Fri.Dec 16, 2022

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How to Future-Proof Your 2023 Innovation Portfolio

ITONICS

As 2023 looms, business leaders reflect on the past year's highs and lows. For many, the lows tipped the scales as the world grappled with supply chain disruptions, energy insecurity, surging inflation, and shifting geopolitics. With these volatilities and uncertainties on the rise, what can organizations do to future-proof their innovation portfolios, adapt them according to a changing business environment, and pursue the opportunities that hold the greatest potential for sustainable growth?

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Idea Crowdsourcing at MARTA: Encouraging Innovation in the Public Sector

Qmarkets

The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority ( MARTA ) is one of the largest transit agencies in the United States with around 4,500 employees. Its 48 miles of rail and 9,000 bus stops keep Atlanta moving, and since launching as combined transit service in 1979, MARTA has provided more than 5 billion trips for its customers. Customer-centric innovation is at the heart of everything that MARTA strives for.

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Great Design Requires Great Testing

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski When you design something, you create a solution to a collection of problems. But it goes far beyond creating the solution. You also must create objective evidence that demonstrates that the solution does, in fact, solve the problems. And the reason to generate this evidence is to help the organization […].

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What Will the Global Economy Look Like in 2023?

Harvard Business Review

Expert predictions on inflation, sovereign debt defaults, and other potential concerns.

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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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Charting Change for a Successful 2023

Innovation Excellence

Wow! Exciting news! From now until December 31, 2022 you can get a 50% discount on my latest best-selling book Charting Change – plus FREE shipping! OR you can also save on the eBook! You must go to SpringerLink for this Cyber Sale: The offer is valid until December 31, 2022 Please use HOL50 at […].

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How Small Businesses Can Attract Holiday Shoppers in a Downturn

Harvard Business Review

Seven strategies to stay competitive and draw in customers — even when budgets are tight.

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7 Principles to Attract and Retain Older Frontline Workers

Harvard Business Review

Takeaways from interviews and a survey of 35,000 older U.S. employees.

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How Much of a Loan Can a Startup Business Get?

Collectivecamp

Are you wondering which lending option can give you enough money for your business?

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5 Questions for Business Leaders to Ask in Uncertain Times

Harvard Business Review

The answers will help guide your strategy.

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Dubai Future District Fund Launches Venture Fellows Program To Empower The Next Generation Of Emirati Investors And Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Set to commence on February 1, 2023, Venture Fellows will offer four modules over a period of 12 months.

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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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Research: What Effective Allies Do Differently

Harvard Business Review

And how you can become one.

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What Gap Inc. Can Learn From Signet Jewelers CEO Gina Drosos

Michael Roberto

Source: CNBC For years, Gap has struggled with a muddled corporate strategy. Three of the company's four major brands (Old Navy, Gap, and Banana Republic) have blurred competitive positions. Thus, they focus on overlapping target markets with product offerings that are not clearly distinguishable at times. They cannibalize each other's sales far too often.

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Why More International Life Sciences Companies Are Locating in Austria - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM ABA

Harvard Business Review

Sponsor content from ABA.

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Banking Transformation: Insights from Lloyds and Santander UK

Planview

With the holiday season in full swing and a global recession predicted sometime in the new year, banks remain committed to investing in modernized technology through digital banking transformation efforts vs. traditional cost-cutting routes. Creating personalized, frictionless customer experiences — as well as adopting big data and artificial intelligence (AI) to predict customer preferences, reduce risk, create efficiencies, and pursue new sources of revenue — will continue to remai

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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