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5 Pivotal Frontline Manager Skills to Hire For

CMOE

Though 77 percent of executives say frontline managers are crucial in helping their business reach its goals, only 12 percent of executives actually invest in growing and developing frontline managers. How can you recruit the best candidates for the job and better develop their roles? We’re here to provide some insight with the top five frontline manager skills you should hire for.

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Accelerating Innovation During Times of Disruption

Innovation Leader

In our “Accelerating Innovation During Times of Disruption” Master Class, Tim Bernstein and Stella Peace share insights on how to capitalize on 2020’s challenges to drive innovation.

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Fly, Crash, Adapt

Destination Innovation

Paul MacCready. Paul MacCready (1925 – 2007) was an aeronautical engineer and inventor of the first human-powered aircraft. MacCready was born in Connecticut to family of doctors. He was fascinated by engineering and airplanes from a young age. At 15 he won a national model building contest. He said, “I was always the smallest kid in the class and certainly not the athlete type.

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Podcast S4E87: Sahar Yousef – Making Superhumans

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with cognitive neuroscientist Dr Sahar Yousef. She is one of the youngest faculty members of UC Berkeley. In her 10 years of research on Making Superhumans, she has found ways to improve mental performance in as little as 7 weeks. We speak about what it takes to reach peak performance and different brain states.

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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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Adjusting to a changing world

Paul Hobcraft

The issue we must tackle today, is how we go about adapting to the changing world? One that will be able to take all the advantages of the changes all businesses are undergoing, how societies will be adjusting and responding. We are facing a time of unprecedented economic and social crisis but this is a time for seizing and sizing different opportunities.

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10 Principles for Transformational Change

Digital Tonto

Positive change never happens by itself. Any significant change always inspires fierce resistance and we need to overcome that resistance to bring change about. The post 10 Principles for. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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3 Types of Innovation Framework: Unlock Better Innovation Outcomes

Strategyzer Innovation

In our previous post we explained that, to bring clarity to any conversation on innovation, you need to distinguish between three different types of innovation , heavily borrowed from Harvard professor Clayton Christensen: efficiency, sustaining, and transformative innovation.

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Play Bold: Swing hard and grow with new roles

Innovation 360 Group

Tonight, we have Jens Saltin, who made an unbelievable career staring in the early days at Klarna, today Europe’s higher valued FinTech Company, ending up in the global team, and now decided to start up his entrepreneurial career. The post Play Bold: Swing hard and grow with new roles appeared first on Innovation360.

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Design Thinking Empathy Training

InnovationTraining.org

Learn how to gain empathy when practicing design thinking. Empathy is an important element in design thinking and human-centered design. But what exactly is it, and how do you develop it? In this guide, we’ll cover what empathy for design thinking means as well as how to learn empathy to apply to your innovation- and design thinking-focused projects.

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Why You Should Use an Idea Capture Template for Innovation

IdeaScale

Collecting new ideas and sharing them within the organization is a critical part of innovation. Similar to harnessing energy, you need a centralized way of capturing ideas so they can be organized, prioritized, and implemented effectively. An idea capture template provides a means of collecting and evaluating ideas. This helps create an innovation culture for … Continued.

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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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6 Don’ts For An Open Innovation Winning Formula

PlanBox Innovation

Open innovation (OI) can be a powerful approach for organizations to find groundbreaking ideas, develop new products and solve difficult problems. But not every company that engages in OI enjoys the same success; there are many reasons why. I have been involved in hundreds of open innovation projects — I have seen huge successes and, of course, many failures.

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Go for Launch: Hydrow, Crayon & Eightfold

Innovation Leader

Three startups pitch their products including a reinvention of the rowing machine, an intelligence company for businesses, and an AI-powered talent acquisition software.

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How to Move on to What’s Next After Hitting Rock Bottom

Tullio Siragusa

How to Move on to What’s Next After Hitting Rock Bottom. We have all been in a place at some point in our lives where we felt as if we hit rock bottom. Still, we survived. Despite thinking it wasn’t possible at the time, we still made it through. This year has been full of unexpected turns, and it has pushed a lot of us into a dark place. Some had to face personal losses while many got into financial troubles.

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Webinar: Diversity + Equity x Inclusion = Innovative Thinking

IdeaScale

For years, math professors struggled to demonstrate a hyperbolic plane. The concept is simple enough; it’s a surface with a constant negative curvature that resembles a lettuce leaf or other natural forms. But creating one that didn’t promptly start rotting was hard… until Cornell professor Daina Taimina crocheted one. This is just one example of … Continued.

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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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Don’t Miss Your Next $1M Idea: 5 Reasons Why You Should Include Everyone in Your Improvement System

Kainexus

Imagine going on a family road trip but not bringing your family. Do some people stay behind so they can experience the trip through the photos you send them? I’m willing to bet that more often than not, you bring the whole family. After all, it’s a lot more fun for you - and for them - to share in the joy together! The same concept applies to continuous improvement and why everyone needs to be a part of the improvement system.

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The New Paths to Competitive Advantage

Innovation Leader

As part of our recent Impact conference, Karim Lakhani and Navi Radjou discussed their latest ideas about the future of innovation and how they can be applied in large organizations.

