Fri.Sep 30, 2022

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Private: The Key Drivers of Organizational Innovation

IdeaScale

Innovation has become a buzzword that’s associated with a variety of misconceptions. One of which is that innovation is a personality type. Without a doubt, some innovators are high-energy extroverts. However, most disrupters and innovators are everyday team members. Most importantly, not every out-of-the-box thinker can successfully innovate in all settings.

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Making people, and the environment, healthier

Christensen Institute

Picture this scenario. An older man goes to urgent care with a persistent, painful cough. After listening to his cough and his breathing, the doctor recommends going to the hospital for imaging. From there, it’s recommended he get a lung biopsy. The biopsy confirmed the man’s fear: he had lung cancer. He was confused, for he was generally healthy and had never smoked in his life.

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What is Lean Project Management? Principles & Benefits

Kainexus

Lean project management is the application of Lean manufacturing principles to the discipline of project management. While most of the ideas germinated at Toyota in the 1940s, they have widespread utility across every industry and for organizations of any size. Modern organizations have adapted Lean project management for today's business challenges and technology landscape.

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Three Ways Technology Improves the Retail Customer Experience

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Shep Hyken E-commerce hasn’t killed retail—it’s just transformed it. For years we’ve been hearing that retail is dead, and the rash of store closures in cities across the country would seem to confirm the trend. The local mall no longer serves as a de facto community hub, if it’s even stayed open […].

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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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How Companies Should Set — and Report — DEI Goals

Harvard Business Review

Targets must be detailed to create transparency, shared to induce accountability, and accompanied by action plans to promote change.

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The necessary Plumbing, Pipework and Pumps for the Industrial Metaverse

Ecosystems4Innovating

The stages of building out the Industrial Metaverse taking a three-horizon approach. I had the pleasure of attending the Nvidia GTC22 event recently. Over four days, they did a good job of scrambling my brain. Take a look at some of the sessions that apply to you- amazing stuff. I focused on the Industrial Metaverse and where it is going. It is only at the beginning of its journey, but the feast of predictions, future forecasting and bold, clear visions on this was impressive.

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The fastest way to see results from strategy execution is here

Cascade Strategy

A whole new Cascade experience: Our most significant upgrade ever to your strategy execution platform. “You can not overtake 15 cars in sunny weather. but you can when it's raining” – Ayrton Senna. And well if you’ve been observing, the weather has lately been anything but sunny. Since the pandemic hit, the markets around the world have been quite unpredictable… to say the least.

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3 Types of Meetings — and How to Do Each One Well

Harvard Business Review

Before playing calendar Tetris, start thinking about when, where, and why you need to come together.

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A Quick Guide to Effectively Configuring Your Technology Radar

ITONICS

The pace of technological change makes it difficult for companies to keep up. The abundance of information out there requires a method to organize, evaluate and visualize emerging technologies. Innovation management software can replace time-consuming processes and enable a business to identify technology-related threats and opportunities earlier than the competition.

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4 Business Ideas That Changed the World: Trailer

Harvard Business Review

A series of conversations on influential management ideas from HBR’s first 100 years.

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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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Visualizing the Rise of Global Economic Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

Three decades of data shed light on five key drivers.

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