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Innovating in the midst of the pandemic

Innovation Excellence

The unexpected arrival and spread of COVID 19 has caused massive and global changes, strongly impacting into the business world. Every company, in addition to managing the sanitary emergency by prioritizing health and employee’s support-, has had to respond generally in a reactive and compulsive way, trying to ensure business survival in a context where life is at risk.

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Top Ways to Retain Your Employees

The Human Factor

Hiring employees can be a long and costly process. There is time and money that goes into recruiting, interviewing, and hiring, as well as time and money to train new employees and get them up to scratch with all things that are going on in the business. That is why it is important to look for ways to retain your employees, so that they’re able to, and want to, stay with you for as long as possible.

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4 Ways Innovation Can Increase Business Revenue

IdeaScale

source: Pexels In a recent study, researchers looked at different businesses and saw that the more the employees generated innovative ideas that management was likely to adopt, the higher the probability was that said company would grow its profits annually. At the other end of the spectrum, companies with little to no new ideas generated … Continued.

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Changing the world … for good

Innovation Excellence

I attended a very special meeting of minds in a remote part of Yorkshire, England at The Centre of Management Creativity , hosted by John Varney, a great mentor who was instrumental in my decision to start my business some 25 years ago. I chose to take the train and bicycle to reach this very special place. This allowed me some quiet space for reflection and a good amount of exercise.

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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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Trade Industry: Adapting Marketing Strategies to Meet Consumer Behaviors

Brunner

The past few weeks have not left anyone or any business unscathed. While spending within the building supplies category is one of the few to increase, the trade industry is undergoing a shift as contractors figure out how to navigate a contactless world. We looked at several key trades (roofing, HVAC and plumbing) to understand the new landscape and to inform what companies should do to make sure their brand adapts to consumer behaviors.

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The choices to make right now

100%Open

I was furiously looking for someone on LinkedIn and because there were so many people with the same name, I ended up reviewing quite a few profiles. One of those brought me to a complete halt. Pivoting career as a choice . Our 60+ strong 100%Open Associate network keeps us very intimately glued to the joys and challenges of freelancing, running one-person micro businesses, and sometimes going between one of those and full-time jobs over time.

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How To Come Out Stronger and Ready to Thrive Post Crisis

Rmukesh Gupta

Premise: We are already seeing a lot of signals in the economy of the upcoming tectonic shifts and the ripples that they will cause. We have a record number of publicly listed companies in the US deciding not to give out dividends so that they can conserve cash. We’ve seen announcements from large firms indicating that the majority of their workforce will now work from home permanently.

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Why Your Innovation Process is a Recipe for Failure

InnovationManagement

Having a process for the front end of innovation is necessary but not sufficient. It also requires proper levels of funding, and a governance structure to support it. In this article, we'll look at how these aspects tie together, and how your company can support your full innovation lifecycle.

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We are Crushing the Curve, Now What?

Focused Momentum

My grandparents had twelve children. Like many of their friends and family members, they married and started their family in the early days of the Great Depression. They had a farm so they could feed their ever-growing brood. They struggled, but so did everyone else. They worked hard and eventually thrived. Later they watched uncles, brothers, and cousins leave their Pennsylvania farmland to travel across the globe as part of the US deployment in WWII.

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Apple Gives $10 Million From Its Manufacturing Fund to a COVID-19 Testing Firm

Entrepreneur - Innovation

The money will help Copan ramp up production on sample collection kits.

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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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To All Nurses Who Bravely Wear the Uniform, Thank You.

Brunner

Nurses are caretakers. Nurturers. Lifesavers. Essential. Seems to us, if ever there was a time to recognize nurses for their selflessness and courage, it’s now. As the country continues to grapple with Coronavirus, medical professionals – including nurses and other essential workers – have stepped in and stepped up. And this National Nurses Day, today, Wednesday, May 6, they won’t have time to celebrate.

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7 Big Trends that Coronavirus is Accelerating

IdeaSpies

In times of turmoil we must look through the noise and see the trends that will shape our future. Crises are not new, however this.

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The Objectives Goals Strategies & Measures (OGSM) Template

Leapfrogging

The OGSM model (Objectives, Goals, Strategies and Measures) can help teams get on the same page and moving in the right direction. For the past 25 years, I’ve worked with hundreds of groups across dozens of big companies and startups. One thing’s consistent: everyone works in teams, and the ultimate success of any organization relies on the overall effectiveness of the teams within it.

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Podcast S3E59: Kathryn Haydon – How to become more creatively productive and prolific

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value Podcast, we speak with Kathryn Haydon, keynote speaker and founder of Sparkitivity. We speak about breaking through the inertia of no, and how to use the Universal Creative Process to become more productive and prolific. Topics covered in today’s episode: 00:02:00 What are the circumstances that help people find meaning in their work. 00:06:15 The possibility ecosystem. 00:08:30 Breaking through the inertia of no. 00:11:00 Tools to find the rig

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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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Exago offers innovation management software to fight COVID-19 and adapt to the “new normal”

Exago

Exago is making the Exago Start idea management platform available to NGOs and educational and research institutions to help combat the impacts of COVID-19. The post Exago offers innovation management software to fight COVID-19 and adapt to the “new normal” appeared first on Exago.

