Wed.Jan 29, 2020

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Digital Transformation is More about Transformation than Digital

Innovation Excellence

Premise: It seems like there can’t be a day that goes by when I don’t hear the word transformation being tossed around, usually with the prefix – Digital. At a deep level, I think everyone knows and understands that transformation of any kind is not only difficult but in most cases has an extremely low.

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Book Excerpt: Incentivizing the Behaviors That Support Innovation

Innovation Leader

What if businesses focused on company performance today as well as a year from now? Alex Goryachev of Cisco explains.

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How Big is Your Idea? Will it Move the Needle? The Questions That Stifle Innovation

Michael Roberto

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The Big Nine: digital transformation, opportunities and perils

Jeffrey Phillips

I've been reading a fair number of books and articles lately about digital transformation. The concept of digital transformation is still somewhat nascent, still being defined, but increasingly it seems that many of the significant underpinnings of whatever digital transformation ultimately becomes are rapidly coalescing, and controlled by just a handful of companies in the US and in China.

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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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Major Election Year Opportunity

Daniel Burrus

This isn’t just the start of a new year; this is the beginning of a new decade. With that, amazing new opportunities will present themselves for you and your organization. There are many certainties we already know in this new decade. For example, 2020 is an election year in the U.S., so most companies will “wait and see” in terms of innovation due to the political uncertainties that come along with an election.

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How to Make More Money in 2020

InnovationManagement

With the cost of living surging and wages staying flat, it can be tough to save up enough cash for all your needs and wants. But you don’t have to spend 2020 worrying about your bank account, you just need to get a little bit creative and to figure out how to put more money in your pocket. The post How to Make More Money in 2020 appeared first on Innovation Management.

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Wazoku makes two senior hires as the idea management scaleup prepares itself for further growth in 2020

Wazoku

30 January 2020 – Idea management scaleup ? Wazoku ?has made two new senior hires, as the company readies itself for further growth in 2020. Kathryn Layland joins as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) based in Wazoku’s London HQ, while Alex Butucea arrives as Wazoku’s new Director of Software Engineering, in the company’s Bristol office. . Layland has held senior global revenue p ositions with several Ad Tech solution provid ers and has experience o f growing and scaling SaaS business

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Too Many Goals! Apply strategic thinking to motivate not overwhelm.

Focused Momentum

“What are the greatest challenges you face?”. This was the question I posed to stimulate a brainstorming exercise during a recent Strategic Thinking Workshop. “Too many goals. We have too many goals put upon us.” Said one soft-spoken participant. Heads of the other participants nodded in agreement. “And it is assumed we can deal with it.” Said another woman around the table.

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Adding The Extra Welcome Factor To Your Business

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. Is your business in the habit of welcoming guests to its premises? Do clients frequently get invited to the office and does their experience there shape the success of your business? In that case, you have to make sure you’re offering the warmest welcome you can. It’s part of your business model, after all. source. Give them clear directions.

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The “average customer” does not exist, so stop designing products for fake personas

Idea to Value

What can Startups and Corporates learn from an obscure 1950 research study on the bodies of 4,063 Air Force personnel? A lot of companies say they put their customers at the heart of everything they do. These are the people who they design their products and services for. The customer is always right …(?). And yet, usually they don’t actually know who their customers are.

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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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Team Players: Subtle Ways To Boost Employee “Togetherness”

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. source. We hear so much about the notion of company culture. When we’re growing a business, we need our employees to be actively engaged so they can work their best but also feel happy in the office environment. That idea of employee togetherness is something that many entrepreneurs can ignore. But when you start to look at something like employee morale, you’ve got to focus on the best methods that harness a feeling of togetherness, which will help everybody to f

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How To Manage Conflict In Your Team

The Human Factor

Contributed –. As business owners, leaders and managers, we know that from time to time conflict can raise its head in the workplace. It can cause productivity to dip, it can cause distress to some staff members and it can create an unpleasant working atmosphere. That is why today we want to share with you some tips about how to manage conflict in your team. source.

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What is a Successful Business?

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. Success is a relevant term. What exactly constitutes success is dependent on what you personally to get out of something. Whether in your personal life or your professional life. One person’s idea of success might not be the same as someone else’s. Especially when it comes to your business. Making a success for your small business is something personal to you and your clients. source.

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How to Make the Most of Print Marketing

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. source. Digital marketing has broadly taken over most marketing campaigns and you can see why. It’s free to post an organic tweet or Facebook status and you can quickly grow an audience that spans a wide region. Digital marketing is also easy to monitor and fast to implement. But digital marketing isn’t everything. In fact, since digital marketing took over lots of companies have slowly realized that it isn’t everything and have started to explore new ways to make more of tra

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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