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How to create a retail digital transformation strategy

Cascade Strategy

Retail digital transformation? That's a mouthful. For many business owners, it's a bigger challenge than they can chew. For years, the pressure to switch to digital has been looming over brick and mortar stores. But now, you can't ignore it any longer.

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Podcast S7E158: Ayse Birsel – Design the life you love

Idea to Value

In this episode of the Idea to Value podcast , we speak with award winning designer Ayse Birsel. Ayse has been voted one of the most creative people in business by Fast Company, is a bestselling author, and has won international awards for designing everything from furniture to cars to toilet seats to vegetable peelers. Without knowing it, you are likely to have used something she has designed in your own life.

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Carbon Neutral Since 2020: Celebrating Earth Day and Our Commitment to Sustainability

IdeaScale

IdeaScale is more than software. We believe innovation means working together to create positive change in the world. And while our tech does this, we also put these values into practice in how we conduct business. In 2020, IdeaScale became the first carbon-neutral innovation management solution by reducing our carbon footprint and giving back to [.].

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Product Portfolio Optimization to Enable Growth at Speed

Sopheon

Portfolio optimization must reflect internal & market changes quickly. Learn how to position your company to leverage your data and uncover new opportunities. The post Product Portfolio Optimization to Enable Growth at Speed appeared first on Sopheon.

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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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A whole-health approach to skin care: Could hormones explain your skin issues?

Christensen Institute

Skin health often reflects our internal health, and many skin issues are driven by hormonal imbalances. Yet, when individuals go to the dermatologist, few have their hormones tested. This is the result of how we train providers to treat problems through the lens of their specialty. Dermatologists don’t generally cross-specialize in endocrinology. As a result, dermatologists presented with skin issues treat the skin, not hormones.

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How to Become a Better Leader by Improving Processes

Kainexus

Many books and articles about good leadership focus on interpersonal relationship skills like communication, humility, and empathy. Of course, all of these traits are important for good leadership. Still, they don't directly address the most critical responsibility of a leader, which is to create systems and infrastructure that support employee performance.

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How Industry Leaders Enhance Environmental Scanning With ITONICS

ITONICS

According to the 2021 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Innovation Management Techniques, AI-driven innovation holds potentially transformative means to “drive high-impact innovation at scale through the discovery of new ideas and rapid progress through the innovation pipeline.” For several organizations, scaling environmental scanning solutions that will enhance the process without losing time and quality efficiencies is still a battle.

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Innovations from 161 schools to aid marginalized students

Christensen Institute

This piece is authored by Chelsea Waite, senior researcher at the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE). Encouraging innovation in schools right now can feel sorely out of touch with educators’ current realities. As I heard a school leader say in a focus group last fall, pushing for innovation is like “trying to remodel your kitchen when your living room is on fire.”.

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Build a digital transformation roadmap in 8 steps + free template

Cascade Strategy

Digital transformation roadmap overview. Global spending on digital transformation topped $1.3 trillion in the wake of the pandemic. But much of this spending will go to waste because the efforts are led by the ill-informed. Why? Because they don’t have a digital transformation roadmap.

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Can learning ecosystems work for all learners? (Part 2)

Christensen Institute

Key points. Right now, learning ecosystems offer flexibility and customizability at the expense of basic functionality and reliability. Over time, learning ecosystems will need to improve on functionality and reliability in order to become attractive alternatives to schooling. When school buildings closed during the pandemic, some families turned to learning pods , microschools , and homeschooling co-ops.

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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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Wishing you a very happy “World Creativity and Innovation Day” #WCID

Rmukesh Gupta

Today, April 21st is celebrated as the “World Creativity and Innovation Day“ Do we really need a creativity and innovation day? Shouldn’t every day be about creativity and innovation? I think this is a discussion for another day. For now, lets stick with celebrating the day (recently, any excuse to celebrate is a good excuse, if we need one at all).

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In Honor of All Our Fathers

Idea Champions

I wrote the following piece the night my father died three years ago and read it at his funeral three days later. If your dad is still alive, love him today and every day. If you're dad is gone, cherish his memory and all that he taught you. If there's anything you need to forgive him for, today's the day. Last night, I sat in my father's office attempting to write this eulogy.