Sat.Sep 24, 2022 - Fri.Sep 30, 2022

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7 Signs of Team Disconnect

CMOE

Did you know that 5 in 6 employees feel disconnected at work? The reality is that any employee can struggle with connecting with their work teams, no matter what their schedules, occupations, and backgrounds are and regardless of whether they are working remotely, in house, or on a hybrid model. So, how can companies ensure that there is more engagement in work teams?

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Leveraging Opposition to Drive Change Forward

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell Clearly, we live in a time of great flux. First, #MeToo, then Covid-19 and now a new racial consciousness in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. The most important task for leaders over the coming years will be to guide their organizations through change. Make no mistake, it […].

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Potemkin villages and faking innovation

Idea to Value

Sometimes, innovation teams will attempt to show fake success in order to hide their real struggles. Have you ever heard of a Potemkin village? According to historical stories, in 1787 Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin-Tauricheski of Russia was tasked with settling more Russians into the land of Crimea, which at that time had just been annexed from the Ottoman Empire in 1783.

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Building out our innovation ecosystem in design and thinking

Paul Hobcraft

Finding the new building blocks of innovation ecosystem design and thinking. Why change our thinking and designing around innovation ecosystems?“. For me, ecosystem thinking and design offer fresh ways for accelerating mutual learning, and through this innovation, outcome potential for sharing and knowledge building. As we build an understanding of the power of digital platforms and ecosystem thinking, we can see gains and new values and realize different opportunities denied to us in the past b

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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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Schwerpunkt: The Killer Strategic Concept You’ve Never Heard Of (But Really Need To Know!)

Digital Tonto

The biggest strategic mistake you can make is to try and win everywhere at once. To win, you need to prevail in the decisive battles, not the irrelevant skirmishes. That, in essence, is the principle of Schwerpunkt—to identify a focal point where you can direct your resources and efforts. When Steve Jobs returned to Apple, computer companies were duking it out in the PC market, yet he identified digital music players as his Schwerpunkt and the iPod made Apple a serious player.

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Is backwards the way forwards for business?

IdeaSpies

The pandemic has got Aussies feeling sentimental about the past.

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What’s Next – The Only Way Forward is Through

Innovation Excellence

by Braden Kelley The world needs you. The United States needs you. Your family needs you. Both your heart and your mind are needed to work on potentially the greatest innovation challenge ever put forward. What is it? We must find a solution to the division and lack of meaning that has become the American […].

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How Important Are Face-to-Face Interactions for Innovation?

Michael Roberto

Source: www.lifesize.com Much has been written about the impact of remote work on collaboration and innovation in the workplace. Yet, few rigorous studies have attempted to document the actual impact on innovation. Now comes a fascinating new paper from David Atkin , M. Keith Chen & Anton Popov. They used an enormous amount of smartphone geolocation data to track face-to-face interactions.

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Sustainable Practices Start From the Ground Up

Business and Tech

We talked to Blue Diamond Grower’s director of sustainability about how (and why) more businesses should pursue green initiatives. Dan Sonke Director of Sustainability, Blue Diamond Growers. Why is it important for businesses to adopt more sustainable practices? It has become cliched to say that we pursue sustainability because “it’s the right thing to do.

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Private: The Key Drivers of Organizational Innovation

IdeaScale

Innovation has become a buzzword that’s associated with a variety of misconceptions. One of which is that innovation is a personality type. Without a doubt, some innovators are high-energy extroverts. However, most disrupters and innovators are everyday team members. Most importantly, not every out-of-the-box thinker can successfully innovate in all settings.

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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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Making people, and the environment, healthier

Christensen Institute

Picture this scenario. An older man goes to urgent care with a persistent, painful cough. After listening to his cough and his breathing, the doctor recommends going to the hospital for imaging. From there, it’s recommended he get a lung biopsy. The biopsy confirmed the man’s fear: he had lung cancer. He was confused, for he was generally healthy and had never smoked in his life.

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What is Lean Project Management? Principles & Benefits

Kainexus

Lean project management is the application of Lean manufacturing principles to the discipline of project management. While most of the ideas germinated at Toyota in the 1940s, they have widespread utility across every industry and for organizations of any size. Modern organizations have adapted Lean project management for today's business challenges and technology landscape.

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Saving Money While Saving the Planet

Business and Tech

Capstone Green Energy helps organizations save money and reduce their carbon footprints by strategizing and executing more sustainable energy solutions. Capstone president and CEO Darren Jamison offered his insights into why going green is good for business. Darren Jamison President and CEO, Capstone Green Energy. Does adopting sustainable practices and technologies make good business sense?

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Job Insecurity Harms Both Employees and Employers

Harvard Business Review

Many organizations make no secret of their strategic use of the threat of job loss to motivate employees. But new research suggests that this isn’t just cruel — it’s often counterproductive.

