Tue.Mar 06, 2018

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How to Avoid Voting Bias in Crowdsourcing

IdeaScale

Crowdsourcing has been judged to be one of the most impactful, but least used digital hacks by organizations by Gartner. Why is that? Well, it’s an emerging discipline and there’s a lot to learn about how to do it well – how to communicate, how to moderate discussion, how to provide intrinsic value, and more. And one of the questions that we receive every so often is how to correct for voting bias.

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Are We Taking the “U” Out of UX?

Boxes and Arrows

What is a UX designer? I recently saw a great ad for a senior UX specialist from MathWorks. Some excerpts: Work with the development team to follow a user-centered design approach as you work collaboratively to brainstorm and design innovative solutions to complex problems. Make recommendations to team members about which usability methods to use to answer their questions about users and design directions based on projects’ needs, goals, and constraints.

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Do You Have a Powerful Innovation Story?

Innovation Excellence

Many, but not all, innovations involve some kind of technology, and start as an invention. Many of these technology-based inventions that may eventually become innovations are created by startups, but many are created inside large companies as well. In both cases, these technology-based potential innovations are often created by engineers or technologists that are well-versed.

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Bolstering Startups through the CVP

Yet2

The world of startups is fast moving, exciting and innovative. The agility of a small business and the enthusiasm of founders executing on their cherished ideas means startups move fast, pitch often, and put investment dollars to work quickly. The most successful startups have identified an important problem to tackle, and even more importantly, they have developed a clever way to solve that problem.

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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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How Great Managers Can Drive Employee Engagement

InnovationManagement

Are your employees underperforming? This happens even to star employees when they don’t feel motivated to do their job anymore. Luckily, great managers can drive employee engagement by reconnecting with their workers. To boost engagement, you must find out what drives the people to do their best job every day.

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Ask “Should We” Not “Could We”

Innovation Excellence

Desirability, Viability, Feasibility; the core tenets of Design Thinking, and oh, how the order matters! Every day, I work with engineers who are itching to build solutions to solve the problems they see. They love to create; in fact, you may say they were put on this earth for that very purpose. And then I.

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Digitalen Wandel erfolgreich gestalten

ITONICS

By Andreas Rusnjak. Die Digitalisierung von Informationen und Prozessen sowie die Auslieferung eines hervorragenden Kundennutzen, entlang einer digitalisierten Informations- und Kommunikationsarchitektur, wird für etablierte und junge Unternehmen in den nächsten Jahren zu einem immer wichtigeren strategischen Erfolgsfaktor. Um die Wettbewerbsposition halten oder ausbauen zu können, sind neue Geschäftsmodelle erforderlich.

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PBTO S2E6: The Art of Standing Out & Reinventing Ourselves

Rmukesh Gupta

Opening music credits goes to my son Yuvan Gupta. Who is on the show: Dorie Clark. In this episode, we host Dorie Clark. She is a marketing strategy consultant, professional speaker, and frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review. Recognized as a “branding expert” by the Associated Press, Fortune, and Inc. magazine, she is the author of Entrepreneurial You (Harvard Business Review Press,), Reinventing You, and Stand Out , which was named the #1 Leadership Book of 2015 by Inc. ma

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Why Make the Effort to Create a Culture of Storytelling?

Idea Champions

Unless you've been living in solitary confinement for the past few years, chances are good that you are a member of some kind of organization, or community -- a gathering of people who have come together in service to a common goal. Whether it's a Fortune 500 company, school, non-profit, or softball team, we are all, whether we know it or not, involved in the process of creating organizational culture -- "a collective way of thinking, believing, behaving, and working.".

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United Airlines Reverses Bonus Policy Decision

Michael Roberto

Well, that didn't take long. After a firestorm of criticism, United Airlines has walked back their compensation policy change. They will not be moving to the lottery system that they had proposed to replace regular quarterly performance bonuses for employees. United President Scott Kirby issued a new memo to all employees. Here is an excerpt: "Since announcing our planned changes to the quarterly operations incentive program, we have listened carefully to the feedback and concerns you've express

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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.