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Six Simple Growth Hacks for Startups

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Soren Kaplan Building a new business is tough. These strategies will help your startup succeed without a big investment. As many of my readers know, I usually write about strategy, innovation, and leadership. But recently I’ve been asked a lot about how I helped establish Praxie.com as a destination website for hundreds […].

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Moving a Family Business Beyond the Founder’s Vision

Harvard Business Review

How the next generation can embrace the future — while respecting the past.

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Optimising Your Return on Open Innovation

100%Open

David recently did a live interview on Twitter Spaces with one of our platform partners, HeroX. They came forward with a few questions to guide the conversation, and the consequent hour was full of fascinating insights and quotable snippets. Adam Olsen , who hosts and produces the Innovation Heroes interviews, describes his motivation behind starting the series: “It’s time to open up the airways, share strategies, engage partners, and leverage the power of crowd intelligence to exped

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The Perils of Innovation by Acquisition

Harvard Business Review

It’s an easy trap to fall into when money is cheap. But it’s rarely a good idea.

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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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Fintech Sector Needs To Work On Safety To Uphold People's Trust, Says Narendra Modi

Entrepreneur - Innovation

The Prime Minister also said that the fintech domain in India has earned goodwill by being an enabler of inclusion, and there is a need for continued focus to empower the poorest of the poor by taking quality financial services to them.

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We are now closer than ever!

Flying Fish Lab

Flying Fish Lab is expanding our international reach as part of our commitment to getting closer to our customers and has opened a new office in Europe! We have accelerated our global development and are proud to officially share that we have spread our wings from our headquarters in Singapore. While serving you from Singapore has proven effective, flying closer to you will enable us to meet the growing needs of our European clients even more efficiently with the highest level of service.

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To Avoid DEI Backlash, Focus on Changing Systems — Not People

Harvard Business Review

Five strategies to get buy-in from DEI skeptics and supporters alike.

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Striking Gold: The $40m Idea Unearthed Through Crowdsourcing

Qmarkets

Hochschild Mining is a leading silver and gold mining company based in Lima, Peru. In business for over a century, the company continues to be run by the Hochschild family to this day. In 2020 alone, it produced almost 10m ounces of silver and 175k ounces of gold from its three active mines across South America. Hochschild ’s innovation initiatives are focused on optimizing its current operations through continuous improvement, with a particular focus on corporate responsibility.

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3 Stages of a Successful Digital Transformation

Harvard Business Review

You have to walk before you can run.

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Connection over content: A new era for education technology

Christensen Institute

The pandemic cast education technology (edtech) into a starring — and some might argue above-its-paygrade — role in education. For many students and overwhelmed parents, virtual learning became synonymous with isolation. Algorithms and Zoom rooms were meager surrogates for authentic connection. Students’ relationships with faculty and friends in the classroom, not to mention chance encounters in the hallway, proved hard to replicate in digital environments. .

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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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4 Tactics that Backfire When Dealing with a Difficult Colleague

Harvard Business Review

Suppressing your emotions doesn’t work. Neither does starting a flame war.