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How to Create and Sustain a Culture of Innovation

IdeaScale

Successful innovation is supported organization-wide. Management and employees need to be on-board with strategies that drive change. A culture of innovation creates the framework for idea sharing and implementation. Positive change occurs when employees are equipped with the right information and tools. Research shows successful innovation is based on growth.

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15 Essential Core Competencies for Supervisors

CMOE

A strong team requires the expertise and guidance of a quality supervisor. But do you know how to judge what “quality” actually looks like at this level of leadership? Without a framework for evaluating a supervisor’s competence, it’s difficult to provide objective feedback and encourage improvement. You can use our list of 15 essential supervisor core competencies to score your own leadership skills or those of leaders in your organization.

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We are searching for new pathways

Paul Hobcraft

Ecosystems and Platforms are our pathways to a new innovation future. Ecosystems have suddenly become of age, as they can be formed around common concepts fairly rapidly, they can enable cross-cutting innovation to be delivered in highly collaborative ways. They can, through shared platforms achieve a closer relationship with the customer, to understand their needs and experience through increased collaboration, and engagement.

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Podcast S4E85: Cliff Goldmacher – What business can learn from songwriting

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value Podcast, we speak with songwriter Cliff Goldmacher. Cliff is a Grammy-recognised, #1 chart-topping hit Songwriter, and we speak about his creative process, collaborating with other artists, and finding out what companies can learn from songwriting. Topics covered in this episode: 00:01:00 – Cliff’s history writing over 1000 songs, and his experience writing. 00:03:00 – The songwriters who succeed are the ones that treat it as a busi

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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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What We Can Learn From The Failure Of Quibi

Digital Tonto

Probably the most important thing we can learn from Quibi’s failure is to not believe your own PR. Plan for and prepare things to go wrong. Nobody really knows anything until it can be observed in. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Change Management: Five Reasons Organizational Change Fails

IdeaScale

Change is hard, but managing it is harder. Many organizations struggling to make meaningful alterations to their structure have run into any number of roadblocks. Here’s are some of the ways that organizational change fails and how to overcome them with effective change management. Keeping Reasons OpaqueThere is no “need-to-know-only” when managing change.

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I don't want to live in a Ready Player One world

Jeffrey Phillips

I'm working with a startup, focused on the future of nutrition. This is not my first startup, or as we used to say in Texas, my first rodeo, and I doubt it will be my last. I've had the good fortune to work in several startups that had different trajectories. One, a consulting firm, grew rapidly but never went public. Another software firm I worked with got just big enough to get acquired by a larger company, and yet another software company received funding from Softbank but failed to get anoth

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How to Become a Manifesting Machine

Tullio Siragusa

How to Become a Manifesting Machine. Have you recently lost a job or suffered personal loss? Learning to become a manifesting machine might be just what you need right now. People talk about manifestation a lot. Manifesting your dream life, job, relationship, and every other thing. Often many people think all you have to do is dream it, desire it, and magically things will just manifest in your life.

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Here are Some Idea Management Examples You Can Use for Inspiration

IdeaScale

Generating new ideas can be challenging for all organizations. No matter the size of your company, you need a way to organize, prioritize, and implement them successfully. Make innovation a priority. Research shows 30% of companies feel innovation is a top challenge in achieving organizational goals. An innovation strategy will help you cultivate those ideas while promoting … Continued.

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How an Ecommerce-Insights Company Uses AI to Understand Customer Sentiment

Entrepreneur - Innovation

The CEO of Revuze shares how analyzing sentiment helps brands better assess the public's views on products and features.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and guest speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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Think Bigger: Turn the Pandemic into a Panoramic View

Daniel Burrus

A post-pandemic question I hear frequently from all industries during the pandemic is, How do we communicate to our employees and customers going forward, and what do we tell them? Communication was a huge obstacle for the education industry at the start of the pandemic. How do we discuss what to do with our staff and students, and is there a one-size-fits-all response to this?

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Introduction to Selling for Product Managers and Developers

Rmukesh Gupta

Premise: One of the startup founders that I was coaching requested me to introduce selling to his entire team, including product managers and development teams. I strongly believe that it is important for everyone in a business to learn and know about how their products are sold to their customers. This information creates more empathy towards both the customers and their sales executives who interact with the customers.

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How to Create and Sustain a Culture of Innovation

IdeaScale

Successful innovation is supported organization-wide. Management and employees need to be on-board with strategies that drive change. A culture of innovation creates the framework for idea sharing and implementation. Positive change occurs when employees are equipped with the right information and tools. Research shows successful innovation is based on growth.

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How Innovators Get Aligned with CEOs and Set Shared Priorities

Innovation Leader

When it comes to creating alignment with CEOs, John Hancock Insurance CEO Brooks Tingle advises that innovators at large organizations start with organizational vision and values.

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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

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How to turn cold leads into hot sales for your corporate startup

whataventure

How to turn cold calls into hot sales for your corporate startup. A guideline on how to make your cold calls successful and get your first paying customers. Discover our tips and tricks on sales conversation strategy, practical phrases, and how to feel more comfortable while cold calling. ( BONUS : download two scripts that you can follow in your next cold call to make it a success.).

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Microsoft And RPA: What Customers Should Know

Acuvate

Microsoft and RPA: What Customers Should Know Grand View Research, an international market research and consulting company, reports that the RPA market, valued at $1.1bn in 2019, is expected to reach $10.7bn by 2027, expanding at a CAGR of 33.6%, making it the fastest growing enterprise technology. With its ability to integrate with legacy systems […].

