Tue.May 02, 2023

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How to design and test business ideas

Strategyzer Innovation

A few years ago, Nico LeBlanc and I were invited to work with an innovation team at a large pharmaceutical company. The team was preparing to launch a digital health platform within a few months.

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Google's 'Moonshot Factory' Is Known for Wild, World-Changing Ideas. Here's What It Took For One of Them to a Become a Real World Startup.

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Kathy Hannun, the founder of geothermal energy company Dandelion, believed she could make cheap, sustainable home heating and cooling accessible to the masses. Here's what she learned along the way.

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Boards Are Having the Wrong Conversations About Cybersecurity

Harvard Business Review

A survey of 600 directors suggests that growing awareness of cyber risk isn’t enough to drive better preparedness.

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Business Transformation Strategy: Breakthrough Ahead

Kainexus

Business transformation strategy is the comprehensive process of changing an organization's core operations, processes, culture, and capabilities to achieve specific goals or outcomes. The strategy aims to restructure an organization's fundamental approach to its business, often in response to new opportunities or challenges. Business transformation involves more than incremental improvements; it requires fundamental changes to an organization's operations, culture, and technology infrastructure

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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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Innovation Is Driving Away Your Top Talent

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton You want and need the best, most brilliant, most awesome-est people at your company. But with unemployment at a record low, the battle for top talent is fierce.

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How to Answer “What Are Your Strengths and Weaknesses?”

Harvard Business Review

Advice and examples to help you craft an authentic answer to this common interview question.

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Disruption Isn’t the Only Path to Innovation

Harvard Business Review

A conversation with INSEAD professor Renée Mauborgne on nondestructive creation.

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Building A Sustainable Future: Can Technology Help Save The Environment?

Acuvate

As the way we live has changed, so has the world around us. Fossil fuels revolutionized industry, transportation and power generation but have also contributed to an alarming rise in global temperatures and pollution. Carbon dioxide emissions have increased by a whopping 32 percent between 2000 and 2010, and by 2020 had reached 34.81 billion metric tons.

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How Midsize Companies Can Drive Digital Transformation

Harvard Business Review

Leaders need to focus on five key areas.

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3 Keys to Transition Speakers in Group Presentations

BrainZooming

What's the best way to make an effective transition between speakers during a group presentation, especially if you don’t want the transition to be as clunky and awkward as most of them are in practice? A group of young executives at a Brainzooming strategic thinking workshop asked this question about passing the presenter role within group presentations.

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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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How to combine offline and online ideation

HYPE Innovation

Ideas can emerge anywhere: at meetings, through informal conversations, during hackathons, and, in the digital space, via emails, notes, or calls. But how do you combine online (digital) and offline (in-person) ideation and organize ideas in a single centralized space to ensure that you don’t lose any of them, no matter where they originate?

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Navigating Sustainability in Business: A conversation with Richard Stechow and Vera Hermes for Haufe Academy

The BMI Lab Blog

In today's business landscape, sustainability is no longer a choice, but a necessity. Companies that fail to adopt sustainable practices risk being left behind by their competitors. Richard Stechow (BMI Lab) shares valuable insights on sustainability in business in an interview with Vera Hermes for the Haufe Academy's sustainability program. Stechow emphasizes the importance of implementing innovative sustainable solutions, despite the absence of a universal approach.