Thu.Jun 09, 2022

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5 Strategies for Accepting Constructive Feedback

CMOE

Feedback has a negative connotation for many people: things that I did wrong, places where I did poorly, people who I disappointed. It’s often associated with a moment where a person did not perform their best. But what would happen if rather than seeing feedback as a mechanism for focusing on our faults, we saw it as an opportunity for growth instead?

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Start small and build momentum

Idea to Value

Developing a practice of consistently creating requires dedication and grit. After all, professional creatives get on with the act of creating. But if you are just starting out, this can seem overwhelming. Going from not creating and publishing anything, to feeling the pressure of doing this consistently can scare many people off. Especially if they think that what they are about to produce is not good enough.

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Is Agile killing phase gate? The case for a hybrid approach to innovation and new product development

Sopheon

While a phase gate approach to new product development may seem to be in direct conflict with the principles of Agile, both methods are valuable and can work side-by-side. The post Is Agile killing phase gate? The case for a hybrid approach to innovation and new product development appeared first on Sopheon.

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Drivers of health in action: shining a spotlight on CommunityHealth

Christensen Institute

In our latest research, You are what you treat: Transforming the health care business model so companies—and people—thrive , we set out to discover what makes health care organizations capable of successfully addressing the drivers of health (DOH). In short, the answer lies in their business models. . In order to better understand what allowed certain organizations to succeed in their DOH efforts, we interviewed leaders that are successfully addressing DOH in their work, breaking free from the s

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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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How we Created a 20,000 person innovation practice at Accenture

Stephen Shapiro

It took me 25 years to write this article. For the first time, I am writing about how we created a 20,000 person innovation practice at the consulting firm Accenture; completely shifting the culture in just 9 months with the results lasting for years. In the article, I explore the 6-step process used, detailed organization models, specific activities we performed, and structures we used to keep the culture-shift alive.

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In the face of yet another tragedy, we should rethink how to do schooling

Christensen Institute

In this big and interconnected world we live in, it’s easy to become desensitized to tragedy. As communication and media technologies carry information around the world in an instant, reported tragedies can float to the back of our awareness as we carry on with our lives. But even in this state of the world, some tragedies tear our hearts in ways that we can’t ignore.

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Transformation Insights

Innovation Excellence

“The most damaging phrase in the language is, ‘We’ve always done it this way!

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Today's Restaurant Franchise Trends

Entrepreneur - Innovation

There's plenty of progress among restaurant franchisors.

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From Technical Expert to Leader: From Certainty to Vulnerability

Michael Roberto

Recently, Matt Abrahams conducted a podcast interview with Dr. Lloyd Minor, Dean of Stanford Medical School (pictured to the left). Minor described the transition from practicing medicine, and in particular surgery, to becoming a complex institution's leader. He explained that clinical practice often involves situations in which there is a clear correct answer.and a clear wrong answer.

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Idea Brahmacharaya

Idea Champions

In India, spiritual adepts who give up sex to pursue God are known as "brahmacharyas." They believe that their vital power (i.e. kundalini) needs to be completely intact in order for them to have the ultimate experience. What does this have to do with you, oh passionate seeker of creative breakthroughs? Plenty -- especially when you consider that one of the main reasons why many new ideas never see the light of day is because their originators have a tendency to "prematurely articulate.".

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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