Sun.Mar 26, 2017

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We Need To Stop Trying To Predict The Future And Start Exploring It

Digital Tonto

The truth is that even really smart people get the future wrong. We need to be explorers, not oracles. Related posts: We Need To Stop Chasing The Last Big Thing And Start Preparing For the Next One. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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How Big is Your Comfort Zone?

Mills-Scofield

Fly NYON #ShoeSelfies - Aerial view over Central Park, NYC. I’ve been thinking about comfort zones. Most of the discussion makes it seem like comfort zones are static. They’re not. We decide if our comfort zones: Grow ~ because we’re curious, eager to learn, expand our worldview and meet new people doing all sorts of different, interesting things; Shrink ~ because we’ve been burned, failed, or circumstances have made us more cautious and fearful; Maintain ~ because we feel we are just fine where

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Bad Innovation Systems Beat Good Innovators (Almost) Every Time

Integrative Innovation

W. Edwards Deming once famously stated: A bad system will beat a good person every time. . What was Deming trying to convey with this quote ? It wasn’t an attempt to get people to give up trying because failure was certain. It was an attempt to get people to understand the importance of the system and the futility of trying to focus on blaming people for failures.

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Innovation Hot Spots – Countries vs. Cities

InnovationManagement

We increasingly see the world and much of its innovation through the lens of cities not countries, but there is little clarity around where the true innovation hotspots of today, let alone tomorrow, are to be found. While there is general agreement around which are the most innovative countries, the lack of consensus around the criteria used to identify an innovative city has produced multiple views and varied answers.

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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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Two Diverse Authors: Recapping our Thoughts on Platform and Ecosystem

Innovation Excellence

For those of you following our posts about ecosystems and platforms and their importance to innovation, this is the 30th post. We thought it made sense to take a breather before pushing on to other ideas, to stop and recap what we’ve been writing about, and to place some of these ideas in context.

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The Best Way to Share the Best of Your Best Practices: STORYTELLING!

Idea Champions

12 other short videos on storytelling. Storytelling at Work.

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