Wed.Apr 15, 2020

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Stop the Spread: Facilitating COVID-19 Response Campaigns

IdeaScale

Do you need help organizing your COVID-19 response campaigns? IdeaScale has you covered. The COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak has prompted much reflection and serious consideration around the globe. IdeaScale can help you and your business contribute to meaningful solutions that will provide much-needed stability during this difficult time. Businesses face numerous corporate innovation challenges each day.

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Changing after COVID - the Why, the How and the What

Jeffrey Phillips

Let's face it, the COVID pandemic and the following economic freeze-up are likely to have a lasting impact. Experts are constantly telling us that the future will be different - things can't go back to the way they were. No one is quite sure what the future holds - many have ideas or predictions - but there are few definitives. There is one thing you can count on - change - and the faster you decide not WHAT to change, but the WHY and HOW to change, the better off you'll be.

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Inspiration from the social innovation frontlines against COVID-19

Exago

These social enterprises in Bangladesh, supported by the TRANSFORM initiative using the Exago solution, are combining local knowledge and experience working together with others to create much-needed solutions to the current COVID-19 crisis. The post Inspiration from the social innovation frontlines against COVID-19 appeared first on Exago.

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The Key Steps Innovation Professionals Should Take in a COVID-19 Environment

InnovationManagement

Obviously COVID-19 is having an enormous impact on all aspects of our lives, with the scope and scale of business disruption being immense and incredibly challenging. But disruption is what innovation people are generally excellent at responding to, so the question becomes - “how do you and your team support your organisations within this environment?”.

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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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Facilitating A Successful Strategy Meeting

Cascade Strategy

What are strategy meetings and why are they important? You guessed it! Strategy meetings focus solely on executing and improving upon the current strategy. However, typically these meetings are more concerned with the minutiae of budgets or project plan detail while ignoring overarching strategy. With this article, you’ll learn: The prerequisites for a successful strategy meeting, How to establish meeting structures, & How to lead a successful strategy meeting.

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Inspire Innovation By Avoiding Decision-Making Traps

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Lean on purpose and weed out the opportunities that don't fit your vision.

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Align Your Futureview in Times of Uncertainty

Daniel Burrus

It is consistently shocking to me how little we consider the future to be an important topic in business. How the future affects us and our organization is easy to forget when there are numerous tasks at hand, but since it’s where we will spend the rest of our lives, we should all be devoting more time to our consideration of where we are headed into the future, our Futureview.

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What's BANCA? Fidelity Investments on Their Criteria for Assessing Ideas

Innovation Leader

Sean Belka discusses how the financial services firm assesses new ideas and scales them when the time is right, along with more best practices for running an innovation lab. Belka is a Managing Director in Fidelity’s Corporate Business Development group.

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Small Businesses are Thriving

Rebel & Reason

Charles Darwin once said: . “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.”. Now more than ever we are seeing one of the most underrated skills in business: following the energy. All of the leaders who were once married to “how it has always been done” are finding themselves in a make or break situation.

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Book Review – Humanocracy by Gary Hamel & Michele Zanini

Rmukesh Gupta

Overview: Gary Hamel has been one of my favorite authors and management guru’s. In his most recent book Humanocracy, he lays out the case against bureaucracy and instead argues that we need to embrace what he calls “ Humanocracy ” as in build human centric organisations. He chronicles some interesting experiments being done worldwide with different management philosophies and based on them, posits some principles which when put in use can lead organisations to become a lot more human centric and

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How Mature Companies Are Scaling Transformational New Businesses

Scaling transformational innovations in large companies is challenging due to ‘Company Fit’ issues, which arise when the resources, processes, and priorities (RPPs) of the core business are not aligned with the needs of the new business. Many companies have learned how ambidexterity—the ability to both ‘exploit the present and explore the future,’ can help them address these issues for ideation and incubation of new innovations, but scaling transformative business innovations remains a challenge

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More Social Distancing Tips from Our CEO, Dr. Greg Jacobson

Kainexus

As we continue to practice social distancing every day, there might be some things that slip your mind when running essential errands. Greg Jacobson, MD has been sharing a lot of great tips and information about dealing with and protecting yourself from the Covid-19 pandemic. He was recently quoted in this article that has a lot of tips from Greg and other medical professionals: Social Distancing Mistakes That Put You At Risk For Coronavirus.

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Webinar: Designing your Innovation Workflow

Idea Drop

In this webinar, Callan Hough from Idea Drop , Dan Francis from BDO, Pavlos Konstas & Cynan Clucas from Chaucer Consulting share their knowledge and insights on how to build and manage an innovation workflow that enables ideas to be refined, evaluated and progressed at pace. They also look into the roles and responsibilities of […]. The post Webinar: Designing your Innovation Workflow appeared first on Idea Drop | Idea Management Software.