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Dr. Ripi Singh (ASNT, USA) and Dr. Johannes Vrana (DGZfP, Germany) on Why, What, and How of NDE 4.0?

Inspiring Next

Dr. Ripi Singh (ASNT, USA) and Dr. Johannes Vrana (DGZfP, Germany) did a tag team on Why, What, and How of NDE 4.0 for Launch of the CEENDRA Chamber of Non-Destructive Testing Companies, in Argentina. ‘The Why’ covered the need, significance, and impact of Probability of Detection (POD) on Safety and Economic value of… Read More » Dr. Ripi Singh (ASNT, USA) and Dr.

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Highlights from October on Reconnecting With Customers and Colleagues

Innovation Leader

We’ve gathered the best advice we’ve been given by innovators in our live show, report, and online coverage to help you reconnect with your customers and colleagues.

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How Automation is Driving Efficiency Through the Last Mile of Reporting

Speaker: Jamie Eagan

As organizations strive for agility and efficiency, it's imperative for finance leaders to embrace innovative technologies and redefine traditional processes. Join us as we explore the pivotal role of digitalization and automation in reshaping what is commonly referred to as the “last mile of reporting”. We’ll deep-dive into why digitalization is no longer a choice, but a necessity for finance departments to stay competitive in a fast-paced environment touching on: 2024 trends for the Office of

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How to Become a True Leader (No Matter Your Title)

Kainexus

When people talk about the inner workings of organizations, we often use the word “leader” as a shortcut for “executive.” But the truth is, not all executives are leaders and not all leaders are executives. Anyone, no matter what their title or where they sit on the org chart, can demonstrate leadership and inspire others to achieve great things. Leadership is a set of skills and attitudes that can’t be attained by changing what it says on your business card.

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Not Learning Is A Failure. Everything Else Is An Opportunity

BMNT

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Employee Spotlight: Julia Devine

Brunner

Meet Julia Devine! When Julia’s not on the job as a Media Planner/Buyer, she’s writing and playing music. She even recorded a pop album a few years back. Go look up “Jaye Devine” on your favorite music streaming service—you won’t be disappointed! Q: What were some of your high school hobbies? . A: I took voice lessons, performed in musicals, and sang in a barbershop quartet.

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A Model for Measuring Corporate Innovation Programs

Innovation Leader

There is no silver bullet or a quick solution for measuring the impact of innovation, but this model brings structure to the process of measuring the health of innovation programs and their impact.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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#1,987 – Sky Diamonds

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Diamonds are forever and so too is the long-term damage they impose on the environment. What really would be a girl’s best friend then would be diamonds that don’t harm the environment when they are produced. A feat of modern ingenuity that may actually be possible to pull off thanks to newly designed Sky Diamonds that get made by sucking carbon dioxide from the air.

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An Introduction to the Lean Concept of Catchball

Kainexus

Most of us have memories of playing the game of catch either as children or with our children. I really shouldn’t call it a “game” because there are no winners and losers. There is no defense because everyone is on the same side. One participant tries to deliver the ball to the other in a way that they will be able to grab and return it. The ability to catch and throw a ball is important because it is a foundation for success in many other more complex sports.

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Seven Tips For Better Small Business Bookkeeping

The Human Factor

Are you a small business owner who loves studying a spreadsheet? Probably not. Your business’s books are a way to tell how well you are performing, but if you’re not really a numbers person, doing your bookkeeping may sound pretty unappealing. Many business owners have good intentions of keeping up with the business finances but get distracted by the day to day needs of their business, and don’t get around to it.

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Sustainable Innovation: SDG 13 – Our Journey to Wazoku becoming Carbon Neutral

Wazoku

Wazoku is both a for-profit and a for-purpose business. We see innovation and sustainability as core pillar of our business. In a year of challenges, triumphs and chaos, Wazoku has recently achieved a hugely important milestone in our sustainability journey – as a business, we are now officially carbon neutral. To say that I am proud of this would be a massive understatement.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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#1,988 – Powerball Voting

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

You would think that everyone would register to vote. Especially this year. There’s a lot on the line. Or at the very least that everyone that is registered to vote would cast their ballot. And yet that won’t happen either. To a certain extent I get it. People are disenfranchised with the Electoral College system. They feel like their individual vote doesn’t matter.

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Peering Into the Spaces In-Between

helloFUTURE

In the Intellectual Property space, we have a service that exists solely to generate product ideas that may never see the light of day. This is called “Targeted IP Generation.” These ideas need to be designed from the ground up to not be currently developable in the current environment or by the specific company. This… The post Peering Into the Spaces In-Between appeared first on hellofuture.

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Go for Launch: Rendever, Spatio Metrics & Bedestrian

Innovation Leader

Three startups demo their products, which include virtual reality for senior citizens, data-driven design software, and a robot that delivers medical supplies.

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Introduction to Game Theory

InnovationManagement

Game theory is a theoretical framework for conceiving social situations among competing players. In some respects, game theory is the science of strategy, or at least the optimal decision-making of independent and competing actors in a strategic setting. Let's have a look at a few examples. The post Introduction to Game Theory appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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Mapping Digital Transformation: Retail’s Strategic Shift

Speaker: Jennifer Wright, Michael Scholz, Jasmin Guthmann, and Scott Canney

Digital transformation in retail is so much more than new technology. You need to get your whole organization, from entry-level workers to executives, on board with the new tech, new skills, and culture changes that digital transformation brings. Leading this mindset shift can be a daunting task… but that’s where this webinar comes in! Join our panel of experts as they guide you through the challenges of digital transformation, preparing you to avoid common mistakes and make the most of incredib