Mon.Nov 08, 2021

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Brainstorming on a White Board: Prompts and Techniques

IdeaScale

Brainstorming is the foundation of any innovation exercise and the foundation for most ideation sessions. While it is such a universal exercise, there are many different ways to go about brainstorming, and we have found that whiteboard sessions are some of the best exercises to conduct to get the most out of your brainstorming session. . Whether it’s simply ideating or specifically auditing a project, we have compiled a guide of the best questions to ask and techniques to use when brainstorming

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Strategic Planning & Business Development Through Foresight

HYPE Innovation

This is the sixth blog post in HYPE’s series on the ten most often-asked questions about strategic foresight. While the fifth post offered a step-by-step process for scenario planning to prep your organization for the future, this post elaborates how foresight can inform business model, people & organization development.

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Creative people are more likely to cheat

Idea to Value

People usually associate creativity with positive things, like producing beautiful art , scientific breakthroughs or successful new innovations. But creativity might also have a dark side. Research from 2012 suggests that people with higher creativity were more likely to be dishonest than less creative people. This was based on a number of different experiments: Workers in an advertising agency who reported their own job required high levels of creativity, and their managers also considered crea

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Use the S-Curve Mapping Tool to Speed Up Innovation Processes in Your Business

Leapfrogging

For nearly three decades, I have worked with business leaders to help them drive innovation within their businesses by creating products and services that improve customers’ lives. Over the years, I have worked with hundreds to tools and frameworks to make this process easier and more straightforward for clients. The S-Curve Mapping template is one of the most helpful tools I’ve come across for helping individuals determine where their business stands within the current market landscape. .

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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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Rule Breaking Series #1: If you're going to be the same, be different

Flying Fish Lab

This is Part 1 of our weekly Rule Breaking Series where we feature brands that defied rules and conventions in their category. We hope to inspire you with ways you can also stand out from the sea of sameness. Share with us other companies you think belong in this list and why! To survive long in any industry, but more so in F&B, you’ve either got to have novelty appeal, product differentiation, a captive audience or be really good at what you do (A.K.A. queues round the block every lunchtime

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Innovation Requires Going Fast, Slow and Meta

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell In the regulatory filing for Facebook’s 2012 IPO, Mark Zuckerberg included a letter outlining his management philosophy. Entitled, The Hacker Way, it encapsulated much of the zeitgeist. “We have a saying,” he wrote.

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THINKING PARADOXICALLY

Michael Michalko

Read the following top down. “Happiness comes from within”. Is a lie, and. “money will make me happy.”. So in 30 years I will tell my children. They are not the most important thing in my life. My employer will know this. I have my priorities straight because. work. is more important than. family. I will tell you this. Once upon a time. families stayed together. but this will not be true in my era. this is a quick fix society.

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Creating a 5 Star Employee On-boarding Experience is a Leader’s Responsibility

Rmukesh Gupta

The responsibility of onboarding the employees we hire squarely falls on us as the leaders of the business unit. The number of times this process is delegated to some HR business partner or sometimes even to some HR executive is not a joke. The on-boarding process is our opportunity to start moulding the new hire in such a way that they can become fully productive and functional members of our team as quickly as possible.

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Rule Breaking Series #1: If you're going to be the same, be different

Flying Fish Lab

This is Part 1 of our weekly Rule Breaking Series where we feature brands that defied rules and conventions in their category. We hope to inspire you with ways you can also stand out from the sea of sameness. Share with us other companies you think belong in this list and why! To survive long in any industry, but more so in F&B, you’ve either got to have novelty appeal, product differentiation, a captive audience or be really good at what you do (A.K.A. queues round the block every lunchtime

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The Pros & Cons of Strategic Planning in Excel

Cascade Strategy

In this article, we'll explore the pros and cons of using Excel for strategic planning. You can also grab your copy of our strategic plan template in Excel if you want to get your hands dirty.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with 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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How can I be more creative in my work?

Entrepreneur - Innovation

We leave you 4 tips to find original solutions to everyday problems.

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The Sunk Cost Trap and Opportunity Costs: How Competitors Can Attack You

Michael Roberto

Source: standoutbooks.com Imagine that your firm's leaders have made a substantial investment over a 15-year period in a particular strategy. They are investing roughly $20 million in operating costs per year in that strategy, and they have made considerable capital investments as well. The strategy is not working. It has not yielded the desired results.

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Use the Saturate and Group Tool to Ramp Up Your Design Thinking

Leapfrogging

Over the last 25 years, I have led hundreds of design thinking sessions for international organizations and startups including brands like Red Bull. These sessions allow product designers and senior executives to work together to co-develop ideas which align with larger business strategies and innovation initiatives. These live design thinking sessions are all focused on the same core idea: developing a solution which better serves the needs of the customer. . .

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Society 2045 and the Art of Human Alignment

Tullio Siragusa

Society 2045 and the Art of Human Alignment. It is not a secret that we are living during a time in human history filled with many challenges. From the recent pandemic, global political unrest, the climate crisis, to lack of equitable economic conditions in various countries, we are facing difficult times. Is it ever going to get better? Probably not without divine intervention, but we can try our best to do our part towards enabling a better society.

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How Mature Companies Are Scaling Transformational New Businesses

Scaling transformational innovations in large companies is challenging due to ‘Company Fit’ issues, which arise when the resources, processes, and priorities (RPPs) of the core business are not aligned with the needs of the new business. Many companies have learned how ambidexterity—the ability to both ‘exploit the present and explore the future,’ can help them address these issues for ideation and incubation of new innovations, but scaling transformative business innovations remains a challenge