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How Innovators are Working to Build Food Systems for the Future

IdeaScale

Overview: New agricultural, processing, and manufacturing technologies are changing what we eat, how long it keeps, and how we store it. What each of these innovations has in common is a thoughtful and different approach to common questions. The Challenge.

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Research: How Ratings Systems Shape User Behavior in the Gig Economy

Harvard Business Review

Incremental rating systems, employed by platforms like TaskRabbit and Airbnb, offer a detailed view by listing and often providing insights into every individual review score. Averaged rating systems, used by platforms such as Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash, present an overall score that aggregates all individual ratings.

System 145
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To Improve Health Care, Focus on Fixing Systems — Not People

Harvard Business Review

But the main problem often is the underlying systems. To generate better outcomes, increase safety, and improve efficiency, health care organizations should shift their focus to designing systems that facilitate delivery of the highest-quality care.

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Patients Need a System to Compare Healthcare Quality — Not Just Prices

Harvard Business Review

A system for allowing patients and employers in the United States to compare health services on the basis of price would be inadequate. To make such a tool worthwhile, quality comparisons are also essential.

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How To Craft Your Perfect Retail Tech Stack

Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Brian Walker

Gradually upgrade your systems for continuous improvement. This session is your guide to boosting efficiency, enhancing customer experience, and driving profitability through strategic planning. You'll learn to: Utilize tech enhancements for a flexible digital approach. Integrate modular tools to meet your unique needs.

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Critical U.S. Health Systems Are in Jeopardy. Businesses and Governments Need to Help.

Harvard Business Review

Safety-net health systems in the United States are facing enormous financial and operational challenges. These anchor systems are critical to their communities because they care for low-income populations and are key players in the local economy.

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We need to shift from scalable efficiency to scalable learning.

Paul Hobcraft

Absorptive capacity once recognized and established as a system promotes the search for new knowledge that greatly increases the capacity to make the necessary new connections for new innovation to happen. Absorptive capacities provide us with the system on which we can encourage the gathering, understanding, and translation of knowledge.

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From Concepts to Actionable Insights: Powering Digital Transformation Success

Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar - Sopheon’s Director of Product Management

To be successful, digital transformation involves the strategic application of digitalization to improve a business’ entire system of production, procurement, sales, operations, human resources, and financial management. Learn how you can quickly improve that success rate.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Reaching Unreachable Candidates

Speaker: Patrick Dempsey and Andrew Erpelding of ZoomInfo

Export results: Easily export candidate data (including contact info) to Excel, shared with colleagues to review or upload in bulk to a recruiter's applicant tracking system. Candidate and company profiles: Preview and expand search results to find a candidate's job history and career experience or a company's details.

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2 Retail Sectors That Are Completely Changing the Game: FMCG & Q-Commerce

Speaker: Joe Heather, Deliverect GM (UK&I) & Noah Hayes, Deliverect GM (US&CA)

Save your seat today and elevate your understanding of the evolving consumer landscape and the future of commerce! October 26th, 2023 at 9:30am PDT, 12:30pm EDT, 5:30pm BST

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Marketing-Led Post-COVID-19 Growth Strategies

Strategically aligning your systems and teams. In this eBook, we’ll discuss leading strategies to create a marketing-led growth strategy for 2021 and beyond, including: Positioning your organization for automation. Getting consensus on how to define “qualified leads”.

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LLMs in Production: Tooling, Process, and Team Structure

Speaker: Dr. Greg Loughnane and Chris Alexiuk

However, during development – and even more so once deployed to production – best practices for operating and improving generative AI applications are less understood.

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Navigating the VUCA World With Innovation Coaching

Speaker: Janet Sernack, Founder and CEO of ImagineNation

If you want to read more about how organizations are reacting and preparing for change amidst VUCA, you can do so here !

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The Beauty and Brains of Actionable Data: How to Go From Concept to Reality

Speaker: Dr. Joe Perez, Senior Systems Analyst at NC Dept. of Health & Human Services, and Chief Technology Officer at SolonTek

Join Dr. Joe Perez, Senior Systems Analyst at NC DHHS, and Chief Technology Officer, SolonTek, to learn how you can capitalize on your ideas by blending internal with external while leveraging them into a cohesive strategy for both the short term and the long term. What value do you see in your data?