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How strategic cost-cutting helps you shift from survival to growth

Exago

In a weak growth environment, with low investments and rising risks, companies gamble on cost-cutting to ensure that they are prepared and equipped to grow stronger, as they wait for better times to come. Yet, cost-cutting is more and more seen as a way to drive growth, rather than as way to survive or avoid insolvency. The post How strategic cost-cutting helps you shift from survival to growth appeared first on Exago.

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Observation: The First Step in Innovation

IdeaScale

What do you see, in the world around you? In 1602, Galileo Galilei noticed the swinging of a chandelier after it had been lit. It seemed that, regardless of what angle the chandelier swung, the period – that is, the time it took to complete a swing – remained constant, something he confirmed using his pulse to time it. Galileo theorized that this pendulum motion could be used to create more precise timepieces.

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9 Areas to Tune-Up Your Brand Strategy for Peak Performance

BrainZooming

I’m in Las Vegas this week, speaking at the Specialty Equipment Market Association show in Las Vegas. There are 60,000+ attendees and exhibitors. This is my third year speaking during the educational sessions. Last year, I brought one attendee up with me on the stage and had the entire group help come up with ideas for the retail store she represented.

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Ask the Right Question: How to Generate Valuable Ideas

Planview

Every organizational culture (and sub-culture) has its own nuances — some of which may hold keys to getting your crowd to give you their best thinking. Understanding these nuances will help you formulate the right questions to ask when it comes to tapping into the collective intelligence of employees. Asking the right question is the difference between generating valuable ideas that impact business objectives and ideas that don’t move the needle.

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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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Hire the Best People with These 6 Interview Questions

Innovation Excellence

There’s no lack of sources for canned interview questions. A quick Google search on the phrase interview questions turns up about 20 million hits! Good luck with that. In 30 years of interviewing people for roles in fast-paced startup cultures, I’ve come to realize that the vast majority of standard interview questions are useless. Yes, I.

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Ask the Right Question: How to Generate Valuable Ideas

Planview

Every organizational culture (and sub-culture) has its own nuances — some of which may hold keys to getting your crowd to give you their best thinking. Understanding these nuances will help you formulate the right questions to ask when it comes to tapping into the collective intelligence of employees. Asking the right question is the difference between generating valuable ideas that impact business objectives and ideas that don’t move the needle.

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How to train people in innovation?

The BMI Lab Blog

Innovation is all about learning by doing. Training people to be innovative is not just about teaching a specific range of skills. It is far more complicated. Managers looking to create a high-performance and innovative team will also face several cultural challenges. Fortunately, there are also some strategies to overcome the obstacles and get some results in the midterm.

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Better Inventions – Getting the Most Out Of Your Brain

Innovation Excellence

In this article, I focus on one of the four elements – stimulus – that drives the ability of Quantum Idea Generation 2.0 to consistently generate at least 12 X more ideas than brainstorming.

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Innovation Metrics session at Innov8rs Madrid

Innovation 360 Group

INNOVATION METRICS AT INNOV8RS, MADRID. Innovation Metrics by Magnus Penker. Join Magnus Penker, he will be speaking about Innovation Metrics. Innovation is notoriously difficult to measure but any activity that significantly impacts investment, staffing, resources and competitiveness needs to be measured. In this talk, Magnus Penker will share what metrics are proving useful in organizations when pure financial metrics don’t work.

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A Crash Course on Leadership

Idea Champions

Here's pretty much everything you need to know about being a good leader -- whether you are the CEO of a Fortune 500 company or the Director of a 5-person non-profit. Ready? Connect: If you want to lead people, you will need to begin by connecting with them, as in develop some kind of trusting relationship. No one is going to follow a leader they haven't bonded with.

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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 Innovation Project Matrix

Wellspring

Managing Innovation Project Pipelines.

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EVP, Chief Product and Strategy Officer

Linda Bernardi

Linda Joined Element AI as EVP , Chief Product and Strategy Officer. Read the press release on BusinessWire.com HERE. More information available on The Wall Street Journal. Click to read the full text of the Wall Street Journal article. Click to read the full text of the press release announcement. The post EVP, Chief Product and Strategy Officer appeared first on Linda Bernardi.

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Six Benefits of Being Curious

Michael Roberto

Are you naturally curious? Do you love to learn new things? Do you ask questions, seeking to understand what you do not know? It turns out that curiosity can be very beneficial. Emily Campbell has written an article for UC-Berkeley's Greater Good magazine about the six key benefits of curiosity. Curiosity helps us recognize dangers in our external environment.

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & 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.