Thu.Apr 09, 2020

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How crisis-driven innovation can help your organization

HYPE Innovation

A note from the author: I first wrote this blog as the basis for a talk in the UK last year when the only thing worrying us was the "crisis' of Brexit. Now we’re facing some much more serious challenges – and yet the inventive responses from communities trying to think outside the box suggests that the core themes do hold up and may offer us some hope during these troubled times.

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We all need a different Social Media profile? Now.

Paul Hobcraft

We are in a very different time, a social distancing time that might lead to a different type of work, one that you will have to be forced to stand out from the crowd as a socially engaged person. A growing reality might be that many people will be forced to stay at home until a vaccine is found, due to their risk of infection. Travel might become off-limits for many.

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FeaturedCustomers Report Names IdeaScale a Market Leader

IdeaScale

Idea management software is recognized as an innovative tool for helping organizations improve productivity, and when it comes to choosing the right platform, IdeaScale is leading the way. This success as innovators has not gone unnoticed, earning IdeaScale the title of market leader in a recent FeaturedCustomers Report. IdeaScale’s innovation platform allows users to collect, assess and deploy the most relevant ideas, then track progress over time.

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Riding the VUCA storm

Jeffrey Phillips

It's really crazy in the marketplace right now. Presidents are making medical pronouncements and doctors are making economic projections. The stock market can whipsaw through a thousand points of gain or loss in a day. We think we know something about COVID, until that is proven wrong a few days later. We are in the midst of a VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Compexity and Ambiguous) whirlwind right now.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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How Frontline Employees Drive the Change Management Process

InnovationManagement

Organizational change can be met with resistance, especially if it excludes employee input. The post How Frontline Employees Drive the Change Management Process appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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AXA Next on Shifts in the Startup World, and Fueling Innovation Virtually

Innovation Leader

The team from AXA Next US shares tips for running distributed teams, and changes they are seeing in the startup landscape.

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Curtiss-Wright Selects Qmarkets Software to Fuel Company-Wide Employee Innovation

Qmarkets

Highly innovative aerospace, defense, and industrial manufacturer Curtiss-Wright has selected Qmarkets to crowdsource the “collective wisdom” of their global workforce. Curtiss-Wright has invited its entire global workforce of approximately 9,300 employees to participate in a new idea management platform, provided by leading supplier of collective intelligence solutions: Qmarkets.

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Time to Write a Thank You Note

Michael Roberto

Source: Bloomberg During this crisis, we have an even greater need to express our gratitude to hard-working, dedicated employees in our organization. Recognizing people's efforts and achievements can be instrumental to cultivating high employee engagement, fostering their well-being, and increasing productivity. Doug Conant, former CEO of Campbell's Soup, has been an ardent proponent of the handwritten thank-you note for years.

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Teaching Schools How to Create High Performing Teams

Idea Champions

What follows are testimonials from teachers and staff at Al Siraat College , an Austrialian K-12 school in the Islamic tradition, who recently participated in Idea Champions' Team Leadership Training -- a series of seven 90-minute modules delivered onsite over the course of a month. Al Siraat engaged our services to help 23 of their team leaders learn how to raise the bar for teamwork, collaboration, and communication.

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Innovation in a Time of Crisis

Carla Johnson

April 9, 2020 There’s a scene in the Apollo 13 moviewhen the services module’s No.2 oxygen tank exploded and No.1 tank failed. The explosion forced the mission’s astronauts, Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert, to abandon the command module and squeeze into the lunar module. With no more space than the inside of a VW Beetle, the three found. The post Innovation in a Time of Crisis appeared first on Carla Johnson.

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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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#1,625 – Immunity Passports

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

We’re all anxious to return to normal, to some semblance of our former lives, but we’re still a long way from doing so. The 1918 flu pandemic hit in three distinct waves. As far a we know we may still only be enduring COVID-19’s opening act. Flattening the curve, achieving herd immunity, and all of the other trendy buzzwords that you’ve been hearing about are all necessary first steps that we need to take before life can resume.

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Crisis Strategies: Expert Insight for Response + Recovery

BPI Thought Leadership Commentary

Business leaders are being challenged today, perhaps as never before. They must find ways to maintain operational and strategic resilience and survive in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic and accompanying economic slowdown. However, they should also be thinking about and planning for a “new normal” that will unfold when the current shelter-in-place mandates begin to lift.

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Basic Content Creation Mistakes That Companies Keep Making

The Human Factor

The majority of businesses understand that they have to create content to compete in the online marketplace. But unfortunately, many of them are still going about it the wrong way. source. Here are some of the basic mistakes that companies keep making with their content creation and how to avoid them. Failing To Create Compelling Titles. Like it or not, the blog title is what drives readership , not the content.

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5 Big Advantages of Remote Design Thinking

InnovationTraining.org

When bringing people together to solve problems with design thinking, there may be more benefits to going remote than you think. Face-to-face design thinking workshops can be amazing. There is a certain energy, human connection and buzz that is pretty hard to reproduce in a virtual format. But since we created Sprintbase in 2016 – a platform that enables remote teams to solve problems with design thinking – we’ve learned a lot about what it takes to create new kinds of virtual experi

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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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These Three Things Can Damage Manufacturing Productivity

The Human Factor

source. In the manufacturing industry, productivity is everything. If your manufacturing processes are productive, it means you’re pumping out orders as quickly as possible with hardly any slip-ups. The longer it takes for something to be made, the more problems you could have down the line. Customers expect deliveries by specific periods, and they expect the exact number of orders they’ve placed.