Kainexus

JANUARY 5, 2021

I don't think I'm going out on a limb when I say that I believe we are all glad to have 2020 in the rearview mirror. While life isn't going back to normal any time soon, there is hope on the horizon. The COIVD-19 vaccine rollout is on the way, and our healthcare professionals have made great strides in treatment for the disease. Last year at about this time, we laid out some suggested continuous improvement resolutions for 2020.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 2, 2021

Backcasting is a planning method that starts with defining a desirable future and then works backwards to identify policies and programs that will connect that specified future to the present. The fundamentals of the method were outlined by John B. Robinson from the University of Waterloo in 1990. The fundamental question of backcasting asks: “if we want to attain a certain goal, what actions must be taken to get there?

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Digital Tonto

JANUARY 3, 2021

Today the Covid-19 crisis has given a shock to the system and we're at an inflection point. The most immediate effects have been economic recession and the rapid adoption of digital tools, such as. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 3, 2021

I’m coming up to 40 years old soon, and from the front I still have an ok head of hair (notwithstanding it receding a bit on the sides). But on the top of my head, I have a part where my hair is thinning so much that you can see my balding spot. Other people can see it, especially from behind me. The problem is, I can’t see it. And so I keep forgetting about it and am not aware of it.

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Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

If AI agents are going to deliver ROI, they need to move beyond chat and actually do things. But, turning a model into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. In this new webinar, Alex Salazar and Nate Barbettini will break down the emerging AI architecture that makes action possible, and how it differs from traditional integration approaches.

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Entrepreneur - Innovation

JANUARY 7, 2021

To address user challenges, they must first be understood. These principles of why, what and how also apply to management, especially in turbulent times.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 7, 2021

Data is the most valuable tool that any business has access to today. With the right insights, you can determine which of your marketing strategies generate the most return on investment or which audience you should target with your new product to earn the most revenue. Data can show you where you sit in your … Continued. The post How to Draw Innovation Inspiration From Customer Data appeared first on IdeaScale.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 7, 2021

In this episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Cyndi Burnett, Director at Creativityandeducation.com. We speak about what it takes to bring creativity into homes and classrooms. Topics covered in this episode: 00:02:00 – Cyndi’s start in learning about and teaching creativity. 00:04:00 – The frustration with research and how to make it practical. 00:05:45 – The STAR Model – The 5 Aspects of Creativity. 00:10:00 – Has creativity really been declini

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Innovation Leader

JANUARY 5, 2021

Utility companies typically aren’t known for innovation.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 6, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has hugely impacted the need for 5G technology. As the way people communicate has changed, companies like Motorola and Qualcomm have bolstered their product development strategies. With so many businesses turning to remote work, technology companies are rethinking how to bring 5G to the masses. They are quickly reacting to challenges in … Continued.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 4, 2021

The math of maximizing your return on investment (ROI) is straight forward: generate as much in returns as possible while investing as little as possible to create them. Up with the R. Down with the I. Success! One strategy to achieve that result? Milk your big investment in every possible way after you’ve made it. Stretch it, morph it, contort it.

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Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Gireesh Sahukar

Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 2, 2021

Leather is a luxurious material, but it is also one of the most resource-intensive and pollution-rich materials in the fashion industry. These two Entrepreneurs from Mexico are trying to change that, with a new way to produce vegan leather from cactuses. While most faux-leather is made from plastic, their leather is made from a patented way of drying and treating cactus plant material.

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Cascade Strategy

JANUARY 3, 2021

You know you need them, but finding the right KPI for you or your business can be difficult. To make things a little easier, we have put together a resource that has KPI examples for all the departments in your organization, and even KPI examples by different industries. Scroll down to check it out, first though, we wanted to include a definition for KPIs just make sure we're all on the same page.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 5, 2021

Performance is an important part of innovation management. You need a way to tell if your organization is performing high, low, or somewhere in the middle. A high-performance organization possesses common traits that set it apart from the rest. Here are some of those characteristics and how you can benefit from them. What is a … Continued. The post What Are the Characteristics of a High-Performance Organization?

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Bill Fischer

JANUARY 4, 2021

You can turn that time-honored, but widely neglected, slogan of life-long learning from an aspiration into a real verb; you can change your own learning behaviors, and become a role model; you can become an activist learner!

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 5, 2021

There was a time a few years ago when a small town in China produced up to 60% of the world’s oil paintings. That town is called Dafen, and is on the outskirts of Shenzhen (which itself has seen a boom in innovation output in recent years). Dafen specialised in a small trade in original artwork, but was best known for one thing: Making most of the replica oil paintings in the world.

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Phil McKinney

JANUARY 2, 2021

Given the esteem and trust we grant scientists and innovators, how could this happen? How could research fraud, falsified data, and unproven conclusions result in 1,800 papers in leading journals and peer review articles being retracted in 2020? And this is not an anomaly. [1] Two decades ago, journals were retracting roughly 40 papers per […].

