IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Is your business innovation driven by internal rewards? Do your employees do what they do because they love doing it? If so, you’re successfully tapping into a process known as intrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation occurs when an individual acts out of genuine interest in the task. It’s about the internal rewards that come from doing what you love to do versus external rewards or incentives, which are known as forms of extrinsic motivation.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

In my class today on digital transformation I was fortunate enough to have a great guest speaker, Ramesh Latan, who helped transform Bell+Howell into a digital company. Ramesh gave a great talk and the students received it really well. One of the key points he made was how much more efficiently (and rapidly) digital processes operate. While his key focus was the Internet of Things, he talked about speeding up a number of activities that support e-commerce: picking, sorting, packaging, addressing

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InnovationManagement

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Innovative ideas and processes will stagnate without support from middle management. Let's explore why that is, with an emphasis on larger companies, in this article. The post 5 Reasons Why Middle Management Slows Down Innovation appeared first on Innovation Management.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Today is Ash Wednesday which marks the beginning of Lent. This season is a time intended for more prayer and quiet times. In what’s become an annual tradition, I’ve shared a creativity prayer on this day that I wrote several years ago as part of a creativity presentation I developed. If you’re struggling creatively, invest some of your time today and in the next weeks asking for a potentially new inspiration source to enhance your creativity and the creativity of those around y

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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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etventure

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Why German SMEs must act now and how digital platforms can help. Platforms are the central business model of the digital economy. Seven of the ten most valuable companies are now operating as interaction managers between supplier and consumer. Because platforms have many competitive advantages over traditional linear companies, they are also becoming increasingly popular in business-to-business (B2B) markets.

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New Markets Advisors

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

When I first started helping companies deploy Jobs to be Done within their organizations, people were largely unfamiliar with the concept… Continue reading on New Markets Insights ».

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CMOE

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Leading and managing others is a huge responsibility that can feel even more daunting if you’re new to a leadership role. There are a lot of skills to learn and rules to remember. One of the hardest parts of any management position is figuring out how to do the best possible job without getting behind on your own tasks or alienating your employees. A manager has more tasks to complete than any of the employees who report to them because they are ultimately responsible for everything their worker

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Michael Roberto

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Source: Flickr What happens when a culture of fear takes hold in an organization? How can it put an entire enterprise at risk? The story of Sasol, the South African integrated energy and chemicals company, offers some stark lessons. Bloomberg reported this week on problems with two giant projects at the company: a ethane cracker plant in Louisiana and a wax project in Sasolburg, South Africa.

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

January is now well past and so too is an annual event. The CES (Consumer Electronics Show), one of the hottest tickets in town if you are involved in marketing or product development across so many sectors, takes place every year in Las Vegas. The desert sparkles with ideas as for 3 days nearly 200,000.

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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

In today’s world of exponential change and technological disruption, encouraging organizational innovation is key to helping your organization leverage Hard Trends and use them to anticipate what’s to come. To help achieve that, there are various ways to adequately nurture and ultimately sustain an innovative culture. These ways are included, but not limited to, financial rewards, time off, and the flexibility to work remotely from a place that’s inspiring, oftentimes easily from home in today’s

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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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