Thu.Feb 13, 2020

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There's gold in the data - but have we learned the lessons?

Jeffrey Phillips

For some reason I can't get the song Clementine out of my head. Perhaps it's because of the line - dwelt a miner, a 49er. that keeps that song playing in my mind. We are in a significant transition. One breed of miner - the hardhat wearing, coal digging, heavy equipment manager is leaving the scene, being replaced by large equipment, robots, issues with safety and the environment and of course greenhouse gas concerns.

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Create a Culture of Innovation with the 10 Laws of Trust

Leapfrogging

Trust is the currency of business success. Here’s how to build it into your corporate culture. Leading organizational change to create a corporate culture that delivers continuous innovation is one of today’s most strategic business imperatives. But how do you do that? We’ve seen what happens to companies when customers lose trust in their brands – just think Target (data breach), Chipotle (E. coli outbreak), and Facebook (selling user data).

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How to Manage Strategic Risk for Organizational Success

Cascade Strategy

This is our introduction to strategic risk for 2020. We're aiming to cover as many of the key topics as possible, around strategic risk and how you can manage it in your organization. We'll cover things like: What is strategic risk? How to identify strategic risk. What type of risk you should be looking for. Approaches to measuring strategic risk. AND, we'll even give you a downloadable version of this guide with a framework you can follow.

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Are you building NPD concepts with consumers in a way that sets them up for success?

Innovation Excellence

The use of co-creation to build product concepts is a relatively rare and innovative practice. If you are embracing it you are a truly innovative innovator, a trail blazer following close behind pioneers of innovation best practice like PepsiCo, P&G and Danone. From our experience we have identified that a considerable shift in attitude and mindset.

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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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‘Loonshots’: How to Support Crazy Ideas That Just Might Work

Innovation Leader

Ideas that have the potential to reshape industries may end up stuck in the corporate basement. So how can companies embrace risky ideas? Authors Safi Bahcall and Hugh Molotsi serve up answers in this video.

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Solutions without Consultants

Stephen Shapiro

I come from a consulting background having spent 15 years with Accenture. The work we did (and they still do) is incredibly valuable. But not all companies can afford Accenture or McKinsey. So when I was asked, what problem did I hope to solve with Invisible Solutions , I revealed that I wanted to help people solve their own problems. Watch this 1 minute 32 second video for more insights.

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Coaching: It’s much more than communication skills.

CMOE

What is Coaching? People often think of coaching as a set of communication or cognitive skills. While it’s true that coaching does require the ability to communicate and interact with others successfully, I would argue that coaching is something you do with your whole self. Listening effectively, asking good questions, and assertively expressing your point of view are all essential coaching abilities , but they don’t tell the whole story.

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Politics, Economics and Climate need to come together.

Paul Hobcraft

In the last few months, I have got increasingly nervous about where we are NOT going on climate change. I have never before published one article on each of my three posting sites. This post I just had to. It is shaping me in how I look at innovation, collaboration, ecosystems and most of all in our world of energy transition needed to reverse climate warming. so apologies if you see it on three separate sites but I don’t apologize for my real, underlying concern on where we are seemingly

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Things Every Office Has To Deal With At Some Point

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. Office managers know that there are a large number of common issues within offices. Generally, these are professional issues, such as needing to call [link] for IT support. But there are also things that office managers generally have in common when it comes to issues. These are wide-reaching and can cause serious issues for a business.

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IdeaScale and The Idea Guy Team Up to Create Best-in-Class Training

IdeaScale

Are you looking for training that will build systemic creativity within your organization? IdeaScale is partnering with The Idea Guy® to offer options that will expand our current offerings and significantly impact company performance by helping you develop an idea management strategy that works. The training programs established by this partnership will reach worldwide and will address important matters such as: Problem-solving Decision-making Ongoing innovation.

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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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The Risks Of Scaling Your IT

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. As the business grows and changes, it’s only natural that modern tech evolves to fill what gaps are needed. New hardware, software, networks, and the like will increase your tech scope. During that process, however, there are risks that you have to deal with. From how the team interacts with the tech to which tech you’re implementing in the first place, here are the risks you’re going to have to plan to deal with. source.

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The latest digital innovations in Construction

Idea to Value

I’m currently on the train, coming back from the DigitalBAU expo in Cologne, where I had the pleasure of representing Z-LAB to new clients. It was fascinating to see all of the most recent developments and innovations which are coming to the construction industry in Germany in the coming months and years.Here are my takeaways of the most popular and important innovations on display: Platforms : Clients like construction companies are demanding a wider selection of services and providers, a

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Managing Your Money as Best Possible

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. source. Managing money can be difficult. We all need money to survive and almost anything in life costs something. So you’re going to have to be savvy when it comes to making wise financial decisions and ensuring you don’t slip into debt and always keep your head above water with your cash. Here are a few simple things you might want to consider doing in order to manage your money as best possible.

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Ensuring Your Start Up Can Be An Amazing Success

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. When you decide to break free from your 9-5 to pursue your very own start up, it’s important that you can take steps to ensure that your efforts are worthwhile and your business can succeed. You need to commit a lot of time and energy to your start up to make sure that you can cover every aspect and bring the whole project together, so it’s important that you can prepare yourself sufficiently to allow yourself the time to get it right.

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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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3 Ways To Run Your Small Business More Effectively

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. When you run your own small business, you are always being pulled in several different directions. There are likely to be several balls in the air all at once and it is down to you to keep everything going. Key to this is your own efficiency and leadership and today we want to share with you a few tips and suggestions around this, in 3 ways to run your small business more effectively. source.

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Successful Selling Tips For a First Time Sales Rep

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. No one is born a natural salesperson. A good rep makes it look super easy, but actually, an excellent sales performance means that they are likely to have spent plenty of time honing their skills and continually working on them to help better their prospects. If you are a first-time sales rep, or perhaps you are looking at going back to basics, here are some of the foundations of successful selling. source.

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