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Use Formalized Workflows to Streamline Your Innovation Processes

IdeaScale

Creativity is spontaneous. Ideas come to us in a flash of lightning, as quickly as a lightbulb turns on, inspired by everything from children’s toys to dreams to movies. The problem, though, is with executing on the idea, which won’t just happen. Fortunately, there’s a simple tool to feed ideas into and refine them into … Continued.

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The Objectives Goals Strategies & Measures (OGSM) Template

Leapfrogging

The OGSM model (Objectives, Goals, Strategies and Measures) can help teams get on the same page and moving in the right direction. For the past 25 years, I’ve worked with hundreds of groups across dozens of big companies and startups. One thing’s consistent: everyone works in teams, and the ultimate success of any organization relies on the overall effectiveness of the teams within it.

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Innovation skills that are critical now: empathy

Jeffrey Phillips

I'm writing a series of posts that discuss some of the most important traits and skills that are needed to support innovation now, in the midst and in the aftermath of the COVID pandemic. I've written about beginner's mind and why that skill will be vital. I've also written about being comfortable in ambiguous settings. Today I am writing about another rare capacity - the ability to have empathy with prospects and customers.

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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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ITFC looking for innovative ways to help member countries fight COVID-19 crisis

Exago

“Standing in solidarity to serve the member countries” in the fight against COVID-19, the ITFC is raising its innovation efforts to find new solutions jointly. As a leading Trade Solutions Provider, with a responsibility to shore up its activities and protect the member countries and interests of the nations that it provides practical, structural and fiscal support to, ITFC is launching an ideation drive to its staff, using the Exago platform.

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Innovation Labs: The Good, the Bad, and the Uninspired

IdeaScale

Does your company have a creative space for coming up with new ideas? Many large companies now do, and they’re becoming more popular day by day. These spaces, known as innovation labs, are safe places for organizations to implement idea management, experiment, discuss projects, and come up with new ideas. Innovation labs are sometimes called … Continued.

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The Coronavirus Crisis Shows Why, If We Are To Solve Big Problems, We First Need To Rebuild Trust

Digital Tonto

The public trust has been shattered because our institutions have failed us. Technology won’t save us. Markets won’t save us. We need to save ourselves. Yet still, I have to believe our future is. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Conducting A Strategic Analysis + 8 of The Best Tools To Use

Cascade Strategy

What is meant by Strategic Analysis? Strategic Analysis is the process of researching and analyzing the environment an organization operates in, as well as the organization itself in order to inform the strategy formulation process. The environment of an organization is comprised by two components - the internal environment and the external environment.

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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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Why Companies Need Their innovators Now More Than Ever

Wellspring

By now, it’s a well-established fact that the COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting every aspect of society, including business. Companies are suddenly faced with a fully remote workforce, shifting corporate priorities, disrupted supply chains, and, in some industries, layoffs and dramatic drops in revenue.

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How to Develop Healthy Stress Management Habits

Tullio Siragusa

How to Develop Healthy Stress Management Habits. We all face times in our lives when we feel overwhelmed or unable to cope due to unmanageable pressures. Our body’s response to shattering situations is what we call stress. This is one of the rapidly growing concerns today. The Covid-19 pandemic is having a major stressful impact on the entire world.

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10 Ways to Humanize Your Video Meetings

Innovation Leader

The former Head of Design Thinking at Fidelity Investments shares how to make online meetings more produtive and more human.

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Empathy Map Template Training

InnovationTraining.org

Learn to apply an empathy map template to help you visualize your users’ needs and wants across dimensions. When it comes to designing better products, services, and experiences, getting into the mindset of your end user is crucial. However, many designers struggle or even outright fail to understand exactly what their users need or are looking for.

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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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Why Does BI Matter? Your Portfolio is Growing

Wellspring

In North America, the AUTM Licensing Activity Survey reports annual disclosures have increased 24% over the past 7 years, resulting in cumulative patents under management growing at an exponential rate. Simultaneously, universities and hospitals have not expanded staff systematically to oversee growing portfolios. It has always been important to have a comprehensive understanding of your IP portfolio.

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How To Improve BI & Analytics Maturity In Your Organization

Acuvate

How To Improve BI & Analytics Maturity In Your Organization According to a survey by Gartner, more than 87% of organizations are classified as having low Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics maturity. This becomes a great impediment for organizations looking to improve the value of their data assets and exploit analytics. Spreadsheet-based analyses, personal data […].

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MANAGING AND SHIFTING A BREAKTHROUGH MINDSET

ImagineNation

A recent article in Forbes Magazine stated that “research scientists have long said every thought that enters the mind eventually finds a place in the body where it bears the burden”. The current amount of disruption is causing a significant of stress, fear, and anxiety for all of us, yet panic and worry will not enable us to develop the coping mechanisms required to surmount the range of personal, business, and civic challenges confronting us all globally.

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Hard Trends: Easier to Identify Than You Think

Daniel Burrus

A well-worn cliché says there are only two things you can be certain about: death and taxes. With apologies to those who agree with that statement, there are many, many more examples of out-and-out certainties. Was Sunday followed by Monday last week? Absolutely. Will that be the case next week? You can count on it. A more timely and, in some ways, comforting example involves the ever-changing situation we find ourselves in today with COVID-19.

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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.