Fri.Nov 30, 2018

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Change Management Strategy – 6 Areas to Highlight What’s New

BrainZooming

Here is something I do not remember ever seeing before to call out a change in traffic regulations: a NEW sign pointing out a recently-installed stop sign at a street intersection. I noticed the sign, on Main Street in Kansas City, Missouri, as we drove to an after-mass breakfast one Sunday. While I’d never paid attention to the absence of a stop sign at the intersection pictured in the photo, I guess one wasn’t there previously.

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A Boomer’s Guide to Teaching and Working with Millenials

Innovation Excellence

My parents were traditionalists. I’m a boomer. I work with a lot of Gen-Xers. I teach a lot of millennials. We are all trying to understand each other and adapt to how we teach and learn. Some teachers have to deal with helicopter parents more than the kids. Since we are all, mostly, products of.

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Millennial Engagement in the workplace: 4 Actionable Tips

Acuvate

According to Pew Research Center analysis , more than one-in-three American labour force participants (35%) are Millennials, making them the largest generation in the U.S. labour force. Organizations are developing into majority millennial teams, and predictions show millennials representing nearly 75 percent of the workforce by 2030. So it’s time for C-suite executives to channelize their thoughts around how this shift might impact their business.

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Why users are constantly disappointed by your software

Dawid

In all the year’s I’ve been developing enterprise software I’ve experienced several projects that have met all the ‘requirements’ but had users disagree with the experience. I’ve seen this at the extreme end where developers are literally high fiving each other about how great the software is. (Here I mean the term literally in the literal sense, as in “He literally broke his back building that house” implying a person actually damaged vertebrae during construction, and not in the “it was litera

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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 the Leading Founders of Modern Business Start Their Days

InnovationManagement

Mornings can be a difficult time to get motivated. Often we hit our stride just before lunch time and lose that determination that keeps us going in the afternoon. Here’s how the most successful leaders in business power up their mornings to maximize their productivity.

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Building a Culture of Employee-Led Innovation

Planview

In a recent HR Technologist article , Spigit CEO, Scott Raskin, made the case for why companies need to get employees invested in their innovation and improvement processes – and how to do it. At Spigit, our customers have seen a significant difference in how engaged their employees are when they’re able to collaborate and get involved in the company’s strategy through innovation.

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#1,406 – Heart Patch

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Suffering a heart attack is one of my biggest fears. Along with heights, the dark, swallowing a spider while I sleep, accidentally eating a Tofu burger, getting bitten by a snake, and dying before I get a chance to find out how Game of Thrones ends. Because the problem with a heart attack is that it could come out of nowhere to kill you. Right now one of my arteries may even be 99% clogged and I’d have no idea.

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The Singular Element… Nurturing Unity In Your Company

The Human Factor

Image source. It can feel like a very new age practice. The concept of unity in business isn’t about everyone being sat in a circle, like some therapy group. The real success of team unity stems from various components, not least, the leadership component. But what we can make mistakes with in this respect is being too in charge. The topic of unity in business is all about equality, and not in a political sense.

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6 Super Steps to Get Your Branding on Point

The Human Factor

Contributed post – You understand that branding is the bread and butter of every thriving business out there. The companies that get their brand on point will undoubtedly be set up for higher successes than those who push it to the back burner. Your business brand needs to encompass everything about your company and more. Whether you’re using a specific colour scheme, logo or catch phrase to represent your business, you need to think carefully.

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The Simple Solutions You’ve Been Looking For

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. Why do we like to make things so difficult for ourselves? Well, at least that’s what we think most of you are doing. Running a business can be exactly like clockwork if a business owner knows what to do in certain situations, and what to rely on when things get tough. Because they will get tough from time to time. A business will go through terrible periods that have only two outcomes.

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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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Making Sure Terrible Team Members Don’t Drag Your Business Ship Down

The Human Factor

Image source. Contributed post –. In the majority of cases, employment is all about employee appreciation. A happy team means healthy profits, after all. That’s why you should implement reward schemes, show appreciation, and improve workplace comfort. As a result, you’re sure to see increased efforts and improved work. At least, most of the time. Sadly, there is a darker side to employment.