Mon.Jul 25, 2016

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Employee Engagement Strategies – Pigs, Chickens, and What Great Leaders Do

BrainZooming

You have heard the old business joke about the pig and the chicken’s different levels of commitment to breakfast ? When it comes to ham and eggs, the chicken is supportive, while the pig is committed. It may be an old and tired story, but it still illustrates an important point about engagement and the willingness (or unwillingness) of employees to go all in with a new business initiative.

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Brainstorming with Innovator Dan Pick

Betterific

When you win a Betterific crowdourced innovation challenge you get a number of perks – the prize winnings, the bragging rights, and access to the bully pulpit! We want to make you famous for your creativity. When you win a challenge, you embody what Robert F Kennedy said: “Some men see things as they are and ask why. I dream things that never were and ask why not.” This is the first in our “Brainstorming with…” series.

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Innovation: A World of Ambiguity

Innovation in Practice

Innovators like you operate in a world of ambiguity. Every situation you face has some uncertainty, and you need to be prepared when unexpected things happen. If you’re not prepared, your strategy may derail and you end up losing competitive ground in the marketplace. Sometimes those unexpected events happen internally. The priorities in any organization are constantly shifting.

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Intellectual Property Rights for Startups [presentation]

Innovation Excellence

By striking the right balance between the interests of innovators and the wider public interest, the IP system aims to foster an environment in which creativity and innovation can flourish.

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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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FINDING JOE: The Hero's Journey

Idea Champions

This is a wonderful movie about the Hero's Journey -- the one we are ALL on. Sets the context beautifully for the 5-day Hero's Journey Retreat I will be co-facilitating with Dr. Beverly Nelson at the LifePath Center in San Miguel de Allende on August 15-19 and again at the end of October. Feeling the call? info@lifepathretreats.

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Harnessing the Global Talent Pool to Accelerate Innovation [White Paper]

Innovation Excellence

The talent market relationship changes are not just happening at the individual level. Change is also happening at the organizational level, as organizations themselves are moving from a fortress mentality, where all work is secret and kept inside the organization’s four walls, to an integrated, global economy.

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Case Study: Instagram

Innovation Excellence

Weight Watchers Director of Social Media gives the skinny on the Seven Sacred Lessons of Instagram.

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Digital transformation – the need to transform our innovation approaches

Paul Hobcraft

Business digital transformation, it can certainly get your pulse racing as you start looking for the nearest exit. Digital transformation is being asked of everybody to get involved in but do we have a sufficient understanding of it? Add in the magic ‘need’ so innovation can benefit from this business digital transformation and we begin to shift around in our chairs even more.

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The Daily Routines of Famous Creative People [Infographic]

Innovation Excellence

Want to develop a better work routine? Discover how some of the world's greatest minds organized their days?

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Digital transformation – the need to transform our innovation approaches

Paul Hobcraft

Business digital transformation, it can certainly get your pulse racing as you start looking for the nearest exit. Digital transformation is being asked of everybody to get involved in but do we have a sufficient understanding of it? Add in the magic ‘need’ so innovation can benefit from this business digital transformation and we begin to shift around in our chairs even more.

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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.