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Strategic Foresight: What It Is and How to Get It

IdeaScale

Nobody can see the future completely, yet the desire to do so is so strong billions consult with everything from tarot cards to complex algorithmic simulations every day. However, you don’t need any of these to consider possible outcomes and rank them by likelihood. This practice is called strategic foresight, and developing it is key … Continued.

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Remote but happy together! Exago named one of the happiest places to work

Exago

When times are especially challenging, creativity, team spirit, lean work processes and life/work balance become even more crucial. For the fourth time, we at Exago are proud to be distinguished as one of the 15 happiest companies to work for in Portugal. The results of the 2020 Happiness Works initiative were announced this week amidst […]. The post Remote but happy together!

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How to Coach Using Leadership Principles

CMOE

Coaching is one of the most important things a leader does—particularly with the modern workforce. At its most basic level, coaching represents a way to communicate openly, clearly, and candidly about important matters. At a deeper level, coaching is about sharing honest feedback, communicating expectations, identifying performance-improvement opportunities , and encouraging development and growth.

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Podcast S3E63: Iain Bitran – Innovating in a time of crisis

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast, I speak with Iain Bitrain, Executive Director of The International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM). We speak about how ISPIM has evolved over time, and what professional innovation managers can do now to prepare for an uncertain future. Topics covered in today’s episode: 00:01:30 – ISPIM is a community for anyone involved in innovation. 00:02:30 – Iain’s journey. 00:04:00 – What ISPIM does

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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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Better Virtual Meetings Using My 25 Lenses

Stephen Shapiro

In my latest book, Invisible Solutions , I share 25 lenses that can reframe and help solve nearly any difficult business problem. To demonstrate the power of the lenses, I am creating a series of videos that show how they can be used to generate creative – and sometimes previously hidden – solutions to some common challenges. In this first video, I use the lenses to provide different ways to solve the problem of virtual meetings.

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#1,695 ? Twitch.TV/Woke

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

If you don’t feel like the mainstream media is covering the full story of the George Floyd protests you may want to check out twitch.tv/woke and see the bigger picture. It’s like the Red Zone channel for the protests, showing you multiple feeds simultaneously from various cities so that you can monitor the situation for yourself in real time from coast to coast.

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#1,696 ? Citizen

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Earlier, I wrote about a video stream on Twitch that lets you keep tabs on everything happening in protests around the country. But there may soon be an even better way to do that. A hyper local way through an app called Citizen, that can show you exactly what is happening in a specific area and with an added social media layer to boot. Fast Company explains how it works, “Once you’ve signed up, Citizen drops you into a map studded with yellow and white dots.

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25 Quotes on Feedback

Idea Champions

1. "We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve." - Bill Gates. 2. "I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better." - Elon Musk. 3. "Everything in my environment is offering me feedback, if I will only listen." - Sharon Weil. 4.

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Qmarkets forms Strategic Partnership with Japanese B2B Firm to Promote Corporate Innovation in Japan and Beyond

Qmarkets

Qmarkets, the leading supplier of collective intelligence solutions, has partnered with Ishin Co. Ltd., a well-established B2B professional services company, to offer a full-service innovation management package to large organizations in Japan. Tokyo, 5th June, 2020 – Qmarkets is pleased to announce the formalization of a partnership with Ishin Co, in the shared interest of promoting the increased use of innovation management software in Japan.

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Qmarkets forms Strategic Partnership with Japanese B2B Firm to Promote Corporate Innovation in Japan and Beyond

Qmarkets

Qmarkets, the leading supplier of collective intelligence solutions, has partnered with Ishin Co, a well-established B2B professional services company, to offer a full-service innovation management package to large organizations in Japan. Tokyo, 5 th June, 2020 – Qmarkets is pleased to announce the formalization of a partnership with Ishin Co, in the shared interest of promoting the increased use of innovation management software in Japan.

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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