Thu.May 09, 2019

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Digital Innovation meets As a service

Jeffrey Phillips

For a while now I've been considering the impact of all the emerging digital transformation tools on innovation. Artificial intelligence, machine learning, IoT, blockchain and a host of other technologies will have a bit impact on how corporations conduct work and create new insights and new products and services. However, I'm increasingly of the opinion that we are guilty of focusing on the technology and ignoring the real benefit of these technologies and other IT-influenced changes, and what

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How Change Management and Innovation Intersect

IdeaScale

Innovation by definition means change. Not all change, however, is innovative. Change – whether innovative or not – is inevitable, and the people and companies that regard change as a leverageable asset are the ones that end up better off for pursuing change. Those that see change as a problem, or something to be avoided at best limit themselves, and at worst, fail outright.

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How was it for you?

100%Open

How mentoring can add value. Merely having experience does not make a great mentor. Sometimes it doesn’t even make a good one. Above all, mentoring requires curiosity and empathy. You must be able to apply these in a conversation and you must be able to recognise and cultivate them in the person that you are mentoring. Today’s leaders are expected to show more than just talent and ambition.

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What if the current use of your product were banned?

Destination Innovation

Have you ever used a knife as a screwdriver or a shoe as a hammer? If so you repurposed a product for an application that the producer did not foresee. You put the product to another use. This idea can be a fruitful source of innovations for your product or service if you only you can think laterally. De Beers is a diamond mining company founded in South Africa in 1888.

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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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DNA may be the Answer to Data Storage Problem

Innovation Excellence

Data, as many have noted, has become the new oil, meaning that we no longer regard the information we store as merely a cost of doing business, but a valuable asset and a potential source of competitive advantage. It has become the fuel that powers advanced technologies such as machine learning. A problem that’s emerging, however, is that.

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Daily improvements are innovation, here’s how

Wazoku

Innovation is a necessity across all sectors and industries, and in an ever-changing competitive landscape, businesses are under more pressure than ever to showcase innovative outcomes. Incremental innovation involves making small scale improvements that can be implemented daily (or short-term) to existing processes, products or services. There are opportunities exist everywhere across all aspects of every business, to do things better, faster or in a more data-enabled way.

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Identifying the Links in Supply Chain Management

InnovationManagement

In this article, we'll explore what supply chain management is, what supply chain management software does, and the advantages and disadvantages of its processes. The post Identifying the Links in Supply Chain Management appeared first on Innovation Management.

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Building the Right Foundation for Innovation

Innovation Leader

Nancy Tennant, a professor the University of Notre Dame and the former Chief Innovation Officer at Whirlpool, explores how to build the right foundation for innovation at your company.

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Why You (Probably) Shouldn’t Trust Your Intuition | Collective Campus

Collectivecamp

“Trust your intuition”. We hear it all the time from self-help gurus who have a tendency to make baseless statements in order to motivate (or rack up Instagram likes), and this one is no different. Why?

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Developing collaborative leadership styles

ImagineNation

With a national election for a new Australian government about to take place in less than a weeks’ time, it raises key questions around the impact of collaborative, autocratic or competitive leadership styles. Many voters, like myself, to question as to what leadership style might be best for our country’s future. Is it a leader who seemingly operates from an “I” or a singular perspective, or is it a leadership style, that operates from “we” or from a team perspective?

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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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Why You (Probably) Shouldn’t Trust Your Intuition | Collective Campus

Collectivecamp

“Trust your intuition”. We hear it all the time from self-help gurus who have a tendency to make baseless statements in order to motivate (or rack up Instagram likes), and this one is no different. Why?

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Plan for the Unseen Disruptions to Your Business…Now.

Adam Hartung

Market disruptions first appear as potential threats: a new product here, a start-up there, a bit of research further along. How do you find them? Implement a threat identification and monitoring system and be aware!

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What the hell is innovation culture?

Braineet

Short answer: it is essential for your business to survive. Read-on for the long answer.

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#1,495 – Archs

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Just when you thought that Elon Musk couldn’t get any cooler this news comes courtesy of Science Alert : “Last year, Elon Musk’s personal Tesla might have gotten all the headlines during SpaceX’s historic rocket launch back in February , but the Falcon Heavy also carried a second, secret payload almost nobody knew about. Stashed inside the midnight-cherry Roadster was a mysterious, small object designed to last for millions (perhaps billions) of years – even in extreme environments

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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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So Your Idea Got Rejected

Phil McKinney

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Imagine We Are All New to the Company

Michael Roberto

Source: Fortune This morning, I had the opportunity to facilitate a dialogue among roughly 40 executives about how to avoid or prevent the sunk cost trap. In other words, how do you avoid throwing good money after bad on failing projects? One executive offer this technique that he has currently initiated with his team. He and many of his team members have been with the company for quite a long time.

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AUC 2019: Transforming IP into Business Success with Our Client Community

Anaqua

Gina Nuzzo, Director of Training & Development at Anaqua. It has been another milestone year for our company – and one with continued momentum – all of which was celebrated at this year’s Anaqua User Conference (AUC) with our client community. The four-day event (March 25-28) was hosted at the Loews Royal Pacific at Universal Studios in sunny Orlando, Florida.