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Podcast S3E52: Josh Linkner – How to build up rituals to reward creativity

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with multiple entrepreneur Josh Linkner, about how to apply discipline to creativity. Josh is a talented Jazz guitarist, as well as having written bestselling books and starting and selling multiple technology companies. Today we talk about what it takes to make creativity a ritual in your company.

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Restarting in times of crisis

Exago

We're all feeling some uncertainty, but hectic times can actually push us ahead faster. Exago (Re)START helps you find new ideas when you need it most. The post Restarting in times of crisis appeared first on Exago.

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How Do You Know If Your Business Is At Risk From Disruption?

Strategyzer Innovation

Over the last weeks the coronavirus disrupted the entire global economy and almost every business on the face of the planet. Yet, Covid-19 is a black swan and a once in a century event. When things get back to normal (yes, it will take quite some time), companies need to prepare for more common types of disruption. In this blogpost, we explain how you can systematically assess the risk of disruption with our Disruption Assessment Tool.

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Maslow’s Revenge

Innovation Excellence

maslow’s hierarchy of needs By David Bruel & Frank Pagano Spoiler alert. Three (humble) predictions on behavioral change, rediscovering a grand classic: the Maslow’s pyramid. Technology will create better ways to climb up and down the old ladder, post Covid-19. A third of the global population is on a coronavirus lockdown, and dramatically re-prioritizing their.

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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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The Impact of Self-Honesty on Your Success

Tullio Siragusa

The Impact of Self-Honesty on Your Success. Psychology argues that being true to yourself induces meaning in your life. The drive to be authentic is present in all of us. Still, there is a lot of misconception about being authentic and genuine. Some people think that having piercings, tattoos, punk hair, or listening to Coldplay makes you genuine, and that would be true if that’s’ who you are.

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Opportunities for Improvement at the Grocery Store [COVID-19]

Kainexus

My colleague Jeff Roussel kicked off (or I should say teed up) this series by writing about opportunities for improvement (OIs) when out playing golf. I loved it (when I read the draft), and I'm not a golfer -- but I do like bad puns. But, more of us are still going to the grocery store, so we thought it was important to publish this post first. Stay tunes for the golfing one!

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Type I vs Type II Innovation Programs

Wellspring

In my decade-plus years working with corporate innovation leaders, I’ve seen a variety of frameworks to explain what we mean by “innovation.” The most enduring of these has been McKinsey’s Three Horizons model – although there are plenty of others. These models – powerful though they are – have always left me wanting more. Based on recent conversations with a number of corporate R&D and Innovation leaders, there’s another lens I’ve begun using.

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7 Strategies for Online Learning During the Coronavirus Outbreak

Innovation Excellence

Humanity, as a whole, is currently facing a major crisis with the COVID-19. The pandemic has forced most of the working population to work from home, go on mandatory quarantine, or work under modified conditions. All public events are either canceled or postponed. During this time of reduced workloads, a lot of IT businesses find.

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Innovation after crisis: is your innovation organization resilient?

Rapid Innovation in digital time

Building tomorrow's world starts today! Innovation can be leveraged for inventing post-crisis future for your company. But is your innovation organization ready?

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Four Types of Customer Experiences for Competitive Advantage

Innovation Excellence

Want to improve your customers’ experience? Try these connected strategies. What’s the secret to a winning business model and long-term competitive advantage? It’s not just about technology, products and services. Your customer experience may just be the ultimate competitive advantage. Strategy and innovation experts Nicolaj Siggelkow and Christian Terwiesch just published a new book called Connected Strategy: Building Continuous.

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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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Collaborating on Zoom Guide: Remotely Facilitate a Virtual Meeting or Workshop

InnovationTraining.org

Lead Innovative Meetings and Workshops with Zoom. Video conferencing software can help you lead engaging activities to collaborate virtually in real-time. If you plan on facilitating an innovative workshop or meeting virtually, you may be looking for video conferencing software that can help you connect with your participants in real-time and share materials, lessons, and examples in a virtual space.

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Going From Blind to Bright.

Innovation Excellence

Quick bullets. 200 words spent on Brands’ blind spots turned into bright ones, after three months of a nasty 2020. One: be transparent. Be like water, the motto reads. Here, it’s more being transparent in what you do, being first of all social, as water is one of the ultimate social goods, and, obviously, becoming.

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Changing Culture in Large Organizations

Innovation Leader

In our view, fostering a culture that is supportive of innovation has never been more important than right now. 2020 will be a year of tremendous stress, pivots, and reprioritizing in every organization. Will your organization be able to source and act on the best ideas — ideas that may.

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Enable dialogue across the organization

Tembosocial

As COVID-19 continues to change shape and challenge how we manage our teams, our health and our tasks while working remotely, communicators are doing great work to ensure employees remain in the loop.

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How Automation is Driving Efficiency Through the Last Mile of Reporting

Speaker: Jamie Eagan

As organizations strive for agility and efficiency, it's imperative for finance leaders to embrace innovative technologies and redefine traditional processes. Join us as we explore the pivotal role of digitalization and automation in reshaping what is commonly referred to as the “last mile of reporting”. We’ll deep-dive into why digitalization is no longer a choice, but a necessity for finance departments to stay competitive in a fast-paced environment touching on: 2024 trends for the Office of

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The Impact of Self-Honesty on Your Success

Tullio Siragusa

The Impact of Self-Honesty on Your Success. Psychology argues that being true to yourself induces meaning in your life. The drive to be authentic is present in all of us. Still, there is a lot of misconception about being authentic and genuine. Some people think that having piercings, tattoos, punk hair, or listening to Coldplay makes you genuine, and that would be true if that’s’ who you are.

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The Five Levels of Remote Work — and why you’re probably at Level 2

Collectivecamp

COVID-19 has forced companies the world over to enact — or create — remote working protocols.

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4 Reasons To Consider VPS Hosting For Your Business Website

The Human Factor

In our now very digital world, every business needs a website, but it isn’t as simple as just opening your computer and designing one. Websites need to be hosted on servers and there are quite a few different types to choose from – here are 4 reasons why you may want to consider a Virtual Private Server, VPS, to host your business website. . What is VPS hosting?

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3 Steps for Aligning Remote Teams to Move Forward Every Day

Peer Insight

F:or many of us remote work or teleworking is a brand new reality. Even if we worked from home occasionally, having a full team working remotely is a new challenge to navigate. Some of us are finding out in real time all of the challenges and successes with this new way of working. There are lots of tools and tips out there to make things easier (or even make it possible), but that doesn’t always mean teams feel like they have forward momentum in their projects.

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Implementing Intelligent Document Processing Solutions: Why It Works

See how companies like yours are tackling some of today’s most common business problems using AI-assisted automation for document processing. Manually capturing, extracting, and processing data within documents is a costly and outdated practice that’s holding your company back. IDP takes document processing to a whole new level so you can understand and use your data more effectively than ever before.

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Doing the Right Thing: Kent Taylor at Texas Roadhouse

Michael Roberto

Source: bizjournals.com This morning, I read some terrific news about a leader doing the right thing for his organization amidst the COVID-19 crisis. Kent Taylor is co-founder and CEO of Texas Roadhouse, the popular steakhouse restaurant chain. According to this article by Leo Shvedsky , Taylor has chosen to give up his 2020 salary and bonus. He's giving the money to his employees who are hurting financially due to the crisis.