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The Lego Kit of Life (by Design)

Mills-Scofield

What if I said that life was a set of Lego® bricks ~ all sorts of sizes, shapes, colors with a few bricks fixed together, unbreakable, but mot of them easily taken apart and rearranged? If you're like me, you love (yup, you still do, face it!) playing, building, creating with lego (that's why I hang out with engineers and makers). “ Life is a set of legos, all sizes, shapes, and colors.

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A Big Clue Your Strategic Planning Process Is Focused on the Wrong Issues

BrainZooming

Talking with a client team about facilitating its strategic planning process , we discussed why completed strategic plans sit on shelves. There are multiple reasons for this unfortunate situation. I think an important reason is when a strategic planning process focuses on the wrong issues. It happens so often: people launch into strategic planning and begin to talk and think differently than during daily business activities.

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The Eight Attributes of Bottom-Up Innovation Leaders

InnovationManagement

Bottom-up innovation is fueled by many ideas initiated by employees, as opposed to top-down innovation, which is fueled by a strong vision - often by the company’s founder. Bottom-up innovation leaders are entrepreneurial, supported by management’s emphasis on creativity and a can-do culture, and often share these eight attributes.

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Building Your Innovation Team: Jobs, Roles and Proficiencies

The Inovo Group

“The strength of the team is in each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” – Phil Jackson. A large, global company was reconstituting its corporate innovation team after a period of massive and intense reorganization involving all aspects of corporate governance and business unit operations. The key innovation stakeholders were given what was essentially a blank sheet upon which to design and build a corporate innovation system that would drive transforma

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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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Intrapreneurial Success: Leading Disruption, Managing Change

InnovationManagement

Embracing an intrapreneurial mindset, which intentionally disrupts things from the inside out and often from the bottom up, is a radical concept for companies that thrive on stability and predictability. However, if an enterprise is committed to developing its innovation capability through intrapreneurship, three groups of people must be mobilized to make it happen: leadership, stakeholders, and innovation support.

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Storytelling for Product Management and Innovation

Innovation Excellence

To learn more about the value of storytelling and using it to share ideas and persuade others to join you, I spoke with Michael Margolis. He is the CEO and founder of Get Storied, which serves leaders, innovators, and trailblazers who have a world-changing agenda. He helps those who are inventing the future and need to get their story straight because ideas don’t sell themselves.

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Disrupting 21st Century Corporate Learning

Innovation Excellence

Our research indicates that business enterprises globally have the opportunity to meet the needs of the modern learner by responding strategically, and speedily to the diverse and complex range of trends impacting corporate learning.

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eZassi Names Jennifer Creech as Chief Executive Officer

eZassi

Proven software leader joins company to enable next level of growth. Jacksonville Beach, Florida, January 8, 2017 — eZassi announces that Jennifer Creech has joined the company as Chief Executive Officer, effective January 4th. In her new role, Jennifer will be responsible for the launch of the next iteration of the Company’s innovation management software platform, as well as overseeing all aspects of the Company’s global expansion effort.

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10 Principles of Timeless Design

Rmukesh Gupta

Good Design is by Mukesh Gupta. I was reading about design and what design looks and feels like when I stumbled onto the 10 commandments of timeless designs that the legendary designer Dieter Rams had created to critically look at his own designs, early in his career. When I look at these commandments, I would call them principles of design, I felt that just like the designs that these commandments help become timeless, these commandments themselves are timeless.

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HBS’s Karim Lakhani on Overcoming Resistance to Crowdsourcing

Innovation Leader

Karim Lakhani of Harvard Business School discusses why people resist crowdsourcing and if teams should run competitions on their crowdsourcing platforms.

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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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Can Uber Recover?

Michael Roberto

By now, everyone has read about the serious problems at Uber. On February 19, former Uber engineer Susan Fowler published a blog post in which she described serious transgressions by managers at the firm, including sexual harassment. Soon, newspaper accounts documented a culture that appeared to be out of control. CEO Travis Kalanick has tried to address the situation, though his early moves have been met with criticism.

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