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Tullio Siragusa

JANUARY 4, 2021

Why Employees with High Emotional Intelligence Thrive. Employers look for certain characteristics in potential employees. They primarily look for dependability, sincerity, teamwork, general intelligence, willingness to learn, and ability to adapt. Among many essential qualities, emotional intelligence is a must if you value resilience and longevity from employees.

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Inspiring Next

JANUARY 6, 2021

We are about to graduate, why think of going back? After sustaining tough times in classrooms, after long hours of homework, after paying so much in tuition fees, I will not go back. I will work towards graduating. Yet the new year’s theme on social media has been “glad that 2020 is over” If you… Read More » School of Living: Master’s Class of 2021.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 6, 2021

In yesterday’s post, we spoke about Dafen , the town in China where previously up to 60% of the world’s oil painting replicas were produced. And how copying other people’s work was not creative, even when it is done with real skill. But Dafen has been evolving, just like the surrounding Shenzhen region. From an area which previously was used primarily to copy other people’s ideas , to now being an area which innovates and produces original work.

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Brunner

JANUARY 7, 2021

Pittsburgh (January 11, 2020) – Aiming to launch their new brand by early 2021, PepperFlare Car Repair Club has named Brunner their agency of record (AOR). “We were drawn to Brunner’s creativity and expertise in building a brand,” said Pete Demko, The Car Repair Club Founder and CEO. “Together with Brunner we can position The Car Repair Club as not only a one-of-a-kind service but also a subscription program that will help customers save money in the long run.”.

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CMOE

JANUARY 5, 2021

The year 2020 made one thing clearer than ever before: shunning the online world is not a viable strategy for any business, no matter how well-equipped it is to attract activity offline. When lockdown measures were rolled out, companies that relied on foot traffic quickly ground to a halt. They had two options: start operating online or shut down for the foreseeable future.

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Carla Johnson

JANUARY 7, 2021

January 7, 2020 TAKE THE 30-DAY CREATIVITY CHALLENGE One the first day of class, a pottery teacher split her class into two halves. To the first half she said, “You will spend the semester studying pottery, planning, designing, and creating your perfect pot. At the end of the semester, we’ll have a competition to see whose pot is the best.”. Read More.

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Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 8, 2021

Making no decision at all. Many people struggle to execute their new innovative ideas, or launch that new creative project, because they overthink them. They believe they need to think through every possible scenario and have all the answers to every question before it is safe to begin. They are so afraid of making the “wrong decision” because they have been told their whole life about how important it is to only give the right answer.

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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 6, 2021

Companies like Amazon have built real empires from customer needs – paying specific attention to constant satisfaction monitoring. So did Netflix, which evolved this vision even further and incorporated user experience into the core of its work processes, generating essential connections with customers. More and more, sectors realize the importance of user experience (UX) for business, more recently, banks.

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Innovation Leader

JANUARY 7, 2021

In order to accurately cover an election pivotal to the country’s history, The Washington Post spent a year testing an election mapping tool and built a lead locator. Here’s how they did it.

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Greatest. Idea. Ever.

JANUARY 2, 2021

One of the ways that my life changed the most in 2020 was starting a new routine of watching YouTube before going to bed thanks to my discovery of ASMR videos that help me fall asleep. Before that I never really watched anything on YouTube, not crazy cat videos, Dude Perfect trick shots, unboxing videos, or gaming streams. Nothing. And just when I was learning the lay of the land a disruptive new trend comes along that could change everything: vTubers.

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Brunner

JANUARY 7, 2021

Pittsburgh (January 11, 2020) – As the largest hosting company in Europe, IONOS tapped Brunner as their U.S. creative agency to help expand their business into the U.S. market. “We are looking for a partner who can outthink, not outspend the more established U.S. hosting brands with deep pockets,” said Tim Körner, Head of Global Marketing & Commercial Management for IONOS.

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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 8, 2021

We all know that agile methodologies are not written in stone. In reality, we are talking about a set of practices that should be used to manage projects and demands to adapt to changes and gain efficiency quickly. Squads, Scrum, OKRs, Kanban, and Design Sprints are just a few. To clearly define which of these practices you will embrace with your team, we decided to create this article to show you the benefits.

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Innovation Leader

JANUARY 6, 2021

Corporate innovators should avoid falling prey to “Superhero Syndrome,” argues Alex Slawsby, a former innovation director in the aerospace industry. Instead, they should think more like football scouts or orchestra leaders. ”As an innovation leader, you need to be involved in identifying people throughout the organization that can help you.

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Greatest. Idea. Ever.

JANUARY 2, 2021

There is a lot of hope right now that 2021 will be better than 2020. It certainly can’t be much worse. But aside from wishful thinking there is a concrete reason for optimism: the launch of a new scientific endeavor, a new kind of supercomputer that aims to map the human brain and solve some of the hardest problems in modern day science. As Big Think puts it: “Between your ears lies a miracle of nature, with more connections than our galaxy has stars.

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Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

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