Sat.Jul 04, 2020 - Fri.Jul 10, 2020

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7 Incentives to Increase Participation in a Crowdsourced Innovation Program

InnovationManagement

Every year, one question tops all the others that our customers might bring to us: how do I increase engagement in my innovation community? We see this question even in the most robust and activated innovation programs. The post 7 Incentives to Increase Participation in a Crowdsourced Innovation Program appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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Serial innovation: the secret behind the most innovative companies

Exago

It goes without saying that a company’s ability to innovate is tied to its performance. But what does it take to outperform in the long term? This is the question set out in the Boston Consulting Group’s latest report, which ranks the world’s most innovative companies in 2020. The post Serial innovation: the secret behind the most innovative companies appeared first on Exago.

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Meaningful Work in the Age of Automation

InnovationManagement

As we look ahead and reimagine the future of work, augmentation of humans and technology will enable employees to create more meaningful work. The post Meaningful Work in the Age of Automation appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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Comfort with Chaos: the Innovation Leader’s Mindset

IdeaScale

Chaos is something many organization leaders try hard to avoid. Generally, employees are expected to perform tasks in an analytical, well-organized fashion without deviating from the plan. But innovation leaders know the value of chaos, and how a certain amount of it is necessary for experimentation. This is what helps a company thrive and grow. … Continued.

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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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What to Do About Disengaged Employees

Kainexus

While definitions of “ employee engagement ” abound, they all come back to an employee’s emotional and psychological investment in their work. When employees are engaged, they are willing and able to contribute to the company’s success. That is why companies with engaged employees are 21% more profitable than those without. It’s important to note that employee engagement and employee satisfaction/happiness are not the same.

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A Beta Test of a New Virtual Meeting App

Stephen Shapiro

This week I had a chance to meet (virtually) with Phil Libin. You may know him as the mastermind behind Evernote. This week he launched a new app called mmhmm. His goal is to inject some fun into Zoom meetings. And he succeeded. You can quickly add overlays for slides so that it has the feel of a newscast. Yes, there are competitors in this space: Ecamm Live (which I’ve been using for a while now), OBS, and Wirecast.

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How to Work Smart and Not Hard

The Human Factor

source. As you grow older, it’s very easy to feel like there are not enough hours in the day. In fact, it’s enough to make you crave the days when you had nothing but time. Anyway, as the days pass by and the work piles up, you need to look for ways to be more productive in the little time you have. There really is no other way around it and the worst-case scenario involves you reaching a burn out point. .

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What Does It Really Take to Learn Anything from Somebody Else?

Idea Champions

Since 1987, I have been providing consulting and training services to a wide variety of forward thinking organizations who have recognized their need to raise the bar for creative thinking, innovation, and teamwork. An optimist, by nature, I have always assumed that the people attending my sessions had an innate ability to benefit from whatever it was I was teaching, conveying, or imparting.

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Podcast S3E68: Scott Anthony – How leaders delude themselves about innovation

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Scott Anthony, Senior Partner of Innosight. We speak about some of the insights from his upcoming book Eat, Sleep, Innovate , and how the current pandemic is going to change many industries in the near future. Topics covered in today’s episode: 00:02:00 – Scott remembers Professor Clayton Christensen, and his ability to tell stories to explain innovation. 00:05:30 – What does it really take to innovate?

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Innovate Your Customer Experience to Drive Business Growth in Uncertain Times

IdeaScale

When disaster strikes, be it social, economic, or otherwise, it leaves customers uneasy and in need of simplicity, ease-of-use, and speed. Customer experience can make a difference not just when times are unsettled, but for the long haul. Consider these five factors for building a more innovative customer experience. Eliminate Pain Points Look for difficulties … Continued.

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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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8 Major Challenges Faced By Data Scientists

Acuvate

8 Major Challenges faced by Data Scientists Organizations across the globe are looking to organize, process and unlock the value of the torrential amounts of data they generate and transform them into actionable and high value business insights. Hence, hiring data scientists – highly skilled professional data science experts, has become super critical.

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SME Innovation: 10 Priorities for Support Post-COVID-19 

InnovationManagement

Post-pandemic, public bodies must restructure SME support systems for long-term growth with well-functioning innovation systems with the right balance of instruments. The post SME Innovation: 10 Priorities for Support Post-COVID-19 appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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Summer Reading List: 9 Books That Will Help You Understand The Covid Crisis

Digital Tonto

This summer, I’m focusing my reading list on books that will help you understand the Covid crisis better. Related posts: Summer Reading List: Books That Explain The Future. Summer Reading List: [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Government Hackathons: Five Steps to Success

IdeaScale

Friendly competition can bring out the best of us, and when developing government innovation, hackathons can help solve certain challenges through crowdsourced innovation and build engagement across your constituency. So how does it work, and how can you hold an effective government hackathon? Set Up Resources A good hackathon gives everyone who takes part in … Continued.

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & 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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How To Fix Twitter's Business Model

Strategyzer Innovation

Recently, social media platforms have been heavily criticized for perpetuating false and misleading information. We wanted to dig deeper and understand why. Currently, the business model of these platforms is based on advertising revenue, which is all about engagement. The algorithms used by these platforms understand the best way to get the greatest number of clicks is through outrage, even if its perpetuated through falsehood.

