Tue.May 05, 2020

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4 Ways Innovation Can Increase Business Revenue

IdeaScale

source: Pexels In a recent study, researchers looked at different businesses and saw that the more the employees generated innovative ideas that management was likely to adopt, the higher the probability was that said company would grow its profits annually. At the other end of the spectrum, companies with little to no new ideas generated … Continued.

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ITFC looking for innovative ways to help member countries fight COVID-19 crisis

Exago

“Standing in solidarity to serve the member countries” in the fight against COVID-19, the ITFC is raising its innovation efforts to find new solutions jointly. As a leading Trade Solutions Provider, with a responsibility to shore up its activities and protect the member countries and interests of the nations that it provides practical, structural and fiscal support to, ITFC is launching an ideation drive to its staff, using the Exago platform.

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10 Ways to Humanize Your Video Meetings

Innovation Leader

The former Head of Design Thinking at Fidelity Investments shares how to make online meetings more produtive and more human.

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Why Does BI Matter? Your Portfolio is Growing

Wellspring

In North America, the AUTM Licensing Activity Survey reports annual disclosures have increased 24% over the past 7 years, resulting in cumulative patents under management growing at an exponential rate. Simultaneously, universities and hospitals have not expanded staff systematically to oversee growing portfolios. It has always been important to have a comprehensive understanding of your IP portfolio.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Innovating in the midst of the pandemic

Innovation Excellence

The unexpected arrival and spread of COVID 19 has caused massive and global changes, strongly impacting into the business world. Every company, in addition to managing the sanitary emergency by prioritizing health and employee’s support-, has had to respond generally in a reactive and compulsive way, trying to ensure business survival in a context where life is at risk.

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Build resilient businesses that compete beyond technology, product and price

Strategyzer Innovation

Leaders can inspire their teams to build superior business models. Business models that move beyond the rat race of competing on product, service, technology, and price. It is not the job of senior leaders to provide the answers, rather provide the fertile ground to allow for innovative thinking. By asking their teams better questions, leaders can spark innovative thinking to build superior business models.

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We are Crushing the Curve, Now What?

Focused Momentum

My grandparents had twelve children. Like many of their friends and family members, they married and started their family in the early days of the Great Depression. They had a farm so they could feed their ever-growing brood. They struggled, but so did everyone else. They worked hard and eventually thrived. Later they watched uncles, brothers, and cousins leave their Pennsylvania farmland to travel across the globe as part of the US deployment in WWII.

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4 Principles of Kanban

Kainexus

We tend to think of just-in-time manufacturing as a relatively new concept. Dell builds your PC when you order it but does it quickly, so you are satisfied with the speed of delivery. Plus, Dell never has excess PC inventory on its hands. However, the idea is not new at all. In the 1940’s, Toyota began applying the principal to its production lines after taking a lesson from an unexpected place: the grocery store.

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The choices to make right now

100%Open

I was furiously looking for someone on LinkedIn and because there were so many people with the same name, I ended up reviewing quite a few profiles. One of those brought me to a complete halt. Pivoting career as a choice . Our 60+ strong 100%Open Associate network keeps us very intimately glued to the joys and challenges of freelancing, running one-person micro businesses, and sometimes going between one of those and full-time jobs over time.

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Are you Aiming for Innovation Leadership?

Cris Beswick

Are you ready to lead an innovation-centric organisation? Now don’t tell me that you are in a position of leadership so you must be! That’s a bit like saying you got a certificate for twenty-five meters doggy paddle in school and are therefore ready to swim the channel. Leading for innovation isn’t merely a question … Continued. The post Are you Aiming for Innovation Leadership?

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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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Creating Culture at Wayfair

Innovation Leader

How can digitally-native companies maintain their innovative culture as they grow? To find out, we visited Wayfair’s co-founder Steve Conine at the company’s Boston office.

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#1,652 – Contact Tracing

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Social Distancing. Flattening the Curve. Herd Immunity. Over the last few weeks there have been a lot of coronavirus related buzzwords that have gone viral just as much as the virus has. But soon there will be another buzzword that we will be hearing a lot about: Contact Tracing. This isn’t something new or unique to COVID-19 It’s a standard operating procedure for health officials tasked with determining how any outbreak started and preventing it from spreading any further.

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To All Nurses Who Bravely Wear the Uniform, Thank You.

Brunner

Nurses are caretakers. Nurturers. Lifesavers. Essential. Seems to us, if ever there was a time to recognize nurses for their selflessness and courage, it’s now. As the country continues to grapple with Coronavirus, medical professionals – including nurses and other essential workers – have stepped in and stepped up. And this National Nurses Day, today, Wednesday, May 6, they won’t have time to celebrate.

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#1,653 – Amazfit Aeri Mask

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

The other day my friend made a desperate plea to Apple on Twitter: could you please make it so that I can unlock my phone while wearing a mask? A reasonable request in today’s day and age but not one that Apple may be able to solve. But that’s okay because a solution may be on the way thanks to a new transparent, self-cleaning mask currently in development.

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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.