Mon.Aug 31, 2020

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How to Write a Corporate Challenge the Right Way?

CREATORS

Your approach to open innovation either brings variety or sameness to your organization. At CREATORS, we often start our projects with a challenge-creation phase. Our partners do not always think this is a necessary step. “We know what our challenges are”?—?we’ve heard many times. When we request this information, we often end up getting a general “Market Research” strategy that describes vague opportunities in the market or the latest technology trends.

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How Can You Stay Close to Customers Remotely?

Innovation Leader

Eric Steege of Amazon Web Services shares how teams can stay close to their end users during a pandemic. Get his tips about leveraging learnings, customer insight channels, and more.

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How to Convert Feedback Into Leadership Enhancement

Tullio Siragusa

How to Convert Feedback Into Leadership Enhancement. Organizations are spending millions to setup feedback channels like email, social platforms, and follow-up programs, in order to create a better work environment. Still, the words “feedback” often make us cringe as we immediately adopt a defensive posture. Progress-driven leaders value both positive and constructive feedback, always giving priority to constructive ones.

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#1,894 – Publishizer

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Last year, I wrote one of the greatest books of all-time, Ideasism: How a Culture of Innovation Can Make the World a Better Place. I sold 7 copies and nobody ever read it. That’s why I wish there was a better way for authors to get discovered and secure legitimate book deals with actual publishing houses. Well, now thanks to Publishizer , which is sort of a Kickstarter for authors, that dream is now a reality.

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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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Why People Resist Our Innovative Ideas and How To Overcome It

Innovation in Practice

With innovation comes resistance. They define each other. An idea simply cannot be innovative unless it’s met with resistance. Because of this, we should see resistance as a good thing. It is not a problem to encounter resistance when pitching an innovative idea. We shouldn’t give up when this happens. Rather, we should expect it if our idea is truly innovative.

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#1,893 – Botnet

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Last year I wrote about my desire to have Artificial Intelligence share, like, and comment on social media postings. My rationale was simple. Since we’re all busy being content creators – blogging, tweeting, creating YouTube and TikTok videos, snapchatting, posting pictures on Instagram, etc. there’s no one left to consume all that content. Legitimately great work goes unnoticed; lost in the deluge of information that overwhelms us daily.

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#1,895 – Body Swapping

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Technically, it may be possible to swap bodies with somebody. No, I’m not talking about head transplants or some Freaky Friday type s**t. Rather, I’m talking about an experiment that lets you experience the perspective of a friend with profound results that call into question one’s true nature. The possibility comes to us from a recently conducted study.

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Creating a culture of help-seeking

Tembosocial

Asking for help is challenging at the best of times, harder to do when we're scattered about, marooned on our micro-islands.

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#1,892 – iSphere

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

We may soon have an alternative to wearing masks: wearing a fishbowl! It may sound silly but this is an actual design in the works, inspired by a retro futuristic 1950s sci-fi vibe. According to Dezeen : “Berlin-based art collective Plastique Fantastique has created an open-source, retro-futuristic face shield shaped like a fish bowl to protect wearers against coronavirus.

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Finding The Ideal Venue For Your Work Christmas Party

The Human Factor

source. The end of year Christmas party is something all employees look forward to. It is a chance to blow off some steam and enjoy a night full of fun, drinking, and dancing with the people you see on a daily basis in your professional environment. . There are a whole host of different aspects and factors which need to be considered and planned when organising your party.

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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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When You Compare and Compete, You Lose the Ability to Connect

Collectivecamp

Why comparing ourselves with others can compromise our relationships

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Improve Your Business With Brain Science

The Human Factor

source. Learning How To Learn. In school, we are generally taught to memorize material and remember it for an exam. You might remember spending hours doing this at university, but we now know that it’s an extremely inefficient way to learn: our brains are simply not made for this kind of rote memorization. It is much more useful to spend some time with a subject in a creative way.

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The Joy of Not Giving a F*ck

Collectivecamp

How I decided to respond to a curse-laden email

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Should You Streamline Your Supply Chain?

The Human Factor

It doesn’t matter whether you operate a small business and only have a couple of employees. Nor does it make any difference if you run a large multinational or international corporation. In any event, your business will need to purchase materials to turn into complete products. Or, you might use the items you buy to offer a repair service to your customers.

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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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Back and Neck Pain Tips For Office Workers

The Human Factor

Many office workers go home every night after a long day at a desk with back and neck pain. Back pain can be very difficult to live with, especially if you’re struggling to get relief from the discomfort. If you spend most of your day sitting at a desk, this can be part of the cause of your back pain. After a few hours sitting at a computer, you might be in a lot of discomfort. . source.

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How to Breathe New Life Into Your Business

The Human Factor

source. Running a business requires plenty of time and energy to make it a success. When you first started your business, you were probably motivated by the excitement of the new challenge. However, dedicating so much time to building your business can take its toll; you may find yourself falling out of love with it. It is natural to feel this way sometimes and doesn’t mean that you should necessarily give up on your venture.

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