Tue.Jun 06, 2023

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Identifying Key Component Relationships of Innovation Stacks and Building Blocks.

Paul Hobcraft

Introduction : Mapping out the relationships within an innovation management system is a challenging task. It requires understanding how individuals, data, and communications connect to contribute to innovation at every stage, from discovery to execution. Regretfully today, many innovation management solutions, especially software solutions, have not successfully addressed this relationship problem across the full innovation management process.

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How Nature’s Path Is Supporting Local Organic Community Gardens

Business and Tech

Food insecurity is on the rise all across America and community gardens can have a big impact. Research shows community gardens, which can provide 20 servings of produce for every 11 feet, can help reduce household food security concerns by up to 90%. Jyoti Stephens Vice President of Mission and Strategy, Nature’s Path “Community gardens play a vital role in increasing access to organic food for everyone.

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Learning by Doing: Embracing Experiential Learning

100%Open

Greetings from 100%Open! As we embrace the summer season and continue to thrive in the world of innovation and collaboration, we wanted to take a moment to share our perspective on effective capability building within organizations. Drawing inspiration from David Kolb’s ideas on experiential learning, we introduce our innovative approach called “Learning by doing” Traditional training programs often involve significant investments of time and money, yet they may not always deli

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How to Fail Your Way To Success

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly” It’s a meme and my new favorite euphemism for getting dumped/fired (as in, “There was a rapid unscheduled disassembly of our relationship.

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Speeding Robotics Automation with AI

The $53 trillion manufacturing economy in the US is undergoing a major automation paradigm shift due to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Thanks to new practical frameworks, automation projects that were once impossible or inefficient to implement are now being fast-tracked, and robotics automation is becoming increasingly relevant to a growing number of users and scenarios.

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How college presidents can last in the job to create lasting change

Christensen Institute

Surveying the long tenures and transformational impact of higher education leaders like Freeman Hrabowski, Michael Crow, Paul LeBlanc, Richard Levin and Pat McGuire surfaces a daunting reality. Those individuals’ time in the presidencies have been measured in decades. Instituting and solidifying lasting change at most colleges and universities is not an overnight phenomenon.

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Bear it with a Smile and Learn from Mistakes

Rmukesh Gupta

Julia Child was a phenomenal cook and a TV personality. This is a quote from her book – My Life in France: Usually one’s cooking is better than one thinks it is. And if the food is truly vile, then the cook must simply grit her teeth and bear it with a smile, and learn from her mistakes. – Julia Child, My life in france In my experience, what she said about one’s cooking is true about every aspect of our lives.

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Celebrating LGBTQIA+ Innovators: Shaping a Diverse Future in STEM

Yet2

As we embrace and celebrate Pride Month, it is essential to recognize the contributions of LGBTQIA+ individuals across various fields, including science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. LGBTQIA+ inventors have played a significant role in shaping our world through their ground-breaking innovations and creative thinking. Join us as we add the story of a new LGBTQIA+ Innovator every week for the month of June.

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Steps to take to harness the power of innovation in your organization

Moves the Needle

Readers Note: If you’d like this content in audio format please click here Innovation. A word that permeates boardrooms, management meetings, and the corridors of organizations worldwide. It is key to staying relevant, thriving amidst continuous disruptions, and driving long-term success. But what does innovation truly mean to your organization? How can you harness its potential and translate it into tangible outcomes?

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How to Get Stakeholder Buy-In for a Toolchain Integration Platform

Planview

Change is never easy, and that holds particularly true with the tools people are accustomed to using in their day-to-day work. Even if that change is an upgraded all-in-one platform that can eliminate redundancies, integrate multiple tools, and solve persistent pain points. So how can you convince stakeholders to take a leap of faith and commit to switching platforms?

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How to Innovate, Part 2: Distill

Carla Johnson

June 6, 2023 In part one of this 5-part series on how to innovate, we dove deep into how to better observe our surroundings. We learned why great ideas start with more ideas, and how to observe the world around us step by step. But it isn’t enough to simply collect dots.

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Doing More With Less: The Modern Finance Miracle

Speaker: Mark Gilham, FCCA, CPP

Finance used to be the function that counted, now it's the one that’s counted on. 📊 For accounting firms, controllers, and finance leaders, expectations are rising faster than headcount. Businesses want agile forecasts, granular analysis, seamless reporting, and smart automation—often without added resources while demanding uncompromised accuracy and compliance.

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Managing the Risks of Generative AI

Harvard Business Review

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has become widely popular, but its adoption by businesses comes with a degree of ethical risk. Organizations must prioritize the responsible use of generative AI by ensuring it is accurate, safe, honest, empowering, and sustainable. Organizations need to be mindful of the ethical implications and take necessary steps to reduce risks.

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AI Prompt Engineering Isn’t the Future

Harvard Business Review

Despite the buzz surrounding it, the prominence of prompt engineering may be fleeting. A more enduring and adaptable skill will keep enabling us to harness the potential of generative AI? It is called problem formulation — the ability to identify, analyze, and delineate problems.

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Build a Strong Learning Culture on Your Team

Harvard Business Review

With the nature of work changing so rapidly, it’s no longer enough just to offer employees opportunities for upskilling and reskilling. Companies also need to help workers become “expert learners” — and a key way of doing that, the learning-and-development expert James McKenna writes, is to follow the principles of the Universal Design Framework for learning, or UDL.

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Why More Companies Should Have a Sabbatical Policy

Harvard Business Review

A conversation with HBS lecturer DJ DiDonna on the value of extended time off.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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The Opioid Crisis, CEO Pay, and Shareholder Activism

Harvard Business Review

How can one company best hold itself accountable for its role in the opioid crisis?

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