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Monitor Drivers of Change to Maintain Competitive Advantage | ITONICS

ITONICS

Constant monitoring of trends, emerging technologies, startups, and competitor activity is necessary to see what is happening in your business environment. Companies can identify disruptive trends and be early adopters by recognizing emerging opportunities. Environmental scanning can also be helpful in addressing potential risks before they impact your business.

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The surprising downsides to being an Overachiever at work

Idea to Value

If you want something done, give it to a busy person. I remember this quote from my childhood, and it is meant to show that people who work the hardest are likely to be the ones who are best able to complete additional hard tasks. Since then, there has been an explosion of the productivity culture , where people often work incredibly long hours to show how busy they are and to achieve as much as possible.

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The Top 5 Barriers to Organizational Innovation

IdeaScale

The 2018 Benchmarking Innovation Impact report gathered powerful perspectives regarding why new projects fail. The report surveyed 270 innovation, strategy, and R&D executives with the objective of identifying the top barriers to organizational innovation. The top 5 of these barriers are below. By understanding what they are you can take measures to safeguard against [.].

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Three open innovation models: Which is the right one for your organization?

HYPE Innovation

Before assessing the three key models of open innovation, let’s take a step back and look at what open innovation means.

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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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Getting US health care a passing grade

Christensen Institute

When was the last time you were satisfied with your health care? For the majority of Americans, it seems to have been a while. A recent Associated Press survey found that most Americans think that health care in this country is handled poorly. Only 12% of respondents are extremely happy with the state of US health care. This is relatively unsurprising; between rising health care costs and comparatively poor health outcomes , it’s easy to understand people’s dissatisfaction. .

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How Parents Can Promote Resilience in the Family Business

Harvard Business Review

Focus on providing learning experiences for the next generation — and room for them to make mistakes.

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Successful Leaders Are Great Coaches

Harvard Business Review

People want to work for leaders who help them realize their full potential.

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Business Etiquette – Even on Zoom!

Linda Bernardi

This is not a debate about whether to Zoom or not-to Zoom. Clearly the virtual, remote, and emerging hybrid business environments are surviving via Zoom, Teams, etc. Whether we are having a meeting via Zoom or in person, there are still some polite manners that should be required. For example, if ½ the people shut off video and mute their mics, they are pretty much absent.

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How to Effectively Build Pre-Work into Meetings

Harvard Business Review

Avoiding that “no one did the homework” moment.

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PI Planning in Agile: Boosting Efficiency with Flow Metrics

Planview

PI Planning in Agile is often held quarterly, bringing together multidisciplinary teams to lay out the product delivery cadence. When scaling agility to your whole organization, it’s important to have an overarching cadence to keep teams in sync. In the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®), time is divided into Program Increments (PIs) to provide structure while maintaining agility.

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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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4 Business Ideas That Changed the World: Scientific Management

Harvard Business Review

A roundtable conversation on Taylorism and how it shapes management still today.

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Is Your Leadership Development Program Undermining Your DEI Goals?

Harvard Business Review

Poorly designed programs can exacerbate inequity.