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Collaborative Overload
hbr.org
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time spent by managers and employees in collaborative activities has ballooned by 50% or more...How much time do people spend in meetings, on the phone, and responding to e-mails? At many companies ... 80%, leaving employees little time for all the critical work they must complete on their own... In most cases, 20% to 35% of value-added collabor…

A computer was asked to predict which start-ups would be successful. The results were astonishing | World Economic Forum
www.weforum.org
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Ironically, the VC world, having fuelled the creation of computing, is one of the last areas of business to introduce computing to decision-making... Evernote, Spotify, Etsy, Zynga, Palantir, Cloudera, OPOWER... The list featured not only names widely known to the public and leaders of industries, but also high performers such as Ibibo... Twenty p…

27/07/2017
7 Ways That Collaboration Makes Teams Less Effective
www.inc.com
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ad-hoc collaboration alienates top contributors, gobbles up time, and makes organizations less effective... an exhaustive study from the Harvard Business Review just revealed that, far from a panacea, collaboration is actually productivity poison. Here are some of the frightening highlights:... 3. Collaboration tends to foists work from the incomp…

'Collaboration' Creates Mediocrity, Not Excellence, According to Science | Inc.com
www.inc.com
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what's usually meant by "collaboration" is 1) plenty of ad-hoc meetings and 2) open-plan offices that increase the likelihood that such meetings take place... open-plan offices... are productivity sinkholes... collaboration tends to penalize the competent who end up doing most of the work. A recent study published in Applied Psychology has now co…

The Future of Augmented Reality Ain’t Pokemon Go
shift.newco.co
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Meta is betting wholly on productivity and the enterprise... over 400 enterprise buyers of his first AR headset... were almost unanimously focused on productivity... he wears his Meta headset throughout the working day... AR’s first killer app in the enterprise, he offers collaborative 3D

The European Parliament is discussing an expiry date for startups
tech.eu
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in an attempt to overcome controversies with the Copyright Reform, some are proposing an exemption for startups... the idea is more of a curse than a blessing... 94% of startup acquisitions were completed by non-European companies, and 70% of the startups were younger than 5 years.

25/07/2017
What the EU’s Mobile Roaming success taught me about innovation in bureaucracies
medium.com
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EUrope’s success in eliminating mobile roaming charges may be the first “data4policy” case study where the data was website traffic, and illustrates the rewards of allowing innovation to flourish at the edges of large organisations.

Storylining: the best-kept secret of successful strategic communication
www.steveseager.com
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Welcome to GAME — a four step process to improve the quality of your communications — and storylining, the step that comes before storytelling... moving straight to storytelling without first crafting strong, logical, persuasive key messages ... results in a ‘failure to communicate’ … when we don’t take the time to think from our audiences’ perspe…

Building Great Bots: An Enterprise Chatbot Methodology
chatbotsmagazine.com
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This article focuses on the project management and bot building, more than on the coding and framework implementation.... The main feature, the core of your bot, can be one to three different intents... “A bot that does everything will be good at nothing.”

How Clients Sabotage Their Own Projects
medium.com

some clients make it very, very difficult to work on their ideas... unknowingly sabotage their own projects.

Innovation Dynamics: Quick-Start Guide + Online Course
medium.com
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Innovation Dynamics is the first systematic approach to real social innovation and solving people-problems. Purchase includes a beautifully-designed, printed quick-start guide and 90-days of online access... includes brief, animated instructional videos and an interactive workbook that can be printed for collaboration in teams.

12/06/2017
Data explorer - European Commission
ec.europa.eu
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The data explorer provides an overview of the current state of play of European businesses as regards digital transformation.

27 best websites and resources for startup founders
blog.mvp-space.com
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From talking and working with founders, a number of websites regularly come up as go-to resources for startups. So we’ve put together a cheat sheet of the 27 best websites and resources for startup founders…

02/06/2017
The Government Starts an Incubator: The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps
steveblank.com
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one of the most audacious experiments in entrepreneurship since World War II.They launched an incubator for the top scientists and engineers in the U.S.This week we saw the results.63 scientists and engineers in 21 teams made 2,000 customer calls in 8 weeks, turning laboratory ideas into formidable startups. 19 of the 21 teams are moving forward i…

02/06/2017
The Lean Startup Is Doing More Than Transforming Business, It’s Changing The World
medium.com
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it struck me how much more effective the lean startup process can be for an established firm. It’s much easier to do customer development when you already have loyal customers ... That’s what makes the ideas behind the lean startup so important. Whether you are a startup, an established company or a social enterprise, you need to identify a custom…

Why Tom Kelley of IDEO is the ultimate disciple of ‘design thinking’
techcrunch.com
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we talk with Tom Kelly, a partner at IDEO, about the definition of innovation, how to take back your creative confidence, and the habits that can shape not only your current design team, but the up-and-coming design leaders of the world.

