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The True Value of Your Time

Leanstack

Time is our scarcest resource. Other resources like money and people can fluctuate up and down, but time only moves in one direction. When I share this quote with others, they appear to get it?—?but then their actions prove otherwise. Most people still value money more than time and make decisions based on the present value of money vs. the future value of their money investment (ROI).

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MOFI Acquires Innovation Excellence

Innovation Excellence

Noted Disruptor, Shawn Nason, Embraces the Opportunity to Lead the Global Community of Innovation Practitioners Cincinnati, Ohio (Tuesday, February 11, 2020) – Speaker, thought leader and CEO of MOFI, Shawn Nason, announced a new adventure in the world of innovation and disruption, with the acquisition of Innovation Excellence, the acknowledged online home of the global.

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2019 USPTO Patent Statistics: Breaking the Trend

Anaqua

Khyle Eaton, Product Manager of Business Intelligence at Anaqua. After five years of minimal change in total patents granted, 2019 finally broke the plateau. According to a 2019 USPTO patent statistics analysis using Anaqua’s AcclaimIP analytics software, last year there were 392,616 granted patents–a 15% increase from 2018. Further, there were 394,879 US applications published in 2019–a 5% increase from 2018.

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Innovative Ideas When You Need Them

BrainZooming

Want a new, easy-to-access source of innovative ideas? I mean, who doesn’t, right ? Stuck at the airport during an ice storm, I was talking with a sales executive for a well-known insurance brand. His company’s big kickoff sales meeting was scheduled for the following week. He remarked that his company’s competitors also held sales meetings at approximately the same time annually.

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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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In Technology, Entrepreneurs Must Take the Biggest Shots to Make the Biggest Gains

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Here's how "moonshot thinking" can transform entrepreneurship - and three areas it could benefit the most.

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The True Value of Your Time

Leanstack

Time is our scarcest resource. Other resources like money and people can fluctuate up and down, but time only moves in one direction. When I share this quote with others, they appear to get it?—?but then their actions prove otherwise. Most people still value money more than time and make decisions based on the present value of money vs. the future value of their money investment (ROI).

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What To Do if Your Team Isn't Finding New Opportunities for Improvement?

Kainexus

The topic of this blog is a question that we get quite often. Teams will implement a continuous improvement program with much enthusiasm and tons of activity, but over time, the momentum slows, and new opportunities for improvement come less and less frequently. If you are in this boat, you are definitely not alone. Because so many folks have experienced and talked to us about this, we have some advice.

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Wazoku partners with InnoCentive to create the world’s most powerful innovation platform and community

Wazoku

Global partnership delivers a unique proposition for any organisation seeking to solve business challenges and drive innovation. Idea management scaleup Wazoku has announced a major new partnership with US open innovation firm InnoCentive , which will create the world’s most comprehensive and powerful innovation platform and community. InnoCentive has built a global network of more than 400,000 expert problem ‘solvers’ comprising CEOs, PhD students and faculty, entrepreneurs, retired technologi

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Here is Why You Shouldn’t Change the Past Even If You Could

Innovation Excellence

The Temptation To Reignite The Past Pulls At Us All, But Here’s Why Giving In To It Undermines Your Success Ok, time for some brutal honesty. Answer truthfully, how many times in the past week did you catch yourself saying something along the lines of, “If only I had done X back then, I’d be.

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InnoCentive partners with Wazoku to create the world’s most powerful innovation platform and community

Innocentive

Global partnership delivers a unique proposition for any organization seeking to solve business challenges and drive innovation Waltham, MA - 11 February 2020 – Open innovation firm InnoCentive has announced a major new partnership with UK idea management scaleup Wazoku, which will create the world’s most comprehensive and powerful innovation platform and community.

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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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Choosing Office Space: 5 Factors To Consider

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. source. There’s a lot to consider when choosing office space. Here are five of the biggest factors to take into account when office-hunting. Cost. Firstly, you should decide on your budget. If you’re renting office space, you’ll need to have a maximum monthly lease cost in mind. If you’re buying – or even building – your own property, you’ll need to consider mortgage rates and down payments costs.

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How To Prioritise Your Business Tasks

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. source. If you have many issues in your business that need attending to, you are probably not going to be able to tackle them all at once; which is what makes prioritising such an important factor. If you are wanting to regain control quickly, you will need to firstly know how to delegate and understand who is best to help solve the problems quickly and effectively.

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3 Counterintuitive Tips for Working Smart

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. source. Everyone who is interested in entrepreneurship has likely read a fair bit about the virtues of “working smart,” rather than simply working hard. The fundamental idea of “working smart” is that you should emphasise things like efficiency and effective prioritisation, in order to ensure that the time and energy you dedicate to your work yields the greatest possible return, as opposed to simply working yourself into the ground without much to show for it.

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Business Productivity: How to Get Things Done

The Human Factor

Contibuted post –. Sometimes when you have a lot of work to do in a day, you wish the hour would slow down. However, it’s impossible, and you must, therefore, learn how to get things done on time. You should plan your day and be cautious of the things you do so as not to waste time. If you always find yourself overwhelmed by tons of work, there is a high probability that you have not been managing your time properly.

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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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How to Keep Your Business Financially Healthy

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that the success or failure of your business will always come down to the strengths of your ideas, your position in the market, or simply how much luck you have. But none of these is the biggest factor. That belongs to the financial aspect of your business. If it’s healthy, then you’ll have little to worry about.

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How To Make Your Conference Stand Out From The Rest

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. source. Did you know that 90% of conference creators struggle to reach new attendees? But yet the other 10% who are putting on amazing conferences are welcoming hundreds of attendees each year and continue to see positive growth. So what is it that makes them stand out, and how can you do the same? Choose A Unique Venue. Conference rooms, exhibition halls and meeting rooms are all well set up to hold conferences, but if you want yours to stand out, then it’s time to hol

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How You Can Keep Your Employees Happy- And Why You Should

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. source. When it comes to the overall success of your business, your employees are crucial. You might have a fantastic business idea, but you need people to work the various roles within your company and keep things running, and so finding the right people is key. Keeping they happy once you’ve found them helps you to retain your employees, which is beneficial to your business in many ways.