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Selling To Generation Z

Innovation Excellence

This is What They Want GUEST POST from Shep Hyken Gen-Z is not your typical generation. By the way, neither was the Millennial generation … or Gen-X, etc. Each new generation has interesting differences, desires, likes and dislikes.

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4 Ways Hucksters, Gurus And Consultants Fool Us (And Usually Themselves)

Digital Tonto

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9. What Did Edison Get Wrong About Innovation

Stephen Shapiro

Tip 9 from Best Practices are Stupid. We dig even deeper into open innovation. While attempting to find a suitable filament to make the incandescent electric light a viable device, Edison is famous for saying, “I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”.

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Small Business Expert Gene Marks’ Advice for Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs

Business and Tech

Small businesses face a lot of challenges these days, including hiring and retaining employees, inflation, supply chain issues, and more. Read on as small business expert Gene Marks shares his insights to help small business owners navigate the current marketplace. Gene Marks Founder, Marks Group PC. “There has never been a better time to start a small business,” says Marks, owner of Marks Group PC, a ten-person firm that provides technology and consulting services to small and medium-sized 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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Innovations Degrees of Connectivity, Interactivity and Sharing for Ecosystem Design

Paul Hobcraft

The three degrees of ecosystem design- the innovating equation. In any ecosystem thinking and design, we do need to find this “sweet spot” for encouraging more innovation. For me, it is the ability to build the dynamics within the involvement required. We live in a world where we are having greater connectivity than ever before. We are increasingly engaged in far greater interactivity with easy access to social and organizational tools than ever before.

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Creating a path from strategy to execution to drive chemical innovation

Sopheon

Chemical companies must become quicker in adapting their strategies to the new normal world and then make sure they execute quickly and swiftly. The post Creating a path from strategy to execution to drive chemical innovation appeared first on Sopheon.

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How Small Businesses Can Cope With Rising Inflation

Business and Tech

Here are five ways small business owners can get prepared and get ahead amid economic uncertainty and rising inflation. Kevin Hubbard Co-Founder, Rhoback Activewear, Member, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Small Business Council. Inflation has continued to rise at staggering levels. Small business owners are often disproportionally impacted by rising costs as they don’t have the same ability as larger companies to absorb them.

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Strategic Project Management is Key to Executing Strategy

Cascade Strategy

What is Strategic Project Management? Strategic Project Management (SPM) defines how a project may benefit a company's efficiency and strategic plan as a whole. It is the process of thinking about your Projects in light of their connection to your strategic plan. In other words, Strategic Project Management is about forming clear links between your Projects and Strategic Objectives.

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How Proptech is transforming the Real Estate Industry

IdeaSpies

Jennifer Harrison, IdeaSpies Proptech Editor, explains how innovative proptech solutions are now powering everything from day-to-day tenant and landlord dealings through to complex commercial property operations.What is proptech? It’s a question I often get asked. And more often than not, people actually already know what it is … they just don’t know that it’s called proptech!

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An Innovation Action Plan for the New CTO

Innovation Excellence

Finding and Growing Innovation Islands Inside a Large Company GUEST POST from Steve Blank How does a newly hired Chief Technology Officer (CTO) find and grow the islands of innovation inside a large company?

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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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Three Ways a Peer-Based Network Can Energize Entrepreneurs

Business and Tech

As a startup entrepreneur, you wear all the hats — sales, marketing, fulfillment, invoicing, accounting, and business strategy, to name just a few. It can be exhausting, but entrepreneurs thrive on bootstrapping and solving impossible challenges. However, the time may come, several years into your business, when you are unsure how to achieve that next growth milestone.

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A PFEP for the PFEP

Kainexus

Most well-established manufacturing companies would agree a plan for every part (PFEP) is fundamental to their improvement efforts. The organization captures and manages a significant amount of data to ensure the characteristics of all materials required for their processes have a clear purpose, place, path , and plan for movement or storage. Teams often go to extraordinary lengths to evaluate details of these materials, including safety requirements, packaging dimensions, frequency of delivery,

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End2End Innovation: 3 Essential Steps to Boost Your Innovation Process

ITONICS

What's the difference between a traditional innovation process covering ideas to projects and an end-to-end innovation approach from strategy to execution? The end-to-end approach will boost your return on innovation!

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17 Reasons Not to Be a Physician Entrepreneur

Innovation Excellence

Judging by the headlines on their LinkedIn profile and their presence on social media, more and more MD/DOs are innovators, coaches, entrepreneurs and non-clinical consultants.

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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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The Habits of the Successfully Self-Employed

Business and Tech

Small businesses generate 44% of the U.S. economy and are responsible for two-thirds of new jobs. One of the most often-overlooked sectors of the small business community is the 16 million people who are self-employed. Keith Hall, CPA President and CEO, National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE). “The state of mind of the typical self-employed person is by definition not typical,” says Keith Hall, chief operating officer and president of the National Association for the Self-Employed (NAS

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Proven Lean Strategies for Optimal Business Performance

Kainexus

Most modern business management methodologies have roots in Toyota's approach to quality improvement and business optimization following World War II. Techniques included in what they called The Toyota Way have been borrowed, adapted, and rearranged into an approach known as Lean manufacturing. Because the framework works for many types of businesses, from healthcare to higher education, it is now often referred to as simply Lean.

