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Goodhart’s Law: When a target becomes its own enemy

Idea to Value

This refers to the process whereby it is clear what the targets for success are, and an individual, group or company does just enough to qualify for meeting those specific criteria. One area where Goodhart’s Law gets even more dangerous is in target-based software development, especially Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

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Workplace Culture: Productive People Make High-performing Teams That Produce Rapid Results

Innovation Excellence

According to Global Human Capital Trends 2015 pg 36, “Organizations that create a culture defined by meaningful work, deep employee engagement, job and organizational fit, and strong leadership are outperforming their peers and will likely beat their competition in attracting top talent.”.

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8 Innovative Baby Boomer Knowledge Management and Retention Strategies

Idea to Value

Millennials, whom we define as those ages 18-34 in 2015, now number 75.4 And Generation X (ages 35-50 in 2015) is projected to pass the Boomers in population by 2028.”. After all, institutional knowledge loss can also occur when key employees resign or are lost due to illness, tragedy, or being poached by another company.

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Why you should care about the Creativity Era

Innovation 360 Group

The era of creativity, also referred frequently by Philips and ADLittle, to mention two examples, presents the following characteristics: Rapidly expanding global competition , pushing companies to find new competitive advantage quicker. The knowledge, information and technologies are available. To read the full SUP46 annual report, [link].

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Six Internal Innovation Sources You should know

ITONICS

Due to differing customer needs across different markets, the French energy giant Schneider Electric created within-unit bodies for each line of business to manage its own R&D. In 2015, Lenovo started an intrapreneurship project named “the Dream Lab” to help business driven employees in their startup projects.

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6 Internal Sources of Innovation

ITONICS

Due to differing customer needs across different markets, the French energy giant Schneider Electric created within-unit bodies for each line of business to manage its own R&D. In 2015, Lenovo started an intrapreneurship project named “the Dream Lab” to help business driven employees in their startup projects.

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Co-creating volume 3

Innovation 360 Group

World leaders met and easily exceeded the UN’s prior goal of halving the number of people living in extreme poverty and hunger by 2015. Progress on these metrics should be reviewed every 6-12 months and they include questions like: Which aspirations will help us in delivering on our strategic initiatives? The Idea Incubator.