Thu.Jan 28, 2021

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Establishing Trust in 2021: Innovation and an Imperative for Embracing Data Privacy, Transparency and Security

Entrepreneur - Innovation

From Covid-19 to the SolarWinds cyberattack, 2020 delivered many blows to public trust. Founders need to take the lessons learned and ensure they are not part of the problem.

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If You Want to be More Creative, Mix With More Creative People

Destination Innovation

According to Jim Rohn, you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. The people you associate with help shape what you think and who you are. We tend to congregate with friends who are like us in background, interests, education, attitudes and opinions. This is comfortable and reassuring but it inhibits creativity or independent thought.

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Fireside Chat with Nick Skillicorn: Interview by Jasmin Hindi – Podcast S4E98

Idea to Value

I was delighted to be interviewed by renowned creative leader Jasmin Hindi for a recent “ Fireside Chat ” on the topic of developing our creativity. We discussed a wide variety of topics, including: Who the heck I am and my background. What people can do to stay creative during the pandemic. Why so many people struggle to get started on their creative projects.

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Ways to Generate Ideas from a Distance

IdeaScale

More people are working from home than ever before. Organizations need a way of innovating from a distance. Remote work is expected to increase in the coming years. A recent study reveals 42% of employees who are given the option will work from home more within five years. Collaboration is the key to effective idea creation … Continued. The post Ways to Generate Ideas from a Distance appeared first on IdeaScale.

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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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13 Indispensable Lean and Six Sigma Tools and Techniques

Kainexus

Six Sigma is a business methodology focused on improving the quality of goods or services an organization produces by reducing variance in the production process. Six Sigma leaders know that when a production process lacks the stability to create high-quality output consistently, it will continue producing defective products until someone intervenes and improves the process.

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Alestra Seeks to Continue Innovating With International Scaleups

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Six international scaleups entered Alestra's Open Innovation and Soft Landing Program. They are linked to AI, IoT Cybersecurity and Blockchain.

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#2,089 – The Line

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Thanks to COVID-19 cities may be dying. As Fast Company puts it: “For those of you who live in cities, ask yourself: What it is about your urban lifestyle that makes it worth it despite the pollution, the noise, and the traffic? Perhaps it’s the hundreds of unique restaurants that you like to dine at. Or the density that fosters a vibrant night life and cosmopolitan cultural scene.

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Building, Scaling & “Unbossing” Innovation at Novartis’ Genesis Labs

Innovation Leader

Ian Hunt and Aimee Reynolds of Novartis’ Genesis Labs share insights on developing an effective innovation ecosystem that ensures that the best ideas bubble up to the top.

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#2,091 – Lab Grown Wood

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

In the past I’ve written about Invisible Wood and Super Wood but this latest wood related innovation, wood that’s grown in a lab, takes the cake. It could even save the world. Fast Company explains: “Scientists have already figured out how to grow meat in a lab, nurturing animal cells to multiply into chicken cutlets and burger patties.

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Mission Statement Training Workshop

InnovationTraining.org

Our mission statement training workshop is a fast-paced program to help your group create and align on a mission statement. We use an innovative design thinking framework to help you develop your mission and communicate it in an engaging way for your stakeholders, colleagues, and the people that you serve. In this training, you will learn about the fundamentals of a mission statement, and connect to your own purpose to start generating ideas for what to include in your own.

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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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What Does It Mean to be a 21st Century Leader?

Moves the Needle

People often have different ideas of what makes a good leader. The definition of a leader, to me, is someone who empowers others to be all that they can be. They must bring out the best in people and help them realize their potential, including how to pursue their own ideas for solving problems. It is crucial as a leader to empower your employees, teach them how to be an A-Player, have great communication with them, and have empathy for one another.

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Higher Education KPIs - Most Commonly Used KPIs in 2021

Cascade Strategy

Higher education KPIs are measurable values used by educational institutions to measure and track their progress on specific business objectives. Furthermore, these KPIs help education institutions monitor and evaluate how well they're performing, and direct their policy formulation and target setting. We've been compiling a whole bunch of KPI examples as part of our KPI examples mini-series.

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Qmarkets Partner with DigitalBasel to Facilitate Crowdsourced Innovation at 2020’s Swiss Digital Days

Qmarkets

Last year DigitalBasel and Qmarkets combined forces to power collaborative innovation as part of the 2020 Swiss Digital Days – a nationwide event that welcomed over 80,000 attendees both virtually and physically across Switzerland. The event promoted digitalization, with the hope of making it a ‘tangible experience for businesses across Switzerland’.

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Why We Should Frame Feedback as Advice

Michael Roberto

Source: Pixabay Jaewon Yoon, Hayley Blunden, Ariella Kristal and A.V. Whillans published a Harvard Business School working paper recently on the topic of seeking (and providing) constructive feedback. They argue that we should request advice from colleagues and leaders, rather than asking for feedback. Yoon and colleagues demonstrate through a series of experiments that, "People offer more critical and actionable input when they are asked to provide advice (versus feedback)—even when they are as

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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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#2,090 – The Box

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

When I first heard about The Box an innovative new packaging design that can be re-used up to a 1,000 times I thought it was something worth writing about but not worth getting all that excited about. But then I read up on it and boy was I impressed! For we’re not just talking about a reusable cardboard box. Rather we’re talking about a state of the art packaging system embedded with sensors and potentially cameras that takes different shapes and tracks your packages in real time.

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Catalysing change through innovation teams

ImagineNation

What makes Israel so innovative? And what has this got to do with teaming? One of the key discoveries, we made, almost ten years ago, when we relocated to Israel, was the power of its innovation eco-system – the result of a collaboration between the state, venture capital firms, successful entrepreneurs, educational system, business system, incubators, and accelerators.

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