers, engineers and designers… Join one of the amazing Open Source Ventilator Projects to contribute your passion, creativity, time and expertise to help develop low-cost ventilators to fight the Coronavirus (COVID-19). Here are some ways of getting involved and some inspiration and some cheaper ventilator options: Ultimate Medical HackathonOpen Source COVID19.

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IdeaScale and Betterific: A Match Made in Innovation Heaven

IdeaScale

We’re partnering up to help you drive your innovation strategy further. Ideascale and Betterific announced at the end of January that they were teaming up to bring the latter’s strengths in crowdsourced open innovation to Ideascale’s industry-leading innovation management platform. So why are they better together, and what can innovation teams expect from the arrival of the Betterific team?

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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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The Hostility of Tribes

Destination Innovation

Why are tribes so hostile to those who depart from the norms of the tribe? Joseph Palmer was born in 1791 in Massachusetts, one of 14 children. He grew up to be a successful farmer. He took to wearing a beard which was a most uncommon practice at the time. The local people in Fitchburg took strong exception to this. Children threw stones at him, women crossed the street to avoid him and men cursed him and spat on him.

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Shifting the Focus of Your Idea Challenges During the COVID-19 Pandemic

HYPE Innovation

In the past two months, we have seen a significant increase in awareness of the business challenges associated with responding to COVID-19, aka coronavirus, effectively. Governments, companies, and institutions are all wrestling to find an appropriate way to respond, balancing how to keep people safe, how to keep businesses open, and how to deal with an unprecedented set of health, social, and employee challenges.

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In this scary Coronavirus time, we can benefit from working more in isolation

Idea to Value

For the past two weeks, everyone in my company has been working remotely. We had several cases of the Coronavirus in the office, and as a precaution, everyone has been working from home. And it has been working remarkably well. We have been collaborating using Slack, Zoom, Google, Phone and email. And business is continuing with minimal disruption. Yet I know for some of you, this will be the first time you are working remotely, and it can feel weird.

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IdeaScale and Betteriffic: A Match Made in Innovation Heaven

IdeaScale

We’re partnering up to help you drive your innovation strategy further. Ideascale and Betteriffic announced at the end of January that they were teaming up to bring the latter’s strengths in crowdsourced open innovation to Ideascale’s industry-leading innovation management platform. So why are they better together, and what can innovation teams expect from the arrival of the Betteriffic team?

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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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How to Manage Remote Distributed Teams – Best Practice Strategies and Tools

Leapfrogging

You Just Found Yourself Leading a Remote Team. What Next? Business is moving virtual fast. Here are best practices for how to lead a productive remote or distributed team. When I ran the strategy consulting group at HP almost 20 years ago, my team worked remotely. We were on the forefront of virtual work , mostly because we had no choice as a truly global company.

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The digital dilemma: putting data to work

Jeffrey Phillips

Over the history of mankind, we've constantly sought out tools and capital to make us more productive. From the formation of basic tools to assist in farming to real cultivation and shaping of the land for greater yields, humankind learned to grow food. Further research into genetics, fertilizers and pesticides enabled us to rapidly scale food production.

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Open Source Respirator and Low Cost Ventilator Efforts to Fight Coronavirus (COVID-19)

InnovationManagement

Calling all doctors, nurses, designers, engineers and designers: join one of the amazing Open Source Ventilator Projects to contribute your passion, creativity, time and expertise to help develop low-cost ventilators to fight the Coronavirus (COVID-19). The post Open Source Respirator and Low Cost Ventilator Efforts to Fight Coronavirus (COVID-19) appeared first on Innovation Management.

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From Invisible to Visible: A Look at Transparency in Government Innovation

IdeaScale

One of the challenges to innovation in government is a lack of insight into what citizens have to offer in the way of innovative strategies. Governments are aware of the increasing need to capture perspectives and insights of citizens to spark the innovation process. The use of innovation management platforms helps leaders to better understand the needs of the people they serve through proper management of their input.

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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 Manage Remote Distributed Teams – Best Practice Strategies and Tools

Leapfrogging

You Just Found Yourself Leading a Remote Team. What Next? Business is moving virtual fast. Here are best practices for how to lead a productive remote or distributed team. When I ran the strategy consulting group at HP almost 20 years ago, my team worked remotely. We were on the forefront of virtual work, mostly because we had no choice as a truly global company.

