Tue.Apr 30, 2019

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Three Ways to Get Buy-in for Unsexy Projects

New Markets Advisors

Every manager in the corporate world has a wishlist of projects that have been relegated to the back burner. There are research questions that should get answered, product concepts that should get explored, and processes that should be made more efficient. Yet resources are scarce and there is constant pressure to keep costs in line. Ultimately, those projects that aren’t exciting get deprioritized, regardless of the potential value they could add.

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How to Run a Hackathon that Spurs Real Innovation

IdeaScale

Hackathons originally emerged as a way to quickly advance software technologies and identify new areas for technology innovation. The term has since evolved to encompass other types of intensive collaboration events. Though hackathons often make use of software, they’re no longer necessarily about developing software, but about developing innovation.

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Innovation, Change and Transformation in London – Part One

Braden Kelley

I’m off to London tomorrow for my London Business School class reunion.

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True Leaders Inspire Freedom

Tullio Siragusa

True Leaders Inspire Freedom. A baby elephant was tied to a pole at the zoo. For years she tried to break free tugging at the pole by the rope tied around her neck. She tried and tried and could never break free. Many years later, she grew to be a very big and powerful elephant. She was still tied to the same pole. She could break free of her bondage so easily now that she had become a big elephant, but her mind conditioning will not allow her.

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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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How Businesses Can Better Support the Mental Health of Their Employees

InnovationManagement

To be successful, you must be the first one in and last one out. You must work extra hours, you must think about work, answer phone calls, reply to emails, even when you’re off the clock. You must put your personal life on hold to impress the boss. You must show your commitment to the company to ensure your place.

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Getting to Why

Innovation Excellence

In their classic book on negotiation and persuasion, Fisher and Ury outline the steps to get to yes. They suggest the following approach: Separate the people from the problem The purpose of this step is to recognise that emotions and egos can become entangled with the problem in negotiations, and that this will adversely affect your ability.

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Validate the Business Model Before Building It

Innovation Excellence

One of the best ways to learn is to make a prototype. Prototypes come in many shapes and sizes, but their defining element is the learning objective behind them. When you start with what you want to learn, the prototype is sure to satisfy the learning objective. But start with the prototype, and no one.

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The Lean Manufacturing Cheat Sheet

Kainexus

I created dozens of cheat sheets during my high school and college career. Don’t worry; I didn’t use them to cheat on the test. I found that the exercise of creating a crib card helped me review the relevant material and organize my thoughts, so when it was time for the exam, I was well prepared to do well without resorting to fraud. Anything that I would want to put on the sheet was something that I should fully understand.

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35 Ways to Use Idea Management Software to Drive Business Results

Viima

Every new innovation, be it a product, a service, or an improvement, always starts from an idea.

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An Innovative Method to Continuously Power IoT Devices

IdeaConnection

An energy harvesting power module on a chip that powers smart IoT devices, eliminating the need for batteries.

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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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Create An Inspiring Workpace For Winners

The Human Factor

image source. Contributed post –. Business is partially about winners and losers. Winners make sales, meet targets and triumph when failure or criticism is upon them. Typically, you want winners to join your company and stay, they are the lifeblood that supports the business and will help it reach its goals and aspirations. Winners are ambitious and consistently growing, and as such expect or hope that the company they work for will follow suit.

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Myths Surrounding Open Innovation – What is the Truth?

Innocentive

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Fitting Your Shop On A Budget

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. It’s finally arrived. You step foot into your new brick and mortar store. The only problem is it’s a bit of a state, and you’re going to need all the help you can get to pull it together. How do you make your shop POP without the enormous costs attached? image source. A bit of creativity and resourcefulness will see you right. .

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Plan of Action: implementing Data Science in your company

mjvinnovation

What is missing? Show a practical action plan for those who followed the whole adventure here. It is with Data Science that you can defeat the analog mindset! But the question is: how do you implement Data Science in your company? Let us tell you what to prioritize. Follow the 3 steps we set up for you! How? Data Science is still a relatively new solution.

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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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How to Keep Your Employees Happy

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. Chances are you that you are not running a production company that relies on having products roll off a conveyor belt. The value of your company is not the production floor itself, but it’s in the people that are running it. As it goes for any company nowadays, it goes even more so for companies that offer a service instead of a product.

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