Tue.Jan 07, 2020

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Strategic and Systemic Alignment – why they really matter

Innovation Excellence

In my early days at Compass Learning, I designed and delivered a wide range of top team strategic alignment and development programs. Where the focus was on enabling and empowering team members to metaphorically “sing from the same song sheet” – by agreeing to and articulating a common purpose, clarifying roles and goals and driving.

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Are Innovation and Empathy in the Cards?

Braden Kelley

As part of the leadership team for a new human-centered problem-solving offering for select Oracle customers, I’m always on the lookout for new tools to integrate into our flexible problem-solving process to help clients innovate, grow or transform.

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How to Scale Your Innovation Program

IdeaScale

Innovation drives growth.?. Any well-run business grows, whether at a rapid clip or steadily as it adds clients, products, and services. Thus, every part of a business feels growing pains; departments need more staff, solutions that worked before begin to struggle under the increased volume, and informal approaches break down. This is true of innovation strategy as well, but it doesn’t have to be that way.

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Innovation building blocks

Jeffrey Phillips

I like music - but that does not exactly make me a good musician. Over the years I've taken lessons on the piano, tenor saxophone, bagpipes and most recently the acoustic guitar. One thing I've learned is that every competent teacher of any instrument wants you to learn and practice your scales. As a kid I hated scales. Scales are just going up 8 notes and coming back down.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Electric Vehicle Battery Recycling Innovations Will Play an Important Part in Full Lifecycle CO2 Emissions Reductions

Sopheon

How will organizations innovate electric vehicle battery recycling to achieve a low carbon lifecycle? Solving this dilemma will be just as important as NPD. The post Electric Vehicle Battery Recycling Innovations Will Play an Important Part in Full Lifecycle CO2 Emissions Reductions appeared first on Sopheon.

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About-Face: How AI and Augmented Reality is Transforming Skin Care

Wellspring

The personal care industry has seen many trends come and go over the years. With promises to revitalize and rejuvenate, clarify and cleanse, or depuff and detoxify, marketers have effectively built associations between certain ingredients, like charcoal or cucumber, and these claims/promises. However, consumers that test out products based on trendy ingredients, hoping for the implied outcome, are often disappointed with the results.

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What is Total Innovation Management? Achieving Excellence from Idea Generation to Implementation

Qmarkets

To maximize the ROI of your innovation initiatives, it’s vital to gain input from as many sources as possible and ensure all departments take part in a culture of ideation. In this article, we explore the concept of Total Innovation Management (TIM) and how you can leverage it at your enterprise. One of the most famous fables from India is ‘The Blind Men and the Elephant’.

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#1,589 – 2020 Breakthrough Nominee: Bitmoji TV

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Admittedly, I was very late to join the Bitmoji bandwagon, only recently inserting my very own personalized avatar into the occasional text message after a friend started using one as well. But I sure am glad that I’m now fully on board in light of recent news that Snapchat will soon be launching Bitmoji TV. A move that has the feel of a runaway hit.

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GUY KAWASAKI on The Top Ten Mistakes of Entrepreneurs

Idea Champions

This is absolutely brilliant! Fantastic content, authentic delivery, entertaining, and provocative. If you are an aspiring entrepreneur, this is required viewing. But even if you're not trying to raise venture capital, you can still learn a lot from Guy simply by tuning into the way he makes his pitch. And his Art of the Start is a treasure.

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#1,590 – 2020 Breakthrough Nominee: Dopamine Hacking

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Trying to predict trends ahead of time can be challenging. You never quite know how new ideas will be received in the marketplace. New technologies and scientific breakthroughs seemingly pop up out of nowhere. Flashes of brilliance coming when we least expect them. But I have a fair bit of confidence in predicting that Dopamine Hacking is likely going to increase in popularity in the near future.

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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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Working Backwards to Innovate at Amazon

Michael Roberto

Recently, Lisa Eadicicco wrote an article for Business Insider titled, "This is the test Amazon uses to decide which ideas are worth turning into new products." She describes the "working backwards" methodology that Amazon routinely uses during its new product development process. Here's an excerpt: And while Amazon's product portfolio may be larger and more diverse than ever, there's a simple process the company uses to figure out which ideas are worthy of becoming real products: writing a pres

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How chatbot platforms promise to reduce Customer Service costs

mjvinnovation

But what’s a Chatbot? How can this digital solution be implemented in customer service? What benefits will your company get when adopting it? This article will give you the answer to all these questions and more. Why are chatbots becoming such popular tools? On the surface, a Chatbot is an application that mimics human conversations in order to solve several tasks more quickly.

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The Nice Business Touches That Enhance Customer Goodwill

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. source. Goodwill is perhaps one of the most useful business principles and ‘energies’ that you could ever curate, because of how simple and easy it is to collect. You needn’t have to use deceptive practices to enhance it either. Goodwill can help you ensure customer loyalty, or perhaps it’ll ensure they retweet your social media promotions, or perhaps it means they’ll recommend your services to a friend.

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How To Stay Healthy With A Hectic Work Schedule

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. When you run your own business or have a particularly demanding job, it’s almost guaranteed that most of your attention is being directed towards things that do not concern your health. Looking after yourself always seems to take a back seat, but this can have a devastating effect on your wellbeing, as well as your ability to work to your full capabilities.

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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.