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Emerging Trends in the Financial Sector in 2020

IdeaScale

The financial sector continues to face numerous changes in today’s ever-evolving business landscape. As challenges are introduced, new opportunities arise. Technology continually shapes the industry by providing these opportunities. These changes require a highly developed innovation strategy that will pave the way for new services and improved processes.

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Why Bother with User Innovation?

InnovationManagement

Users are a hidden ‘front end’ of innovation, highly motivated, prepared to experiment and tolerant of things not working right first time. So it makes sense to try and bring this perspective to bear. The post Why Bother with User Innovation? appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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7 Deadly Sins Of Virtual Events

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Avoid this septet, and you'll likely create an experience that's remarkable and cherished.

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Podcast S4E80: Todd Henry – Finding the personal Motivation Code that drives you

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value Podcast, we speak with creativity and motivation expert Todd Henry. He is the author of 5 books on how to get the best creative performance out of yourself and creative teams, the Founder of the Accidental Creative and the podcast of the same name, and author of the upcoming book The Motivation Code. We speak about how teams can be more effective when being creative together, as well as insights on what motivates people.

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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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We Need To Rethink Technology For The 21st Century

Digital Tonto

If we continue to increase GDP, but our air and water are more polluted, our children less educated and less healthy and we face heightened levels of anxiety and depression, then what have we really. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Innovation Driven by Culture at Sunshine Coast Credit Union

IdeaScale

The culture of an organization directly contributes to its innovation success. The most innovative companies recognize the importance of continuous change and growth to remain on top. Research shows 2/3 of these organizations make it one of their top three management priorities. The latest episode of the IdeaScale Nation podcast discusses how one company adopted change that led to … Continued.

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How to Demonstrate Teamwork in the Workplace

CMOE

Great teamwork is essential for surviving, thriving, and being exceptional in the modern workplace. It’s impossible for a team to innovate, stand out, or add superior value without superior teamwork skills. Individual talent just isn’t enough. More than skill, subject-matter knowledge, or industry experience, organizations need workers who understand the principles of teamwork and how to apply them.

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Do Companies Still Need a Headquarters?

Innovation Leader

In this new era of the online workforce, corporate office space is becoming a scalable, adaptive service. ”Even the most conservative business leaders have started to realize that a distributed, online workforce is both feasible and appealing,” writes product architect and author George Krasadakis.

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How Can You Make Sure Your Organizational Changes Stick?

IdeaScale

Planning and executing innovative change in any organization takes time. Once your goal is reached, you need a way of keeping it on track for the duration. Organizational leaders understand the challenges presented by a cultural transformation. Change management helps managers and employees prepare for new processes and practices. Create a culture of high performance … Continued.

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The Shining Digital City On the Hill

Gregg Fraley

Digital Technology Remains An Unharvested Field. There is so much innovation potential being left on the table, right now, that our future could truly be that shining city on the hill. The potential, much of it, lays in digital technology. Your future could be that company that thrives amidst chaos. Your future could be that person who surfs above the waves of massive change.

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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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Examples of the 8 Wastes of Lean in Everyday Life

Kainexus

If you are striving to become a Lean organization, waste elimination is probably near the top of your list. In fact, Lean practitioners have identified very specific types of waste, known collectively as the 8 Wastes of Lean. Certain types of waste are really easy to spot and fix, while others can remain unnoticed. We thought it might be helpful to share some practical examples of how each type of waste occurs in business and in the larger world.

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?Innovation Solutions Showcase 2020

Innovation Leader

At our Solutions Showcase in September 2020, five of Innovation Leader’s strategic partners shared how their organizations help address the challenges of 2020.

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Interview with Scott D. Anthony, Author of Eat, Sleep, Innovate: How to Make Creativity an Everyday Habit Inside Your Organization

InnovationManagement

I had the opportunity recently to interview fellow author Scott D. Anthony of consulting firm Innosight to talk with him about his new book Eat, Sleep, Innovate: How to Make Creativity an Everyday Habit Inside Your Organization, which is his eighth book with his co-authors Paul Cobban, Natalie Painchaud, and Andy Parker. Congratulations Scott! The post Interview with Scott D.

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How Leaders can Break Free of the Fear of Criticism

Tullio Siragusa

How Leaders can Break Free of the Fear of Criticism. If someone tries to offer you feedback, how open are you to accept it? How do you think you will react? Do you immediately get defensive, anticipating critical feedback, thinking up of justifications? Don’t worry if this happens to you. Most of us do not welcome criticism. We do like to form opinions and offer them freely to those around us, however, when it comes to receiving feedback, we are mostly uncomfortable.

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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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Getting Drawn Into DeFi? Here Are 3 Major Considerations

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Anyone with programming skills, or the ability to procure them, can start issuing financial instruments on blockchain technology.

