Wed.Feb 22, 2023

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With companies cutting budgets — what should innovators do?

Strategyzer Innovation

A few weeks ago, Dana—the Chief Innovation Officer at a large multinational company contacted us. She was concerned her company was cutting costs across the board and her budget for 2023 had been reduced. We started working together in late 2022, designing the company’s innovation ecosystem and taking 10–12 innovation teams through our discovery and validation programs.

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Anchoring: The bias which affects our ability to estimate & negotiate

Idea to Value

When you are about to negotiate, is it better to go first, or is it better to wait for the other person to show their hand and you then are able to adjust with more information? Well, according to the research, whoever provides the first piece of information has a major advantage, as the final agreed number tends to be closer to their initial suggestion.

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Strategic Partnership Management

HYPE Innovation

Interestingly, financing is not the top reason for start-ups to pursue partnerships, or even among the top three.

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A Digital Talent Hub Can Make Your Sales Team More Agile

Harvard Business Review

Connecting existing systems that track applicants, onboard employees, and monitor performance can help improve your team’s productivity and performance.

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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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Kickstart Change with Reclaimed Focus and Attention

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Janet Sernack In 2019 we experienced the shock and the pain that resulted from the globally disruptive global Covid 19 pandemic.

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How to Seed Organic Marketing in a Video-First World

Harvard Business Review

It’s all about generating content — from consumers, creators, and celebrities.

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Culture Jolt #30 – Aim for true wealth, not just innovation

Values Centered Innovation

Welcome to our Conscious Innovator ® process! Are you ready for a new, insight-provoking “Jolt” … something that challenges conventional thinking about the "right" mindset for being innovative? It's not that the conventional understanding is wrong - just limited. Jolts wake us up. They emphasize a shift of focus that taps into a deeper, more expansive consciousness.

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A Three Degrees of Diversity Icebreaker

BrainZooming

How many meetings do you find yourself in where there are too many of the same person? For me, it’s way too many. That’s despite our best efforts to manage for diversity well in advance of any Brainzooming strategy experience. I often tell the story of one strategy workshop where all twenty-five attendees were middle-aged white males with the same industry experience.

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How Businesses Can Make Plastic Sustainability Core to Growth - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM SAP

Harvard Business Review

Sponsor content from SAP.

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Global Forecaster Wants You to Succeed

Innovators Alliance

Have you met Peter Hall? If not, you should. That ’ s because he has an excellent grasp of what ’ s going on in the global economy and is passionate about helping Canadian businesses—especially exporters—take on the world and be successful. It ’ s our good fortune that Peter is a dear friend of Innovators Alliance. We welcome him to our annual Innovation Exchange event where he updates us on all things related to Canada, exporting, and the global economy.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with 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.

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Research: The Transformative Power of Sabbaticals

Harvard Business Review

A closer look at the benefits for both employees and employers.