Wed.Nov 17, 2021

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How to Create a Culture of Accountability & Ownership?

Kainexus

Most leaders will agree that a culture of accountability and ownership is essential if the goal is to achieve operational excellence. Unfortunately, many organizations don’t take the steps necessary to build accountability into the day-to-day practices of individuals at every level. Like everything else that has to do with organizational culture, accountability will not happen by accident.

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We are falling badly behind on our invention in technology for the Energy Transition

Paul Hobcraft

No energy transition will be achieved without invention and innovation, yet we are failing badly at present to fund research, development and in deployment. We are losing the race to stop our planet warming as our innovative human endeavours are not at the level they should be, or we simply lack the “will” to make the changes we so desperately need to undergo to protect our planet.

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3D printed space rockets [Innovation highlight]

Idea to Value

I have talked about the value of 3D printing frequently before, such as in the context of printing unique shapes and even entire homes. But I recently saw this video about 3D printed rockets may yet be the most impressive use case I have come across. A company called Relativity Space has developed the world’s largest metal 3D printers, allowing them to print entire sections of rockets which previously would have needed thousands of separate parts.

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We are falling badly behind on our invention in technology for the Energy Transition

Paul Hobcraft

No energy transition will be achieved without invention and innovation, yet we are failing badly at present to fund research, development and in deployment. We are losing the race to stop our planet warming as our innovative human endeavours are not at the level they should be, or we simply lack the “will” to make the changes we so desperately need to undergo to protect our planet.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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How Government Innovation Promises to Help Communities Fight Wildfires

IdeaScale

Overview: Wildfires are becoming increasingly expensive and dangerous across the Western United States. Firefighting agencies are responding with computer modeling, advanced topographic mapping, new fire management techniques, sensors, mobile monitors, infrastructure upgrades, and new government innovation programs. The Scale Of The Problem. According to a Congressional report , over 17,000 structures burned across ten million acres during 59 fires in 2020 alone.

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Top Five Challenges When Pitching a New Idea

InnovationManagement

Hardly an innovation event passes without mentioning how Kodak passed on the digital camera or how Blockbuster decided not to invest in streaming entertainment. But with the rapid rate of disruption, how do you ensure that great ideas can penetrate established organizations? The post Top Five Challenges When Pitching a New Idea appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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10 Tips for Dealing with Employee Recruitment and Retention

InnovationManagement

In September, McKinsey released a report describing the “Great Attrition,” a recent wave of cross-sector resignations we have witnessed throughout the world, primarily based on the exhaustion of employees due to the pandemic. The post 10 Tips for Dealing with Employee Recruitment and Retention appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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7 Lasting Lessons I Learned from Steve Jobs, 10 Years After His Passing

Entrepreneur - Innovation

It's been 10 years since the passing of iconic business legend and visionary Steve Jobs. Here's what I learned from him.

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How to Reward Employees in Innovation Programs

Viima

Whenever you’re building a new innovation program , or an initiative such as an idea challenge within it, one of the things you need to get right is to win employees over and get them to support the initiative and to participate in it actively. There are of course many factors that contribute to this, such as communication , but rewarding is naturally one of these.

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Insanely Interesting People who Influenced me – #7 Dan Ariely

Rmukesh Gupta

For the rest of the year, I would like to take a moment and thank the people who have had a significant impact on me as an individual. The way they have lived their lives and their body of work has had an outsized impact on how I think about life in general and and work, in particular. Some of these are contemporary thinkers and some of them are just a memory.

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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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How to make virtual workshops work - during the workshop

Flying Fish Lab

In our last post, we shared some tips on how to start off on the right foot for your virtual workshops. In this second part of the series, we dive deeper into what you can do DURING the workshop. We want to take you through some of the ways you and your teams can innovate while conducting your workshops remotely – because, like innovating for your company, working with different tools to achieve the same objective requires a little innovation too.

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Cloud Migration Challenges and How to Avoid Them

Acuvate

Cloud Migration Challenges and How to Avoid Them. “If someone asks me what cloud computing is, I try not to get bogged down with definitions. I tell them that, simply put, cloud computing is a better way to run your business.” That’s what Founder, CEO and Chairman of Salesforce, Marc Benioff answered Mercury News in a decade old Q&A. Even today, the statement stands strong and cloud continues to enable businesses to disrupt, innovate, and offer enhanced experiences.

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How to make virtual workshops work - during the workshop

Flying Fish Lab

In our last post, we shared some tips on how to start off on the right foot for your virtual workshops. In this second part of the series, we dive deeper into what you can do DURING the workshop. We want to take you through some of the ways you and your teams can innovate while conducting your workshops remotely – because, like innovating for your company, working with different tools to achieve the same objective requires a little innovation too.

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5 NFT Marketplaces Where You Can Mint and Sell Your NFTs

Collectivecamp

So you’ve got a piece of digital art - an image, a song, a sound effect, a video - and you want to turn it into an NFT and sell it online? There are a handful of platforms that make it really easy to do just that, will typically cost you between $70 to $140, and will get your NFT into a digital marketplace almost immediately.

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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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Are you Driving Digital Transformation or Leading IT?

Rmukesh Gupta

I had just shared the impact and influence that Seth Godin has on me and my thinking. Here is his latest observation about leading. On his blog, he writes and I quote, Tug boats don’t usually tug. They push. That’s because pushing is more mechanically efficient than pulling. When we pull, there’s tension and slack in the ropes, and the attachment between the puller and the pushed keeps changing.

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