Wed.Apr 08, 2020

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How Machine-Readable Tech Is Innovating Government Processes

IdeaScale

Machine-readable technology is one of the most important innovation processes in use by organizations today but poses key challenges for government entities. Machine-readable data can be read and interpreted by a computer, streamlining tasks across multiple platforms. The structure of machine-readable data is simple, laid out in an open data format that permits easy interrogation by a computer.

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Podcast S3E55: Denise Jacobs – How to deal with anxiety during a global pandemic

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Denise Jacobs, author of Banish your inner Critic , about how to overcome anxiety during this incredibly stressful time. Quote from the episode: You don’t have to do anything. We don’t have to be doing stuff all the time. Part of what people are experiencing is a deeply ingrained habit, to be busy, to be active, to be doing something… …To be looking like you’re doing something… For so long th

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Go Opposite in the Face of Uncertainty

Daniel Burrus

As COVID-19 uncertainty spreads around the world at an exponential pace, the global community is finding out that reacting quickly to the societal and economic disruptions that the virus creates, no matter how agile a reactor you are, is not good enough and quite frankly, is simply not working. With disruptive changes moving so fast, everything seems to be uncertain, and that uncertainty can cause us all to “wait and see,” which is the exact opposite of what we should be doing now!

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Every Online Event We’re Doing in April and May

Innovation Leader

We have a really simple aim: to put on the best virtual events on the Internet. Here’s what is coming up, both for members and non-members.

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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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Business Model Innovation – The What, Why, and How

Viima

In the last couple of decades, we’ve seen a dramatic increase in the popularity of business model innovation – and for good reason.

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Every Online Event We’re Doing in May and June

Innovation Leader

We have a really simple aim: to put on the best virtual events on the Internet. Here’s what is coming up, both for members and non-members.

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Crisis Management: The Essential Must-Do’s

CMOE

Sooner or later, and whether we like it or not, every business, organization, or team will encounter some type of crisis or unexpected emergency. Most leaders in fast-moving organizations encounter a crisis of some magnitude nearly every week and in some cases, they seem to occur on a daily basis. While these situations bear no resemblance to the severity of a global pandemic, major earthquake, or tsunami, they can still wreak havoc on a business and create anxiety and stress among team members.

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SNHU’s Paul LeBlanc on Higher Ed in a Time of Intense Change

Innovation Leader

Paul LeBlanc, President of Southern New Hampshire University, discusses how colleges are managing the shift to online education and adapting during the coronavirus pandemic.

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How (and Why) to Walk the Gemba When Everyone’s Working from Home

Kainexus

As leaders, managers, and employees alike all grapple with the sudden disruption in routine work and life, go easy on yourself. It is going to take some time to adapt. Processes and tools that worked well in the first few months of the year will need to be adjusted, particularly if your team is now all working from home. Gemba Walks are the perfect example.

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Podcast: Online workshops and meetings

Svava

In today’s business environment a lot of meetings are held online (read: digital, online). In this pod (in Swedish) Idea Hunt’s Lotta Strand speaks with Jonas Jaani , digitalisation guru, about online workshops. Not presentation or decision meetings, but creative collaboration.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with 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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What is Stormboard?

InnovationTraining.org

The Stormboard online innovation workspace can help you run brainstorming sessions, meetings or events more productively. In recent weeks, we’ve shared a series of online collaboration tools and resources that can help you hold your innovation meetings, workshops, or events in a digital space. In today’s post, we’ll highlight another design thinking software tool that is full to the brim with features for virtual meetings and events: Stormboard.

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Keep Calm and Create: A rallying cry to solve the world’s biggest challenges

Wazoku

We’re living through unprecedented times as the COVID-19 pandemic takes grip, rearranging our day-to-day lives at breathtaking speed. The world is an uncertain place right now – with many of us now part of the coronavirus-enforced experiment in working exclusively from home. For some, this newfound status is a shock, with many of us still adjusting to the new normal, juggling home schooling and leading virtual teams.

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4 Surprisingly Ways Covid-19 Makes Your Business Vulnerable

The Human Factor

source. It’s not hard to see Covid-19 is a health risk. Working near each other means colleagues are more likely to contract and spread the virus, leading to the global pandemic that is before us now. To stay open, companies such as yours are trying to transition into remote-based entities where virtual meetings and instant messaging pick up the slack of traditional interactions.

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Every Online Event We’re Hosting

Innovation Leader

We have a really simple aim: to put on the best virtual events on the Internet. Here’s what is coming up, both for members and non-members.

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How Mature Companies Are Scaling Transformational New Businesses

Scaling transformational innovations in large companies is challenging due to ‘Company Fit’ issues, which arise when the resources, processes, and priorities (RPPs) of the core business are not aligned with the needs of the new business. Many companies have learned how ambidexterity—the ability to both ‘exploit the present and explore the future,’ can help them address these issues for ideation and incubation of new innovations, but scaling transformative business innovations remains a challenge

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Tips To Help Improve Your Website’s Performance

The Human Factor

A website’s performance is made up of a mixture of elements, not just from the technical side but also what you can do, appearance-wise, to make sure it stands out and continues to serve its purpose of showcasing your brand and bringing in traffic, which should hopefully bring in more viewers. With that being said, there’s a lot that you can do as a business to help improve your website’s performance.

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Going Into The Food And Drink Industry Makes A Lot Of Sense. Here’s Why

The Human Factor

The startup world might be hopelessly fixated on the tech sector, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t more opportunities out there in other parts of the economy. In fact, many industries may actually offer better opportunities for the average entrepreneur. Take the food and drink sector, for instance. Unless we collectively upload our minds to the internet, we’re all still going to have to eat.

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4 Ways To Keep Morale High During Coronavirus

The Human Factor

source. The regular nine-to-five office hours are looking far from normal at the moment. Your business has probably made the transition to remote working processes to survive. Among the chaos, the one saving grace could be your employees. After all, the balance between work and life is much higher, and they aren’t under as much pressure, so their stress levels are lower.

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