Tue.Sep 27, 2016

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Stop Chasing The Last Big Thing

Innovation Excellence

Business in the digital age has become a seemingly neverending series of “next big things.” Whether it’s e-commerce, search engine optimization, social media, big data or something else, the pattern of firms struggling to adapt is as predictable as Gartner’s hype cycle. First there is widespread panic, then a rushed effort to get up to.

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Lesson in Leadership I Learnt While Teaching My Son Math

Rmukesh Gupta

The Situation: I have a 12 year old son and it is my responsibility to teach him Math at home. Well, I was trying to teach him the concepts of algebra and Ratios and was having a tough time getting through to him and was getting frustrated at my inability to teach him the concepts and his unwillingness to learn (or at least that is what I thought). Then I had a friend who came home to meet me and saw my predicament.

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Dell Technologies: The Cloud Services Layer

Information Playground

After spending the better part of 2016 collaborating with my new colleagues from DELL Technologies, I’ve been blogging my way through a technical vision for the new company. I’ve described the industry benefits of this vision in two ways: Economic benefits: decades of technology expertise results in reduced costs and improved efficiencies. Innovation benefits: a portfolio positioned to support new business models in the face of digital disruption.

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Design Thinking Builds Strong Teams

Michael Roberto

The Nielsen Norman Group has a drafted a terrific blog post titled, " Design Thinking Builds Strong Teams. " They argue that design thinking accelerates the process of building common ground for a team, and thereby enhances team effectiveness. Here is an excerpt: Teams are the foundation of a successful workplace. But working in teams can have a fairly large cost: members must spend time building common ground — that is, a body of common knowledge, assumptions, vocabulary, and cultural practices

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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I Exist As I Am

Idea Champions

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Why Retailers Need to Embrace a Seamless Consumer Experience

Daniel Burrus

A few years ago, the practice of visiting a bricks-and-mortar store to examine a product before buying it online at a lower price gave birth to the term “showrooming.” Many retailers thought this change in behavior would lead to the demise of traditional in-store shopping. Once again, consumer behavior changed as many began to look up products online, but then chose to buy them in a physical store in a practice known as “web-rooming.