Tue.Aug 20, 2019

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Rethink Creativity: How to innovate, inspire, and thrive at work.

Innovation Excellence

Interview with Monica Kang, Part One of Two. I met Monica Kang at the Day of Innovation Conference in Indy where we were both presenters. Her approach to the often ill-defined world of Creativity was profound, awakening the better and forgotten parts of many of the people in her workshop. I know then that I’d.

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Exploring the Connection between Resilience and Innovation Leadership

IdeaScale

Working together overcomes unexpected challenges.?. Innovation leadership is all about meeting challenges and overcoming obstacles in new and creative ways. Sometimes those obstacles are more urgent than others. A supplier abruptly closes, a server farm crashes, or a product design doesn’t meet standards when prototyped. This is where innovation leadership is most important, as a keystone for resilience.

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Common Fears of Starting an Open Innovation Initiative and How to Resolve Them

HYPE Innovation

Adding external elements to an internal innovation program can prove a true rite of passage. The transition requires an open culture, employee empowerment, and executive commitment. In other words, considerable maturity (1).

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So You Think You Know Your Competitors? Think Again.

InnovationManagement

A brand-new car sold by a vending machine and a robot that brings in the laundry - in this article, we'll explore how to prepare for new competitors entering the market. The post So You Think You Know Your Competitors? Think Again. appeared first on Innovation Management.

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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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Book Review – Seeing Around Corners by Rita McGrath

Rmukesh Gupta

Overview: — I got this book as an advance review copy. Rita McGrath has produced another stunning book, in a way even better than her earlier book “The End of Competitive advantage”. You can pre-order the book here. Ease of reading: — The book is not only easy to read. The stories and the insights from the stories follow one after the other.

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Expedia Exec: Three Elements for Successful Innovation

Innovation Leader

David Krieger, Sr. Director of Strategy and Business Development for Expedia.com, shares his advice on making innovation happen inside large organizations, and three trends his team is watching.

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How Location Can Determine the Success of Your New Business

The Human Factor

contributed post –. There are many reasons to start your own business: you get to be your own boss, work flexibly, and get paid for doing the things you love. Having the freedom of running your own business may be a lot more accessible than you think. Finding the idea is just the first step of a long journey to owning a business. Thankfully, while the first step is the one you have to take alone, there are plenty of resources to help you take many of the rest.

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Finalists for Innovation Leader’s 2019 Impact Awards

Innovation Leader

The 2019 awards will be handed out this October in San Francisco, at the year’s biggest gathering of corporate innovators, Impact 2019.

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Common Mistakes Novice Business Leaders Make

The Human Factor

contributed post –. source. It is extremely easy to lump people into categories, especially within a hierarchical structure such as a business. It can be easy to view business owners in one light, investors in another, and the employees in a further division. Yet despite the duties often being similar in certain ways, we forget that people are often behind the helm of these roles.

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When Substitutes, Not Direct Rivals, Pose the Most Serious Competitive Threat

Michael Roberto

Source: Pixnio Years ago, many strategy faculty members used to teach an old Harvard case study about the breakfast cereal industry. The U.S. industry operated as an oligopoly. A few firms dominated the market (General Mills, Kellogg, Post). The firms competed in terms of new brands, flavors, and the like, yet they tended to avoid competing heavily on price.

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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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Stand Out From The Crowd To Be A Successful Business

The Human Factor

source. contributed post –. As a new startup, you are probably overwhelmed by the need to compete with your already well established industry rivals. To be best placed to do this, you need to stand out from the crowd. It’s no good offering the exact same product or service as your closest competitor. You need to seek out more innovative and efficient ways of doing things.

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Buying An Office Building: Is It Worth The Hassle?

The Human Factor

source. contributed post –. Many business owners choose to purchase a building that becomes their base. They may use one or two of the offices here for their company, and the rest of the space gets rented out. Instantly, you can see the lure here. When you own the building, you can make money by renting out office space to other businesses. Furthermore, buying an office building also means: You don’t pay any rent to anyone, which saves money every month You’re in total control over how everythin

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Going Global with Your Business

The Human Factor

contributed post –. Many businesses today start small. Now that starting a business is so much easier, thanks to the growing use of the internet and online services, more of us than ever before are shunning life as an employee and going it alone. For the first few years, you’ll goals might focus on survival. You might be looking for ways to make enough money to pay your mortgage and just hoping to keep your business going.

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