The Human Factor

AUGUST 22, 2020

source. With the advent of the novel coronavirus came at home remote working. For businesses to survive, they had to introduce a more flexible way of working so that their staff could remain productive. Covid-19 is not over yet and we need to continue to embrace working from home. While employers were cautious, to begin with, they quickly began to see just how responsible and productive their employees could be when out of the office.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 24, 2020

How to Lean in To Empower Your Team. Organizations are shifting from the conventional authoritarian leadership model to more empowered workers. This transition requires a complete behavioral change from top to bottom of any organization. Empowerment is not about taking your hands off to let employees sink or swim, it is an active process that involves teaching and coaching team members to be adaptive, to self-serve, to make decisions and to make them right without needing instructions or rubber

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Idea to Value

AUGUST 27, 2020

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Byron Lopez, who is a Technical Director on the award-winning animated TV show South Park. We speak about the unique creative process which enables South Park to be created from start to finish in less than a week, where other TV shows take months. Topics covered in today’s episode: 00:02:00 – Byron’s journey that brought him to South Park. 00:03:30 – What a Technical Director does. 00:05:00 – How

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Digital Tonto

AUGUST 23, 2020

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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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IdeaScale

AUGUST 25, 2020

Since 2015, the Innovation Management Awards, presented by IdeaScale, have sought out the best innovation strategists, designers, and approaches. 2020’s field was a tough one to narrow down, as innovation management has spread from the smallest businesses to the biggest conglomerates. Nonetheless, we’ve picked the winners in three categories: Best Engagement Strategy, Best Innovation Process, … Continued.

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Strategyzer Innovation

AUGUST 27, 2020

We are excited about the popularity of Testing Business Ideas. One of the main reasons we wrote the book was to get beyond just a list of experiments. Simply running a bunch of experiments to see what happens will create an illusion of progress. This can actually hinder your efforts in de-risking the business idea. Matching an experiment to the type of risk in your business strategy is still difficult for teams to grasp at the very beginning, but with some help, you can pick it up in no time.

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Entrepreneur - Innovation

AUGUST 27, 2020

The battery-powered mask uses two replaceable H13 HEPA filters, dual three-speed fans, and a patented Respiratory Sensor to ensure the air you breathe is virus-free.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 27, 2020

Customers are the key stakeholders in your innovation process. Yet involving them can often be the most challenging part of building a better approach to their needs. Here are five ways to get them involved. Set Goals Start with determining how much data you need from your customers before you use it in your strategy, … Continued. The post Five Ways to Engage Customers in Your Innovation Process appeared first on IdeaScale.

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Board of Innovation

AUGUST 25, 2020

Adaptability is key in crisis times. When looking at the different industries impacted most by the current pandemic, you will be able to spot several players that are showing more agility than others. Since the start of our Low Touch Economy series, we’ve kept a close eye on the airline business. Within this field, Emirates Airlines seems to stand out.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 28, 2020

We Still Can Learn From “The Ken” Sir Ken Robinson Leaves a Legacy That Still Inspires. Educators, Creators, and Innovators, Revisit His Work! The creativity and innovation world has lost one of its finest just this last week. Sir Ken Robinson was the most articulate speaker and author in the field of applied creativity we’ve ever known.

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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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Entrepreneur - Innovation

AUGUST 27, 2020

The Halo Band only needs to be recharged once a week and costs $65, including six months of membership.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 26, 2020

The Royal Australian Navy is one of the largest and most sophisticated naval forces in the Pacific region. Consisting of nearly 50 commissioned vessels and more than 16,000 personnel, their presence is significant worldwide. In the most recent episode of the IdeaScale Nation podcast, Lt. Commander Stephen Delo discusses his role as the Innovation Engagements Manager … Continued.

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Board of Innovation

AUGUST 25, 2020

The 3 horizons model highlights and categorizes time-based future growth opportunities, helping you to organize grand innovation plans into shorter steps. The post Examples of innovations that make us question the 3 horizons model appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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Acuvate

AUGUST 28, 2020

9 Critical Capabilities Of a Modern Enterprise Search In these unprecedented times where you don’t have your colleagues available on the next desk, searching for that one doc that you discussed on that one Zoom call that Friday is a challenge bigger than ever before. According to McKinsey, employees spend 1.8 hours every day on […]. The post 9 Critical Capabilities Of a Modern Enterprise Search appeared first on Acuvate.

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Innovation Leader

AUGUST 28, 2020

Christian Guirnalda, Director of 5G Labs and Innovation Centers, explains how Verizon is finding new use cases for their emerging 5G technology during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Kainexus

AUGUST 27, 2020

McKinsey published a study that reveals the four most important behaviors of successful leaders. As the report says, “Over 90% of CEOs are already planning to increase investment in leadership development because they see it as the single most important human-capital issue their organizations face.” McKinsey research has often emphasized the importance of good leadership for organizational health.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 26, 2020

The partnership will combine the power of Qmarkets’ innovation management capabilities with Hidden Innovators’ science-based assessment and SaaS-based tools designed to identify, build, and nurture high-performing teams. Tel Aviv , Aug. 12, 2020 – Qmarkets is pleased to announce the formalization of a partnership with Hidden Innovators , a SaaS-based product dedicated to improving team performance through the promotion of creative diversity and research-based methodologies.

