Fri.May 27, 2016

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Can you teach people to innovate?

Innovation Excellence

One of my recent pet peeves is the proliferation of education options for innovation. One of my alma maters offers a "certificate" for innovation management. While I cannot comment on the course, it is taught by two professors with little private sector experience.

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Creative Quickies – Delivering the Brand Promise No Competitor Does

BrainZooming

I suspect many, if not most industries, know there’s an elusive brand promise customers have been requesting for a long time that no competitor has figured out yet. Or maybe a competitor HAS figured out how to deliver the brand promise, but it can’t do it profitably, efficiently, or consistently. One competitive response is to try to explain to customers why they don’t really need what they think they need.

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The Future of Jobs and Education

Innovation Excellence

One can argue that today’s education system is skewed towards the teaching of Professional Skills, and it’s this category that will face the greatest opportunities and challenges over the next fifty years.

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Open Innovation to Help Sick Children

IdeaConnection

Global biopharmaceutical company Pfizer want your help to improve the health of children around the world. It has launched an open innovation competition, along with the Institute of Pediatric Innovation (IPI) to source ideas for a package and dispensing device that will make it easier to dispense medicine to children. The Open Innovation Device Challenge is seeking an innovation to help counter some of the problems of giving medicines orally to children.

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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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3 crushing Pitching Tips by Peter Hopwood for your Startup

Svava

We met up with Peter Hopwood at TNW Europe Conference to get his top 3 tips for delivering a smashing pitch for your startup. Peter is hosting a session at TNW and he is also a startup pitching coach.

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The 10,000 hour rule is wrong, according to its original authors

Idea to Value

One of the most commonly cited figures when it comes to improving yourself is the so-called 10,000 hour rule. According to Malcolm Gladwell who popularised the notion in his book Outliers: The Story of Success , people who were performing at an expert level, such as musicians or sportspeople, had practiced for approximately 10,000 hours up to that point.

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6 Key Takeaways from the 2016 Chief Innovation Officer Summit

Planview

Last week was Innovation Enterprise’s Chief Innovation Officer Summit (CINO) held in San Francisco. Hundreds of innovation practitioners from different industries and with varied levels of experience came together for two-days of learning and sharing. The likes of Google, Qualcomm, Boeing, and Wells Fargo were among the diverse set of brands in attendance – and of course Spigit was there as Gold Sponsor.

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What Makes Snapchat Worth $20B? Trends

Adam Hartung

Snapchat filed with the SEC this week its latest fundraising. According to TechCrunch , $1.8B cash was added to the company, bringing its current value to the range of $18-$20B. Not bad for a company with 2015 revenues of about $59M. And quite a high valuation for a one-product company that probably nobody who reads this column has ever used – or even knows anything about.

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6 Key Takeaways from the 2016 Chief Innovation Officer Summit

Planview

Last week was Innovation Enterprise’s Chief Innovation Officer Summit (CINO) held in San Francisco. Hundreds of innovation practitioners from different industries and with varied levels of experience came together for two-days of learning and sharing. The likes of Google, Qualcomm, Boeing, and Wells Fargo were among the diverse set of brands in attendance – and of course Spigit was there as Gold Sponsor.