Thu.Jan 12, 2023

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5 Time-Consuming Innovation Tasks You Can Easily Eliminate

ITONICS

We know that time is of the essence for everyone (not only in innovation). Innovation processes entail a number of manual, labor-intensive, and repetitive tasks that can obstruct quick and efficient results. To accelerate and scale innovation, teams have to strive for automation to get work done faster, easier, and more consistently without human intervention, giving you the time to focus on what matters most.

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“As long as my failing project keeps going, I won’t be a failure”

Idea to Value

Is it better to have grit , or know when to quit? A few weeks ago I was listen to an excellent episode of the Innovation Show podcast , with guest Annie Duke. It was about her new book “ Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away “ , and there was one topic they spoke about which really stuck with me when thinking about innovation projects.

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8 higher ed resolutions from innovative college and university presidents for 2023

Christensen Institute

This piece was authored by the Presidents Forum. For decades, higher education was defined by rankings lists, with those at the bottom scurrying to catch up to those at the top. But the tumult of COVID seems to have accelerated the technological disruption that has long been taking place in higher ed, and, in this wake, traditional rankings seem closer to irrelevance than ever.

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10 Ways to Boost Customer Satisfaction

Harvard Business Review

Takeaways from an analysis of millions of consumer data points.

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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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Customer Experience versus Customer Service

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Shep Hyken As I talk to people about their experiences with the companies and brands they do business with, they often use the terms customer service and customer experience interchangeably. Are they confused? Do they not know the difference? Maybe, maybe not. And in the end, it doesn’t matter. They don’t care, […].

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A Better Approach to After-Action Reviews

Harvard Business Review

Three myths that impede their proper use — and three strategies to help your team make the most of the practice.

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Managers, Stop Distracting Your Employees

Harvard Business Review

Four strategies to keep you from unintentionally sabotaging your team’s productivity.

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Five product manager best practices to help survive a recession

Sopheon

For those reading tea leaves, all signs point to a recession within the next year. While it’s not good news, a recession isn’t a novel situation. There have been as many as 47 recessions in the United States. And in my career, I have witnessed and been professionally involved in five: ● The Iran/Energy Crisis Recession (July 1981 - November 1982) ● The Gulf War Recession (July 1990 - March 1991) ● The 9/11 Recession (March 2001 - November 2001) ● The Great Recession (December 2007- June 2009) ●

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Make 2023 the Year of Profitable Service

Planview

TSIA recently conducted an Economic Sentiment Survey with our members in the B2B technology space to consult them regarding their views on the economy in 2023. The good news is that 73% of respondents had positive expectations around company revenues, stating that they anticipate growth in 2023. The not so good news is that 49% of organizations expect their headcount to remain flat or decline, while 57% of companies expect budgets to remain flat or to become reduced.

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Here's how you can engage in H1-2023

Innov8rs

Innov8rs |. Connect and collaborate with other innovators to learn new approaches, solve challenges and improve outcomes. HNY from the Innov8rs team- we hope it's off to a great start! Looking at the year ahead, you may be keen to explore many new opportunities- and equally, you know there will be many challenges to overcome. The good news? You don't need to go alone.

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How Mature Companies Are Scaling Transformational New Businesses

Scaling transformational innovations in large companies is challenging due to ‘Company Fit’ issues, which arise when the resources, processes, and priorities (RPPs) of the core business are not aligned with the needs of the new business. Many companies have learned how ambidexterity—the ability to both ‘exploit the present and explore the future,’ can help them address these issues for ideation and incubation of new innovations, but scaling transformative business innovations remains a challenge

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5 Execution Plan Templates For Faster ROI In 2023

Cascade Strategy

In the business world, there are two types of people. Amateurs who talk about strategy. And then you have professionals who are all about execution.

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Does Pay Transparency Help or Hurt Workers?

Michael Roberto

Source: TechTarget Conventional wisdom seems to suggest that increased transparency about compensation will help workers. For instance, a CNBC story about New York's new salary transparency law is titled, "How NYC’s pay transparency law could help millions across the U.S. earn more money." Naturally, researchers have not taken the conventional wisdom as a given.