Mon.Oct 10, 2022

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What Great Transformational Leaders Learn from Their Failures

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell We tend to think of transformational leaders emerging fully actualized. We look for early indications of promise, sure that there must have been nascent signs of greatness from the start. It’s hard to imagine those that attain the highest level of achievement are anything less than destined for greatness. While […].

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Who are open innovation managers and what do they do?

HYPE Innovation

Typically, innovation managers are researchers, strategists, evangelists, or pioneers who venture on to become change agents, leaders, organizational designers, coaches, and ultimately fill the seats of process owners, decision makers, and project managers.

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Innovative Start-Ups Founded by Women

Destination Innovation

Nadine Hachach-Haram. We need more women entrepreneurs. A report by the Kaufmann Foundation found that only 3% of technology start-ups are led by women. Most of the high-profile role models for start-ups are men – Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs are household names. How many women role models in business can you name? Here are some inspiring women entrepreneurs and the companies they have started.

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Who Are the 2022 Nobel Prize Winners? Meet the Recipients So Far.

Entrepreneur - Innovation

The six prizes are awarded to individuals who made groundbreaking innovations in the fields of physiology or medicine, physics, chemistry, economic science, literature and peace work.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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How to Get Empathetic Marketing Right

Harvard Business Review

Three strategies to help you personalize your messaging, evoke genuine compassion, and forge powerful customer connections.

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6 Remarkable Applications of AI in the Oil & Gas Industry

Acuvate

The Oil and Gas (O&G) industry, though seemingly one of the most lucrative to work with, has been battling several challenges in the last few years. Demand evolution, regulatory concerns, supply diversification, rapidly growing infrastructure and resulting frequent asset downtimes, siloed operations, and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks continue to plague the industry with difficult-to-conquer obstacles.

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March-Madness In October: Business Model Innovation Scores Big

Bill Fischer

Business model innovation is the hottest topic in today's innovation conversations, but it is often far less visible than are technical advances. Sports offer abundant examples of business model innovation and MLB's wild-card playoffs are an especially interesting illustration of what is possible.

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How Effective is Open Innovation?

100%Open

This month we’ve been thinking about how the popularity of all the tools in our toolkits has varied over the years, and why we think that is. For example, this month’s tool in the spotlight is 100%Open Innovation Metrics. It is curious that this particular tool has seen very little light over the past 14 years, yet is becoming one of our most popular.

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Getting Along (Live in Boston)

Harvard Business Review

Amy Gallo offers advice on how to turn things around with a difficult colleague.

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How to produce results at a lower cost?

Flying Fish Lab

Come join us live on our very first podcast on Twitter live. Our Co-Founder Mario will be connecting with Adam Olsen from our partners HeroX. Various #innovation topics will be discussed, from on how to effectively use the right tools based on the internal strategy you have in place to how you can achieve parity or superior results at a lower cost with productivity innovation.

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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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Managers drive innovation from the heart.

Cris Beswick

This is a piece about and for managers. They could be line managers, middle managers, or team leaders; in a way, the title is immaterial. But in any organisation, these individuals sit at its heart, interpreting the vision, delivering the strategy, and ensuring that the engine runs smoothly, and the business stays on track. You might think that’s the job of the executives.

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Seven Things to Know About B Corp Certification

Econic

Whether you work at a company that’s considering B Corp certification or you’re simply curious to know more about what it entails, here’s a quick list of seven things to know. What is B Corp Certification? To start, B Lab explains B Corp Certification as a designation that a business is meeting high standards of verified performance, accountability, and transparency on factors from employee benefits and charitable giving to supply chain practices and input materials.

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Ensuring Your Products Aren’t Used for Discrimination

Harvard Business Review

Lessons from Airbnb’s efforts to combat racism on its platform.

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Why Business Transformation Fails: Learn From An Expert

Cascade Strategy

“Dealing with uncertainty is the biggest challenge strategy is facing today,” says Melvine Manchau , Digital Strategy Director at Salesforce in our Strategy Podcast.

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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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Project Leaders Will Make or Break Your Sustainability Goals

Harvard Business Review

Hitting big targets starts with getting the details right.

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MG Developer Program And Grant Season 4 To Mentor And Incubate Innovative Indian Startups

Entrepreneur - Innovation

This program will provide an opportunity to learn, develop, and provide solutions for the automobile industry.

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OKRs: How To Avoid The Trap That Kills Performance

Cascade Strategy

Ask CEOs, team leaders, and employees what they think about OKRs and you will get a variety of answers.

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