Sat.Mar 14, 2020 - Fri.Mar 20, 2020

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What the Heck Does Exponential Mean?

Kainexus

It’s been 24 hours since my last post , and I’ve come to see that part of the problem is that people don’t understand what the word “exponential” means. The word exponential has been floating around a lot lately as concern about COVID-19 grows and spreads around the world. It’s perhaps the most important word in understanding all of this, and since it’s been a while since most of us took a math class, I thought this would be a good time to review the concept and how it relates to the current pan

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Navigating through Chaotic Times

Innovation Leader

Do you feel like challenging times may be ahead? Experts with experience at DuPont, Starbucks, Bayer, and more discuss how they’re reading the tea leaves.

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5 Ways to Boost Productivity as a Busy Medical Professional

The Human Factor

As a busy medical professional, you are being pushed to the limit right now. Whether you’re resources are being cut or the staff members in your practice are low, you always need to be on your A game. It’s no secret that doctors, nurses and physicians are busier than ever and this isn’t going to change anytime soon. Even though you’re busy seeing patients, you may not be carrying out your jobs as effectively as you think.

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How to Create the Foundation for a Corporate VC Program

Innovation Leader

Amish Parashar, a Silicon Valley-based venture capitalist, share tips for building more successful corporate venture programs. Get tips on staffing, collaboration, and more.

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Going Beyond Chatbots: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems, & Data

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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12 Ways To Make More Time In Your Day

The Human Factor

source. One of the biggest complaints people have in work and in their personal life is being time-poor. There just aren’t enough hours in the day, there is always so much to do and so little time to do it in. So how can you claim back some of those hours and get more done with your day? Start your day earlier. Before you dismiss the idea, think about it.

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Is Investing In Property The Right Move For You?

The Human Factor

Investing in property can be an excellent way to grow your portfolio and build your financial future. If you’ve got a sum to invest, then property can provide more security than stocks and bonds, and could easily add to your wealth over the years. While investing in property sounds very appealing to most, it isn’t a solution for everyone. Here are some things to consider to work out if investing in property is the right move for you.

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Low Risk Business Ideas For New Entrepreneurs

The Human Factor

Let’s pretend that we’re not in a state of great economic and commercial flux. Let’s pretend that markets aren’t responding and reacting to a global pandemic. Let’s pretend that the face of business is changing by necessity all around the world. Even if legions of people weren’t finding out that their jobs and their careers aren’t as secure as they thought they were, even if employers weren’t letting scores of employees go out of sheer panic.

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The History of Coronavirus in Patent Literature

Anaqua

Matt Troyer, Senior Director of Analytics at Anaqua. What can patent data tell us about the world’s past research and response to Coronaviruses (CoV)? In this article, I present a brief survey of patent filings that reference “Coronavirus” or “Corona virus” in their title, abstract or claims. I then compare the same set to those having keywords for both SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) and MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome).

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Open Source Respirator and Low Cost Ventilator Efforts to Fight Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Innovation Excellence

Calling all doctors, nurses, designers, engineers and designers… Join one of the amazing Open Source Ventilator Projects to contribute your passion, creativity, time and expertise to help develop low-cost ventilators to fight the Coronavirus (COVID-19). Here are some ways of getting involved and some inspiration and some cheaper ventilator options: Ultimate Medical HackathonOpen Source COVID19.

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IdeaScale and Betterific: A Match Made in Innovation Heaven

IdeaScale

We’re partnering up to help you drive your innovation strategy further. Ideascale and Betterific announced at the end of January that they were teaming up to bring the latter’s strengths in crowdsourced open innovation to Ideascale’s industry-leading innovation management platform. So why are they better together, and what can innovation teams expect from the arrival of the Betterific team?

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A Roadmap For Modernization: How To Break Free From Your Monolith Before July 31, 2026

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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Shifting the Focus of Your Idea Challenges During the COVID-19 Pandemic

HYPE Innovation

In the past two months, we have seen a significant increase in awareness of the business challenges associated with responding to COVID-19, aka coronavirus, effectively. Governments, companies, and institutions are all wrestling to find an appropriate way to respond, balancing how to keep people safe, how to keep businesses open, and how to deal with an unprecedented set of health, social, and employee challenges.

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In this scary Coronavirus time, we can benefit from working more in isolation

Idea to Value

For the past two weeks, everyone in my company has been working remotely. We had several cases of the Coronavirus in the office, and as a precaution, everyone has been working from home. And it has been working remarkably well. We have been collaborating using Slack, Zoom, Google, Phone and email. And business is continuing with minimal disruption. Yet I know for some of you, this will be the first time you are working remotely, and it can feel weird.

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How Transformational Leaders Learn To Overcome Failure

Digital Tonto

We all have our talents, but innate ability will only take you so far. In the final analysis, what makes transformational leaders different is their ability to transform themselves to suit the needs. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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IdeaScale and Betteriffic: A Match Made in Innovation Heaven

IdeaScale

We’re partnering up to help you drive your innovation strategy further. Ideascale and Betteriffic announced at the end of January that they were teaming up to bring the latter’s strengths in crowdsourced open innovation to Ideascale’s industry-leading innovation management platform. So why are they better together, and what can innovation teams expect from the arrival of the Betteriffic team?

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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COVID-19 Will Fuel the Next Wave of Innovation

Entrepreneur - Innovation

This global pandemic will shape businesses for decades to come.