31/05/2017
A how-to guide for collaborative journalism projects
medium.com
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a comprehensive Electionland case study. This 66-page playbook provides a detailed account of how Electionland was conceived, planned, and executed as the teams involved worked to track and cover voting on Election Day in 2016.

Will Artificial Intelligence Change The World For the Better? Or Worse? Read our new policy paper | Internet Society
www.internetsociety.org
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a policy paper on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to help navigate some of the opportunities and challenges ... de-mystifying some of its fundamental concepts

19/05/2017
Corporate Innovation Programs Come in Ten Flavors — Choose Wisely
medium.com
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Corporations are taking pages from startups, to emulate the culture of a fast-moving smaller company.

05/05/2017
Facebook’s Perfect, Impossible Chatbot
www.technologyreview.com
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illustrates the current limitations of artificial intelligence... a human being invisibly takes over, responding to your request as if the algorithms were still at the helm... to reveal how people would react to an omniscient virtual assistant, and to provide data that would let the algorithms learn ...progress has been harder won than expected...…

04/05/2017
A simple reward system could make crowds a whole lot wiser
theconversation.com
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if everyone has the same information, the crowd is no smarter than a single individual... a diverse collection of opinions, especially including minority views, is crucial for creating a smart group... we have an innate desire to imitate our peers... it may also be because of a rational, profit-seeking motivation... The more complex the situation…

All aboard the bandwagon
medium.com
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Venting my spleen a little over on Medium.

Why you probably don’t want innovation – Startup Grind – Medium
medium.com
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Everyone wants to test and learn, so long as it’s failing fast without the failure... to win the award for taking the risk, so long as it wasn’t risky... Innovation is sweaty, risky, terrifying and takes balls... Innovation is the opposite of what we are pretending the word means.

01/05/2017
The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI - MIT Technology Review
www.technologyreview.com
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there is no obvious way to design such a system so that it could always explain why it did what it did... How well can we expect to communicate—and get along with—intelligent machines that could be unpredictable and inscrutable? ... a journey to the bleeding edge of research on AI algorithms... including a meeting with one of the great philosopher…

Cultivating a Learning Organization – Positive Returns – Medium
medium.com
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becoming a learning organization was nothing like winning a marathon ...cultivating an award-winning orchard... nurturing systems and culture to produce meaningful results... We embarked on a systematic and phased approach to cultivating the organization we all wanted.

The Limits of Machine Learning in Recruiting: Garbage In, Garbage Out?
blog.shortlist.net
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there are a number of companies looking at ways to apply AI, machine learning and related concepts to recruiting... we see glaring limitations to applying machine learning and AI to screen candidates based on their CVs and social media profiles alone... CVs alone fail to capture individual performance and contribution, raw talent, actual competenc…

19/04/2017
Machine learning - What Innovation Will Bring To The AI World
www.valuewalk.com
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As ML algorithms solve bigger and more complex problems... training them can require massive amounts of pre-labeled data.... As recently as 2015, only large companies like Google, Amazon and Apple had access to the massive data ... The democratization of ML gives individuals and startups a chance... But access to data is only one way in which M…

19/04/2017
How To Train Your Brain To Be More Innovative
www.fastcompany.com
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innovation is a series of steps, and that innovators possess certain characteristics... Almost everybody [has] innovative traits... the ability to think abstractly, having deep and broad knowledge, curiosity, openness to risk, grit, and dissatisfaction with the status quo... seek out experiences to put those traits to use

18/04/2017
Digital Transformation & the public sector (Top3ics, April 2017)
mathewlowry.myhub.ai
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There’s no shortage of resources about Digital Transformation on my Hub, but ... I’m not sure I recommend all of them. This edition includes three I do

Here’s Why You Should Think Twice Before Listening To Business Gurus
medium.com
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business gurus ... identify the “one true path” to success... when applied to the real world, their advice doesn’t apply as cleanly as they promise and they often contradict each other... Simple rules rarely apply to a messy world... one common theme ... Great innovators constantly seek to identify new problems.

15/04/2017
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