Thu.Jul 04, 2019

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How to Get the Most from an Innovation Conference

IdeaScale

Conferences play an important role in professional life. Attending conferences relevant to your area of expertise can help you broaden your network, learn new things, and demonstrate innovation leadership. It can be tempting to think of a conference as a sort of vacation, and there’s no question that it’s nice to break out of your routine now and then.

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Designing Your Culture for High Performance

Innovation Excellence

If you follow this column you know that we live in paradoxical times. While our future depends on digital transformations and disruption in every industry, the future of the workplace is human-centered. This particular paradox presents a unique set of issues. If you embrace the thinking in the popular management book, Culture Eats Strategy for.

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The Importance of Senior Management Involvement for Innovation

Viima

Senior management is without a doubt a tough job. If you’re one of the few executives at the top of a large organization, there are likely hundreds of people; customers, employees, partners, and the list goes on; who are all looking for your attention regarding an endless sea of different topics and initiatives.

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More Brilliantly Simple Continuous Improvement Techniques

Kainexus

A while back, we wrote about some continuous quality improvement techniques that we love because they are easy but powerful. One of the most important realizations that people have, when they start to build an organization focused on excellence and constant improvement, is that the path is not complicated. It’s really all about getting the little things right and providing people with a structured way to think about incremental operational change.

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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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Three Steps to Becoming a Data Leader

InnovationManagement

In the aftermath of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), businesses aren’t crying out for data superheroes; but for a complete, well-drilled data army. According to Gartner's Research Vice President, Mario Faria, 90% of businesses will employ a Chief Data Officer (CDO) by the end of this year. However, in a world increasingly governed by data, it is no longer the sole responsibility of a c-suite to ensure compliance – every individual is equally accountable for protecting consumer

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Avoiding The Habit Trap

Phil McKinney

When I was growing up, one time my grandmother baked a fantastic German Chocolate cake. I can see it now — that moist chocolate cake and rich icing. It was great and everyone in the family let her know how great it was. We devoured the cake. But from that time on, we could count […].

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? StratChat Webinar Replay: Testing Business Ideas with David Bland

Strategyzer Innovation

Here's the replay of our latest webinar with special guest David Bland, who explains how systematically testing business ideas can dramatically reduce the risk and increase the likelihood of success for any new venture or business project. David also gives practical tips designed to help teams make experimentation a continuous, repeatable process, and provides plenty of valuable insights from his upcoming book 'Testing Business Ideas' along the way.

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How consumer behavior change can impact corporate CRM

mjvinnovation

The time of a soft market with little supply and a passive clientele is gone. The current competition is overwhelming and the current technology allows almost all humanity, before making a purchase, to search the Internet, in detail, about your product or service. In addition, anyone can share with the whole world whether or not satisfied with the service, continuing a cycle that can establish or ruin your brand.

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The Key to Your Future Is Hiding in Your Company DNA

Innovation 360 Group

Business Rescue: Part III. It’s common to define brands by their traits. They appeal to the consumer with certain set of characteristics that roughly correspond to a personality. This was best illustrated in the series of ads known by their first line, “ I’m a Mac. And I’m a PC.” Just as brands have personalities, companies have DNA. What does that mean?

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How consumer behavior change can impact corporate CRM

mjvinnovation

The time of a soft market with little supply and a passive clientele is gone. The current competition is overwhelming and the current technology allows almost all humanity, before making a purchase, to search the Internet, in detail, about your product or service. In addition, anyone can share with the whole world whether or not satisfied with the service, continuing a cycle that can establish or ruin your brand.

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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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3 Ways to Increase Productivity in Your Business

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. Building your business can a hard and arduous task. Being your own employer can mean you spend more hours working away that you would like or that you could ever have imagined you would! Working as efficiently as possible is a skill and necessity for most bost business owners to be able to keep up with demand on a day to day basis and meet their goals and customer needs and to also be able to have a life outside of work too. image source.

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HAPPY JULY 4th! Inspiring Quotes on Independence

Idea Champions

"Freedom is the will to be responsible to our selves." -- Friedrich Nietzche. "It's easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing -- that's the Lord's test." -- Mahalia Jackson. "We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capacity for independence." -- Fred Rogers.

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4 Reasons That Employees Don’t Trust Their Boss

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. Trust is very important in business but it’s increasingly hard to come by these days. More people are inclined to hop between jobs to get promotions rather than stay loyal to one company, and that’s often because employees don’t have trust in their leaders. It’s important that your employees trust. image source. your judgment and respect you if they’re going to be productive and, most importantly, stay loyal to your company.

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