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Greatest. Idea. Ever.

AUGUST 26, 2020

If you know me then you know that I’m obsessed with hiking. There’s literally nothing better than being out in nature, exploring a new place, while reading a book and pondering the mysteries of life. So it should come as no surprise that I’m a big fan of a new hiking video game called Tree Trunk Brook that will let you go on an adventure despite being stuck inside during quarantine.

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CMOE

AUGUST 26, 2020

A company that grows much faster than expected can cause headaches and stress at a time when any business owner would prefer to be celebrating. While some businesses manage to transition from niche to mainstream by scaling with ease, others struggle to maintain their identity and high standards of customer service—and eventually, their profits. With these problems in mind, I’ve outlined some of the pitfalls of rapid growth , and how you, as a successful business owner, can avoid them. 1.

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Kainexus

AUGUST 25, 2020

Oil & Gas companies need to be ever more flexible and agile to succeed as the industry continues to face price volatility, technical innovation, and an uncertain regulatory environment. Given these unstable conditions, it’s not surprising that some Oil & Gas companies are reluctant to adopt a standardized continuous improvement method. However, when applied thoughtfully, with an eye on the long-term, the principles of continuous improvement are relevant and can drive results even in the

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 23, 2020

If you are looking for a simple way to jump start your creativity during these challenging times and make rapid progress on an inspired project of yours, welcome to one of the silver linings of the Covid-19 cloud -- ZoomStorming -- the brainchild of Mitch Ditkoff , innovation thought leader, award-wining author , and world-class brainstorm facilitator.

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Greatest. Idea. Ever.

AUGUST 28, 2020

This afternoon Elon Musk demoed the latest version of his neural link brain implant chip which he called a “FitBit in your skull with tiny wires” The demo was more of a call to arms for engineers and people with experience shipping similar products as he looks to grow the company moving forward. With the highlight involving three little piggies.

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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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Ankush Chopra

AUGUST 25, 2020

Managing ambiguity is perhaps one of the most critical parts of business life. Both budding managers as well as veteran mangers often get overwhelmed in the face of ambiguity. If you have ever struggled with this issue, then you need to know how to deal with ambiguity. An Ambiguous Assignment I distinctly recall the first day of my first job after completing my business education.

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Stephen Shapiro

AUGUST 28, 2020

My most recent Inc. article has been popular and controversial. The premise is that there are no new ideas. (if you haven’t read it, please do so before reading on…). This got me thinking back to when I was pitching a TV show. . My agent said that Hollywood doesn’t want you to think OUTSIDE the box, they want you to think AROUND the box.

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Acuvate

AUGUST 26, 2020

How Intranets are Driving the Return to Workplace As countries across the globe are starting to ease up on COVID-19 restrictions, organizations are working harder than ever to facilitate a smooth transition for their employees as they start returning back to work. Securing their employees’ well being while ensuring productivity and continued efficiency is a […].

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Greatest. Idea. Ever.

AUGUST 27, 2020

The NBA bubble has burst. Yesterday, multiple teams decided not to play their first round playoff games in response to yet another completely unnecessary officer involved shooting, this time in Wisconsin, that left a man paralyzed. As time went on the protest spread to Major League Baseball and the NFL as well. Further fueled by a 17 year old gunning down two more people in the aftermath of the initial shooting, seemingly aided by police who had given him a free pass earlier in the night and

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Innovation in Practice

AUGUST 23, 2020

With innovation comes resistance. They define each other. An idea can’t be innovative unless it’s met with resistance, so we should see it as a good thing. . Instead of giving up when we meet resistance, we should figure out how to approach it so that we can then overcome it. This includes knowing what to expect depending on the characteristics of our ideas, the resistors, and ourselves as the innovators.

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Adam Hartung

AUGUST 25, 2020

Recently, the California legislature passed Assembly Bill, AB5 “The Gig Economy Law.” It redefined “employee” to try to reduce “contract workers.” It forces those who pay for work to cover additional costs of "benefits". CA AB5 attempts to set back the advancement of the Gig Economy 30+ years by forcing the private sector into an obsolete industrial model.

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Innovation Leader

AUGUST 25, 2020

Experts in higher education share how they’ve tackled the challenges of 2020. Guests include Barnard President Sian Beliock and the co-CEO of edX, Adam Medros.

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AUGUST 25, 2020

We’re all waiting, wishing, hoping, praying that a vaccine will come sooner rather than later. But some of us don’t feel like waiting. Some of us want to come up with the vaccine ourselves. DIY style. Like total bad asses. I should point out that these are not ordinary people who are going to try to will a vaccine into existence. These are some of the top scientists in the world like famed geneticist George Church of Harvard.

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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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