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And Creativity for All

Innovation Excellence

Creativity is like air: invisible and necessary. Creativity is everybody’s job. It fosters innovation and nurtures talent. How do we create an environment that is conducive of creativity? I will be taking some inspiration from Monty Python’s method. Act I. – Bold Ambition: look for a big contradiction to crack. Resolve it exponentially better than the dominant player.

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8 Benefits of Utilising Collaboration Tools for Successful Teamwork

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Regardless of your industry and current job position, you should be aware of the importance of team collaboration. When you work on the same project with several people, things can go wrong easily unless you utilize successful collaboration. And, the best way to do it is to use team collaboration tools. Team collaboration tools can improve the functioning and efficiency of any team.

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Magical Ideas and Creative Solutions

Innovation Excellence

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”. “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”. Arthur C. Clarke. A Magical Idea is a brilliant solution to a challenge with a “minor” proviso: it is unrealistic, not feasible, not implementable, impossible! When the Magical Idea is in some way transformed into a realizable project, it becomes a Creative Solution.

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Remote Work During Uncertain Times – How a Modern Intranet can Help

Acuvate

Remote Work During Uncertain Times – How a Modern Intranet can Help With many economies in total lock-downs due to the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations have been forced to implement a remote working policy across the globe. This shift, while may be critical to reduce the spread of the virus, has however drastically affected business continuity. […].

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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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Four lessons from M-Pesa on Innovation Adoption

InnovationManagement

M-Pesa, a mobile-based financial service, did not follow a linear, step-by-step innovation process. In this article, Eivor Oborn follows M-Pesa's rapid trajectory to unearth how people who used it in Kenya, and how that helped the company adapt its product development. The post Four lessons from M-Pesa on Innovation Adoption appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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The CEO Conversation: Using Well-Known Companies to Drive Creativity and Collaboration

Innovation Excellence

Scenario: You are in the middle of a sprint designing a new product or service. The energy and creativity have seemed to hit bottom after almost four hours of creating potential solutions. How do you get people back on their feet, reenergized, and to keep on generating possible solutions to your design challenge? Answer: The CEO Conversation. The CEO conversation is a creative way to help teams and consumers look at solutions through the lens of other well-known organizations during the prototyp

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Riding the Wave of Disruptive Change

Innovation Excellence

Being born and raised in Sydney, Australia, family trips to Bondi Beach to enjoy the delights of the dazzling sea and blazing sunshine were a regular weekend event. It was where I learned to body surf, that if you seek to ride a wave, you have to work or flow with it to let it carry you to the shore. That’s similar to today, where the disruptive waves of COVID-19 and a range of chaotic global events are causing massive social unrest that is hard to resist.

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WEBINAR: How Innovation Problem-Solving Can Build Better Teams

Wellspring

WITH GUEST SPEAKER Michelle Cohen Director of Innovation at CME Group. The CME Group’s innovation team follows best practices that should be familiar to many corporate innovators: driving structured, collaborative, and creative thinking that creates value for their customers and the business. Along the way, they’ve also accomplished something unusual – they have found that good teams are created by solving hard and complex problems together.

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Magical Ideas and Creative Solutions

Innovation Excellence

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.” Arthur C. Clarke A Magical Idea is a brilliant solution to a challenge with a “minor” proviso: it is unrealistic, not feasible, not implementable, impossible! When… The post Magical Ideas and Creative Solutions appeared first on Disruptor League.

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Knowing is half the battle

Tembosocial

Was it G.I. Joe or Proust that told us “knowing is half the battle”? Whoever said it, they were on to something. While we're looking to our digital workplace tools to form connections between remote workers, let's never forget that applications are arterial.

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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 CEO Conversation: Using Well-Known Companies to Drive Creativity and Collaboration

Innovation Excellence

Scenario: You are in the middle of a sprint designing a new product or service. The energy and creativity have seemed to hit bottom after almost four hours of creating potential solutions. How do you get people back on their feet, reenergized, and to keep on generating possible solutions to your design challenge? Answer: The… The post The CEO Conversation: Using Well-Known Companies to Drive Creativity and Collaboration appeared first on Disruptor League.

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#1,700 – 8 Can’t Wait

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In the wake of the George Floyd protests against police brutality and systemic racism a lot of people are wondering what comes next. Angry and inspired they’re trying to figure out how we go from protests in the street to meaningful change that has meat. And while it’s not the be-all-end-all the proposed 8 Can’t Wait police policy reforms could show us the way.

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Smart Ways to Protect Your Business legally

The Human Factor

source. When you run a business, whether it is a small side-hustle or a large corporation, it is smart to protect your company from legal action in any way you can. Most big businesses have a legal team on staff to deal with this kind of stuff and stop their businesses from being sued, but most small companies don’t have the same luxury, which means they don’t always do everything they can to cover themselves.

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Removing Self-Judgements Can Help End Violence

Tullio Siragusa

Removing Self-Judgements Can Help End Violence. Nothing will ever change for the better in our world until each of us looks inward, and identifies our own self-violence and conflicts. What we experience outside is a manifestation of the friction that is going on inside each of us. We all spend a considerable amount of time in self-judgements, and this creates inner friction and the energy of violence.

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & 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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Removing Self-Judgements Can Help End Violence

Tullio Siragusa

Removing Self-Judgements Can Help End Violence. Nothing will ever change for the better in our world until each of us looks inward, and identifies our own self-violence and conflicts. What we experience outside is a manifestation of the friction that is going on inside each of us. We all spend a considerable amount of time in self-judgements, and this creates inner friction and the energy of violence.

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