Thu.Nov 17, 2022

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When Not to Innovate

IdeaScale

While many of your products and services will need to evolve, not every wheel needs to be reinvented. Or, not at the present moment. In your effort to maintain your competitive edge, you and your team are sure to be brainstorming what’s next. While ongoing innovation is essential for sustainability, you must ensure you [.].

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Surrounded: When disruption hits on all sides (Part 2)

Christensen Institute

In Part 1 of this blog series, I highlighted that disruption in health care is increasingly present at many points along the consumer value chain. Key takeaways to recall from that first post are as follows: Disruption doesn’t stop where it starts. New entrants are rewriting the rules of competition and have asset-light business models with which incumbents must now compete.

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Leading Innovation Through Crises with Dr. Stephen Tang

Viima

We’re continuing our series of interviews with leading innovation experts. This time we’re interviewing Dr. Stephen Tang on leading through crises and embracing innovation in the process of doing so. He originally earned a PhD in Chemical Engineering and later added an MBA from Wharton, and he has a long and storied career spanning over three decades.

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How President Lula da Silva should help the poor in Brazil this time?

Christensen Institute

On January 1, 2023, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula) will take the reins as Brazil’s next president. Hard to believe he was in prison just four years ago, but that isn’t stopping him from already making big promises. For instance, Lula plans to raise the minimum wage and to reverse the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. It’s unclear, however, how Brazil will pay for Lula’s promises.

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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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Age Discrimination in the Workplace is Real

Innovation Excellence

Forty-Three Percent Say 40-Plus Is Old GUEST POST from Shep Hyken Diversity, equity and inclusion, known as DEI, is a popular yet sensitive topic in the workforce today. Leadership and HR that recognize this are finding ways to ensure employees from all races, ethnicities, abilities, sexual orientations, religions, etc., are represented. Sometimes included, but often […].

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How Maersk Designed a More Resilient Supply Chain

Harvard Business Review

In 2021, the shipping giant launched an innovation center to contend with current and future challenges.

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The Costs and Benefits of Brand Consolidation

Harvard Business Review

A look at the impact on market presence, cost savings, and brand image.

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TOP TEN TIPS FOR CREATIVITY

Michael Michalko

Creativity special: Ten top tips Tom Ward senior research fellow in the Center for Creative Media at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, and editor of the Journal of Creative Behavior “Merge two previously separate concepts that are in conflict with one another. For example, combinations such as ‘friendly enemy’ and ‘healthful illness’. The more discrepant the concepts, the more likely they are to result in novel properties.

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Your Competitors Aren’t Always Who You Think They Are

Harvard Business Review

To understand your customers’ expectations, look beyond your industry.

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If You Enjoy Reading What I Write

Idea Champions

If you enjoy my writing, I invite you to click on any one of the six links below. These are the six most popular posts of mine on MEDIUM -- an online platform where I am publishing daily. If you like what you read, feel free to subscribe to my posts and request to receive an email alert whenever anything new of mine is published there. Enjoy! What I Learned, in a Closet, from my 3-Year Old Son.

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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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LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky: Skills, Not Degrees, Matter Most in Hiring

Harvard Business Review

Even if you don’t plan to change jobs, your job is going to change on you.

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IBM: Driving Efficiency and Revenue Through Services Transformation

Planview

Cloud & Cognitive Services (C&CS) is a division of IBM that brings together IBM’s software platforms and solutions, enabling hybrid cloud services delivery that helps clients predict, automate, secure, and modernize their business. From an operations perspective, C&CS helps IBM’s services business modernize, simplify, automate , and accelerate quote to cash (Q2C).

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Give Your Employees the Tools They Need to Be Productive - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM ADOBE

Harvard Business Review

Sponsor content from Adobe.

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