Thu.Jul 06, 2017

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How law firms can benefit from innovation management platform

Idea Drop

We are beginning to see more diversity in structure across the industry and this has brought innovation into the spotlight. Recent reports which have been released reveal an awareness of the necessity to embrace innovation but a reluctance to be the first to take the corresponding steps. In this post we discuss the current state of innovation in the legal sector and how law firms can benefit from an innovation strategy supported by idea management software.

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PBTO57: Liminal Thinking – Creating change by understanding, shaping, and reframing beliefs with Dave Gray

Rmukesh Gupta

Who is on the show: In this episode, we host Dave Gray. He is the founder of XPLANE and author of multiple books including Liminal Thinking. Why is he on the show: He is a visual artist and uses agile, iterative techniques like Visual Thinking , Culture Mapping , and Gamestorming to get people engaged and involved in co-creating clear, unique and executable business strategies.

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Book Review: Innovation Abyss

InnovationManagement

Dr. Chris DeArmitt says he’s tired of hearing people constantly talk about improving innovation methods and efforts, only to find that no real innovation is actually taking place. He also suggests that books on innovation are generally written by theorists and academics; people with no hands-on experience and no real value to contribute to the actual practice of innovation.

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Where Are You on an Innovation Scale?

CREATORS

In this article, we share Creators’ experiences and market observations to give you a brief overview of a typical corporate innovation journey. In today’s constantly evolving markets, the need for innovation is as important as ever. Every company wants and needs to be innovative?—?“able?—?over an extended period of time?—?to create value and sustain/increase the market share by making changes to product portfolio, business models and company structure”.

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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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Moving Lean Construction into the Digital Age: Last Planner Meets Collective Intelligence

Planview

Our clients in the construction business tell me that the industry enjoys flush times, once again. The leaders of these firms say that they marked 2016 as the year in which they felt that they could put the dark days of the 2007-08 recession behind them, once and for all. Many construction firms are family led. Employees become extended family. Memories of business lost and layoffs chill them to this day.

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Advice from Manulife Exec Jesse Bean on Delivering Impact

Innovation Leader

Jesse Bean of Manulife Financial shares his advice about setting up a network of labs, building support among middle management, and the “DevOps” approach.

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3 Big Differences between Branding Strategy and Advertising

BrainZooming

I delivered a keynote on the importance of collaborative internal branding during the SMC3 2017 Connections conference. The talk prompted several conversations about the distinctions between branding strategy and advertising. I surprised several attendees by discussing branding strategy as a fundamental element of business strategy for any organization.

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Time to Let It Rip!

Idea Champions

MitchDitkoff.com.

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Four Disruptive Tech Trends That Will Impact Your Innovation Strategy

IdeaScale

What will shake up the world this year? What’s next in technology? That’s a tricky question for everyone from consumers to businesses, and no matter what industry you’re in, shifts in technology and design can and will radically change everything from how work gets done to how you manage your information. Here’s what you need to know about technology trends for 2017.

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Podcast #016 Tony Ulwick – Origin of the “Jobs to be done” innovation theory

Idea to Value

In this episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Tony Ulwick, CEO of Strategyn and the person who introduced the world to the Jobs to be Done theory of innovation. Topics covered in this episode: His initial experience of failure at IBM with the PC Junior and how it triggered the search for the process to find out what people wanted (01:00).

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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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Complacency won’t Just Hold you Back, It’ll Accelerate the Competition.

Daniel Burrus

Anticipatory Organizations are always looking forward. Given the skills that allow them to identify the Hard Trends that will happen and the many opportunities they represent, they’re often able to achieve extraordinary levels of success. The biggest problem that keeps organizations from being anticipatory is complacency. Complacency can pose all sorts of significant problems.

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Google Jobs – the winners and losers

etventure

Interview with mobileJob.com CEO Steffen Manes on Google’s entry into the jobs market. Steffen – one has the impression that the recruitment business is currently holding its breath. The reason for this is that Google is entering the jobs market. What has happened? For a long time, there have been rumors that Google could consider the jobs sector attractive enough to develop its own offer there.

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Your robot will serve you now

Jeffrey Phillips

There are a lot of concerns about the advancement of artificial intelligence and robotics in regards to creating and especially destroying jobs. When you read that many fast food and other basic service organizations are experimenting with replacing human workers with robots, you can begin to see the emerging problem. In the past, many new or young workers gained skills and job experience in low wage, low cost service industries like fast food or retail.