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How Transformational Leaders Learn To Overcome Failure

Digital Tonto

We all have our talents, but innate ability will only take you so far. In the final analysis, what makes transformational leaders different is their ability to transform themselves to suit the needs. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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When tough times are ahead, you should double down on innovation

Innovation Excellence

As I’m writing this, the last couple of weeks have been quite eventful around the world. There’s a lot of uncertainty and even panic regarding the coronavirus, its current and potential impact on our economy, and of course, its effects on people all around the world. As a result, we’re seeing more and more action.

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Why Innovation Is About More than Creativity: A Talk with Edwin Goutier of the United Way

IdeaScale

Is your innovation strategy built solely on creativity? As Edwin Goutier explains in a recent IdeaScale Nation podcast, Innovation is about more than being the most creative person in the room. Goutier currently serves as VP of innovation for the United Way Worldwide, a nonprofit organization that works with over 1,200 offices throughout the country.

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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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10 Things You Think Are Safe - That Actually Aren't [COVID-19]

Kainexus

We’ve been writing a lot about physical distancing lately, as this has proven to be the most effective way to slow the spread of COVID-19. Without limiting social contact, we don’t have a chance at slowing the spread of the infection - which means an overloaded healthcare system and a lot of unnecessary deaths.

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Keeping Innovation Alive in the Time of COVID-19

Innovation Leader

“We’ve entered an unstable and economically volatile period that may serve up the biggest challenges of your career,” writes MIT senior lecturer Blade Kotelly, ”and will require every business to innovate in ways they never have before.” Here’s his concrete advice on how you and your team can keep innovation.

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The Opportunity has Never Been This Big for Reinsurers to Invest in Innovation and Startups

InnovationManagement

In recent years, reinsurance companies have been closely working with startups. Among such joint endeavours, one can count the scouting for new technologies in order to integrate them with clients (insurance companies) and commercial business relationships with startups to which they have provided reinsurance in cases of events related to the policy coverage.

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In Uncertain Times You Have More Control Than You Realize

Daniel Burrus

When an individual or organization fears change and are uncertain, it’s usually in regard to digital technology disrupting their status quo or from new, fast-moving competition. While I myself have discussed at length these fears and many more, few would have thought that in the early stages of 2020, our economy would be in a downturn, we would be instantly converted to remote work or laid off, and we would be quarantined to our homes due to a global pandemic.

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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

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What You Can Do to Save People TODAY [COVID-19]

Kainexus

I awoke this morning (3/15/20) and thought every rational and caring person that I know understood the importance of social distancing. I spent yesterday talking to dozens of people and getting dozens of small social events canceled. I thought my job was done. This morning I spoke to my close friend - a smart and compassionate person - and found that he was heading with his family to a bike shop and the Container Store.

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Collaboration in the Time of the Coronavirus: How to Innovate Effectively During a Crisis

Qmarkets

Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining There is an old Chinese proverb that says, “Crisis is an opportunity riding on a dangerous wind”. During these days of global unrest – with news about the coronavirus and its severity changing daily – businesses across all sectors should keep the message of this proverb in mind. Although we are inevitably seeing the cancellation of business gatherings and events, along with increasingly severe “social distancing” restrictions concerning movement and th

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The 5 steps for implementing digital business models

The BMI Lab Blog

Building on the reasons for using business models in our previous post , this time, we want to deep dive into the implementation of digital business models. The increasing popularity of creativity methods such as Design Thinking and the St. Gallen Business Model Navigator have led to a state where companies are now well equipped to generate many innovative ideas.

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Create a strategy to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on your business

Cascade Strategy

104. That's the number of COVID-19 / Coronavirus related emails I've received from companies giving me updates on their stance and preparedness for this unprecedented global event. I don't mind receiving them, and some of them contain genuinely useful information. But the content of 90% of them is pretty much identical. Businesses are preparing by increasing hygiene, implementing work-at-home policies and in some cases, relaxing terms and conditions for their customers.

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Implementing Intelligent Document Processing Solutions: Why It Works

See how companies like yours are tackling some of today’s most common business problems using AI-assisted automation for document processing. Manually capturing, extracting, and processing data within documents is a costly and outdated practice that’s holding your company back. IDP takes document processing to a whole new level so you can understand and use your data more effectively than ever before.