Wed.Sep 30, 2020

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Accelerating Everyday Inventions

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Innovation Driven by Culture at Sunshine Coast Credit Union

IdeaScale

The culture of an organization directly contributes to its innovation success. The most innovative companies recognize the importance of continuous change and growth to remain on top. Research shows 2/3 of these organizations make it one of their top three management priorities. The latest episode of the IdeaScale Nation podcast discusses how one company adopted change that led to … Continued.

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Interview with Scott D. Anthony, Author of Eat, Sleep, Innovate: How to Make Creativity an Everyday Habit Inside Your Organization

InnovationManagement

I had the opportunity recently to interview fellow author Scott D. Anthony of consulting firm Innosight to talk with him about his new book Eat, Sleep, Innovate: How to Make Creativity an Everyday Habit Inside Your Organization, which is his eighth book with his co-authors Paul Cobban, Natalie Painchaud, and Andy Parker. Congratulations Scott! The post Interview with Scott D.

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Will Coronavirus Be the Tipping Point for Virtual Reality?

Innovation Leader

The desire to escape in 2020, if only for minutes or hours, has become an obsession, creating the perfect tipping point for virtual 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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Getting Drawn Into DeFi? Here Are 3 Major Considerations

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Anyone with programming skills, or the ability to procure them, can start issuing financial instruments on blockchain technology.

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Why Simplicity Was Essential for CI at a Nuclear Plant

Kainexus

The principles of Lean and continuous improvement methodologies originated from manufacturing, but there’s no doubt that they have been applied to other industries quite successfully, such as nuclear energy. The nuclear industry believes that there is no defect or opportunity that is too small to go after, and there’s always room for improvement. This important principle is a cornerstone belief of what many refer to as a High-Reliability Organization or HRO.

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How Open Innovation Opens the Door to Successful Recruitment?

100%Open

If the most important facet of recruitment is the candidate, how can Open Innovation help improve the process? To answer this question, recruitment itself has to be explored from both sides of the interview table (or zoom window). Given the current climate, many businesses are looking to internally promote or redistribute staff. This makes sense from a financial and mentorship perspective, as investing in people allows for exponential growth in loyalty, education, and capability.

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7 Deadly Sins Of Virtual Events

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Avoid this septet, and you'll likely create an experience that's remarkable and cherished.

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Technical Risk, Market Risk, and Emotional Risk

Mike Shipulski

Technical risk – Will it work? Market risk – Will they buy it? Emotional risk – Will people laugh at your crazy idea? Technical risk – Test it in the lab. Market risk – Test it with the customer. Emotional risk – Try it with a friend. Technical risk – Define the right test. Market risk – Define the right customer. Emotional risk – Define the right friend.

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Employee Spotlight: D’Metrius Agurs

Brunner

Meet D’Metrius Agurs! Pittsburgh native, big brother to four siblings, former movie theater usher and six-year Journeys veteran, Agurs is Brunner’s Junior Application Developer and Fantasy Football expert. Q: What were some of your high school hobbies? . A: I was president of my art club, member of adventure club, I was a stage crew member & I played volleyball and football.

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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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Will Coronavirus Be the Tipping Point for Virtual Reality?

Innovation Leader

The desire to escape in 2020, if only for minutes or hours, has become an obsession, creating the perfect tipping point for virtual reality.

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Perfectionism: A Barrier to Innovation

Michael Roberto

Source: Best Buy Take a look at this recent interview (start at 4:15) with Corie Barry, CEO of Best Buy. In the interview she describes how Best Buy had been piloting curbside pick-up service in some of its stores prior to the COVID pandemic. The introduction of curbside at some stores was part of a plan to introduce the service across the store network over the course of more than a year.