Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 13, 2015

I've seen a number of surveys from many of the leading suspects, all of which tell us a lot about what executives think about innovation. Mostly, they are for it, and think there is much more work to be done. My experience with most large organizations is that executives are so busy with so many different priorities that they often think that more is happening, on all of their priorities, than is actually happening.

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Matthew May

JULY 17, 2015

I am happy to see more and more companies providing product information in a form that is actually meaningful to people. I’m not sure why so many companies delight in listing the technical specs of their products, as if they relate to anything remotely useful to human beings trying to make a decision in the real world. Take, for example, Apple. Nearly all of the information they provide requires at least one step to translate into something meaningful.

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Exago

JULY 15, 2015

Companies with the most engaged employees tend to have a larger profit margin. Gallup, a global management performance consulting company, also noted that the higher the engagement of all workforce, the greater the earning per share in companies in the. Read More. The post The future of work: leveraging the power of your collective intelligence appeared first on www.exago.com.

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Stephen Shapiro

JULY 17, 2015

Too often people are looking for a freebie. They know that if they complain about a company they will likely get a handout. I know I’ve done it before. It’s a good lesson that we should all be more vocal; especially when a company does a good job. Little words of affirmation go a long way. Especially to the business owner who is working hard to provide a service.

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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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Mills-Scofield

JULY 14, 2015

The Wizard of Oz © Turner Entertainment Co. We love lists. If we do these 3 things, everything will be alright: our customers will shower us with accolades, our employees will ooze engagement and innovation and we will be profitable beyond belief. It doesn't work that way. The path is not linear. It's not a set of prescribed turns to get to your destination.

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Planview

JULY 16, 2015

This June, the Global Center for Digital Business Transformation published a report, Digital Vortex: How Digital Disruption Is Redefining Industries. The report notes that, from a survey of 1,000 business leaders, “four of today’s top 10 incumbents (in terms of market share) in each industry will be displaced by digital disruption in the next five years.” Displaced is the polite way of saying put out of business.

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Board of Innovation

JULY 14, 2015

As some of you might know, we launched a giveaway a while a ago. With this giveaway, we promised to spend €2.500 to cover intrapreneurial expenses. Since this campaign has been running for almost 4 weeks now, it’s time to review this experiment so far. First thing we noticed is that the necessity for ‘free money’ is not as high. Read More. The post We’re doing a €2.500 giveaway to support intrapreneurship : what we learned so far appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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Information Playground

JULY 14, 2015

Things got pretty wild last week for two EMC technologists. The first technologist is EMC Distinguished Engineer John Cardente. Just last week John announced (via the Reflections blog) the launch of the Whenology website: The Whenology project brings previously separate data sets together to begin the process of studying relationships between climate change, phenology, and bird migration.

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Daniel Burrus

JULY 17, 2015

There’s incredible value in foresight — in business, in government, but most of all, in your personal life. And nothing’s more intrinsically, existentially valuable than foresight about your own health. If you could know what will happen to your body based on the way you treat it now, along with your genetic profile, would you make lifestyle changes to prevent those problems from happening?

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Mike Shipulski

JULY 15, 2015

Immediately after there’s an elegant solution to a previously intractable problem, the solution is obvious to others. But, just before the solution those same folks said it was impossible to solve. I don’t know if there’s a name for this phenomenon, but it certainly causes hart burn for those brave enough to take on the toughest problems. Intractable problems are so fundamental they are no longer seen as problems.

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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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Rapid Innovation in digital time

JULY 16, 2015

Seedstars World just released the names of the five Cape Town winners who will move on to the second and final South African round in Johannesburg on July 17th. One of them is Azimuth, whose founder, Jeanine Engelbrecht, kindly answered our questions to let us discover Azimuth more in-depth.

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Adam Hartung

JULY 17, 2015

Most analysts, and especially “chartists,” put a lot of emphasis on earnings per share (EPS) and stock price movements when determining whether to buy a stock. Unfortunately, these are not good predictors of company performance, and investors should beware. Most analysts are focused on short-term, meaning quarter-to-quarter, performance.

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Innovation Leader

JULY 15, 2015

More than 50 senior innovation, strategy, and R&D executives joined us last month in Manhattan for our June Field Study.

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Eddielogic

JULY 13, 2015

As with many things, it is much easier to write about good strategy making than to actually do it.

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Michael Roberto

JULY 14, 2015

Kelly and Ben Decker have published a terrific Harvard Business Review blog post about communicating your organization's vision to your team. They argue that middle managers should follow four basic steps when translating the overall company vision for their direct reports. 1. Know your audience: What do these particular people care about most? What are their primary goals and objectives?

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Innovation Leader

JULY 13, 2015

At the New York Field Study, a group created a list of technologies and trends that will increase in importance…

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Michael Roberto

JULY 13, 2015

The Boston Globe reported yesterday on a new study by Stanford researchers Takuya Sawaoka, Brent L. Hughes, and Nalini Ambady. They examined how powerful people perceived unfair treatment. The scholars conducted a series of experiments. In those studies, they primed some people so that they recalled a situation in which they had significant power over others.

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Michael Roberto

JULY 17, 2015

Eric J. McNulty, Director of research at the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative, has written a highly useful blog post for Strategy+Business. He examines outcome bias and how to overcome it. Outcome bias, put simply, is the tendency to evaluate a decision (or set of decisions) simply based on the result. In other words, if the outcome is positive, people assume that good decisions were made, and that an effective decision-making process was employed.

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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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