Wed.Oct 07, 2020

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3 Keys to Ensuring Your Managers Become Effective Leaders

Innovators Alliance

An important decision you make as a business leader is selecting who you appoint in managerial roles. Your managers are a central part of your leadership team and their performance will have a direct impact on the value of your business. Ensuring that they become effective leaders will lead to higher employee engagement, productivity, and profitability.

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What We Can Learn About Government Innovation from DARPA

IdeaScale

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has already changed the course of history. DARPA was where the internet, the graphical user interface, the voice assistant, and GPS were pioneered, changing how we work, play, and live. Here’s what we can all learn from DARPA’s approach to innovation management and product design strategy.

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Does Your C-suite Still Need to Live in the Same City?

Innovation Leader

Hugh Molotsi, CEO of Ujama, shares how the shift to remote work may shape the future of the C-Suite. He also tackles two challenges of remote work: team building and serendipitous discovery.

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6 Major companies that failed to innovate in time

Articles from GroundControl

The reason why major companies fail to innovate isn’t caused by a lack of willingness to do so. Rather, the problem is that they’re too late in recognizing opportunities (and threats) because they’re too focused on sustaining their core business. History has proven that the best moment to search for innovation is when a product […]. The post 6 Major companies that failed to innovate in time appeared first on GroundControl.

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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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Play Bold: The Theological approach connecting the dots

Innovation 360 Group

Meet the theologist, trained to be a priest, saddled to be the digital transformer creating interlinked regional.

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A Terrible Thing to Waste: Creating a Culture of Continuous Learning

CMOE

Anyone who’s ever run a business knows that contentment with the status quo is an invitation to disaster. Human beings may not always like change, but they need it. Stagnation is not just boring, it’s dangerous. The same is true of your company. To perform optimally, a business must grow and evolve—meaning that your employees must grow and evolve as well.

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How To Create Incentives For Target Customers to Give You Idea Feedback

Collectivecamp

While we can sometimes get away with online customer testing testing, we often have to face up to the much more socially confronting task of interrupting strangers simply going on about their business on the street, which is no easy feat to say the least.

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The Role of Innovation in New Product Development: Three Approaches for Success

Qmarkets

Innovation is essential throughout the entire new product development (NPD) process, but nowhere is it more key than it is in the Fuzzy Front End (FFE) stage. FFE is the starting point of NPD and is where new product ideas are generated before entering the formal development process. Developing a strategy here is key in creating an efficient and cost-effective idea generation process, but how should you approach this?

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20 Examples of 2020 Innovations

Carla Johnson

October 8, 2020 I’m not going to try and sugar coat it, 2020 has been a hot mess. And we still have the 4th quarter to go. But one of history’s greatest lessons is people’s resiliency during a crisis. John F. Kennedy pointed out that the dual message in the Chinese word for crisis: “The Chinese use two brush strokes. Read More.

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Changes in Leadership, Reflection, and Reduced Commitment to Outdated Plans

Michael Roberto

University of North Carolina scholars Hanna Kalmanovich-Cohen, Matthew Pearsall, and Jessica Siegel Christian have published an interesting new study in a paper titled, " The effects of leadership change on team escalation of commitment." The authors completed two studies as part of this research project. In one of those studies, they conducted an experiment using the Food Truck Challenge simulation that I created in partnership with Harvard Business Publishing.

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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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Top 10 Podcasts for Corporate Innovation

Collectivecamp

Our top ten podcasts on corporate innovation and entrepreneurship.