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Highlights from September on Finding Digital Solutions

Innovation Leader

We’ve gathered the best pieces of recent advice from our live show, report, and other online coverage to help you find the right digital solutions.

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Accelerating Everyday Inventions

Idea to Value

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Portfolios of Technologies that address Climate Change

IdeaSpies

Climate change is a major challenge, and it will require innovations across the board. To avoid the worse climate change scenari.

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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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Why Simplicity Was Essential for CI at a Nuclear Plant

Kainexus

The principles of Lean and continuous improvement methodologies originated from manufacturing, but there’s no doubt that they have been applied to other industries quite successfully, such as nuclear energy. The nuclear industry believes that there is no defect or opportunity that is too small to go after, and there’s always room for improvement. This important principle is a cornerstone belief of what many refer to as a High-Reliability Organization or HRO.

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Will Coronavirus Be the Tipping Point for Virtual Reality?

Innovation Leader

The desire to escape in 2020, if only for minutes or hours, has become an obsession, creating the perfect tipping point for virtual reality.

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How to Pivot Your Product to Fight Covid-19

Entrepreneur - Innovation

What tweaks could you make to help preserve our public health?

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2020 Graphis Advertising Awards: Atlanta Fire Rescue Foundation Wins Big

Brunner

Our Diversity Recruitment and Adopt a Station campaigns for Atlanta Fire Rescue foundation have now been recognized at all levels of creative excellence – from local to national to global. We’re thrilled to announce gold and silver winners in this year’s Graphis Advertising Annual. This competition originated in Switzerland 50 years ago and showcases work in multiple languages from well-known national and international agencies.

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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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How Open Innovation Opens the Door to Successful Recruitment?

100%Open

If the most important facet of recruitment is the candidate, how can Open Innovation help improve the process? To answer this question, recruitment itself has to be explored from both sides of the interview table (or zoom window). Given the current climate, many businesses are looking to internally promote or redistribute staff. This makes sense from a financial and mentorship perspective, as investing in people allows for exponential growth in loyalty, education, and capability.

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Go for Launch: Interviewed, 3XR & Plannuh

Innovation Leader

In this episode of our startup demo series, entrepreneurs from three startups share their offerings in 30 minutes.

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#1,965 – How To Fix The Debates

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

The first debate the other night between Joe Biden and He Who Should Not Be Named was a complete and total clusterfuck. An utter embarrassment. Proof that the antiquated debate format, so tried and true, is in desperate need of a modern day overhaul. To be clear, televised debates USED TO matter. In the days before the Internet and Social Media, back when everything and everyone wasn’t so connected, when you might actually be seeing someone with your very own eyes for the first time when t

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Employee Spotlight: D’Metrius Agurs

Brunner

Meet D’Metrius Agurs! Pittsburgh native, big brother to four siblings, former movie theater usher and six-year Journeys veteran, Agurs is Brunner’s Junior Application Developer and Fantasy Football expert. Q: What were some of your high school hobbies? . A: I was president of my art club, member of adventure club, I was a stage crew member & I played volleyball and football.

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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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Twitter’s “Blame Processes, Not People” Moment

Kainexus

With the blistering speed of this summer’s news cycle, we can’t blame you if you’ve already forgotten about the single largest security incident in Twitter’s history that took place on July 15 but was a doozy. It was also a teachable moment for Twitter and every other organization that involves people and technology. What Happened? Early in the day on July 15, 2020, Twitter’s automated detection systems flagged some suspicious activity.

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Ten Best Practices to Empower Virtual Learning

Innovation Leader

With the rise of Zoom fatigue, enabling online workshops and training can be challenging. Nancy Tennant, formerly of Whirlpool Corp., shares 10 lessons for facilitating virtual innovation teams.

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#1,963 – Trojan Horse Cancer Treatment

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

In the near future it may be possible to kill cancer cells without using any cancer drugs. Instead, a nanoparticle will get cells to destroy themselves after first acting as a Trojan horse. A process that won’t harm healthy neighboring cells at all. Science Alert explains: “One of the latest methods pioneered by scientists to treat cancer uses a Trojan horse sneak attack to prompt cancer cells to self-destruct – all without using any drugs.

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Brunner and Goodwill of North Georgia Work Together on Key Digital Marketing Initiatives

Brunner

Brunner’s drive is to make a positive impact on the communities in which we live and work. One way to make this happen is to work with special organizations that do special things for people most in need. Goodwill of North Georgia is just this type of organization. Their mission is to put people to work and help improve lives. They have helped more than 27,000 Georgians get back to work, and we are here to do everything we can to help them make that number continue to grow!

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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.