Mon.Nov 27, 2017

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Four things that are killing productivity in your office

Destination Innovation

What are the biggest barriers to productivity, efficiency and creativity at work? Which activities absorb the most time for the least return? In her book, The Innovation Revolution, Melissa Kennedy accuses four key suspects. Meetings. Typically people in organizations spend 15% of their time in meetings. For middle managers the figure is 35% and for senior managers it is 50%.

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Flexing Your (Underused) Creative Muscle: my podcast interview with the Innovation Engine

Idea to Value

I was recently interviewed for a podcast by Will Sherlin for his Innovation Engine Podcast , which I wanted to share with you in the embedded file above. Episode Highlights. Why do we need to strengthen our creative capabilities? Professor George Land commissioned a longitudinal study following the same group of people over time to see what happened as they got older.

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Insight: the Metaskill for Product Managers and Innovators [podcast]

Innovation Excellence

The discussion here is about a book 'The Muse' called the number-one best career book available. The book is Insight: Why We’re Not as Self-Aware as We Think, and How Seeing Ourselves Clearly Helps Us Succeed at Work and in Life.

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How to Present a Perfect Innovative Pitch

InnovationManagement

If you want to win, you need to be smart. As a pitch presenter, you’re ought to not just capture the attention of your prospects but also win their hearts. In today’s marketplace, innovation is highly appreciated and wanted. Coming up with a brilliant new product idea is the first aspect. The second is about how you present it to those who might be interested to get involved.

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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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Five Innovation Lessons I Learnt From Rock Climbing

Fehmida Kapadia

Last week, I had the opportunity to spend sometime in the beautiful mountains of Sedona, AZ. When I reached, my Airbnb host informed me that I had the opportunity to be a part of a guided hike to the top of Bell Rock, if interested. Always ready for new challenges, I immediately called the guide and got myself a spot. Little did I know when I left home that morning that this would be my first adventure in rock climbing.

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The FDA’s Digital Health Innovation Action Plan and Cybersecurity for Digital Healthcare

InnovationManagement

The number one issue for aging consumers is the lack of privacy related to sensitive medical information and other data that wearables like Fitbits and heart monitors bring without proper oversight. This is part of the reason for the FDA’s Digital Health Innovation Action Plan (DHIAP), which is meant to speed up the evaluation process for digital health technologies and allow the FDA to better focus on high-risk products.

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Strategic Thinking Skills – 5 Keys to Leading Groups to Action

BrainZooming

What strategic thinking skills are important in helping find agreement for action amid a big, unstructured conversation? That was the challenge during a nonprofit board call. The call was an opportunity for board members to react and share perspectives for the first time as a group about a critical business topic. The meeting objective involved identifying actions the board supported and would collectively recommend.

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Don’t Let Brain Misinformation Lead You Astray

The Human Factor

There’s a lot of media coverage, particularly on those morning “news” shows these days about “new” brain research. Unfortunately a lot of it simply isn’t true. Anyone who has read some of my blogs or my latest book < Order Using Your Brain to Win ! > knows that I am a huge fan of using our brains more effectively in today’s work world.

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Six Myths about Open Innovation

Yet2

You have heard about Open Innovation in the news, but are hesitant to implement OI because you think it won’t be successful. Below are 6 myths about open innovation that will make you rethink your reluctance. Nobody Has Success Using Open Innovation. No success? Open innovation has brought significant benefits to companies from enterprise to startup size, including GE, Lego, Samsung, and even NASA.

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2018: Innovation - Trends and Opportunities

hackerearth

Technology is moving at an incredible pace. We live in an amazing era where things like autonomous cars, personalized medicine, and quantum computing are becoming real as we speak; Artificial Intelligence, cryptocurrencies, advanced automation, deep learning and concepts like Universal Basic Income are about to reshape our world -- what an exciting era to live!

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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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Why R&D Spending has Almost No Correlation to Innovation

Innovation Excellence

A newly released infographic by Visual Capitalist shows that while the US leads in the amount of dollars spent on research and development ($463 billion), it only came in fourth place with the percentage of GDP spent on R&D (2.79 percent), just over half of the GDP percentage invested by South Korea. Beyond Korea, the US is trailing Japan and Germany.