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The Right Way to Talk About Standard Work with Your Staff

Kainexus

We've written about standard work in the past, but it is often a topic that is overlooked or misunderstood in the continuous improvement process of many organizations, so it's definitely worth revisiting. If you’re in the process of implementing Lean , Kaizen , Six Sigma , or another method of continuous improvement , we strongly recommend making standard work a part of your process.

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Podcast S4E86: Linda Naiman – Creative Resilience

Idea to Value

We speak with award-winning designer and artist Linda Naiman. Linda is the founder of Creativity at Work and helps organizations develop creativity, innovation, and leadership capabilities, through coaching, training and consulting. We speak about using creativity to stay resilient in challenging times. Topics covered in this episode: 00:01:00 – Linda’s journey to becoming an award-winning designer. 00:03:30 – Her block, and realising that at school nobody had taught her to thi

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Crowdsourcing AMA Event with the Chairperson of NYU’s Administrative Management Council

IdeaScale

Universities are facing new challenges in 2020 and beyond. Remote learning, budgetary constraints, and renewed attention on diversity are just a few vital change management strategies. The Administrative Management Council for New York University (NYU) is listening to the diverse range of voices from their workforce to meet some of these challenges.

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Interview with Stefan H. Thomke, Author of “Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments”

InnovationManagement

I had the opportunity recently to interview fellow author Stefan H. Thomke, the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School to talk with him about his new book Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments, to explore the important role that experimentation plays in business and innovation.

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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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Responsible AI Practices Your Organizations Should Follow For Better Trust

Acuvate

Responsible AI Practices Your Organizations Should Follow For Better Trust AI’s transformative potential has been the prime mover for its widespread adoption among organizations across the globe and continues to be the utmost priority for business leaders. PwC’s research estimates that AI could contribute $15.7 trillion to the global economy by 2030, as a result […].

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Innovating from Within: The 10 x 10 Laws

Innovation Leader

Mohan Nair has run the Innovation Force team at Cambia Health Solutions for 10 years now. He offers 10 rules to follow over 10 years in order to guide a program to success.

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To Drive Innovation Success, You Need These Safety Belts

Innovation Leader

Kevin Bolen, Global Head of Market Intelligence at KPMG LLP, offers three guiding principles for managing periods of disruption and uncertainty.

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#2,002 – Nanoparticle Vaccine

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

The Pfizer vaccine is getting a lot of press right now and rightfully so. However, there are dozens of additional vaccines in the works and the world may eventually wind up employing a combination of various solutions. Including a nanoparticle vaccine that is capable of producing an immune response significantly stronger than that of any other vaccine candidate.

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Four Popular Brainstorming Techniques – and why they work

Svava

Contrary to most things in life, the key to effective brainstorming is not quality. It is quantity. Yes, quantity. Brainstorming techniques can be accomplished in several ways. There isn’t a wrong way or a right way. Consider it to be the early stage of research and development, regardless of what type of project you apply it to. Remember to be open to all ideas as that leads to several valid ideas generated.

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#2,001 – Pfizer’s Powder Vaccine

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

The promising Pfizer vaccine that allegedly works 90% of the time against COVID-19 has certain limitations that could greatly impair its ability to be distributed around the world. Namely the fact that it must be kept below a certain temperature. Thankfully, a second generation version of the vaccine could address those concerns by coming in a powder form.

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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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Facilitate a successful brainstorming session

Svava

How to get the most from your team Setting up a brainstorming session can seem easy enough. Just gather a bunch of people, ask them a question and give them some post its. Done. Or is it really that simple? Not if you want to get the best from your team, and get the best ideas. Svava’s digital tool makes your brainstorming sessions more fun, and higher engagement leads to better ideas.

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Top 3 Alternative Assets for your Business Innovation Strategy

Qmarkets

With every enterprise innovation initiative, the most obvious and commonly prioritized assets are ideas. These are the backbone of innovation and can deliver amazing value, however they are ultimately only one aspect of innovation. In this blog, we will share the additional ‘innovation assets’ that many companies are yet to include in their business innovation strategy.

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How to facilitate a SWOT analysis workshop

Svava

At the outset of an organization, and at various stages in its life cycle, there are a given number of positive and negative factors it faces. These factors are commonly broken down into four categories that can be analyzed, so that informed decisions about the organization, its projects, and/or products and services can be made. The decisions often become the objectives for the organization.

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Top 3 Alternative Assets for your Business Innovation Strategy

Qmarkets

With every enterprise innovation initiative, the most obvious and commonly prioritized assets are ideas. These are the backbone of innovation and can deliver amazing value, however they are ultimately only one aspect of innovation. In this blog, we will share the additional ‘innovation assets’ that many companies are yet to include in their business innovation strategy.

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & 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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Global Trends of Remote Working

Svava

We have seen an increased use of The Svava Meeting App for remote meetings, and many of our team members are also working remote. That’s why we are passionate about this topic, and doing a deep dive. Remote working is really a big trend these days and many companies go along with it. Why? Because it is convenient, affordable, and pretty easy to set up.

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Amazon Launches Care Hub, and Alexa Starts Asking Follow-Up Questions

Entrepreneur - Innovation

The virtual assistant is now capable of predicting what your goals are.

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Improve your meetings with check-ins

Svava

For all meetings clear and open communication is super important. Starting your meeting with a check-in is a simple and effective tool to catch the mood of all participants, and make sure everyone starts off on the same page. Check-ins can be made in a hundred different ways. For example you can ask participants to pick an emoji representing their mood, share something they are thinking extra about, or ask about how they feel about the upcoming meeting.

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What is innovation, and how can it benefit your company?

mjvinnovation

For many companies, innovation means taking products and services and changing them in detail: color, shape, features, size, etc. However, this form of incremental innovation alone does not work anymore in many markets. Besides, due to digital transformation, companies also need to develop more digital business models. In summary, innovation is always a big challenge – it needs to be understood, first, and foremost.

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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

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How to succeed with online brainstorming

Svava

Online Brainstorming need a bit of a boost? Improve Your Online Brainstorming Workshops Brainstorming workshops help solve a number of challenges, source new products, procedural improvements and more. Combined with the fact that more and more teams work distributed, hosting brainstorming workshops online has become an important skill. Here are some simple tips that you can follow, to start improving the quality of your online brainstorming workshops today.

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Pace of Innovation – The Ultimate Competitive Advantage

Idea to Value

When we think of a business having a competitive advantage, we still tend to think of traditional economic moats such as a low-cost structure, economies of scale, or perhaps a more intangible moat like a strong brand. While all of these are still extremely desirable assets, they no longer guarantee a sustainable competitive advantage for most companies.

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How to design and structure a workshop

Svava

Workshops are powerful tools for business planning, strategy and execution. There are many types of workshops that you can design and host depending upon your desired outcomes. But how do you design a workshop that fits your organisation and your business needs? Elia Mörling and Jonas Söderström have years of experience designing, developing and hosting workshops for various companies, and using various models and frameworks.

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