Fri.Mar 27, 2020

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Recession, Survival and Innovation

Destination Innovation

In times of severe recession should you cut costs and focus on survival or take the opportunity to invest in innovation so that you can benefit from the eventual recovery? Well the short answer is that you have to survive first. If the cash dries up and you cannot pay the rent then a pipeline of great innovative products and services is of little help.

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How to Run Remote Design Thinking Workshops

ITONICS

Like everyone these days, we are experiencing challenging times when it comes to activating and engaging relationships with our customers. As seen all over the world, we decided to close our office, stop travelling and work from home instead. This leads to a couple of difficulties, especially when you are scheduled to hold an interactive and Design-Thinking-inspired workshop format that could neither be postponed nor be executed at the client facilities.

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How To Think & Act Like a Rebel Brand (Interview with our CEO)

Rebel & Reason

If you have had the opportunity to chat with our CEO Nicola Smith for even 2 minutes you know, she is a strategic rebel through and through. She took her core rebel values and created our company, REBEL & REASON. Everything we do is filtered through the lens of our beliefs and our mission. . One of our values (which you already know if you have looked through our website or glanced at our Instagram ) is that we believe in breaking the rules.

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Kids in Quarantine: Advice from Parents

Kainexus

First off, we'd like to thank our panelists, Katie Webb Cyphert, Sara Evans, and Jeff Roussel, for joining our webinar. If you weren't able to attend, you can find the answers to some of your top questions about how to cope with kids in quarantine below. We included many resources on different ways keep your kids engaged and entertained at the bottom of the post.

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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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Top 5 Missteps of Innovation Labs

Peer Insight

A successful corporate innovation lab, incubator, or accelerator depends upon three things: people, people, and people. That’s what I learned by speaking with the heads of innovation labs at 12 Fortune 500 corporations over the course of eight weeks. These market leaders came from a range of industries: healthcare, apparel, construction materials, chemicals, high-tech, food & beverage, hospitality, insurance, logistics, and retail.

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Kindness is Contagious!

Idea Champions

You want to be innovative these days? Start with kindness! Now there's a good idea! Idea Champions. Mitch Ditkoff. Storytelling for the Revolution.

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Small Wins: More Important Than Ever

Michael Roberto

Source: [link] In the 1980s, the great social psychologist Karl Weick wrote a paper about the importance of small wins. Weick argued that some problems can be cognitively and emotionally overwhelming. In these cases, people may find it very difficult to make progress toward addressing the issue and achieving their goals. Weick advocated breaking down large, complex problems and goals into smaller, intermediate objectives.

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Essential Apps For Enterprises To Fight The COVID-19 Disruption

Acuvate

It’s been almost a month since the COVID-19 pandemic started to disrupt the way we live and work. From taking tough decisions, postponing key initiatives, ensuring sustainability to adopting a remote work environment, the COVID-19 pandemic is something none of us expected. And unfortunately this crisis is still growing at an alarming rate with no signs of slowing down.

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Does Crowdsourcing Need “Rethinking”?

Qmarkets

Benefits of crowdsourcing: Common Misconceptions In my previous post , I gave a working definition of crowdsourcing and described two major crowdsourcing approaches: adding capacity and accessing expertise. I also argued that although numerous organizations – including corporations, governmental agencies, and nonprofits – have used crowdsourcing to solve complex business problems, its wider adoption in the marketplace has been relatively slow.

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Does Crowdsourcing Need “Rethinking”?

Qmarkets

Why aren’t organizations recognizing the benefits of crowdsourcing? In my previous post , I gave a working definition of crowdsourcing and described two major crowdsourcing approaches: adding capacity and accessing expertise. I also argued that although numerous organizations – including corporations, governmental agencies, and nonprofits – have used crowdsourcing to solve complex business problems, its wider adoption in the marketplace has been relatively slow.

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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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Does Crowdsourcing Need “Rethinking”?

Qmarkets

In my previous post , I gave a working definition of crowdsourcing and described two major crowdsourcing approaches: adding capacity and accessing expertise. I also argued that although numerous organizations – including corporations, governmental agencies, and nonprofits – have used crowdsourcing to solve complex business problems, its wider adoption in the marketplace has been relatively slow.