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4 Ways to Unplug from the Present and Plug into the Future

Daniel Burrus

What if I told you there is a way to predict and even pre-solve the problems and challenges your organization will face and plug into the future? Most people believe such a concept is impossible; a crystal ball as such doesn’t really exist. But in reality, you can solve tomorrow’s problems today using anticipation and trends and leverage disruptive change for opportunity and advantage.

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The Effective-Delegation Checklist [Download Included]

CMOE

Managers who try to do everything themselves will get overwhelmed—and worse, they’ll produce lackluster work. This is why delegating work is essential. When done in the right way, delegation empowers employees in their roles and contributes to their professional development. Here’s some information on how to do delegation right, as well as a downloadable effective-delegation checklist that walks you through the delegation process.

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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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Applying Lean Six Sigma in the Auto Manufacturing Sector

Kainexus

As you might guess from the name, a Lean Six Sigma methodology combines Lean manufacturing principles and those of Six Sigma. This approach to production management is popular in the automotive manufacturing industry. Although there are a few areas of caution, the methodology has helped Ford, Caterpillar, General Motors, Goodyear, and many more achieve their quality and value goals.

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‘What Did I Get Myself Into?’: Jumping from the Private to Public Sector

Innovation Leader

Sean Adams, SVP of Innovation Design at a public enterprise fund, made the jump from the private to the public sector two years ago. Here’s what he’s learned about the differences between the two.

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Critique, Don't Criticize!

Mills-Scofield

NYC Guggenheim Museum’s Oculus ? Guggenheim Foundation. In my first year of college, I took an upper level course on Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, filled with philosophy majors. I was totally over my head. But, I still love Critique ! Usually relegated to the design world, it is a technique we should be using in business (and life!). In business, we usually criticize…and personalize.

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Brunner’s President and Partner Scott Morgan Shares Key Takeaways from Mirren Summit

Brunner

The Mirren Executive Leadership Summit on I nclusion and D iversity was a great platform to share and learn about topics we are all dealing with in business and in society as a whole.? The great irony with the ad industry is that we are focused as a business on a diverse world of consumers from all walks of life, and yet our industry’s employee profiles don’t reflect that diversity. .

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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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#2,005 – Historic SpaceX Launch

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

The texts came in urgently. Fast and Furious. “Turn on the news!” “Right now!” “Space Launch happening soon!” For years I’ve lamented the fact that we no longer celebrate space launches like we once did when man first walked on the Moon. And then when the call finally comes in I reacted the way most Americans probably reacted, “But, I’m watching football!

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THE PROS AND CONS OF A LEAN STARTUP

ImagineNation

Guest blog by Claire Wilson. ‘Lean’ is the buzzword of the last decade, challenging old school thinking that dictates that a successful business must be resource-heavy to achieve sustainable growth, whilst also giving credence to those who want to launch “almost-there” app startups today to achieve market domination tomorrow. Startup culture has well and truly broken the mold of best practice, but is there value in pausing progress to wait for a more comprehensive offering?

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Reasons To Really Read Into Text Marketing

The Human Factor

When looking at mobile marketing , you need to think about the most effective ways to reach your audience on the devices that are seemingly always at hand, in their bags, or in their pockets. However, dialling isn’t always the right solution. Here, we’re going to look at why text marketing can be just as effective and approach to get their attention and into their thoughts. source.

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Michael Brunner is Named Honoree in Pittsburgh’s 2020 Smart 50 Awards

Brunner

Pittsburgh ( November 20 , 2020) – Michael Brunner, Brunner ’s Chairman and CEO , has been named an honoree in Pittsburg h ’s 2020 Smart 50 Awards, recognizing the top 50 executives of the 50 smartest companies for their ability to effectively build and lead successful organizations. . “It is an amazing honor to be considered for the Smart 50 Awards ,” Michael said.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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#2,006 – Why Dreams Are So Weird

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

I had a weird dream last night. And the night before. And the night before that. It’s gotten to the point where I’m literally afraid to fall asleep. Fearful of what I’m going to uncover in the deep recesses of my mind. If you’re the same way you may be comforted to know that at least there’s a reason why this keeps happening.

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A pathway towards building your dynamic innovation capabilities

Guide 4 Innovating

To build a pathway in order to enable more dynamic innovation capabilities one needs to go through Nine Stages. These nine stages are, in my opinion, needed for developing an understanding of your innovation capabilities, so as to make them more dynamic and, as a result, to be at the top of your innovation game. This “step process,” I believe, gets you to the point of understanding what innovation capabilities are a better ‘fit’ for the purpose, to deliver on your innovation needs on a consisten

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Interview with Erich Joachimsthaler, Author of The Interaction Field

InnovationManagement

I had the opportunity recently to interview fellow author Erich Joachimsthaler, the Founder and CEO of Vivaldi, one of the largest independent global strategy and business transformation firms, to talk with him about his new book The Interaction Field: The Revolutionary New Way to Create Shared Value for Businesses, Customers, and Society, to explore the important role that connections play in both business and innovation.

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The Wizard of Oz Prototyping VS Concierge Testing

Articles from GroundControl

The best way to validate a value proposition is by testing if the solution delivers the value the customer is looking for. To test your value proposition, you need a way to deliver the same value to the customer as the final product will deliver. So you need an experiment that mimics the value of […]. The post The Wizard of Oz Prototyping VS Concierge Testing appeared first on GroundControl.

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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