Wed.Jul 12, 2017

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Thinkers50 – Can I Count on You?

Braden Kelley

Every two years Suntop Media ranks the top 50 management thought leaders and bestows the Thinkers50 Global Ranking of Management Thinkers. The ranking relies on nominations and voting from the community, meaning that the public decides who is selected.

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Hire Innovators + Keep them Innovating.

Daniel Burrus

Leaders who want to see their organizations leap far ahead of their competition are usually deeply involved in any number of employee activities and programs. That’s understandable, but a high level of involvement can often become counterproductive. However tempting it can be to have a finger in as many pies as possible, leaders of organizations that truly excel are keenly aware of the importance of authority and thoughtful direction—and, just as important, the value of also allowing others suff

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How Big Data Will Influence the Insurance Industry

InnovationManagement

Although the advent of Big Data stands to benefit several industries, the insurance sector has a clear advantage in terms of leveraging technology to benefit not only its bottom line but also its customers. To a great extent, the insurance industry was one of the earliest adopters of Big Data; over the last few decades, actuaries and statisticians have been reviewing large data sets and preparing analytical reports for underwriters who in turn make decisions about coverage and premium rates.

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US Government Taps the Crowd to Help Ensure Habitat Connectivity for Fish

Innocentive

The US Bureau of Reclamation recently awarded $20,000 to four submissions that could help move migrating juvenile fish past tall dams, essential for ensuring the habitat connectivity that many threatened and endangered fish populations need to survive and reproduce.

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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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The Duplicitous Relationship Between Time and Money

Mike Shipulski

If you had a choice to make an extra year’s salary or live an extra year, which would you choose? If you had a choice to make an extra month’s salary or live an extra month, make the same choice? What about the trade between a week’s pay and a week of life? Does anything change when it’s a choice between ten years of salary and ten years of life? Does this thought experiment change anything for you?

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Thinking Outside The Box with Crowdsourcing

Innovation Excellence

At our Industry and Research conference, I was asked by Sihem Jouini to define the 'unfair advantage' of Imagine with Orange, a platform dedicated to crowdsourcing innovative ideas. Jouini is Associate Professor and Director of the Innovation & Entrepreneurship major at HEC ExMBA, and a researcher in organizational design for innovation and creativity.

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How Idle Chatter And Gossip Can Make You More Productive

Digital Tonto

What may seem like idle chatter could end up taking you in an entirely new direction. Related posts: The Efficiency Paradox. Building Creative Collaboration. Leaders Must Do More Than Inspire—We. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Grooming Future Leaders

Michael Roberto

Retired Brigadier General Bernard Banks, now teaching at Kellogg, offers some interesting insights on developing future leaders. Banks explains that companies need to begin grooming future leaders when individuals are not yet managing others. He advocates providing individuals temporary opportunities to lead others as an initial developmental opportunity, before people are promoted to managerial positions.

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The paradox of a profit-focused company culture

Wazoku

As a business reaches higher levels of success, it tends to shed any previous startup culture for one that focuses solely on reaching maximum operational efficiency. With this shift comes the increasingly narrower tunnel vision of turning a profit. Fueled by revenue, the company may unknowingly sacrifice the experience of the consumer in order to increase its profit margins.

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$500,000 NIH Follow that Cell Challenge Concludes

Innocentive

The second and final phase of the NIH Follow that Cell Challenge, which was run in partnership with InnoCentive, concluded last month. Over the two phases that ran between 2014 and 2017, nearly $500,000 in prize money was awarded to Solvers for their work in developing new tools and methods for predicting the behavior and function of a single cell in complex tissue over time.

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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 to get an idea up and running in 10 days

Wazoku

Marketing departments, by their very nature, are populated by some very creative people. Ideas are the stock-in-trade and there is a process for taking those ideas from birth through to fruition. The same is true in R&D, but what about other parts of the company — the accounts department, or HR, for example – and what about partners and suppliers, don’t they too have great ideas and shouldn’t they be heard?

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