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Do you know how to select the best idea?

IdeaScale

Good innovators recognize that our ability to create meaningful, positive change doesn’t just depend on gathering good ideas, but on our ability to recognize great ideas. That means that we get a lot of questions from our customers about how to select the best idea – things like “how do I prioritize good ideas when I have them?” or “how do I control for the fact that I don’t have a lot of resources to implement ideas?

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Stop Complaining About Meetings And Start Making Them More Effective

Digital Tonto

They need to function as enablers of networks, not extensions of hierarchies Related posts: How to Run Effective Meetings. We Need To Stop Chasing The Last Big Thing And Start Preparing For the Next. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Good for species survival, not so great for innovation: 16 cognitive biases that can kill your decision making

Board of Innovation

The purpose of this article is to discuss several key cognitive biases and their effects on decision making within strategic innovation management as well as how to minimize their effects so that team members can contribute optimally to the fuzzy innovation process. They are essential in understanding and managing appropriately to ensure your innovation outputs are most suitable to your.

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Your Corporate Ideation Submission Process Directly impacts the success of your innovation initiatives

Svava

Your Corporate Ideation Submission Process Directly impacts the success of your innovation initiatives The means through which internal team members submit their ideas for innovations, the feasibility of submitting the ideas, the framework for their submission ensuring their quality, and the organization or storage of these ideas (or lack thereof), has a direct impact + Read More.

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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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Learn in small batches, rinse and repeat.

Mike Shipulski

When the work is new, it can’t be defined and managed like work that has been done before. Sometimes there’s a tendency to spend months to define the market, the detailed specification and the project timeline and release the package as a tidal wave that floods the organization with new work. Instead, start with a high-level description of the market, a rough specification and the major project milestones, all of which will morph, grow and inform each other as the team learns.

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Why Are Meetings so Important and How to Make them Effective and Fun

Rmukesh Gupta

Premise: Not a day goes by when I dont hear someone complain about yet another meeting that they need to attend and how it is such a waste of time, money and effort. Yet, there is enough written about the way Alan Mulally , the ex-CEO of Ford, turned around the company in his stint as the CEO, primarily using a weekly cadence meeting with his entire leadership team , called The Business Plan Review.

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Building & Managing an Ecosystem of Co-Created Value

HYPE Innovation

“True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted and waits to be transformed.” Tom Robbins - American author. From previous posts on this subject, we know a few important things: Ecosystems are the most sophisticated vehicles for collaboration, co-creation and impact generation known to us today, Ecosystems embrace a logic whereby all value is co-created.

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You’re Stifling Innovation, And You Don’t Even Know It

InnovationManagement

It is a common belief that encouraging creativity will lead to higher levels of innovation. In actuality, most organizations already have the creative ideas they need. But they are missing or outright rejecting them, and they don’t even realize they’re doing it.

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Choosing the right innovation approach for your business

hackerearth

Undoubtedly a critical aspect of long-term sustainability and survival, innovation is a complex process, which organizations need to be good at. And, there’s help. Understanding the term “innovation”. Innovation is a term that carries with it immense possibilities of success and sustainability. Creating new business models or value propositions, enhancing the efficiency of existing businesses, and sustaining growth in a complex competitive and fickle landscape—that’s innovation.

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Your Corporate Ideation Submission Process

Svava

Directly impacts the success of your innovation initiatives.

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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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1 Question to Test Effective Strategic Plan Development

BrainZooming

Is there such a thing as a quick check to determine whether a strategic plan is on the right track or not ? While reviewing mini-strategic plans attendees developed at a recent logistics company customer event we facilitated, I relied on one that works well. We designed a group exercise for participants to identify strategic plan topics. We also provided an overview with instructions about how to write a mini-strategic plan.

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Your Corporate Ideation Submission Process Directly impacts the success of your innovation initiatives

Svava

Your Corporate Ideation Submission Process.