IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As we’ve discussed before , once you’ve arrived at a clear decision, it is critical to act on the decision. A common pitfall at this point is inaction. Too many ideas reach decision, only to lay fallow without action. Inaction results in effort wasted, opportunities missed, and value lost for your organization. Implementing ideas is the key to delivering significant and measurable value to your organization and stakeholders, and setting yourself up for robust crowd engagement in the next

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Innocentive

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Innovation is something that most organizations want to master so that they can survive in our increasingly ‘VUCA’ world. Innovating well is increasingly challenging however. A recent study from the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research highlighted the difficulties organizations face in the modern world. The study examined the productivity of research and development, on both a national as well as industrial scale, and found that organizations need to spend significantly more, both in

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

I’ve been remiss in sharing updates about the strategic planning process I’ve been participating in for a non-profit organization. The initial article on the strategic planning process promised updates on my first time participating in someone else’s strategic planning process in many years. 5 Things to Hate about a Strategic Planning Process (and 5 Antidotes).

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

This past weekend, after finally completing the book I’ve been working on for more than 2 years (The Moral of the Story), I was looking forward to relaxing a bit with the family. However, it didn’t take long before thoughts of all the things still on my plate for the weeks ahead began causing anxiety.

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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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Idea Sandbox

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Do you sometimes wish you had an easier way to organize or gather your thoughts? Ever been working on a presentation, proposal, or to-do list and didn’t know where to start or where you were going to go? A map would have come in handy in these situations… Mindmapping (also known as brainwriting or concept mapping) is a technique which allows you to rapidly organize, gather thoughts.

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Most of us know that organizational innovation involves making serious and significant change, yet what most of us are challenged by is how change impacts on, and disrupts four-core human structures: cognition, emotion, body and will.

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InnovationManagement

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Hiring is a deeply imperfect process that probably has as many misses as hits. You’ve probably seen it in action: a new hire looks perfect on the paper and interviews well but has mediocre performance or clashes with co-workers constantly. Finding the person with the right skills is hard, but there are ways to pick more of the right candidates for a job.

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Taivara

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Password Protected. To view this protected post, enter the password below: Password: Submit. The post Protected: Case Study: Launching an Online Ticket Marketplace appeared first on taivara.com.

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Idea Champions

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Please join me ( Mitch Ditkoff ) for a 60-minute "Power of Storytelling in Business" webinar -- hosted by PatSnap -- on Wednesday, November 22nd. Click here to register. It's free. If you are looking for simple ways to leverage the power of storytelling in the workplace, this will be a good use of your time. Upbeat. Authentic. And entertaining, too.

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Michael Roberto

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Organizations and people within them respond to incentives. They just don't always respond the way that we would like them to do so. We might have a policy designed with the best of intentions, but it may have serious uintended consequences. Take, for example, this article from yesterday's Wall Street Journal. It reports on a new study published in the JAMA: Cardiology.

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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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Idea Champions

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Voila! Here are 13 of Idea Champion's brief, upbeat, entertaining videos on the art and science of brainstorm facilitation. Our brainstorming website. What our clients say.

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