Wed.Jul 08, 2020

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Government Hackathons: Five Steps to Success

IdeaScale

Friendly competition can bring out the best of us, and when developing government innovation, hackathons can help solve certain challenges through crowdsourced innovation and build engagement across your constituency. So how does it work, and how can you hold an effective government hackathon? Set Up Resources A good hackathon gives everyone who takes part in … Continued.

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Meaningful Work in the Age of Automation

InnovationManagement

As we look ahead and reimagine the future of work, augmentation of humans and technology will enable employees to create more meaningful work. The post Meaningful Work in the Age of Automation appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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Top 5 Challenges Faced by Cross Functional Teams

Kainexus

Effective cross functional collaboration can be the key to tackling an organization’s toughest problems. Cross functional teams can serve as pockets of innovation, and they can improve both individual and group performance. There’s very little question about their value. The question is, why are cross functional teams so difficult to manage and maintain?

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5 Intranet Best practices For A Modern workplace

Acuvate

5 Intranet Best practices For A Modern workplace Improving employee engagement, ensuring productivity and creating personalized employee experiences by delivering the right content to the right person at the right time, on any device or channel is becoming a new business imperative. A survey featured by the Society for Human Resource Management states that most […].

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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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How AI-Based Software Can Optimize Your Tax-Prep

Entrepreneur - Innovation

With filing date inching closer, entrepreneurs must initiate the process efficiently.

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New Data About the Market for Innovation-Related Jobs

Innovation Leader

We asked 159 innovation professionals about the hiring happening in their organizations — or how long they’ve been hunting for a new role.

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#1,782 – Space Week: Habitable Planet Code

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Considering the vast distances involved, finding habitable exoplanets and determining whether or not any of them are Earth like and able to support life is not an easy task. But the task may have just gotten a little bit easier thanks to new research that suggests that we may able to read a planet’s unique “code” currently being produced by its climate.

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Keeping Employees Connected

The Human Factor

During times of uncertainty, human beings seek community and safety, and many find it in the workplace. Work typically provides a much-needed sense of stability and control over at least one aspect of our lives when everything else has gone topsy-turvy. Yet, millions of people have lost their jobs, either temporarily or permanently, due to the pandemic.

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#1,780 – Space Week: Psyche 16, Unobtainium, and the Future of the Global Economy

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Right now when you think about the word psyche you probably consider your own psyche and how the coronavirus global pandemic is taking a toll on it. But in the future psyche may come to refer to vast riches. That’s because NASA is planning a mission to the asteroid Psyche 16, a stellar object that could be worth more than the entire global economy.

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Freelancers: Sick Of Never Being Noticed? It’s Time To Take Action!

The Human Factor

To someone with a full time job and a reliable salary, the life of a freelancer must seem truly blessed. They see only the perks, while scarcely anticipating the many perils and pitfalls that come with working for yourself on your own terms. They may assume that you are free to sleep in for as long as you want, and to take the day off whenever the heck you feel like it.

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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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#1,781 – Space Week: Breakthrough Listen, the Exotica Catalog, and the Future of Space Exploration

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

The Universe is infinite and vast, filled with endless wonders and a myriad of mysteries. We’re really only scratching the surface when it comes to identifying everything and figuring out what’s out there. And just when we think we have it all figured out (the planetary status of Pluto aside) something like Oumuamua or whatever these are come along and remind us that we really don’t have the faintest idea.

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The DNA of Idea Champions Workshops and Trainings

Idea Champions

Most people think that the ability to be innovative is a mystical state available only to the chosen few. The effort, they imagine, takes a lot of time and hard work. And since they don't have time and don't like hard work, they reason that innovation just isn't in the cards for them. But innovation is not a mystical state. It's a natural state -- a human birthright.

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Agility and Anticipation—A Vital Partnership

Daniel Burrus

While exponential change is always moving, businesses and even whole industries traditionally move slower than they should, often finding themselves disrupted and working hard at being agile alone. During the Coronavirus pandemic, all industries were disrupted in one way or another, many having to close their doors for the time being and forfeit growth and profits they make from in-person customers.

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THE FIRST 20 HOURS: How to Learn Anything

Idea Champions

Wanna learn something new? Good! Start here. This 19 minute TED Talk demystifies the process of learning anything new. No, you don't need 10,000 hours to master a new skill. Much less. HINT: The biggest obstacle to learning anything new isn't intellectual. It's emotional. MitchDitkoff.com. IdeaChampions.

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & 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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#1,779 – Space Week: Starlink, UFOs on a Stick, and the Future of Astronomy

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Elon Musk has been busy lately. Busier than usual. In addition to naming his newborn child an unintelligible string of characters he’s also been hanging out with presidential candidate Kanye West, trolling the SEC on Twitter, spreading dangerous rhetoric about COVID-19, participating in threesomes with celebrities (according to court documents) and selling short shorts to take a shot at people who want to short Tesla stock.