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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 Reasons Physicians are Losing the Branding Wars

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Arlen Meyers, M.D. Maybe the last time you walked into a retail-based clinic, you did not see an MD. Maybe the same thing happened at your hospital outpatient clinic or an urgent care center. Physician “extenders” and advanced practice professionals, like primary care pharmacists, nurse practitioners and physician assistants are winning the […].

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Policy Deployment: Examples, Techniques, and Tools

Kainexus

Moving an organization toward its long-term strategic objectives while maintaining and improving day-to-day operations requires thoughtful planning and attention to organizational alignment. It is essential that the strategy be an integral part of daily work and thinking from the top of the organization to the bottom. Because strategy execution is central to operational excellence , fundamental principles and techniques have evolved that reflect the practices of the most successful organizations

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A Q&A With the American Sustainable Business Network

Business and Tech

The American Sustainable Business Network is committed to promoting sustainable and equitable business practices. Jeffrey Hollender CEO and Co-Founder, American Sustainable Business Network. What are the ASBN’s three policy areas and how do they affect business? The American Sustainable Business Network (ASBN) works with its members to develop a vision and policy framework for a sustainable market-based economy.

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How Sustainability Efforts Fall Apart

Harvard Business Review

Corporate structure and culture often derail companies’ best intentions. Here’s how to overcome these common pitfalls.

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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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What makes an idea artistic?

IdeaSpies

I am curious, so I am always interested in the new & different – ideas to float by in one way or other, places I go, people (Feed generated with FetchRSS )

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Three Ways Technology Improves the Retail Customer Experience

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Shep Hyken E-commerce hasn’t killed retail—it’s just transformed it. For years we’ve been hearing that retail is dead, and the rash of store closures in cities across the country would seem to confirm the trend. The local mall no longer serves as a de facto community hub, if it’s even stayed open […].

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Why Paper Recycling Is a Success

Business and Tech

What makes paper recycling a success? American Forest & Paper Association’s Heidi Brock explains. Investing in and improving paper recycling has been among our industry goals for decades. We first set goals to improve paper recycling in the 1990s. The recycling rate has more than doubled since then. More than 50 million tons of paper was recovered for recycling in 2021.

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Why Economies Become Less Dynamic as They Age

Harvard Business Review

Mancur Olsen’s 1982 classic, “The Rise and Decline of Nations,” offers a startling lens on what’s gone wrong with the U.S. economy.

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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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The necessary Plumbing, Pipework and Pumps for the Industrial Metaverse

Ecosystems4Innovating

The stages of building out the Industrial Metaverse taking a three-horizon approach. I had the pleasure of attending the Nvidia GTC22 event recently. Over four days, they did a good job of scrambling my brain. Take a look at some of the sessions that apply to you- amazing stuff. I focused on the Industrial Metaverse and where it is going. It is only at the beginning of its journey, but the feast of predictions, future forecasting and bold, clear visions on this was impressive.

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Innovation Plays Key Role In Making India Developed By 2047, Says Nirmala Sitharaman

Entrepreneur - Innovation

While pointing out the significance of digitalization that has been laid into medical services, education and software as a service (SaaS) sector, Sitharaman said there is immense potential to take it up further.

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How Businesses Can Plan and Execute Climate Strategies

Business and Tech

The need to drive climate action is more important than ever. That’s the message as Climate Week NYC, the biggest global climate event of its kind, concludes. Now the company that’s helping businesses like Seventh Generation, Ben & Jerry’s, and Walmart become more sustainable wants to help others become more environmentally conscious and act. “You need to know where you’re starting, what that target is, and you need to involve the core parts of the business for alignment,” notes Greiner, co-

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How Diversity of Thought Can Fit into Your DEI Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Inside the DEI journey of a Black-owned business, Uncle Nearest, which has become the fastest-growing whiskey brand in the United States.

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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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The fastest way to see results from strategy execution is here

Cascade Strategy

A whole new Cascade experience: Our most significant upgrade ever to your strategy execution platform. “You can not overtake 15 cars in sunny weather. but you can when it's raining” – Ayrton Senna. And well if you’ve been observing, the weather has lately been anything but sunny. Since the pandemic hit, the markets around the world have been quite unpredictable… to say the least.

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How to find new opportunities within your business | Ep 05

Moves the Needle

In this episode, we’re discussing opportunity discovery and what it means to find new opportunities within your organization. The post How to find new opportunities within your business | Ep 05 appeared first on Moves the Needle.

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Women in the Trades: Making the Glass Ceiling a Myth

Business and Tech

We spoke to Roni Savage, CEO of Jomas Associates , about working successfully in a male-dominated industry and challenging the status quo. Roni Savage CEO , Jomas Associates. How have you, as a woman, navigated and succeeded in a male-dominated industry? It can be daunting not seeing anyone who looks like you in the workplace. However, I grew up with four older brothers and that experience certainly prepared me for navigating the male-dominated industry I now work in.

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How Companies Should Set — and Report — DEI Goals

Harvard Business Review

Targets must be detailed to create transparency, shared to induce accountability, and accompanied by action plans to promote change.

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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.