Wed.Sep 07, 2016

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Why “Follow your passion” is terrible advice for you & those you care about

Idea to Value

One of the most common pieces of advice floating around the internet is also one of the most dangerous: To be happy in life, you need to figure out what you are passionate about, and singlemindedly pursue that as your ideal job. This is especially true for anyone who dreams of a creative career or being an entrepreneur and choosing their own destiny.

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Fighting for your audience? Take on the right incentives

Exago

Your customers will always be glad to share with you insights on how to improve your product. They’re probably doing it now in some way, though irregularly and outside any structured framework. The post Fighting for your audience? Take on the right incentives appeared first on www.exago.com.

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So how do you manage exploiting and exploring for Innovation?

Paul Hobcraft

So how do businesses organise their structures to be able to simultaneously manage the needs to exploit and explore innovation? In this post I wanted to explain my thinking through on this ability to be ‘ambidextrous’, knowing the difference of when to exploit and when to explore as essential to leveraging innovation, in all its forms and watching out for some of the traps in not managing this well.

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Content Marketing Strategy – 8 Reasons a B2B Company Should Engage in Social Media

BrainZooming

Waiting at O’Hare airport for my flight, another business traveler stopped in front of me, and asked, “Mike Brown?” He was a former corporate sales executive where I used to work. He’d been pointed in my direction to talk about content marketing strategy and social media and just happened to run into me in the hallway at O’Hare.

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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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So how do you manage exploiting and exploring for Innovation?

Paul Hobcraft

So how do businesses organise their structures to be able to simultaneously manage the needs to exploit and explore innovation? In this post I wanted to explain my thinking through on this ability to be ‘ambidextrous’, knowing the difference of when to exploit and when to explore as essential to leveraging innovation, in all its forms and watching out for some of the traps in not managing this well.

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How IBM Is Building A Business Around Watson

Digital Tonto

Today, Watson has become much more than a clever parlor trick, but a potentially huge line of business for IBM. Related posts: The New Era Of Cognitive Collaboration. How Data Will Transform. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Moving Away from Best Practices

Mike Shipulski

If the work is new, there is no best practice. When you read the best books you’ll understand what worked in situations that are different than yours. When you read the case studies you’ll understand how one company succeeded in a way that won’t work in yours. The best practices in the literature worked in a different situation, in a different time and a under different cultural framework.

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The Rise of the Chief Ecosystem Officer

Innovation Excellence

The New Leaders of Innovation in Health Overwhelmed by lifestyle- and age-driven burdens and suffering from diminishing resources, many health systems, care institutions, structures and practices are straining to even maintain let alone improve outcomes. Many well-meaning and rationally planned interventions struggle to make a significant or lasting difference.

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Winners announced for the Civic Engagement Innovation Competition

Betterific

Our “ Hacking Civic Engagement ” Challenge was a first for us in many respects. It was the first time we’ve done a civic (non product) challenge. It was the first time we partnered with Singularity University – the institution that believes in exponential thinking based on the exponential growth of technology. And perhaps most importantly, it was the first time we crowdsourced a concept from beginning to end.

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What if We Listened to All of Our Stakeholders?

Innovation Excellence

For the past year, I’ve been working with a Baptist minister, Rev. Jeffrey Brown, to help fund and scale his proven approach to violence reduction. Rev. Brown has spent the past 25+ years helping Boston and 21 other communities reduce violence. His TED talk tells the story about the The Boston Miracle — a 29 consecutive month period.

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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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DELL Technologies: The First Thing to Know

Information Playground

After spending the majority of 2016 meeting and collaborating with my new DELL Technologies colleagues, two clear customer benefits began to emerge: Decades of experience between EMC and Dell will result in economic benefits to customers. Dell Technologies will enable customers to innovate in the face of digital disruption.