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What you can learn from history about innovating during a crisis

Board of Innovation

The companies that grew the most during the 2008 financial crisis were those that invested in innovation. Here are some of our suggestions for your strategy based on information from previous crises. The post What you can learn from history about innovating during a crisis appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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50 Ways to Stifle Innovation

Destination Innovation

(With apologies to Paul Simon). Say goodbye with a wave, Dave. Just get up and leave, Steve. Go for the kill, Bill. When you hear an idea. Don’t try something new, Stu. Just do what you know, Joe. Don’t mess with success, Jess. Treat failure with fear. Don’t share your concern, Bern. Don’t talk at all, Paul. Ignore the crew, Sue. Keep working alone.

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Innovation Culture – The Ultimate Guide

Idea to Value

Innovation culture has long been one of the most challenging, and oft-discussed, topics in our conversations with business and innovation leaders. Given the extraordinary importance of innovation for businesses, and society in general, and the fact that culture has been shown to be one of the biggest barriers for innovation performance, it’s not much of a surprise.

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Webinar: Planning Agency Emergency Response Through Crowdsourcing

IdeaScale

COVID-19 has required a faster and more thoughtful change management and innovation strategy from all sectors. This is particularly true for the government on all levels, which has needed to work closely with any number of stakeholders to deliver new solutions to rapidly changing problems. Some of those lessons learned will be on display July … Continued.

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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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Predictions for a post-COVID world: US economy through 2025

Jeffrey Phillips

If you've been following these posts, you'll know by now that I am extracting insights and predictions from a post-COVID scenario I drafted. You can find the entire scenario writeup here (Tip: hover over the bottom right of the pop-up window and click on the expand box, and you'll see a full screen view where you can also download the document). I've written a number of blog posts teasing out some of the implications of the scenario and making predictions about the future.

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Ten Mid-Year CI Questions to Ask Every Employee

Kainexus

It's hard to believe that the first half of 2020 is in the books. Just kidding. I don't blame you if you feel like there's been 10 years worth of news in the last six months. It's been intense. COVID-19 has impacted every American to varying degrees and much has changed about the way we live and work. This year, more than ever, it makes sense to do a mid-year check-in with every employee.

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9 Signs Your Industry is About to be Disrupted

Cris Beswick

With entrepreneurial successes such as Airbnb, Warby Parker or SpaceX taking over industries, the desire and ability to disrupt a sector via technological design is on the rise. Digitally advanced startups, entrepreneurs and innovators are disrupting the norm, in an otherwise controlled corporate industry, taking the lion’s share of markets and delivering far superior services … Continued.

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#1,749 – DNA Origami

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

I love origami, the Japanese art of paper folding, often used to make cute desktop ornaments that look like Dinosaurs or other animals. Of course, I have no idea how to actually make origami myself and have never even attempted to do so. But I’m a huge fan nonetheless. Especially now that it turns out that DNA origami may be able to save us from the coronavirus!

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What Comes Back and When? Exploring Life After COVID-19

Innovation Leader

What’s changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic? What’s likely to come back? And when? Innovation Leader’s ”What the Future Looks Like” report seeks to answer that question.

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#1,750 – Climate Change, Zoonotic Diseases, and the Future of Humanity

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

COVID-19 is really bad. Really, really bad. It has essentially shut the world down, ground the economy down to a halt, effectively cost people a year of their lives, and worse – taken lives. But could you imagine a double whammy? Another global pandemic unfolding, more or less, at exactly the same time?! Unbelievably, that is exactly the path we’re heading down thanks to the rise in Zoonotic diseases brought upon by Climate Change.

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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 create a scalable strategy in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis

mjvinnovation

We have already talked about how the world has quickly changed within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and social isolation. Companies had to take extreme measures to adapt their processes and recalibrate their strategies. Even before the pandemic, entrepreneurs already had a difficult time remaining relevant in an increasingly competitive market.

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This Guide will Make your Customers Fall in Love with your Business

The Human Factor

If you want your business to be successful online, then you need to make sure that you do more than just the bare minimum. It’s no longer enough for you to simply try and close the sale. You need to make your customers fall in love with your company because if you don’t then you may find that you end up losing out to your competition. Word of Mouth Marketing.