Tue.Nov 08, 2022

article thumbnail

Do you have plans or planners?

Jeffrey Phillips

I'm diverging a bit from my normal focus on innovation and strategy to write a brief piece on planning. You see, planning is vital for strategy and for innovation, and is so ubiquitous that no one in corporate America believes that they lack for planning. Planning is vital for innovation because planning is the concept of thinking ahead - getting ahead of the market, of competition, of customers.

Agile 265
article thumbnail

Try Something Different

Destination Innovation

“If you always do what you’ve always done, you always get what you’ve always got.” This trite saying crops up all over the place. It is variously attributed to Henry Ford, Albert Einstein, Tony Robbins, Marian Diamond and several others. The trouble is that it just is not true. The world changes. It is volatile and uncertain. Things which worked well last year might work better this year but, more likely, they will work worse or not at all.

Marketing 152
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Only out-of-the-box solutions will tackle the root cause of what ails schools

Christensen Institute

As members of the media have bemoaned the tragic results of students on the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)—also known as the nation’s report card—many have been all too willing to jump into the game of who is responsible. Yet, few have sought innovative solutions to change the fundamental underlying reality: today’s schools were not built to maximize each and every student’s learning.

article thumbnail

How Walmart Automated Supplier Negotiations

Harvard Business Review

Using a chatbot allows the procurement team to focus more on strategic relationships, exceptions, and continuous improvement.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Reset and Reconnect to Increase our Connectedness

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Janet Sernack In our second blog in the Reconnect and Reset series of three blogs, we stated that now is not the time to panic. Nor is it a time to languish from change fatigue, pain, and emotional lethargy. It is a significant moment in time to focus, rehabilitate, rebuild, repair, regrow and reset to increase […].

Change 75
article thumbnail

7 Ways to Practice Active Allyship

Harvard Business Review

We can’t move the pendulum on DEI until we all see ourselves as enablers of inclusive workplaces.

Groups 101

More Trending

article thumbnail

Layoffs Are Painful. But You Can Communicate Them Compassionately.

Harvard Business Review

Delivering your message with kindness and care is better for both employees and your company.

Company 93
article thumbnail

How to Start Exploring in the Core | Ep. 8

Moves the Needle

The trap that many corporations fall into is the belief that digital transformation is mostly a technological thing. They think that they can hire a bunch of software engineers or outsource to development companies and that’ll solve their digital transformation woes. This couldn’t be further from the truth, as there’s a human side to digital transformation.

article thumbnail

Grit Is Good. But Quitting Can Be, Too.

Harvard Business Review

A conversation with a former professional poker player about changing our decision-making process.

Change 79
article thumbnail

Canva Whiteboard Templates

InnovationTraining.org

We share some of the best Canva templates for their new whiteboard tool. Canva’s newest online whiteboard tool is another fantastic option for teams looking for a low-cost, effective way to collaborate digitally or virtually. In today’s article, we’ll share some of our favorite templates that you can use with Canva to even build out your own innovation or design thinking workshops and meetings. 1.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Innovate to Win: An Interview with William Kilmer, Author of Transformative

Carla Johnson

November 8, 2022 What do Netflix, Dollar Shave Club, Apple, and Cirque du Soleil all have in common? According to William Kilmer, author of Transformative, these companies all did something none of their competitors could: transformed their business model to create entirely new markets while making their competitors struggle to keep up. It’s the holy grail for a company.

article thumbnail

Layoff+: Tech Company Mega Layoffs plus Remote/Virtual Workforce

Linda Bernardi

Fall of 2022 will without a doubt be when the major tech companies worldwide will do two things in parallel. 1. Layoff an unprecedented number of employees. AND. 2. Slowdown and most likely freeze hiring at full tilt. The combination of these two events by themselves is significant, but we have seen this before. Layoffs are not unusual. What makes this combination in 2022 dangerous is the fact that this is the only time in history that this level of layoffs is happening when the fabric of these

Company 26