Wed.Mar 04, 2020

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Key Factors Affecting Your Strategy Implementation

Cascade Strategy

If you’ve been an avid reader of our blog for some time, you know that developing an effective strategy for your organization is vital for growth and sustainability. However, coming up with a strategy that can work is only part of the battle - making it happen is a whole different challenge.

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The Flywheel of Growth – A Strategic Innovation Framework

Innovation Excellence

These days virtually everyone agrees that innovation is strategically important. For example, in an international PwC innovation survey of roughly 250 CEOs, only 3% said that innovation is not a strategic priority for them. Regardless of these results, organizations often struggle in aligning their innovation efforts with their overall strategy. On the other hand, top performing innovators always seem.

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Paying forward lessons learned from a life of service

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5 Steps to More Effective Gate Meetings

Sopheon

See how to improve gate meetings to help your organization achieve new levels of success in bringing innovative new products to market. The post 5 Steps to More Effective Gate Meetings appeared first on Sopheon.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Groundbreaking Healthcare Technology Receives Open Innovation Boost

IdeaConnection

A smartphone app that leverages artificial intelligence and other technologies to monitor a person's health in real-time by analyzing a part of their face.

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YOU HAVE WISDOM TO SHARE (and it is hiding in your stories)

Innovation Excellence

All 7.6 billion people on planet Earth are composed of the same six elements: hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorous. And all 7.6 billion people, no matter where they were born or what language they speak, are composed of 75% water, 23 pairs of chromosomes, and approximately 37.2 trillion cells. That’s the measurable stuff.

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Key Factors Affecting Your Strategy Implementation

Cascade Strategy

If you’ve been an avid reader of our blog for some time, you know that developing an effective strategy for your organization is vital for growth and sustainability. However, coming up with a strategy that can work is only part of the battle - making it happen is a whole different challenge.

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Why there’s no straight path to entrepreneurial success

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Changing Your Life and Achieving Your Goals

The Human Factor

From the day we are born, we are continually being set up for success. From our parents as they teach us basic skills and about the world around us, to teachers who need to make sure we know as much as possible to gain the skills for the future. Everything we do is geared to help you make a success of your life. source. At some point, you will need to take the helm and be in control of your own successes.

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Using the building blocks of technology to make a difference

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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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How Do Businesses Afford Their Machines?

The Human Factor

source. There are a lot of different types of business which need to use machines. From construction to manufacturing, it’s easy to find large machinery across a range of different industries, and businesses of all sizes need to be able to get their hands on these tools. Of course, though, machines aren’t cheap, and it can be hard to see how a small company is supposed to be able to afford this.

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Using modern technology to keep people safe in the sky, and on land

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What Does It Take To Find A Gap In The Market?

The Human Factor

source. As we learn to fine-tune our business and run it effectively there could be potential problems that we never understood at the outset. Ultimately, many businesses want to find a gap in the market. This is an area that you can oversee and dominate. This is the goal for every business and if you can find the space it will do wonders for your business and your entrepreneurial career.

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Using grassroots R&D to build the company of the future

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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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Leadership FAQs: How Do I Get My Team To Work Better?

The Human Factor

If you have found yourself asking the title question, you are not alone. But the knowledge that other businesses find themselves in similar situations offers no comfort. Employees are the greatest asset at your disposal, if you can unlock their full potential. Now is the time to make it happen. While it may sound like a difficult subject to master, these eight great tips will lead you to success.

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Why old school no longer works for entrepreneurial education

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4 Benefits for Continuous Learning in the Workplace

The Human Factor

source. Providing workplace training opportunities is a sure-fire way to cultivate a knowledgeable and versatile workforce. As employers strive to increase the value of their human capital, expanding the skillset of your current employees is an effective way to boost your turnover and minimize your operational costs. However, the benefits of continuous learning in the workplace don’t stop there.

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Walking through minefields: An entrepreneur’s journey

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & 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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Taking Your Contracting Business To The Next Level

The Human Factor

If you own and run a contracting business, you may have noticed that over the last few years, things may have slowed. While you may think this is down to economic changes, you may be wrong, as difficult as it may be to hear, the problem may actually be with your business. While your contracting business may have issues, this shouldn’t alarm you too much because if the problems are small, they can be addressed quite easily.

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Harnessing the Ingenuity of Soldiers

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Do You Need A Water Pressure Booster System?

The Human Factor

source. When you own an office building or an apartment building, there are many aspects to consider. If you own this type of building, one of these considerations is the water pressure. In a big apartment building or a large office building, you don’t want all of your tenants or employees complaining about how the water pressure is not good. A solution for this is to get a water pressure booster system.

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Aim (Really, Really) High: Scaling a Local Idea to an Entire Service

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How Mature Companies Are Scaling Transformational New Businesses

Scaling transformational innovations in large companies is challenging due to ‘Company Fit’ issues, which arise when the resources, processes, and priorities (RPPs) of the core business are not aligned with the needs of the new business. Many companies have learned how ambidexterity—the ability to both ‘exploit the present and explore the future,’ can help them address these issues for ideation and incubation of new innovations, but scaling transformative business innovations remains a challenge

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A Look at Innovative Sustainability Trends for 2020

IdeaScale

Are you looking to shape sustainability trends in 2020? There’s a climate fight going on, and consumers and citizens are getting their say. Organizations and policymakers are altering how they do business to introduce new rules for promoting global sustainability. There are several trends set to shape these sustainability efforts in 2020. Here are five to watch. 1.

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Beyond Startups — Using Lean to Solve Real-World Problems

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This is what makes a world-class innovator

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Here’s what mission-driven entrepreneurship ed looks like

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How Automation is Driving Efficiency Through the Last Mile of Reporting

Speaker: Jamie Eagan

As organizations strive for agility and efficiency, it's imperative for finance leaders to embrace innovative technologies and redefine traditional processes. Join us as we explore the pivotal role of digitalization and automation in reshaping what is commonly referred to as the “last mile of reporting”. We’ll deep-dive into why digitalization is no longer a choice, but a necessity for finance departments to stay competitive in a fast-paced environment touching on: 2024 trends for the Office of

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It’s Not Just Tech Problems: How Hacking for Defense is Making the World a Safer Place

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Purpose and possibilities: Helping veterans transition to life out of uniform

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Building Strategic Partnerships to Scale Mission-Driven Entrepreneurship

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Following these 5 rules will put your company on the right path to scale

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Implementing Intelligent Document Processing Solutions: Why It Works

See how companies like yours are tackling some of today’s most common business problems using AI-assisted automation for document processing. Manually capturing, extracting, and processing data within documents is a costly and outdated practice that’s holding your company back. IDP takes document processing to a whole new level so you can understand and use your data more effectively than ever before.