Mon.Feb 17, 2020

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Four Questions to Choose Innovation Projects

Innovation Excellence

It’s a challenge to prioritize and choose innovation projects. There are open questions on the technology, the product/service, the customer, the price and sales volume. Other than that, things are pretty well defined. But with all that, you’ve still go to choose. Here are some questions that may help in your selection process: 1. Is.

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What's Your Strategy Personality?

Cascade Strategy

One of our most important values here at Cascade is integrity. And for us, that often extends organically to transparency. We try to weave our culture of transparency into everything we do internally, but also externally. That's why I want to share with you a secret process that we use in our marketing team to help us understand more about you - our customer.

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True Transformation Isn’t Top-Down Or Bottom-Up, But Side-To-Side

Innovation Excellence

In a disruptive era, the only viable strategy is to adapt and that is especially true today. With change seeming to accelerate with each passing year, every organization must transform itself. Those who are unable to change often find that they are unable to compete and soon disappear altogether. There has been a long running.

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Balanced Masculine and Feminine Energies Enable Better Leaders

Tullio Siragusa

Balanced Masculine and Feminine Energies Enable Better Leaders. There is no doubt that masculinity is generally considered to be associated with strength and toughness, but that is not what masculinity is about. Fire energy is actually a more feminine quality. I am not talking about men vs. women here, rather I am referring to the attributes that both men and women can embody as fully integrated human beings.

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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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The Anatomy and Upside of Boredom

Rmukesh Gupta

Every now and then I come across in my reading list something that lies at the intersection of being interesting, useful and practical. The below post is one such example. This originally appeared on Aeon, written by Neel Burton and edited by Nigel Warburton. I have written elsewhere ( here , here , here and here ) about the importance of boredom and how it has an impact on creativity in the least and overall life satisfaction at the most.

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How to Create a Culture of Experimentation

Innovation Leader

Relying on intuition often leads teams down the wrong path. Stefan Thomke, a professor at Harvard Business School, explains how to rely on experiments instead.

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The Innovation Management matrix

Articles from GroundControl

To properly manage innovation, we need a new way to identify the different types of innovation. When looking at the innovation maturity within a company, the existence of different definitions for innovation is an important criterion. The acknowledgement that there are multiple types of innovation and we should treat these types differently. Because we all agree that innovation is no longer to be treated as a ‘catch-all’ phrase.

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The Case for Internal Innovation

CREATORS

Why do you need internal innovation if you can buy or partner with external (startup) technologies? Internal innovation in corporations used to be the queen of growth (especially in the form of R&D), but it increasingly seems like the companies that embrace the partnership mentality by investing in, partnering with and even buying external technologies seem to be less inclined to develop internal innovation and simply use their current business as a vehicle for current and not future growth.

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How storytelling documents the unwritten rules of your culture

Tembosocial

A wise friend once told me that there were three sides to every story - yours, mine and the truth.

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Balanced Masculine and Feminine Energies Enable Better Leaders

Tullio Siragusa

Balanced Masculine and Feminine Energies Enable Better Leaders. There is no doubt that masculinity is generally considered to be associated with strength and toughness, but that is not what masculinity is about. Fire energy is actually a more feminine quality. I am not talking about men vs. women here, rather I am referring to the attributes that both men and women can embody as fully integrated human beings.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with 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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Cold Calling is NOT Dead — 5 Reasons to Pick Up The Phone

Collectivecamp

Cold calling is dead.Or at least that’s what I was lead to believe — until recently.

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3 Vital Employee Engagement Strategies for Winning Ideas

BrainZooming

Following the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl LIV victory, a spate of videos appeared online analyzing the team’s comeback from nearly certain defeat in the game’s final minutes. One reveals an important lesson as you develop employee engagement strategies. An NFL Turning Point video shows the goings-on during a review of an incomplete pass by the Chiefs in the fourth quarter.

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Forget Your Business Plan. Create a Strategy Map.

Leapfrogging

Strategic plans become outdated the moment they’re created. Instead, create a one-page strategy map. Having run the internal strategy consulting group at HP , and then consulting to both startups and big companies like Disney, Visa, Colgate, Medtronic and others, I’ve created hundreds of strategic plans. Business strategy used to be a clear and methodical process.

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One Person's Trash: Rothy's Sees What's Invisible To Others

Rebel & Reason

We've all heard the expression, "one person's trash is another person's treasure." This figure of speech is something we've all experienced. At some point in our personal lives, we've all found the beauty, usefulness, or purpose in an item that someone else has discarded. . Rothy's Puts New Spin On Sustainability With Recycled Flats. Professionally, it gets a bit more challenging to find organizations that embody the treasure/trash dichotomy.

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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