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Five Tips to Guide Innovation Management in 2022

Sopheon

True innovation isn’t the result of just good ideas. It’s an ecosystem of people, technology and repeatable processes that solve new problems. The post Five Tips to Guide Innovation Management in 2022 appeared first on Sopheon.

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Podcast S6E147: Natalie Nixon – Embrace the chaortic nature of improvisational organisations

Idea to Value

?. In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Natalie Nixon, founder of Figure 8 Thinking and author of the The Creativity Leap. We speak about what jazz has to do with business, improvisational organisations and what it takes for teams to thrive in a chaortic world. Topics covered in this episode: 00:02:30 – Natalie’s history with jazz, and learning how improvisation exists in organisations. 00:08:00 – The structure behind teams improvising together.

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The Development & Use of the PDSA Cycle of Improvement

Kainexus

The PDSA cycle is a popular approach to process improvement because of its simultaneous simplicity and effectiveness. Although it started in manufacturing, the PDSA model for improvement can be applied to any process, making it applicable across almost every industry. Today, PDSA is prevalent in healthcare, hospitality, education, construction, and professional services.

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Why Your Company Needs An Innovation Project Leader

BMNT

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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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Design Thinking and Design Abilities

InnovationTraining.org

Merging the two to solve complex and ambiguous problems. It is likely that many of you have heard of, worked with or are experts in design thinking. Design thinking is a creative problem solving methodology brought to the forefront by IDEO at least two decades ago (read: it’s old). Most every industry, including education, has brought it into its day-to-day practices.

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Employee Spotlight: Abbie Hediger

Brunner

Meet Abbie Hediger—Brunner’s new Senior Lead, Marketing Communications Planner. She’s got a creative background and a dream of writing and illustrating a children’s book. Read on to learn more about what keeps Abbie busy! Q: Why did you choose Brunner? A: I’ve been interested in Brunner since I first learned about the agency while studying advertising in college.

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Humanizing Hybrid Work

Be-novative

How can our own people co-create the new ways of working? Talent. Hybrid work. Empathy. Design?—?Important topics impacted by COVID-19. As we j ust finished our panel discussion on “Future Trends 2021: Humanizing Hybrid Work” we wanted to share the recording with you. How to care for people in our teams? How to balance between setting motivating goals, and optimizing for productivity, while trying to avoid the so common burnout?

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Bureaucracy and Politics versus Innovation

Innovation Excellence

Innovation in military hardware is really hard.

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How Coaching Can Fortify Your Company During A Transition Period

CMOE

Have you ever seen a company that was known for its positive culture and high retention rates transition into one with rapid turnover and low morale? Perhaps you were employed within the organization, or maybe you were just on the outside looking in, but in either scenario you witnessed a company that once had potential candidates swarming towards it suddenly transform into one that struggled to retain even its most seasoned employees.

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Why democratic leadership brings better strategic results

Cascade Strategy

Over 90% of the organizations struggle to convince their people to adopt new strategic initiatives.

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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