Wed.Nov 28, 2018

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Digital Transformation Is Human Transformation

Digital Tonto

The high value work of the future will involve humans collaborating with other humans to design work for machines. Get the human part right and the technology will take care of itself. Related. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Disasters can open the door for Innovation

Destination Innovation

A catastrophe produces an unexpected set of circumstances and this can lead to opportunities for innovation. In January 1992 a container with 29,000 plastic bath toys was washed overboard in the Pacific Ocean. They were manufactured in China and were on route to the USA. They were called Floatees, bath toys consisting of red beavers, green frogs, blue turtles and yellow ducks.

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Exago’s client CTT is sowing the seeds of the future

Exago

After being named the Innovation Farmer in Exago’s Innovation Guru Awards 2017, the Portuguese postal service CTT saw 50 trees planted in its name on November 25th as part of its prize. The Plant a Tree project is seeking to increase biodiversity and reduce the risk of fires, following the devastating forest fires across Portugal in recent years. The post Exago’s client CTT is sowing the seeds of the future appeared first on Exago.

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Best Practices for Managing Multiple Stakeholders in the Innovation Process

IdeaScale

Innovation is about diplomacy as well as creativity. Central to any innovation process is stakeholder management. Any idea that you have will have ripples up and down both your company and your vendors, customers, government agencies you work with, and even the general public, in some cases. All should be involved in the process to some degree, making innovation processes as much about people skills and diplomacy as engineering.

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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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Mapping Experiences

Innovation Excellence

Recently I had the opportunity to interview Jim Kalbach, author of the interesting book Mapping Experiences: A Complete Guide to Creating Value through Journeys, Blueprints, and Diagrams. Jim Kalbach is a noted author, speaker, and instructor in user experience design, information architecture, and strategy.

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Four Pillars of Innovation – People, Learning, Judgment and Trust

Mike Shipulski

Innovation is a hot topic. Everyone wants to do it. And everyone wants a simple process that works step-wise – first this, then that, then success. But Innovation isn’t like that. I think it’s more effective to think of innovation as a result. Innovation as something that emerges from a group of people who are trying to make a difference.

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Customer, Culture, and Learning: Takeaways from the Lean Startup Conference

Moves the Needle

Anyone who has ever attended Lean Startup Conference (previously known as Lean Startup Week) in the past knows that this annual event regularly features invigorating speakers that divulge the newest insights and innovations in modern management for a wide array of industries and company types. Our community flocks to this event on a yearly basis in order to dig deep and uncover the “diamonds in the rough” that are lurking inside the minds of the people inciting innovation within their organizati

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Partha Mallikarjun

Innovation 360 Group

Based in Dayton, NJ, USA. Partha Mallikarjun has more than 25 years of experience in leading, managing and delivering technology and process improvement projects in the Information Technolofy space. He has worked in Retail, Finance & Banking, Telecom and Healthcare sectors. As a Quality Assurance & Process Improvement Lead, he was part of a strategic team that innovated the Agile SDLC framework within a highly regulated GxP environment.

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#1,402 – Graphene Energy

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Did you know that Thomas Edison and Henry Ford were good friends who once bet on what the future of energy would be as the world looked to move on from coal and steam? Ford bet on gasoline and Edison on electricity obviously. And we all know who won that bet as electric cars are just now starting to become viable. Which begs the question: if we were to revisit this bet today which technologies would we betting on?

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5 workplace health and safety tips every business needs to use

The Human Factor

Contributed post – Each and every business needs to secure their workplace as well as ensure that the employees operate in a healthy environment. Once they are able to do so, the efficiency of the employees increases tenfold. This is one of the main reasons why it is important for each and every business to follow a few tips which will ensure that the workplace is safe and the employees are efficient.

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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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#1,403 – The Future of Flight

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Last week while driving through the Arizona countryside I pulled over onto a scenic overlook in order to take some pictures of an epic sunset. I was enjoying the views when suddenly my evening was disrupted by the sounds of an annoying drone buzzing overhead. Was the drone taking pictures of me? Or just of the sunset? Oblivious to the fact that it was ruining my life?

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Team Effectiveness Lessons from The Celtics' Early Season Struggles

Michael Roberto

Source: Wikipedia The Boston Celtics basketball team entered this season with much promise and high expectations. Last year, with two of their top players missing, they made it to the Eastern Conference Finals. This year, with superstar Kyrie Irving back from injury and former All-Star Gordon Hayward back from injury as well, many analysts and fans expected a trip to the NBA Finals.