Thu.Jun 29, 2017

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A Win-Win Proposition: Valued Employees Deliver Business Value

IdeaScale

Your people are creative and have potential. Possibly great potential. But has your company found a way to effectively engage them and harness it? Employee engagement is one of the most critical topics facing leaders. Not only does low engagement lead to low productivity, but it also leads to a higher turnover rate, particularly among top talent. Conversely, the more engaged your workforce, the more capacity it has to deliver on daily assignments as well as your organizational imperatives.

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How to Foster an Organizational Culture that Encourages Innovation

InnovationManagement

Innovative and forward-thinking companies are successful because they have new, exciting, and useful products or services before others and consumers take notice of companies regularly producing the next big thing. These companies are more effective and they can grow more rapidly because their company culture encourages innovation among their employees.

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12 Resources to Lead a Strategic Planning Process When You’re New

BrainZooming

Someone downloaded a free Brainzooming strategy eBook, noting his biggest strategy challenge is “how to do a strategic planning process when you are new.” That question relates to something we do all the time: walk into a new client in an unfamiliar industry to design and facilitate a strategic planning process. While leading strategy development in a new company poses challenges (including needing to learn a tremendous amount as you go), it has a comparable number of advantages (Inc

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Leaders in Innovation: What Makes Them Who They Are

eZassi

Innovation is the dynamic process of developing new or disruptive products, methods, or services. It doesn’t occur by accident or in a vacuum. Instead, innovation is guided by leaders who understand its demands and complexities, and are willing to share this knowledge with others. Innovation leaders share specific traits that naturally suit them to this role.

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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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104 Mobile Marketing Facts [infographic]

Innovation Excellence

This infographic, compiled by the team behind Website Builder, offers 104 mobile marketing facts, including desktop vs. mobile comparisons, niches that work best, great mobile marketing techniques, but also usage, user friendliness, adoption, commerce, search and conversion stats.

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Four Open Innovation Techniques

Wellspring

There are four main tactics that organizations commonly use for inbound open innovation; tech scouting, vertical collaboration, horizontal collaboration, and technology sourcing. These four tactics are all positively correlated with innovation performance and are all useful to firms who are seeking both radical and incremental innovation results. However, resource constraints may limit the number of OI programs that any one company can realistically execute, and the internal makeup and corporate

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Four Open Innovation Techniques

Wellspring

There are four main tactics that organizations commonly use for inbound open innovation; tech scouting, vertical collaboration, horizontal collaboration, and technology sourcing. These four tactics are all positively correlated with innovation performance and are all useful to firms who are seeking both radical and incremental innovation results. However, resource constraints may limit the number of OI programs that any one company can realistically execute, and the internal makeup and corporate

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Be a Better Leader and have a Richer Life

Rmukesh Gupta

I came across this wonderful video on HBR Video’s that is based on a HBR article by Steward Friedman. He shares some great ideas about how we can go about integrating our professional lives with our personal lives together so that we not only achieve balance but also do better in both aspects of our lives. The short 7 min video explains the premise and covers all the topics that he covers in the article.

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Why Happy Employees are Winning Employees

The Human Factor

Many would say that in life, happiness is winning. Quick, name the single most important contributor to happiness in life. Chances are you said things like family, friends, achieving your goals, or having a good job and nice place to live. Or for the hedonists in the audience, perhaps you said fame, money, good looks, or even a great sex life. According to a report by The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology < [link] >, you would all be wrong.

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PBTO56: The Inevitable – Technological Forces that will Shape Our Future with Kevin Kelly

Rmukesh Gupta

Who is on the show today: Kevin Kelly is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor for its first seven years. His new book for Viking/Penguin is called The Inevitable , which is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. He is also founding editor and co-publisher of the popular Cool Tools website, which has been reviewing tools daily since 2003.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and guest speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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For Independence Day – Why The USA Could Lose World Dominance – Demographic Trends

Adam Hartung

The world has entered a period of rapid change where population and demographics are key drivers. The US must view other countries without its Status Quo prism to objectively consider trends to innovate and capture economic growth.

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There is Algorithm and then there is a self-learning Algorithm

Rmukesh Gupta

There is a lot of noise about the importance and how machine learning is changing the world of business and thereby world around us. There is a lot of examples being shared about the success of recommendation engines of Amazon or Netflix or even some retail giants. But is that really machine learning at work or is it still the work of some really smart and savvy programmers who have created an even smarter algorithm?

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Women in SaaS June Feature: Anna Loukianova

Bolste

Welcome to our third installment of “Women in SaaS,” featuring Bolste’s own, Anna Loukianova! Women in SaaS is Bolste’s series dedicated to the women working in SaaS every day, breaking new ground and changing the world of STEM. Anna Loukianova is a key member of Bolste’s Development team, focusing on the company’s user interface. Before Bolste, Anna worked as a front-end developer for companies, like Vuria and iPlant Collaborative, where she focused on coding in React, JavaScript and work

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Enjoy your shopping with XMind

xMind

We all go shopping. But just because a billion humans do something every day, that doesn’t mean it’s easy. We’ve all been there. Gone to the grocery store to buy groceries that we need for the week. Only to forget what we actually need to buy. Then we have to run to the back of the store to get that one item. It’s a waste of time. Having an organized shopping list ready for a trip to the supermarket is an important part of saving time.

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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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Five Essential Questions

Michael Roberto

My colleague Peter Nigro (finance professor here at Bryant University) gave me a little book to read this week: "What, What?" by James Ryan, Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. What a fantastic read! I laughed, cried, and learned a great deal. Ryan offers five essential questions that we should all ask ourselves (not just once, but throughout our daily lives).

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