Wed.Dec 05, 2018

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Developing and Maintaining Innovation Networks

Wellspring

Maintaining an innovation network is easier said than done. With 150 scientific articles, 720 patents filed, and 80 startups founded every 30 minutes, even the most lavishly staffed innovation teams cannot parse this level of data.

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New HBS Study Highlights Innovation Challenges and Opportunities in the Boardroom

IdeaScale

Innovation must come from both bottom-up and top-down. “Disruption” is so commonplace a word that you practically expect your local preschool to promise to disrupt traditional childcare paradigms. Given this, you’d think that the boards of major companies would be working overtime to put innovation strategy front and center. Yet, a Harvard Business Review survey of 5,000 companies found it wasn’t a top strategic challenge, let alone a priority, for most boards.

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General Stanley McChrystal Speaks Out On We Need To Redefine Leadership

Digital Tonto

Success doesn’t come from any specific trait or action, but by forging a sense of connection between the leader and the led. Related posts: 4 Kinds of Leadership. To Create Real Change, Leadership. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Make Your Best Decisions Using Brain Science

Innovation Excellence

There’s no perfect way to make good decisions, but knowing what drives really bad decisions is a good start. I’ve always said that the benchmark for making the best decisions is to make the decision that you will be proud to have made. Yet we all make bad decisions. Sometimes they are well-calculated and thoughtful.

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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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Open Innovation Interview with Brant Cooper and Marco De Polo

Moves the Needle

Part of what we do at Moves the Needle is to work with large enterprise organizations on corporate innovation strategy and providing education on how to shift away from a traditional management mindset to think and act in a new way. In this compelling interview, our CEO Brant Cooper spends some time speaking with special guest Marco De Polo, Head Global Strategic Insights & Open Innovation at Roche Diabetes Care, a company that is already working to employ this new mindset.

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How Innovation Management Contributes to The Success of Digital Transformation

Acuvate

Digital technologies are totally transforming the face of business. Adopting digital transformation is the only way to stay ahead of the competition in today’s digital era. Innovation management is one of the crucial contributors to digital transformation, along with a few other factors. It is a comprehensive tool that makes you understand and lead your way through a digital transformation.

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Reinventing the Entrepreneurship Game

ImagineNation

In my November blog I described how important it is to unleash the power of innovative entrepreneurship in our digital & connected world. How doing this manifests an optimistic, abundant & positive futures that: Maximises the potential of entrepreneurs to see & solve 21 st century wicked problems, innovate new businesses that successfully compete, achieve exponential & sustainable growth in VUCA times.

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How to Promote a Culture of Employee Engagement Through Innovation

Planview

Business2Community recently published an article written by Spigit’s CEO, Scott Raskin, discussing how a focus on crowdsourced innovation can help drive employee engagement. The reality is, having engaged employees in today’s competitive business landscape is important now more than ever. This is why companies invest so much money on improving employee engagement – over $100 billion annually to be exact.

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#1,410 – Replika

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

It may not seem like it on the surface but we all have s**t that we have to deal with. Personal issues, bouts of depression, struggles with inner demons. Whatever the case may be. Life isn’t all sunshine, rainbows, and unicorns. It’s a daily reevaluation of who we are and who we want to be. That’s why it’s important to have some perspective. To never get too high or too low.

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Give the Gift of Creativity, Collaboration, and Storytelling

Idea Champions

As you enter into the holiday season, perhaps you are wondering what to give your boss, direct reports, teammates, co-workers, clients, customers, or mother-in-law. Look no further! Especially if you are looking for a way to shop online. Idea Champions' online store is now open for business -- offering a variety of mind-opening books, card decks, and innovation-sparking tools.

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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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Are You Keeping Your Business Safe?

The Human Factor

image source. Contributed post –. Very few small business owners can imagine anything worse than becoming the victim of a crime. And with good reason. In a single moment, years of hard work that goes into creating a successful business can be undone. Small businesses are especially vulnerable in this way. They often don’t have the contingencies in place that larger companies do.

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