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Kellogg Shares Spike After the Company Announces Its Game-Changing New Direction

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Kellogg is revamping its business strategy as it aims to transform its portfolio.

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Can You Ever Be a Truly Independent Thinker?

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Tom Stafford, University of Sheffield ‘It’s important to me that I make my own decisions, but I often wonder how much they are actually influenced by cultural and societal norms, by advertising, the media and those around … Continue reading →

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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 Businesses Can Optimize Well-Being in the Evolving World of Work

Business and Tech

As organizations of every size strive to optimize individual and organizational well-being in evolving workplace models, employers are facing greater competition for talent. Mary Imboden, Ph.D. Director of Research, HERO. Sara Johnson, Ph.D. Senior Research Fellow, HERO. According to recent reports, mental health has been identified as the next global pandemic, and rates of burnout are at an all-time high.

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Strategic Plan Template: 6-Step Process + Free Download

Cascade Strategy

Successful strategies are built on a strategic plan that outlines how your company or team will achieve its long-term goals. It’s a clear roadmap that explains to all stakeholders how will you get from the present state to desired future state.

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5 Key Takeaways from TSIA: Interact

Planview

As technology solution providers emerge from the unprecedented volatility of the last couple of years, services leaders are asking what are the most important capabilities that they need to master? How should today’s toughest issues be addressed and tackled? What are the industry’s most important business challenges? What ways have customer expectations changed and increased?

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We Must Break Free of the Engineering Mindset

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell In 2014, when Silicon Valley was still largely seen as purely a force for good, George Packer wrote in The New Yorker how tech entrepreneurs tended to see politics through the lens of an engineering … Continue reading →

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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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For Small Businesses, Resilience Is the Key

Business and Tech

Top motivational speaker Dan Clark discusses how small businesses can recover — and thrive — in a post-pandemic world. Dan Clark CEO, Clark Success Systems. The world continues to navigate unprecedented challenges, and nothing has been hit harder than small businesses. In fact, compared to 2019, 80% of small businesses are still experiencing significant challenges , with 63% reporting lowered revenue.

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Top 5 Digital transformation use cases for the BFSI industry

Acuvate

“Digital banking,” “super apps,” “hyper-personalization,” “customer experience,” and “agility” — are the terms redefining the BFSI industry today. There has been a steady rise in banks and financial services organizations adopting powerful new-age digital solutions to reach and connect with customers on various digital touchpoints, driving the evident and much-needed shift from “financial inclusion” to “financial empowerment.

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Continue Innovating During An Economic Downturn?

Phil McKinney

The current economic downturn may have you feeling like you need to hunker down and wait it out. Especially in innovating during an economic downturn. This is understandable—no one wants to risk their hard-earned money in uncertain times. But this is actually the optimal time to take innovation leadership by continuing to invest in ideas […].

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Managing Cross-Cultural Remote Teams

Innovation Excellence

Closing the Virtual and Cultural Gap GUEST POST from Douglas Ferguson Learning to connect a culturally diverse virtual workforce is an essential part of managing cross cultural remote teams.

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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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Get It, Girl: Tips for an Aspiring Modern Entrepreneur

Business and Tech

Cynthia Johnson and Ashley Legg, co-founders of Get It/Girl Brands, offer advice for growing a small business in the digital landscape. Cynthia Johnson Co-Founder, Get It/Girl Brands. Ashley Legg Co-Founder, Get It/Girl Brands. What is your best advice for those who want to become an entrepreneur but do not know where to begin? Take the time to figure out what you want to do, or even better, what you don’t want to do.

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How Can You Have A Meaningful Life?

Mills-Scofield

Today, I’m honored to host an excerpt from the new book by my friend, Frank Sonneberg, The Path to a Meaningful Life *. Frank’s books are ‘must reads” and “must gives.” You should read his blog and follow him on facebook and instagram. You’ll be glad, and better, because you did! 10 Critical Rules for Living a Happy Life Some people spend their whole life searching for happiness.

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8. There’s No Such Thing as a Know-It-All

Stephen Shapiro

Tip 8 from Best Practices are Stupid. This one further explores the needs for open innovation. A well-known healthcare company, after launching an incredibly successful new product, turned their attention to creating new complementary offerings. Multiple failed attempts later, they came to realize they didn’t have the in-house expertise to crack the code.

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Episode 097: Take Drew’s Final Exam on Creative Thinking

Innovation in Practice

Imagine taking an exam that tests your creative skills. Then imagine your final grade in a graduate course is riding on how well you do on that exam. That’s what my students at the University of Cincinnati have to go through every semester. I teach a course called “Innovation Tools” and teach my students a variety of methods for becoming more creative thinkers.

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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.