Tue.Dec 31, 2019

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Select Your Next Big Innovation with an Innovation Market

Innovation Excellence

How do you choose which of your many promising ideas should get the precious and limited resources needed to bring it to market? Try using the wisdom of crowds. Many companies do this with software products which allow people to comment or vote on ideas – and this is fine. But if you do not.

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Start the New Year with This Must-See Webinar

IdeaScale

Do you believe trust-building takes place in your local community? Want to strengthen communication between you and your local government through the right change management and innovation strategies? An upcoming webinar, Local Government: Innovation for Better Civic Engagement, addresses these issues and more. Innovation strategy is the key to communication.

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How to Make Success a Part of Your Business Culture

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. Success is such an important part of the world of business that you need to make sure you can attain and achieve success in the best possible way. There are a lot of things that are going to play a part in this, and you have to do what you can to make success an integral part of the culture of your business moving. source. The more you can do to achieve any level of success, the better.

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Strategy Books: Essential Strategic Reading 2020

Cascade Strategy

Strategy Books: Worthy mentions. The next couple of books are not necessarily 'strategy' books as such, but certainly worth noting and will definetly help you get better framing particularly when you're trying to hit the reset button. Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action. By Simon Sinek. Key concept: There are leaders and there are those who lead.

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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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6 Technologies That Will Reshape Marketing In The Next Decade

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Augmented reality and the Internet of Things are among the defining forces going forward.

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The new roaring 20’s

Norbert Bol

Happy New Year to everyone and welcome in the new roaring ’20s. In the coming decade, we shall experience how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is going to be more important in our everyday lives. AI will give us more opportunities to be more productive as AI never sleeps and giving us room to be more creative in becoming more sustainable. On the other hand, there can be a threat that we as humans will lose control.

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For 2020, Use Themes Not Resolutions

Stephen Shapiro

2020 is around the corner. Time to make some changes in your life. Right? Ready to set some resolutions? Before you do, did you know that only 8% of people are always successful in achieving the desired results. 92% fail! 24% (one in four people) NEVER succeed and have failed on every resolution every year. That’s pretty depressing. (if you are interested in some fascinating statistics about resolutions, read this article: Interesting New Year’s Resolution Statistics ).

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Innovation is still being innovated

Values Centered Innovation

The art and discipline of Innovation is still being innovated. And rightly so. It’s a never-ending journey, with notable milestones along the way. Over the last 75 years, the field of corporate innovation has dynamically evolved from the 1950s-60s’ NASA innovation process models and the Osborn-Parnes creative problem-solving process to today’s popularity with Design Thinking and Agile Development.

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The new roaring 20’s

Norbert Bol

Happy New Year to everyone and welcome in the new roaring ’20s. In the coming decade, we shall experience how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is going to be more important in our everyday lives. AI will give us more opportunities to be more productive as AI never sleeps and giving us room to be more creative in becoming more sustainable. On the other hand, there can be a threat that we as humans will lose control.

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What Is Depreciation And How Can You Prevent It?

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. If you’ve ever looked at a balance sheet, you’ll have noticed something on it called “depreciation.” But what exactly is it? And why does it matter? Depreciation is a factor that accountants apply to the balance sheets of companies to account for the ageing of their plant and machinery. As tools get older, they lose some of their value.

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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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Four Marketing Methods To Propell Your Startup

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. It’s rare for a startup to be using more than one marketing method. Marketing when done properly brings such a budget, one that’s sometimes hard for a small startup to meet. Especially those that are started in a bedroom with a small idea. But the more you can allow yourself to spend on marketing, or the smarter you can be about it, the better it’s going to be for the promotion of your company.

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How to Increase Sales and Profit for your Small Business

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. If you are a small business owner, then you should know that closing a sale is imperative to your success and your growth. If you are not sure if there is something else that you could be doing to improve your company overall, then you can find out whatever you need to know, right here. Attract New Leads. Believe it or not, new customers in this day and age are hungry for information.

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Land Of The Free: Common Freelancer Problems In Your First Year

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. source. Whether you’re looking to start a business or you attempting to make a freelance life for yourself it’s important that before you begin you become aware of the pressing problems that every freelancer has. From the outside, it looks like an ideal life, that you are able to earn money on your own terms and be your own boss.