Wed.Oct 26, 2022

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Three HOW MIGHT WE Alternatives That Actually Spark Creative Ideas

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton Q: How might we brainstorm new ideas to serve our customers better? A: Have a brainstorming session that starts with “How Might We help customers [Job to be Done/problem]?” If only it were that simple. How Might We (HMW) is an incredible tool (not BS, as some would assert), but we misuse it. We […].

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What’s causing the largest energy deficit in the world? And how to address it.

Christensen Institute

Nigeria has the largest energy deficit in the world , and despite the considerable amount of money invested in the sector in the last two decades, only slight improvement has been recorded. Because of its potential to be both affordable long-term and renewable, solar energy is considered one of the main ways for Nigeria to reach its electricity goals.

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A Day in the Life of Demand Generation Specialist, Anthony Fowler

Planview

Successful, happy teams create incredible work, and the marketing and demand generation teams at Planview do exactly that. Today in our Day in the Life series, we’re spotlighting someone who’s been on a couple of teams at Planview. Based out of Colorado, Anthony Fowler has worked on our sales team in the past and now serves as one of our Demand Generation Specialists on the Marketing team.

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Beyond the Expected: Real-Life Business Uses for Augmented Reality

Daniel Burrus

The phrase “You have got your head up in the clouds” is no longer an insult in today’s world — having your head in the clouds may be the best way forward in business! Of course, I’m talking about Augmented Reality (AR) ; a transformative, disruptive digital technology that has been gaining traction for years and looks to be continuing its exponential growth trend in the years to come.

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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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What Great Remote Managers Do Differently

Harvard Business Review

Remote work brought a subtle but important shift in how employees expect their managers to work with them.

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The Near Future. Step Inside

Phil McKinney

We are living in an innovation-driven world. As the rate of invention speeds up, our ability to predict the timing becomes more difficult. More uncertain. And we face greater risks. We can no longer rely on the patterns of the past to give us clues about the future. We have to be more proactive. We have to be more diligent. We have to be more open-minded.

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What product managers should know about product health metrics

Sopheon

Launching a product represents a significant monetary and time investment, so it only makes sense that product managers proactively monitor product health throughout its lifecycle. Unfortunately, in my experience, about half of product managers actively manage their products’ health. About 40% say they don’t participate in any product health activity, and the other 10% don’t know anything about product health.

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Leveraging New Tech to Boost Supply Chain Resilience

Harvard Business Review

Tools such as 3D printing, simulations, and AI are changing the calculation of labor costs.

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What Makes an Effective Crowd?

100%Open

This month we’ve been thinking a lot about the power of online communities, and how to harness that power as effectively as possible. We asked our in-house specialist, Katie Walsh, to write a few words from her perspective of managing crowds, whether they are composed of brand users, company employees, or competing start-ups. You’ve decided who it is that you’d like to recruit to your crowd: what now?

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Video Quick Take: Schneider Electric’s Rohan Kelkar on the Rewards of Awards - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC

Harvard Business Review

Sponsor content from Schneider Electric.

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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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Climate Risk Is Growing. Is Your Company Prepared?

Harvard Business Review

Leaders need to prioritize, transfer, avoid, or minimize risk — before the next catastrophe hits.

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