Fri.Dec 09, 2022

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Can meditation help or hurt your creativity?

Idea to Value

In today’s world, there are so many things which are constantly distracting us. And we know that being distracted can be detrimental to our creativity. As a result, many people are trying to build up their internal ability to ignore distractions and be able to focus better in order to live a happier life. One of the fastest growing ways to do this is meditation.

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Innovative Ways to Optimize Employee Retention in 2023

IdeaScale

The Great Resignation is still going strong. In 2021, 47.8 million Americans resigned from their jobs. As of August 2022, the pace had not slowed. With the economic downturn, resignation rates slowed in September, October, and November of 2022. However, a new trend has emerged—quiet quitting. Quiet quitting is the term used to describe employees [.].

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You Have the Power to Innovate — You Just Have to Unlock It. Here's How.

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Too often, we equate newness with technological innovation, but true innovation ruffles feathers. Here's how to bring it to your organization.

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When You Have No Slack Time

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski When you have no slack time, you can’t start new projects. When you have no slack time, you can’t run toward the projects that need your help. When you have no slack time, you have no time to think. When you have no slack time, you have no time to […].

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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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U.S. Railroads and the Pitfalls of Systematic Understaffing

Harvard Business Review

An obsession with efficiency and low costs at the expense of workers is bad business — in any industry.

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What is a Chief Innovation Officer?

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Art Inteligencia The Chief Innovation Officer is a relatively new position, but one that is gaining traction in many organizations. It is a role that is becoming increasingly important as businesses become more focused on pushing the boundaries of their industries and developing new products and services. The Chief Innovation Officer is […].

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How to Identify Valuable Ideas Fast in Open Innovation | ITONICS

ITONICS

To unlock growth, organizations must draw on the vast pool of knowledge and ideas that exist beyond their own walls. Open innovation offers organizations the ability to generate many ideas from many different perspectives, aiding and accelerating solution discovery. But how do organizations effectively identify promising ideas in a fast-changing world?

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How to Fix Collaboration Overload

Harvard Business Review

It’s on both employees and employers to solve the problem.

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Why Your Company Should Build a Volunteering Program

Michael Roberto

Stanford Professors Jeffrey Pfeffer and Sara Singer have published new research on the subject of company-sponsored volunteering programs. They studied survey data from more than 53,000 employees in the UK. They found that company-sponsored volunteering programs can improve job satisfaction and employee commitment. Perhaps that result does not surprise you.

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Is IT Complexity Standing in the Way of Your Organization’s Growth? - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM BROADCOM

Harvard Business Review

Sponsor content from Broadcom.

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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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Wrapping up the Energy Crisis Year of 2022

Innovating4Energy

(ABC News: Michael Barnett). This has undoubtedly been a year where the Energy Transition has felt, more often than not, thrown into reverse. In Germany, coal mines have been reopened, and nuclear power stations scheduled to be decommissioned been given an extended lease of life. Nearly all EU countries, very dependent on Russian oil and gas, have been scrabbling like crazy to find alternative sources, all at rising prices and growing difficulties in finding supplies.