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Happy 10th birthday, Exago!

Exago

In a historic building in Lisbon, overlooking the Tagus river, Exago celebrated its 10th anniversary on Friday, November 24. It was the perfect opportunity to bring together the people who are part of us and our history: our team (past and present), our clients and our partners. We would like to thank all those who […]. The post Happy 10th birthday, Exago!

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3 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Bet Your Business On A Platform

Digital Tonto

The basic laws of business have not changed Related posts: The Platform Fallacy. Today, Every Business Must Transform Itself Into A Platform. Is Your Platform Burning? Don’t Be Fooled By These 3. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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29 Ideas to Speed Up Your Strategic Planning Process Right Now!

BrainZooming

Are you still trying to finish your strategic planning process for next year ? Is it to that point where your biggest worry is being about to call the plan strategic without making other executives fall on the floor laughing hysterically? If this sounds like your situation (and we know, based on searches many of you are using to peruse Brainzooming strategic planning content, that at least SOME of you are facing this challenge), then the new eBook from The Brainzooming Group is the answer: Right

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Leonard: 4 pillars of a wise corporate Open Lab

Innovation Excellence

Leonard is the new innovation entity initiated by VINCI, a major player in construction, and concession agreement indutries. VINCI designs, finances, builds, and operates infrastructure and facilities that help improve daily life and mobility for all. I spoke with Matthieu Lerondeau, Leonard Head of Communications & Communities, about the missions, and organization of Leonard.

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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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Bringing Your Balanced Scorecard Alive with Collaborative Innovation

Innovation Architecture

Introduction. Robert Kaplan and David Norton popularized the Balanced Scorecard twenty years ago. Its simple, visual framework helps organizations depict linked sets of goals that define strategy. Today, with new mindsets, practices, and technologies, people have more opportunities to engage in helping their organizations envision the future. The scorecard, however, can at times seem like an Easter Island statue, offering mute, impenetrable witness to firm performance.

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5 Kick-Ass Gadgets That Help Deliver Killer Presentations

Innovation Excellence

These five gadgets will help you to stay in control, focus on your content, and wow your audience. I’ve been on the speaking circuit for 25 years. I’ve learned a lot in that time about what makes a keynote presentation great; not just good but great. My previous Innovation Excellence article on Can You Present.

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Fostering Innovation with Technological Solutions – Part 1

Wazoku

Here’s an odd challenge to get you thinking. What might the link be between Barcelona, fostering innovation with technological solutions and organisations looking to give the people what they want? This two-part series will explore the topic of a session I recently gave at a Design Thinking and Business Innovation Summit. The series opens by considering how organisations are using various technology solutions to tackle everything from continuous improvement through to grand challenges.

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The Idiot Savant's Guide to Accelerating Culture Change

Idea Champions

Imagine that you have been tasked with the challenge of addressing the need for "culture change" within your team, department, or entire organization. I'm assuming you didn't go to graduate school in "culture change" and that you also have a lot of other stuff on your plate. Correct? I thought so. Yours is a curious challenge that will require major clarity on the front end, skillful facilitation in the middle, and meaningful follow-up on the back end.

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Confronting Unethical Behavior in the Workplace

Michael Roberto

I recently read a thought-provoking piece by Darden Professor Mary Gentile about what she calls values-based conflicts in the workplace. Gentile argues that we often hear a series of rationalizations if and when we try to raise concerns about the ethics of certain behavior in organizations. Gentile argues that it is worthwhile to step back and try to understand the nature of the objections and rationalizations.

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A three-pronged approach for making progress

Mike Shipulski

When you’re looking to make progress, the single most important skill is to see waiting as waiting. The first place to look for waiting is the queue in front of a shared resource. Like taking a number at the deli, you queue up behind the work that got there first and your work waits its turn. And when the situation turns bad, prioritization meeting spring up to argue about the importance of one bit of work over another.

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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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Top Resources for Driving Engagement

IdeaScale

A key goal at Open Nation this year was to share best practices and top resources for driving engagement. To prepare for Open Nation, our team collected and shared some of our favorite resources on community engagement strategies. Now, we want to share them with you: Webinar: How to Engage the Crowd. Take home message: Plan for multiple touch points throughout a challenge both in terms of channel outreach and messaging.

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Principles of open innovation

hackerearth

What do mini-Big Bang Theory Lego, Mozilla, Facebook’s Pride Flag feature, P&G’s Connect+Develop, and Moodle have in common? There are all examples of open innovation (OI) at its best. Popularized by Henry Chesbrough,“Open Innovation” term refers to the broad concepts of leveraging external sources of technology and innovation to drive internal growth.