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Six Simple Growth Hacks for Startups

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Soren Kaplan Building a new business is tough. These strategies will help your startup succeed without a big investment. As many of my readers know, I usually write about strategy, innovation, and leadership. But recently I’ve been asked a lot about how I helped establish Praxie.com as a destination website for hundreds […].

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Moving a Family Business Beyond the Founder’s Vision

Harvard Business Review

How the next generation can embrace the future — while respecting the past.

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Optimising Your Return on Open Innovation

100%Open

David recently did a live interview on Twitter Spaces with one of our platform partners, HeroX. They came forward with a few questions to guide the conversation, and the consequent hour was full of fascinating insights and quotable snippets. Adam Olsen , who hosts and produces the Innovation Heroes interviews, describes his motivation behind starting the series: “It’s time to open up the airways, share strategies, engage partners, and leverage the power of crowd intelligence to exped

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The Perils of Innovation by Acquisition

Harvard Business Review

It’s an easy trap to fall into when money is cheap. But it’s rarely a good idea.

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2024’s Retail Odyssey: Going Small, Artificial, and Augmented!

Speaker: Joe Cicman - Principal Analyst at Forrester, and Jason Cottrell - CEO & Founder at Orium

Significant modifications are on the horizon for digital commerce in retail and customer experience come 2024. The pace of tech shifts will intensify, businesses are set to defund legacy solutions, and attractive opportunities will surface as social and retail media players join forces. To stay ahead of the curve, digital leaders are experimenting with less risky initiatives and scaling back on outdated projects that no longer yield impactful results.

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Striking Gold: The $40m Idea Unearthed Through Crowdsourcing

Qmarkets

Hochschild Mining is a leading silver and gold mining company based in Lima, Peru. In business for over a century, the company continues to be run by the Hochschild family to this day. In 2020 alone, it produced almost 10m ounces of silver and 175k ounces of gold from its three active mines across South America. Hochschild ’s innovation initiatives are focused on optimizing its current operations through continuous improvement, with a particular focus on corporate responsibility.

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Fintech Sector Needs To Work On Safety To Uphold People's Trust, Says Narendra Modi

Entrepreneur - Innovation

The Prime Minister also said that the fintech domain in India has earned goodwill by being an enabler of inclusion, and there is a need for continued focus to empower the poorest of the poor by taking quality financial services to them.

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We Are Here To Support Innovation, RBI Governor To Fintechs

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Shaktikanta Das also said that the need of the hour is to ensure assurance of safety after following a process of green-lighting and due diligence by the regulated entities.

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To Avoid DEI Backlash, Focus on Changing Systems — Not People

Harvard Business Review

Five strategies to get buy-in from DEI skeptics and supporters alike.

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Connection over content: A new era for education technology

Christensen Institute

The pandemic cast education technology (edtech) into a starring — and some might argue above-its-paygrade — role in education. For many students and overwhelmed parents, virtual learning became synonymous with isolation. Algorithms and Zoom rooms were meager surrogates for authentic connection. Students’ relationships with faculty and friends in the classroom, not to mention chance encounters in the hallway, proved hard to replicate in digital environments. .

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3 Stages of a Successful Digital Transformation

Harvard Business Review

You have to walk before you can run.

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LLMs in Production: Tooling, Process, and Team Structure

Speaker: Dr. Greg Loughnane and Chris Alexiuk

Technology professionals developing generative AI applications are finding that there are big leaps from POCs and MVPs to production-ready applications. They're often developing using prompting, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and fine-tuning (up to and including Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF)), typically in that order. However, during development – and even more so once deployed to production – best practices for operating and improving generative AI applications are le

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4 Tactics that Backfire When Dealing with a Difficult Colleague

Harvard Business Review

Suppressing your emotions doesn’t work. Neither does starting a flame war.