Fri.Mar 10, 2017

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Is innovation really important to you?

Paul Hobcraft

How can we establish Innovation as the vital link to a process of change and strategic direction options? One that lifts the debates of managing today’s business by linking it into the future and then turning this thinking into a series of plausible and coherent set of activities? Innovation can drive change, change is required. Without innovation, we progressively die, as we provide no option for change, no prospects of new, different growth.

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Wazoku Secures New Funding from Barclays

Wazoku

Crowdsourcing specialist Wazoku secures new funding from Barclays to support further development. Wazoku a UK crowdsourcing company and leading provider of collaborative innovation software, has received new venture debt finance from Barclays of £680,000. A total of £2.3m has been provided, with equity financing from existing investors, Cambridge Angels and Fig, to support Wazoku’s growth strategy moving forward.

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Hidden tools at my fingertips

100%Open

It’s an ugly truth that in life, time is money, and by attending Tony Harmer’s ‘Content Velocity with Adobe Creative Cloud’ seminar last Thursday, I was led to understand that how, as a designer, it was possible to create great content even faster. There are numerous ways to sharpen your skills these days, in any type of industry; whether you choose to read a book, watch “how-to” videos on YouTube, or learn from colleagues and clients.

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How Open Innovation Could Save the Great Barrier Reef

IdeaConnection

Australia’s iconic Great Barrier Reef is one of the seven wonders of the natural world, a gathering of vivid coral that stretches for approximately 2,600 kilometers. Its maze of individual reef systems, tropical islands and coral cays provides a home for hundreds of different types of marine plants and animals. But it is under threat from climate change, declining water quality and a variety of other challenges.

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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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Contagious: How to make products, ideas, and behaviors catch on

Innovation Excellence

Notes from a keynote speech from The Market Research Event By Jonah Berger, Professor of Marketing, The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania Berger starts the keynote session by playing a game, Which is Tastier? Where two images are shown: broccoli and a cheeseburger. The vote is cast: the majority vote, you guessed it, for.

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Leadership In Uncertain Times

Faisal Hoque

A presentation at the Airbus Leadership University | “Success comes from connecting the dots between our emotional selves and systematic thinking.”. The post Leadership In Uncertain Times appeared first on Faisal Hoque :: Entrepreneur | Author.

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Innovation Strategy – 4 Ways to Celebrate Risk Taking

BrainZooming

Last weekend’s Wall Street Journal featured a piece called “Two Cheers for Failure in a Tough Drug Industry,” by Jonathan D. Rockoff. The article highlighted innovation strategy options that drug companies are using to instill and support risk-taking behaviors. These companies are trying to motivate researchers facing daunting odds for bringing a drug successfully to market.