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What is Smaply?

InnovationTraining.org

Build customer journey maps and personas with this collaborative software tool. Customer journey maps and customer personas are incredibly useful tools that can help your business or organization gain insights into your target market and ultimately design better products and services for them. When it comes to design thinking and innovative collaboration, these two tools can work together to design and develop with the end user in mind, right from the start of the process.

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Webinar: Designing your Innovation Workflow

Idea Drop

In this webinar, Callan Hough from Idea Drop , Dan Francis from BDO, Pavlos Konstas & Cynan Clucas from Chaucer Consulting share their knowledge and insights on how to build and manage an innovation workflow that enables ideas to be refined, evaluated and progressed at pace. They also look into the roles and responsibilities of […]. The post Webinar: Designing your Innovation Workflow appeared first on Idea Drop | Idea Management Software.

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How Automation is Driving Efficiency Through the Last Mile of Reporting

Speaker: Jamie Eagan

As organizations strive for agility and efficiency, it's imperative for finance leaders to embrace innovative technologies and redefine traditional processes. Join us as we explore the pivotal role of digitalization and automation in reshaping what is commonly referred to as the “last mile of reporting”. We’ll deep-dive into why digitalization is no longer a choice, but a necessity for finance departments to stay competitive in a fast-paced environment touching on: 2024 trends for the Office of

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Product Managers, Priorities, and Pandemics

Peer Insight

Prioritizing product roadmaps in a pandemic: what’s now, next, later? We’ve been thinking about the product managers who are steering pre-commercial products into this head wind. There is a ‘survival’ mode to get through: reacting to external market shifts and re-configuring for internal collaboration. But by now, you’re likely re-evaluating the product roadmap and/or the product portfolio.

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Speak Aid 2020

Stephen Shapiro

In 1985, I attended Live Aid with 90,000 other people packed into JFK Stadium in Philadelphia. In addition to being a celebration of music, it was a fundraiser for those suffering in the Ethiopian famine. Of course today, we can’t gather that many people in one place. But maybe we can do it virtually. For the week of April 20th, Dan Pontefract pulled together the speaker version of Live Aid with an event called Speak Aid.

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The 5 ways leaders are responding to Covid-19

Peer Insight

We have been in touch with several dozen growth leaders at large enterprises during the past month. Who better to navigate uncertainty, create rapid prototypes, and make effective pivots? Here is a snapshot of how they are responding to the pandemic. . 1. Serve and Protect. Their first response was to focus on serving their employees and their core business.

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Qmarkets Ranks #1 as Idea Management Momentum Leader in G2 Spring 2020 Report

Qmarkets

Qmarkets has been lauded as both a Momentum Leader and Grid® Leader in a new idea management software report by G2 – the world’s largest tech marketplace. G2 has recently released its Spring 2020 Report for Idea Management. Utilizing advanced algorithms, the report aggregates data from user reviews, social networks, and other online sources – making it an ideal resource for enterprise customers looking to find the best idea management tool for their unique needs.

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Implementing Intelligent Document Processing Solutions: Why It Works

See how companies like yours are tackling some of today’s most common business problems using AI-assisted automation for document processing. Manually capturing, extracting, and processing data within documents is a costly and outdated practice that’s holding your company back. IDP takes document processing to a whole new level so you can understand and use your data more effectively than ever before.

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Master The Art Of Healthy Breaks

The Human Factor

Taking regular breaks is an essential part of the healthy workday. Indeed, medical advisors have demonstrated the inherent risks of desk jobs. Sitting for prolonged periods without interruptions can put your health at risk. Sitting makes employees twice as likely to develop heart diseases, one of the top killers in modern society. Surprisingly, desk jobs are also more exposed to high cholesterol, diabetes, stroke, and high blood pressure.

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Make Your Cybersecurity More Effective

BMNT

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Help Me Understand: Three Powerful Little Words

Michael Roberto

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50 Awesome Quotes on Possibility

Idea Champions

1. "Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible." - St. Francis of Assisi. 2. "Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." - Lewis Carroll. 3. "I'm grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes." - Eckart Tolle. 4. "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." - Miguel de Cervantes. 5.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Are You Taking the Wrong Approach to Consumer Profiling?

The Human Factor

One of the most crucial elements of any successful startup or small business is consumer profiling. In order to be a successful company, you absolutely need to have some kind of audience in mind so that you can target them with your products and services. It also helps with demographic targeting when you reach the advertising stage of your business, and it can greatly affect your website design and the social media platforms you use.

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What A Waste It Is When Content Marketing Goes Wrong

The Human Factor

source. Content marketing matters a great deal for achieving the best SEO results and online presence. Hence why you need to turn your attention to everything from blogging to video creation, and even general social media. Sadly, as many businesses are starting to find, positive SEO results in themselves don’t always justify the costs and effort content marketing requires.