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America Needs to Innovate Its Innovation Ecosystem

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell The world today just seems to move faster and faster all the time. From artificial intelligence and self-driving cars to gene editing and blockchain, it seems like every time you turn around, there’s some newfangled thing that promises to transform our lives and disrupt our businesses. Yet a paper published […].

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The Hyper-personalization Data and Privacy Debate?-?Solved

Tullio Siragusa

The Hyper-personalization Data and Privacy Debate?-?Solved. The Internet is an essential part of our life. We surf the internet throughout the day, looking for various products or services online. Data is what we share with the websites we visit. But do we know what happens to our shared information or how our preferences pop as ads? In this podcast recap blog post, we will discuss how websites store data, what goes on with the data that we share, and how we can have an option to control our dat

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How four market-creating innovations are improving education and employment in Brazil

Christensen Institute

In our recently published paper titled Leveraging Market-Creating Innovations to Solve Brazil’s Education Paradox , we describe how Brazil currently spends more money on education than its Latin American peers, however much of the outcome of its education system is subpar to theirs in comparison. This mismatch in spending versus outcome is what we call Brazil’s Education Paradox.

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ESG Investing Isn’t Designed to Save the Planet

Harvard Business Review

Counterintuitively, ESG ratings reward companies that are likely to profit in the climate crisis — not those who are doing the most to fight it.

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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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What does it mean to be Disruption Proof? | Ep 01

Moves the Needle

Welcome to The Disruption Proof Podcast! In this episode, Brant talks about what it truly means to be Disruption Proof. To him, disruption means much more than the ideology of startups eating away at the market share of large businesses. What we will focus on are the ongoing disruptions we’re seeing at a rapid pace e.g. pandemic, global supply chain, ransomware attacks, inflation, shortages, and the list goes on.

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Stop Protecting “Good Guys”

Harvard Business Review

The “good guy” defense gaslights women and enables offenders.

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It’s Time to Invest in Climate Adaptation

Harvard Business Review

We need measures to help people, animals, and plants survive the climate crisis.

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Design Thinking Case Studies

InnovationTraining.org

Find examples of how design thinking is used to solve problems, prototype, and innovate. As more organizations and companies across the world adopt design thinking into their operations, it becomes even more obvious just how essential innovation is for continued success and growth. These other companies have discovered what works for them to generate some amazing results.

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Driving Change: Why Companies Should Value Intrapreneurship

Entrepreneur - Innovation

The importance of intrapreneurship, whereby employees exhibit entrepreneurial behaviors within larger organizations such as multinational companies, cannot be understated.

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Build a Custom App for Microsoft Teams with Power Apps

Acuvate

In today’s world, hybrid and remote working setups have become the new normal. Consequently, Teams, Microsoft’s virtual collaboration platform, has witnessed a stunning uptick in users, growing to an astounding 270 monthly active users in the December 2021 quarter. And these numbers speak for themselves. Employees are basically living in Teams; therefore, organizations that deploy Microsoft technologies must provide all tools — solutions that enable process automation or custom apps that create

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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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RECONNECT AND RESET – IN A CHAOTIC WORLD

ImagineNation

Being able to finally meet face to face, and reconnect for lunch, with an esteemed colleague recently, we were both shocked to discover how stressed and anxious we were feeling about being asked to deliver live workshops to clients once again. We shared how emotionally overwhelmed we felt, despite having decades of knowledge, experience, and key skills in being able to confidently deliver learning programs and coaching sessions, about doing live gigs again!