Thu.Sep 22, 2022

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Regaining your Curious Nature

IdeaScale

Curiosity is an instinctive impulse that is at the root of all innovation. It’s a trait celebrated as infants, but something many of us begin to exchange for conformity as early as two-years-old. This conformity isn’t just social, but intellectual, as we are expected to process information in methods that aren’t natural for everyone. At-home [.].

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Folic acid: The risk of modular thinking in an interdependent situation

Christensen Institute

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have long been heralded as the gold standard for evaluating whether interventions are effective. As a result, medical advice and public health policies are often made based on their outcomes. But what if the gold standard is actually leading us astray? By design, RCTs isolate the intervention that is under consideration and hold the other variables constant.

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How is the Lean Methodology Practiced in Healthcare?

Kainexus

The Lean methodology is a set of practices and tools that business leaders initially developed to help manufacturing organizations improve quality and become more efficient. The approach was built on concepts included in the Toyota Production System, which helped Toyota gain a stellar reputation for quality and affordability. The benefits of Lean management are not confined to manufacturing.

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Why Your Family Business Needs Family Members on the Board

Harvard Business Review

Family directors are critical for aligning owners’ interests with those of other shareholders.

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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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Five Ways Discomfort Could Lead to Your Next Breakthrough

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Shep Hyken The disclaimer on investments is that “past performance is not an indicator of future results.” In other words, don’t get too comfortable with the past. All you have to do is look at the stock performance through last year (2021) compared to this year’s performance to know this is true. […].

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Designing an Inclusive Metaverse

Harvard Business Review

How principles of “design justice” can ensure virtual spaces truly work for everyone.

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The Best Managers Are Leaders — and Vice Versa

Harvard Business Review

Here’s how to strike a healthy balance.

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How the B Corp Movement is Redefining Business for Good

Econic

The B Corp movement is redefining business for good by setting different business standards in order to work towards creating a better world. How do we redefine business for good? In its current form, capitalism is failing to address the needs of people, communities and our planet. The B Corp movement is raising the standards of how businesses are run on multiple levels.

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How Black Women Can Navigate Pay-Gap Gaslighting

Harvard Business Review

The pay gap between Black women and white men has widened in 2022.

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How Employees Perceive Those Who Undercommunicate vs. Overcommunicate

Michael Roberto

Some leaders communicate early, often, and quite effectively. Others overshare. They send out a constant stream of messages, perhaps risking information overload for their organization members. Finally, perhaps most often, we find that leaders undercommunicate. They fail to offer transparency, and they fail to keep employees abreast of the latest developments at the firm.

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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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Is the #1 Innovation OS Right for You? | ITONICS

ITONICS

Innovation is driven by various factors: new and changing customer needs, technological developments, policies and laws, competitor activities, and societal change. Gathering the right data that reveals potential opportunities for your organization requires rigorous processes, well-defined capabilities, and robust tools.

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To Get People Back in the Office, Make It Social

Harvard Business Review

New research from Microsoft confirms that for most workers, the people are the point.

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Striking Gold: The $40m Idea Unearthed Through Crowdsourcing

Qmarkets

Hochschild Mining is a leading silver and gold mining company based in Lima, Peru. In business for over a century, the company continues to be run by the Hochschild family to this day. In 2020 alone, it produced almost 10m ounces of silver and 175k ounces of gold from its three active mines across South America. Hochschild ’s innovation initiatives are focused on optimizing its current operations through continuous improvement, with a particular focus on corporate responsibility.