Wed.Aug 17, 2016

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The story of Kelvin Doe: The poor Sierra Leone teen who wowed M.I.T.’s engineers

Idea to Value

This 15 year old taught himself engineering and managed to use scrap to build working generators, batteries and even an FM Radio Transmitter. The video above shows the fascinating story of Kelvin Doe. He is a child from a very poor district of Sierra Leone’s capital city Freetown. The area is in such rough shape, with electricity […]. Originally published at The story of Kelvin Doe: The poor Sierra Leone teen who wowed M.I.T.’s engineers.

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Challenge configuration has never been this easy

Exago

Creating and editing challenges for your innovation management initiative just became easier with our Idea Market 3.5 release. We’ve aggregated challenge configuration fields into a sleeker and better structured page, thus facilitating configuration adjustments. Three tabs are now available on. Read More. The post Challenge configuration has never been this easy appeared first on www.exago.com.

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5 Technologies for 2031

Digital Tonto

Today, in 2016, we have largely mastered the virtual world of information. By 2031, we will have begun to master the physical world as well. Related posts: The 3 Big Technologies To Watch Over The. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Content Marketing Strategy – 5 Exercises for Audience-Oriented Topics

BrainZooming

I’m at the Social Media Strategies Summit in Dallas today, delivering a two-hour workshop on developing a branded content marketing strategy. The key is finding the right balance between employing outside-in topics and outside-in timing while still making sure your brand personality and messages come through clearly. We recently conducted a dedicated content marketing strategy workshop for a client on this very topic.

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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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Amazon’s Secret Weapon: Being Anticipatory

Daniel Burrus

In many ways it seems impossible that Amazon has been in business for more than 20 years. Time does fly! During that time, Amazon has been – and continues to be – the largest and most innovative leader in the e-commerce market. You may be surprised to discover the other markets Amazon has not only entered, but is also in the process of redefining and reinventing.

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Consulting Industry Caught in the Crossfire

Innovation Excellence

The worlds of employment and business are becoming increasingly turbulent as the stability of the enterprise grows ever shorter, the loyalty of the enterprise to its people faces extinction, and the wealthy countries of the world stand at a precipice of overhanging debt. Increasingly intelligent digital technologies and mercurial customer expectations threaten both people and enterprise at every turn.

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Open: The Rising Prefix

Innocentive

Technology is breaking down barriers everywhere and immersing us further and further into the digital age. As with most things, there are negatives – increased susceptibility to hacking and fraud, trading of illicit goods on the dark web, possibility for greater surveillance and compromised privacy – but also a wealth of opportunities and positive potential.

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Always Tight on Time

Mike Shipulski

There always far more tasks than there is time. Same for vacations and laundry. And that’s why it’s important to learn when-and how-to say no. No isn’t a cop-out. No is ownership of the reality we can’t do everything. The opposite of no isn’t maybe; the opposite of no is yes while knowing full well it won’t get done. Where the no-in-the-now is skillful, the slow no is unskillful.

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Danger is the Early Warning Sign of Opportunity

Innovation Excellence

Without relying on the predictable places to hide—spread sheets, business buzzwords, risk mitigation plans, past glories—look me in the eyes. Now, point out the potential dangers for your business. When you stutter or express worry about your employees, I will know you're being real, vulnerable, human.

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Coping with Complexity

100%Open

Dealing with complexity feels a lot like grief. According to the Kübler-Ross model of grief, there are a series of five emotions experienced by people who loose a loved one, namely denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. I think a lot of people and organisations are going through a similar range of emotions when it comes to dealing with complexity*.

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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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PBTO36: Why Giving a Damn is Underrated and Caring is a Competitive Advantage with Bernadette Jiwa

Rmukesh Gupta

In this post, we host best selling author, Bernadette Jiwa. She has a blog “ The Story of Telling ” where she shares her thoughts on marketing and branding in general and brand story telling in particular. She is one of the top 100 marketing/branding experts to follow on Twitter. In this conversation, we dig deep into her latest book – Meaningful.