Thu.Nov 03, 2022

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3 Startups Making a Big Difference with Small Innovations

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Most innovation is not a game-changer or breakthrough in nature. It is about creating novel and valuable solutions to problems and small but effective adaptations to processes, ways of working and models.

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How do you talk to students about their networks?

Christensen Institute

How do you talk to students about social capital? If you want students to deepen and expand their networks, what messages and experiences increase the likelihood that they’ll feel confident and inspired to do so? These questions come up frequently in our field work. Although this is certainly an area where more R&D would benefit the field, there’s a few guiding principles and examples that we point people to.

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How Visual Management Tools Start & Sustain Improvement

Kainexus

Visual management tools surround us. Although they are so ubiquitous, we might not even think about them. For example, when your car is about to run out of gas, a light will alert you to the problem. Your fitness app may even show you how close you are to your daily goal. Your brain can quickly process these easy-to-understand visual clues and use the information to make decisions.

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Music Can Make You a More Effective Leader

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Shep Hyken You don’t have to be a rock star with an album that makes millions to say, “Music changed my life.” You can be the leader of an organization, searching for a way to overcome an obstacle or challenge plaguing you—potentially for years. The key to resolving an ongoing leadership challenge […].

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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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3 Strategies to Earn Consumer Trust in Email Marketing

Harvard Business Review

People prefer a personalized message — but are also skeptical of how companies use their data. Here’s how to thread the needle.

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An Executive’s Perspective on VSM: Best Practices for Moving from Project to Product

Planview

Shifting from project to product and implementing value stream management requires buy-in across the organization, including senior executives. At this year’s Planview Accelerate Customer Conference, senior leaders from healthcare and financial services answered questions about their decisions to start this journey, how it affected value delivery in their organization, and what they recommend to organizations that are just starting on their transformations.

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How can AFE modernization help the oil and gas industry?

Acuvate

The Authorization for Expenditure (AFE) business process plays a vital role in the energy sector, particularly the oil and gas (O&G) industry. It enables O&G companies to raise and obtain approvals on project funding proposals and get funds allocated from the Board’s approved budgeted expenditure. Owing to the critical nature of oil and gas projects and the exorbitant investment needs, AFE requires several levels of input and approval from various stakeholders, including surveyors, engin

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Free Yourself from Shame at Work

Harvard Business Review

Whether you dropped the ball on a project or got a bad performance review, these five psychology-backed strategies can help you move forward.

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What the Next Era of Globalization Will Look Like

Harvard Business Review

A Q&A with Rana Foroohar, a columnist at the Financial Times.