Fri.Aug 12, 2016

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When Castro blocked Cubans from the internet, they created their own

Idea to Value

Some of the world’s greatest innovations cannot be stopped once people find out about them, even when the government tries. This is the story of the people of Cuba, who created their own informal internet and content distribution system when the communist government wouldn’t allow them access to the world wide web. Check out the […].

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2 Views of the @Delta Customer Experience during Its Computer Outage

BrainZooming

The Larry King Post View. Keep moving. At all costs. Since my flight was cancelled, I was going to hang on to my rental car while I went in to the airport to figure out my options. Then my standard mental travel checklist kicked in (which says she’d all things that will slow you down), and I dropped it off. If I’d have kept it, I probably wouldn’t have gotten home.

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Who is on the opposite side of the earth to you? Probably nobody

Idea to Value

Have you ever wondered who exactly is standing on the opposite side of the world to you? The answer is probably no one. When I was young there was a story that if you dug a hole deep enough for you to come out on the other side of the Earth and that you would probably appear in China. However, this week I found out the true reason of why this is almost impossible from most places on the world’s surface.

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Conquering The 3 Most Common Types Of Company Crisis

Faisal Hoque

As one entrepreneur explains, “crisis management” isn’t a monolithic process or a skill that suits every situation. The post Conquering The 3 Most Common Types Of Company Crisis appeared first on Faisal Hoque :: Entrepreneur | Author.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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Could this crazy new Elevated Bus solve China’s crippling traffic?

Idea to Value

This is an incredible example of how quickly innovations can be turned from ideas into real-world experiments. A few months ago in May 2016, I saw some internet articles about a new public transport design from China: a “Transit Elevated Bus” (TEB) system which would drive above cars and be a frankenstein mix between a […]. Originally published at Could this crazy new Elevated Bus solve China’s crippling traffic?

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Innovate like a startup or like big business?

Innovation Excellence

Startups are king when it comes to innovation. Indeed, established companies often strive to behave more like startups. But in reality, it is quite challenging. Startups, on the other hand, wish they had access to resources, particularly capital. So, there’s something to be said for the large corporation: It has experience, distribution channels, and access.

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Innovations of the Incas – Part I

Innovation Excellence

This is the first in a series of two articles on innovation of the Inca civilization. One of the best-known Inca sites is the mountaintop citadel of Machu Picchu. The site is breathtaking in its location, with steep slopes rising from the Urubamba River and huge mountain peaks all around. Some visitors consider it a.

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Google VP Talks Getting Resources & Confronting the Future

Innovation Leader

Execs are too complacent when confronting seismic industry shifts, says Ivy Ross, who leads Google’s wearable computing project. “Why…stay at a hotel, versus in an Airbnb room?

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Sofia Calling

100%Open

We’ve been doing a lot of work at 100%Open recently around innovation in cities with the likes of Abu Dhabi, Bogota, Delhi, Detroit, Dubai, Geneva, Glasgow, Kuala Lumpur, Leeds, Medellin, New York, Pune, Sheffield and Singapore. So when it came to organising our recent 100%Open away day we wanted to do something a bit different. And it made sense to practice what we preach, and to do something around a city, namely Sofia in Bulgaria which is reinventing itself and we wanted to see what we could

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The winners of the Lipstick Idea Generation Competition Revealed

Betterific

Let’s get down to business. Our Lipstick innovation and idea generation competition wrapped up a couple weeks ago and we want to give a quick recap. 66 Ideas. A whopping 38% of them were deemed innovative and actionable by the sponsoring brand. Great job Betterific community! Grand Prize winner ($400): Kathy Russell. Runners Up ($25): Luc Michaud , Lizabeth Barclay , Laura Belinfante , Kathryn Savvides.

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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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Mythbuster – 6 Steps to Greater Diversity and Superior Results

Adam Hartung

Most of the time “diversity” is a code word for adding women or minorities to an organization. But that is only one way to think about diversity, and it really isn’t the most important. To excel you need diversity in thinking. And far too often, we try to do just the opposite. “ Mythbusters ” was a television series that ran 14 seasons across 12 years.

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Accepting that Job Offer When the Internship Ends

Michael Roberto

You have completed your summer internship, and you have received a full-time offer of employment. Fantastic! Now, should you accept the position. Most young people might say, "If you had a good summer internship experience, then of course, you should take the job." Jon Simmons has published a good article for Fast Company that addresses this issue. Simmons suggests that the answer might not be so simple.

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