Tue.Nov 30, 2021

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An Example of Successful Alchemy

Innovation Excellence

At the age of eighteen Johann Friedrich Bottger was blessed with a strong pair of legs. Which came in handy for his chosen profession — that of alchemy.

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How Chemical Companies Maintain Market Share with Greater Customer Demands

Sopheon

Chemical companies must rethink a number of traditional business strategies to remain competitive. The post How Chemical Companies Maintain Market Share with Greater Customer Demands appeared first on Sopheon.

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Forget the "New Normal." There's No Normal in Marketing.

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Since the industry began hundreds of years ago, marketers have been adapting to widespread shifts in technology and engagement, and this still holds true today.

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Continuous Process Improvement Methodology Definitions

Kainexus

Long-term business survival requires constantly re-assessing and improving business processes. Continuous process improvement allows for businesses to become more agile, efficient, and innovative. Continuous improvement is one of the common traits of successful modern companies.

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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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Creating and Sustaining a Culture Of Innovation

PlanBox Innovation

This article originally appeared on Forbes. You can repaint your house, install new windows and switch out the floorboards, but unless you rebuild it from scratch, you cannot change its foundation. Turning your house upside down is your best shot at creating a sturdy and reliable base — and even then, you still need to make sure it is properly maintained.

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The Complete Guide to Ideation

Viima

Many organizations don’t lack ideas, some big companies can have hundreds of ideas stuck somewhere in between ideators and decision makers. If getting new ideas is not the problem, why should organizations put additional effort into ideation? Well, there’s actually a bit more to ideation than that. The problems arise when there’s too much focus on generating ideas and not enough on selecting to the best ones and developing them further, both of which are essential parts of ideation done right.

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Employee Spotlight: Nicole Clay

Brunner

Meet Nicole Clay—motivated, compassionate, and easygoing new member of our Digital Performance Marketing team with a serious passion for helping others. Read on to learn more about what keeps our new Senior Specialist, SEO busy! Q: Why did you choose Brunner? A: I’ve always wanted to work at an agency. After coming in to interview I really enjoyed the environment and everyone I met – I immediately knew it was a great fit for me.

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Insanely Interesting People who Influenced me: #15 Gary Zukav

Rmukesh Gupta

For the rest of the year, I would like to take a moment and thank the people who have had a significant impact on me as an individual. The way they have lived their lives and their body of work has had an outsized impact on how I think about life in general and and work, in particular. Some of these are contemporary thinkers and some of them are just a memory.

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#2: How to Implement Ideas from an Ideation Workshop: Include diverse members in the discussion

Flying Fish Lab

If you’ve ever held an ideation workshop, you know how fun it can be when people come up with fantastic ideas and everyone gets excited. And then what comes next? … Crickets. It’s almost like it’s one of the great mysteries in life (or work) – how to implement ideas from an ideation workshop? We mean, how to actually see an idea through from concept all the way through to it being launched as a great product or service.

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How to be an Inspirational Leader?

Rmukesh Gupta

One of the expectations as leaders that we have of ourselves is to be inspirational. Everyone talks about how it is important for leaders to be inspirational, to lead their teams to places that they may or may not want to go, to achieve a lot more than they would have achieved if it were not for the leadership. I strongly believe that we should not start with the goal of becoming an inspirational leader , as it is a self-centred perspective.

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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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#2: How to Implement Ideas from an Ideation Workshop: Include diverse members in the discussion

Flying Fish Lab

If you’ve ever held an ideation workshop, you know how fun it can be when people come up with fantastic ideas and everyone gets excited. And then what comes next? … Crickets. It’s almost like it’s one of the great mysteries in life (or work) – how to implement ideas from an ideation workshop? We mean, how to actually see an idea through from concept all the way through to it being launched as a great product or service.

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Problem Prototyping

100%Open

In Search of the Perfect Problem. Problems are the start-point for effective innovation and design. If we innovate with no clear problem statement we will end up with a wonderful new solution that is effectively useless in the real world. “If I had an hour to solve a problem, I would spend the first fifty-five minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.”.

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DEVELOPING 21ST-CENTURY SUPERPOWERS FOR LEADERS AND TEAMS

ImagineNation

According to McKinsey & Co, in a recent article The new roles of leaders in 21st-century organizations they say that the focus of leaders, in traditional organisations, is to maximize value for shareholders. To do this effectively, they say that traditional leaders typically play four different roles – the planner (developing strategy and translating it into a plan); the director (assigning responsibility); and the controller (making sure everyone does what they should minimize varianc