Wed.Apr 12, 2023

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Creating an Innovation Plan Through the Eyes of the Customer

Sopheon

Solving customer challenges should always be the North Star of any innovation plan. Bill Beane understands this concept better than anyone. As the Senior Director of Parker Technology Center and Innovation Systems at Parker Hannifin , Bill is responsible for helping to guide innovation to maintain the company’s status as a global leader in motion and control technologies.

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Slowly getting more capable

Idea to Value

A few months ago, my wife and I had our first child ( not the child in the blog page image here). Now, I have never been a gym-freak, and noticed that my arms would quickly get tired after I carried them for only a few minutes. I worried what would happen when they quickly grew and got heavier. Would I soon be unable to hold them for more than a minute?

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3 Tips to become a Great Leader from David Thodey Chair Xero

IdeaSpies

Skill development, risk-taking and passion combined with purpose are three key ingredients in the recipe for successful innovation (Feed generated with FetchRSS )

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A Different Approach to Well-being, Resilience and Creativity

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Janet Sernack In our previous blogs, we outlined the need, in our chaotic world of unknowns, to reclaim our focus and attention and take charge of our own minds. By reclaiming these, and enhancing self-awareness we have a deeper understanding of the sources of our anxiety and distractions.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Using AI to Adjust Your Marketing and Sales in a Volatile World

Harvard Business Review

Fast-acting firms are deploying the technology to predict outcomes at various stages of the customer journey.

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How to Effectively Identify Startup Partnerships | ITONICS

ITONICS

Identifying and building successful partnerships with startups can be a game-changer in today’s competitive business environment. The challenge here? Many organizations still rely on spreadsheets instead of automated, data-driven processes. In this article, we'll show you how to accelerate your startup scouting and systematically identify strategic partnerships.

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Approaching Cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations

Ecosystems4Innovating

In a series exploring cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations, this is the third post discussing different aspects and the approach to this that needs to be taken as my suggested starting point. All the elements of skills, processes, tools, capabilities and behaviours are important in supporting an effective collaboration across sectors that might need to be involved.

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Generative AI Will Change Your Business. Here’s How to Adapt.

Harvard Business Review

The race is on to see which brands can deliver.

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Smart Factory 101 A Data, AI, Cloud and Workforce Revolution in the Making

Acuvate

Last year, a CPG giant introduced a smart factory across several global manufacturing units. Meant to be a step forward toward its lofty zero-waste goal, the implementation brought both fiscal and environmental benefits. 20% Improvement in E and over 4000 person-hour-hour savings – per factory, per month. That’s no mean task! We’ll get to the story of this CPG giant in just a bit.

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9 Benefits of eLearning for Employees

CMOE

In today’s digital age, organizations lean heavily on eLearning to elevate performance and accommodate remote/hybrid working solutions. And it’s not going to stop anytime soon: Research notes that the global eLearning market was estimated at $332.6 billion in 2022. This amount is projected to reach $457.8 billion by 2026, which is a CAGR of 10.3%. 72% of businesses that leverage eLearning feel they earn a competitive advantage. 39% of millennials , the largest generation in the workforce, want t

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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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Smart Factory 101 A Data, AI, Cloud and Workforce Revolution in the Making

Acuvate

Last year, a CPG giant introduced a smart factory across several global manufacturing units. Meant to be a step forward toward its lofty zero-waste goal, the implementation brought both fiscal and environmental benefits. 20% Improvement in E and over 4000 person-hour-hour savings – per factory, per month. That’s no mean task! We’ll get to the story of this CPG giant in just a bit.

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Innovation Basics: 5 key benefits of using an Idea Management Platform

Wazoku

Changing the world, one idea at a time has to start somewhere. Even the organizations that regularly bring about revolutionary change had to take a first step on their journey. In the Innovation Basics series, we focus exclusively on what that first step could look like for newcomers to the innovation world. Follow this guidance to achieve faster, better innovation.

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How Automation Drives Business Growth and Efficiency - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM SALESFORCE

Harvard Business Review

Sponsor content from Salesforce.

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Cutting AI Ethics Staff – Worst Decision by Big Tech Companies!

Linda Bernardi

AI and algorithms are and will be used heavily by the tech industry and our society. It is more crucial than ever to monitor the accuracy of AI and the ethical obligations which come with assuring that information is correct, should be distributed, and the ethical consequences of having ‘algorithms’ replacing ‘human ethics and intellect.’ Thus, the following report from Financial Times, and what we have been reading a lot about, worries me enormously: “… Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon, and Twit

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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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What can Everyone Learn from Great Entrepreneurs? There is no Single Path to Entrepreneurship

Daniel Burrus

In my experience as a strategic advisor to business leaders as well as being a serial entrepreneur myself, I find that many people believe that they cannot become entrepreneurs because it is “too late” for them or perhaps the sun has set on their chance to make a massive change in an industry or the world. Whether it is the way entrepreneurship is marketed to the world these days or some other reason, these individuals feel there is a hard deadline on starting a successful business.