Wed.Dec 06, 2017

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When Corporations Fund Startups, Both Can Win

Digital Tonto

A corporate venture program can provide a valuable window into the future Related posts: How Power Is Shifting From Corporations To Platforms. Could Ukraine Be The Next Silicon Valley? 4 Things. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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The enemy is already within. The flood gates are open. Can GE recover?

Paul Hobcraft

Managing cash, balancing this out with your liabilities and obligations, knowing your market dynamics, and equally, having a good understanding of where the future growth lies, are all essential for managing any healthy business. It is then through managing your future development, mostly through research and development, that when combined with a sound acquisition strategy, that you believe will then augment your present internal growth and look to sustain the business.

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Indispensable Employee Attributes for Successful Innovation in Your Business

HYPE Innovation

We all know that old, wooden idea suggestion box that was flamboyantly presented during the Q1 openings but ended up tucked away under someone’s desk. It started off great, with people adding various ideas with equally different purposes but after a while, it died and became part of the company relics. For companies, these inputs for change are highly welcome.

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Quirky: Traits innovators share

Jeffrey Phillips

Thanks to my blog, and hopefully the insights I share here, I'm often asked to review books about innovation and innovators. Recently I was asked to review a book entitled Quirky. The subtitle is: The Remarkable Story of the Traits, Foibles, and Genius of Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed the World. Their capitalization, not mine. The traits that innovators possess or share has been an interest of mine for quite a while.

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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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Struggling to Be Creative? Think of Creativity as Exploring an Amusement Park

BrainZooming

Struggling to be creative? Think about reigniting your creativity as a day at an amusement park. You walk in, and you’re going to ride a bunch of different rides in different parts of the park. You might ride some rides multiple times, but the day is mainly about as having many fun and exciting experiences as possible. All the ways you have been creative up until now are the amusement park rides.

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Auto Industry

Innovation Excellence

As automobiles move into the next phase, there will be a window of opportunity for entrepreneurs to gain a foothold into this re-invented industry. Much like the smartphone allowed tens of thousands of entrepreneurs create remote service centers and a new type of maintenance offering; and facilitate the automotive Internet of Things that will connect those cars to the rest of the world.

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Career Competencies Where Humans Win Hands Down

Daniel Burrus

The robots are coming! That well-worn phrase used both in fiction and serious journalism encapsulates a fear that many share—that machines of all sorts are poised to take over every career function and responsibility formerly performed by mere mortals. I have only one response: Relax. In my new book, The Anticipatory Organization , I repeatedly stress the point that, no matter the level of technological advances we will witness in the future, there are a number of career attributes and competenc

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Allocating resources as if people and planet mattered.

Mike Shipulski

Business is about allocating resources to achieve business objectives. And for that, the best place to start is to define the business objectives. First – what is the timeframe of the business objectives? Well, there are three – short, medium and long. Short is about making payroll, shipping this month’s orders and meeting this year’s sales objectives.

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8 of the Most Innovative Sports Organisations | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

New technology continues to drive innovation within the sports industry.

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Get Ready to Win in 2018

The Human Factor

One of the deepest instincts for adult humans is to achieve excellence. In other words, to win. Yet, winning in business doesn’t happen by itself. It requires hard work, dedication, focus and, most of all, a desire to win. All organizations will tell you they’re in it to win. But if you look behind the curtains, you’ll find that most are merely playing not to lose rather than playing to win.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and guest speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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Apple's Jony Ive on Team Trust & Listening

Michael Roberto

Fast Company published some excerpts this week from Rick Tetzeli's interview of Apple design chief Jony Ive. I especially loved Ive's comments on building trust within his design team, and how that helped them overcome the common problem of self-censorship. Here's the excerpt: In 30 years time, we’ll look back at, with such fondness, the way we worked, not necessarily what we did.

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Defining Your Innovation Metrics

IdeaScale

When people talk about the metrics that they use to measure the success of their innovation programs , they are often talking about two different things, both of which are very important when defining your innovation metrics: They are talking about their innovation capabilities (that is, how to assess the promise of ideas that they have in the pipeline, their ability to compete, where they need to allocate new resources to innovation).

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All-New Version of the Everest Leadership and Team Simulation!

Michael Roberto

I'm pleased to announce the release today of an all-new version of the Everest Leadership and Team Simulation. This version (V3) provides an updated user experience, as well as all-new scenarios on the mountain. Instructors can continue to use the original scenarios, or they can choose new situations and problems that students must address and solve.