Tue.Jun 14, 2022

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What Can Leaders Do to Have More Innovative Teams?

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Diana Porumboiu Talent is one of the main drivers of innovation and its scarcity and high value makes it a frequent cause for concern for leaders from all over the world. And for good reason.

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Three reasons to change the global poverty fighting paradigm

Christensen Institute

Every year, the development industry spends around $150 billion fighting poverty in order to prevent situations like the aforementioned. Last year, it spent approximately $161 billion. . Progress is not only slow but whatever “progress” is made is also shallow. Development indicators, such as children in school, life expectancy, infant and maternal mortality, and so on, may go up, but they mostly mask the shaky foundation upon which these positive indicators are built.

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How Planview ERGs are Encouraging Employees to Honor Juneteenth

Planview

June is an exciting and busy month of the year. It is the beginning of summer vacation, PRIDE month, and a monumental holiday. An important holiday that more than a quarter of Americans know nothing about: Juneteenth. The Planview BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) and the Force for Good ERGs came together to inspire our employees to commemorate the day and support local black communities.

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3. Asking for Ideas is a Bad Idea

Stephen Shapiro

This is tip 3 from Best Practices are Stupid. I love this one. It’s core to so much of my innovation work. The concept of the SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO is overlooked yet critical. Here’s a short snippet of the content: A large European retail bank that was suffering from eroding market share thought they had a great idea to solve this emerging problem.

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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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Design Thinking Exercises and Activities

InnovationTraining.org

Learn about some of the most popular activities and exercises for design thinking. Here at Innovation Training, we’ve spent over a decade studying and applying design thinking techniques to help organizations and individuals create real, innovative change. Design thinking can help you figure out new solutions to grow and improve old processes and practices by doing things in better ways.

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KPI Software Guide: The Best Platforms for Strategy Execution

Cascade Strategy

8 Best KPI Software Tools To Hit Your Strategic Goals. Today, there are two types of businesses: those that use key performance indicators (KPIs) to track business performance and those that fall behind and choke on their competitor's dust. If you want to tap into the power of data-informed decisions to get ahead, you need reliable KPI software.

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The 2022 Guide on the Best Reporting Tools

Cascade Strategy

11 Best Reporting Tools & Software To Drive Strategy. Fed up with spreadsheets and old-school software that suck up your time, do nothing for strategy, and ultimately leave everyone confused and cursing the ever-growing stack of disconnected tools? It sounds like you need one of the best reporting tools. No, wait, you deserve the best.

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How to Create a Culture of Innovation

Carla Johnson

June 14, 2022 Did you know that 5.4 million companies opened last year? And, out of all these companies, there are thousands of employees with innovative ideas just waiting to be shared. To create a culture of innovation and inspire your employees, you need to take the right steps. Work culture should be inclusive and encouraging, not demotivating and dull.

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7 Contenders for the Best Change Management Software

Cascade Strategy

Change Management Software: 7 Different Options For Your Organization. Finding the right change management software can be a painful journey.

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Knowing Who You Are, and Who You Are Not

Michael Roberto

Some companies try to be all things to all people, and they often achieve mediocre performance (or much worse). Others have a clearly defined target market and make sound decisions about how they will stand our from the competition. They make tradeoffs - determining precisely what they will not do (that others in the market typically do). A few companies go so far as to clearly articulate the tradeoffs they are making, even in their marketing materials.

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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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Don't Make These Ideation and Brainstorming Session Mistakes

Entrepreneur - Innovation

How to not fall into the trap of thinking that a single brainstorming session will fix all your market and product woes, and other ideation pitfalls.