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How to Digitally Spark Corporate Innovation

InnovationManagement

To maintain relevance in the global competitive market, many companies already focus on the development and implementation of innovations, even using digital tools. But, in times of crisis, this focus is most likely to be lost when most businesses concentrate on keeping the daily business running. The post How to Digitally Spark Corporate Innovation appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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Leveling Up Customer Empathy at Fitbit & More

Innovation Leader

How can teams use empathy to understand their customers? Irina Kozlovskaya, Director of Industrial Design at Fitbit, shares how her team uses empathy to design better products.

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Tips for Intellectual Property Alerts

Wellspring

As your organization’s researchers innovate, your intellectual property (IP) portfolio exponentially grows over time. However, that does not always mean that the number of staff members in your TTO grows alongside it. As a result, it is necessary to develop new strategies to make your team’s portfolio management operations more efficient and provide staff members with tools that enable them to manage increasing amounts of work.

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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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Employee Engagement Is About Building Trust

Tullio Siragusa

Employee Engagement Is About Building Trust. With the advent of modern communication technology, there has been a significant transformation on people’s expectation for transparency, access to information, and knowledge. Organizations are continuously trying to keep up, and in many cases, catch up. The success of any business depends greatly on the efficacy of the workforce, and the workforce can give its best only if there are effective communication strategies in place. .

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Top 5 Challenges Faced by Cross Functional Teams

Kainexus

Effective cross functional collaboration can be the key to tackling an organization’s toughest problems. Cross functional teams can serve as pockets of innovation, and they can improve both individual and group performance. There’s very little question about their value. The question is, why are cross functional teams so difficult to manage and maintain?

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5 Intranet Best practices For A Modern workplace

Acuvate

5 Intranet Best practices For A Modern workplace Improving employee engagement, ensuring productivity and creating personalized employee experiences by delivering the right content to the right person at the right time, on any device or channel is becoming a new business imperative. A survey featured by the Society for Human Resource Management states that most […].

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Operations Manager bei WOOD_SPACE

whataventure

Werde Teil des Teams! Operations Manager bei WOOD_SPACE (m/w/d). JETZT BEWERBEN. Wo. Wien. Start. Ab sofort. Anstellung. WOOD_SPACE. Sprachniveau. C1 Deutschniveau. Über uns. WOOD_SPACE ( www.woodspace.co ) ist eines der drei Projekte aus der Company Building Einheit von WhatAVenture. WOOD_SPACE ist auf die Entwicklung und den Bau von qualitativ hochwertigen, modularen und nachhaltigen (Klein-)Raumkonzepten aus Vollholz, auf Basis der traditionellen Blockbauweise, spezialisiert.

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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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Effective Non-Contact Innovation

100%Open

As of Thursday the 18th of June, our first online Union went live! We had three excellent speakers, two rounds of breakout rooms, and one platform via which many parts of the world were represented and connected. Since 2011 we have hosted a grand total of 36 Union events, but Summer Union 2020 was the first of its kind as it was entirely virtual from farm to fork – from our first brainstorm to the execution of the event itself.

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?? Propel Innovation with App Integrations

PlanBox Innovation

Goooooooooooooooooooood day folks! Imagine a world where innovation is magically embedded in all your favorite apps with the click of a button, and seamlessly flows through everyday work across the enterprise. Imagine a world where your team can innovate without ever having to leave the tools they love or the tools your organization uses on a day-to-day basis.

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How AI-Based Software Can Optimize Your Tax-Prep

Entrepreneur - Innovation

With filing date inching closer, entrepreneurs must initiate the process efficiently.

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Discover, Access & Manage Ecosystem Relationships in a Low/No Touch World

Innovation Leader

How do you build ecosystems when travel and serendipity are limited for the foreseeable future? Watch this webcast to learn how to form partnerships during lockdown.

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Implementing Intelligent Document Processing Solutions: Why It Works

See how companies like yours are tackling some of today’s most common business problems using AI-assisted automation for document processing. Manually capturing, extracting, and processing data within documents is a costly and outdated practice that’s holding your company back. IDP takes document processing to a whole new level so you can understand and use your data more effectively than ever before.

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#1,785 – Space Week: Hibernation Switch

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Most science fiction movies that involve a years long journey across the cosmos usually involve some variation of the same plot: sleep pod technology fails and people wake up years ahead of schedule, often in the midst of some life or death crisis that imperils their mission and the lives of everyone on board. Sometimes the pods fail because of sabotage, other times just misfortune.

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Design Thinking for the Future of Work

InnovationTraining.org

Following weeks of pandemic-related lockdowns across the globe, many employees are transitioning back to the office. Instead of “business as usual”, however, companies have been forced to adapt to social distancing requirements and other health-related policies put in place by local and state governments. Innovative solutions are needed for organizations to continue to adapt and ensure their workplaces, employees, and customers remain safe during these challenging times.

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LEADING AND MANAGING HUMAN TRANSITIONS THROUGH DISRUPTION AND ADVERSITY

ImagineNation

Connecting with a diverse range of my coaching and consulting clients over the past few weeks, has seriously deepened my understanding of the impact of disruption and adversity, on our stress levels and neurology, and the importance of leading and managing these factors, from both the business and the human perspective. It reaffirms the importance of leaders and managers becoming more generous, tolerant, caring, empathic, and resilient not only with themselves, and also with others, by strategic

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Innovation Software Showcase

Innovation Leader

At our first Software Showcase, Innovation Leader’s strategic partners share their digital innovation tools. Watch the pitch sessions here.

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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.