Mon.Mar 06, 2023

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The Coming Innovation Slowdown

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell Take a moment to think about what the world must have looked like to J.P. Morgan a century ago, in 1919. He was not only an immensely powerful financier with access to the great industrialists of the day, but also an early adopter of new technologies.

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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

Innov8rs | As we seem to heading towards economic downturn, leaders find themselves trying to reduce costs and foster growth at the same time. This dichotomy delivered by the financial pressure is unfortunately pushing many leaders and top managers towards suboptimal decisions that tend to focus more on survival and not enough on investing in the future.

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The 21 Best Business Strategy Blogs

CMOE

An organization’s success depends on a business strategy that establishes the organization’s mission and what decisions or actions must be taken to achieve it. Every individual in the organization, from front-line worker to Chief Executive Officer, is responsible for implementing the strategy and ensuring the organization’s success. Recognizing opportunities for and potential obstacles to strategic success requires knowledge and insight from the organization and outside sources.

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Creating a Unified Future with Design Thinking: How to Align Sales and Marketing After M&A

Tullio Siragusa

Creating a Unified Future with Design Thinking: How to Align Sales and Marketing After M&A Post-merger and acquisition integration can be a complex and challenging process. One of the most critical aspects of successful integration is unifying the sales and marketing functions of the newly merged or acquired organization. This is because the alignment of these functions is essential for driving revenue growth, building customer relationships, and creating a strong brand image.

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2024’s Retail Odyssey: Going Small, Artificial, and Augmented!

Speaker: Joe Cicman - Principal Analyst at Forrester, and Jason Cottrell - CEO & Founder at Orium

Significant modifications are on the horizon for digital commerce in retail and customer experience come 2024. The pace of tech shifts will intensify, businesses are set to defund legacy solutions, and attractive opportunities will surface as social and retail media players join forces. To stay ahead of the curve, digital leaders are experimenting with less risky initiatives and scaling back on outdated projects that no longer yield impactful results.

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Removing Demographic Data Can Make AI Discrimination Worse

Harvard Business Review

A new study shows that including information about age, gender, and race can produce fairer outcomes.

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Future industry ecosystems will be highly collaborative and adaptive.

Ecosystems4Innovating

Future connected industry ecosystems will be highly collaborative Seizing breaking opportunities, dealing with disruptions and delivering on more demanding customer needs are raising the complexity of managing today. The growing recognition is the need to build flexible ecosystems; of partners where access to a diverse on-demand set of talent, knowledge, expertise, resources and capabilities needs a broad approach in today’s world to meet these complex challenges they seem to multiply dail

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Discovering ChatGPT: 7 Insights from Our New Working Relationship

BrainZooming

Have you spent time with ChatGPT yet to assess its potential impact and possibilities?

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When — and How — to Keep a Poker Face at Work

Harvard Business Review

Practice regulating your emotions by being aware of your facial expressions and body language.

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What’s Holding You Back? The Puzzle of the Three-Story Limit

Carla Johnson

Everyone struggles with obstacles and limits, whether self-imposed or external. It’s part of what makes us human. One of the great joys in life, especially in innovation, is figuring out how to creatively overcome those obstacles and limits and have our own “Eureka!” moment. It takes courage to rethink conventional wisdom.

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Become More Comfortable Making Bold Decisions

Harvard Business Review

Use this simple framework to reduce stress and uncertainty.

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LLMs in Production: Tooling, Process, and Team Structure

Speaker: Dr. Greg Loughnane and Chris Alexiuk

Technology professionals developing generative AI applications are finding that there are big leaps from POCs and MVPs to production-ready applications. They're often developing using prompting, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and fine-tuning (up to and including Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF)), typically in that order. However, during development – and even more so once deployed to production – best practices for operating and improving generative AI applications are le

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How To Succeed At Corporate Venture Building

Innov8rs

Innov8rs | 8 out of 10 CEOs rank new business building among their top five priorities despite recent heightened economic volatility. Yet 87% of corporate ventures fail after the MVP stage, mostly due to cultural conflicts and non-effective governance frameworks to execute and turn that innovation into reality. How to reverse this course and arrange a win-win-win situation (for the corporate, the innovation units, and the customers)?

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