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Open Source Respirator and Low Cost Ventilator Efforts to Fight Coronavirus (COVID-19)

InnovationManagement

Calling all doctors, nurses, designers, engineers and designers: join one of the amazing Open Source Ventilator Projects to contribute your passion, creativity, time and expertise to help develop low-cost ventilators to fight the Coronavirus (COVID-19). The post Open Source Respirator and Low Cost Ventilator Efforts to Fight Coronavirus (COVID-19) appeared first on Innovation Management.

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When tough times are ahead, you should double down on innovation

Innovation Excellence

As I’m writing this, the last couple of weeks have been quite eventful around the world. There’s a lot of uncertainty and even panic regarding the coronavirus, its current and potential impact on our economy, and of course, its effects on people all around the world. As a result, we’re seeing more and more action.

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From Invisible to Visible: A Look at Transparency in Government Innovation

IdeaScale

One of the challenges to innovation in government is a lack of insight into what citizens have to offer in the way of innovative strategies. Governments are aware of the increasing need to capture perspectives and insights of citizens to spark the innovation process. The use of innovation management platforms helps leaders to better understand the needs of the people they serve through proper management of their input.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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How to Manage Remote Distributed Teams – Best Practice Strategies and Tools

Leapfrogging

You Just Found Yourself Leading a Remote Team. What Next? Business is moving virtual fast. Here are best practices for how to lead a productive remote or distributed team. When I ran the strategy consulting group at HP almost 20 years ago, my team worked remotely. We were on the forefront of virtual work , mostly because we had no choice as a truly global company.

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The digital dilemma: putting data to work

Jeffrey Phillips

Over the history of mankind, we've constantly sought out tools and capital to make us more productive. From the formation of basic tools to assist in farming to real cultivation and shaping of the land for greater yields, humankind learned to grow food. Further research into genetics, fertilizers and pesticides enabled us to rapidly scale food production.

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Politicians and Bureaucrats – Friends or Foes of Innovation?

Innovation Excellence

Politicians and bureaucrats are condemned to coexist with each other and with the other pivots of entrepreneurship: businessmen. Sweet or toxic their symbiosis is necessary, as they are both key players in the innovation game. A private company in a capitalist system will innovate by starting up a new enterprise, or by improving its products.

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Why Innovation Is About More than Creativity: A Talk with Edwin Goutier of the United Way

IdeaScale

Is your innovation strategy built solely on creativity? As Edwin Goutier explains in a recent IdeaScale Nation podcast, Innovation is about more than being the most creative person in the room. Goutier currently serves as VP of innovation for the United Way Worldwide, a nonprofit organization that works with over 1,200 offices throughout the country.

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The Benefits of Innovation in Times of Crisis

Innovation is key to overcoming crises. This guide outlines how businesses can navigate uncertainty by adapting strategies, embracing open innovation, and strengthening resilience. Learn how to reassess business models, engage external expertise, and build a robust innovation ecosystem. Explore the three phases of crisis response—from immediate adaptation to long-term transformation—and discover how collaboration accelerates progress while reducing costs.

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How to Manage Remote Distributed Teams – Best Practice Strategies and Tools

Leapfrogging

You Just Found Yourself Leading a Remote Team. What Next? Business is moving virtual fast. Here are best practices for how to lead a productive remote or distributed team. When I ran the strategy consulting group at HP almost 20 years ago, my team worked remotely. We were on the forefront of virtual work, mostly because we had no choice as a truly global company.

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In Uncertain Times You Have More Control Than You Realize

Daniel Burrus

When an individual or organization fears change and are uncertain, it’s usually in regard to digital technology disrupting their status quo or from new, fast-moving competition. While I myself have discussed at length these fears and many more, few would have thought that in the early stages of 2020, our economy would be in a downturn, we would be instantly converted to remote work or laid off, and we would be quarantined to our homes due to a global pandemic.

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A List of COVID-19 Resources to Help Clear Things Up

Kainexus

With so much information available online, it's hard to know what's true and what isn't. We tried to find a list of good sources to share with you, and couldn't - so we put our heads together with the smartest people we know, and made our own. Share yours in the comments! COUNTERS. Want an accurate count of the status of COVID-19 cases around the world?

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Keeping Innovation Alive in the Time of COVID-19

Innovation Leader

“We’ve entered an unstable and economically volatile period that may serve up the biggest challenges of your career,” writes MIT senior lecturer Blade Kotelly, ”and will require every business to innovate in ways they never have before.” Here’s his concrete advice on how you and your team can keep innovation.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

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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How Enterprise Companies Are Changing Recruitment With AI

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Applications for artificial intelligence are becoming more widespread, and with good reason.

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The Opportunity has Never Been This Big for Reinsurers to Invest in Innovation and Startups

InnovationManagement

In recent years, reinsurance companies have been closely working with startups. Among such joint endeavours, one can count the scouting for new technologies in order to integrate them with clients (insurance companies) and commercial business relationships with startups to which they have provided reinsurance in cases of events related to the policy coverage.

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What You Can Do to Save People TODAY [COVID-19]

Kainexus

I awoke this morning (3/15/20) and thought every rational and caring person that I know understood the importance of social distancing. I spent yesterday talking to dozens of people and getting dozens of small social events canceled. I thought my job was done. This morning I spoke to my close friend - a smart and compassionate person - and found that he was heading with his family to a bike shop and the Container Store.

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Create a strategy to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on your business

Cascade Strategy

104. That's the number of COVID-19 / Coronavirus related emails I've received from companies giving me updates on their stance and preparedness for this unprecedented global event. I don't mind receiving them, and some of them contain genuinely useful information. But the content of 90% of them is pretty much identical. Businesses are preparing by increasing hygiene, implementing work-at-home policies and in some cases, relaxing terms and conditions for their customers.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.