Wed.Jul 20, 2016

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Ideas to Impact: New Online Innovation Short Course

Tim Kastelle

We just released a short course that I made for students at The University of Queensland. It’s called Ideas to Impact – and you can check it out here. The goal is to encourage students to think more entrepreneurially. As part of it, I got to interview a lot of my favourite people at UQ, and for me, their stories are the highlights of the course.

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A Look Inside Four Decades Of Breakthroughs At IBM Research

Digital Tonto

While Bell Labs and Xerox PARC have become legendary, IBM Research is no less consequential. What's more, it's still going. Related posts: How IBM Innovates. How Smart Businesses Are Turning. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Innovation Strategy – 16 Ways to Find New Resources to Innovate

BrainZooming

Facing a major goal when seems you have is too few resources CAN BE an incredible inspiration for your organization’s innovation strategy. I worked with a CMO who would revel in difficult situations where it seemed we had too few resources, negligible support, and slight chances of success. As he’d always remind us, when you have almost no support, you have almost nothing to lose.

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People Are The Best Investment

Mike Shipulski

Anything that happens happens because of people, and anything that doesn’t happen doesn’t happen because of people. Technology doesn’t create itself, products don’t launch themselves, companies don’t build themselves and trust doesn’t grow on its own. Any kind of work, any kind of service, any kind of organizing – it’s all done by people. The productivity/quality movement has been good for factories – parts move in a repeatable flow and they’re processed in repeatable ways by machines that chu

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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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Business Model Innovation at the bottom of the pyramid?

Board of Innovation

BMI for NGO’s in Southeast Asia I recently visited Myanmar to support a group of NGO’s and corporates in healthcare to innovate at the bottom of the pyramid. We are all very enthusiastic about the result and the journey we’ve gone through so I would love to share this experience with you. The Context I’ve collaborated with Pepal, an NGO that. Read More.

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Is it REALLY disruptive? It matters.

Innovation Excellence

At the recent ISPIM conference, I sat in several presentations ostensibly describing approaches to disruptive innovation when, in reality, it was difficult to see what (a market or a company) was actually being disrupted. They were really talking about breakthrough or radical innovation.

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4 Innovation Lessons from the History of Warfare

Innovation Excellence

What do the Hydrogen bomb, the Minuteman missile and precision guided weapons all have in common? They all provided crucial financing for technology that we now carry around in our pockets. It is a curious fact of modern society that civilian life, in large part, is powered by the technology of war. Even today, national.

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Let’s Talk AI: The True Buzz About AI

Linda Bernardi

And deep learning, machine learning, cognitive and more… Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the hottest topics on Tech St. right now – and why wouldn’t it be given the exciting advances being made? But in our conversations about AI, we’re getting ahead of ourselves and mixing up progress toward the goal with having […].

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Alumni & The Recruiting Process

Michael Roberto

Scholars Jason Greenberg and Roberto Fernandez have conducted an interesting new study about job searches and MBA recruiting. They studied approximately 600 students from a top MBA program over two years. They conducted the research from a sociological perspective, comparing students who landed jobs through connecting with alumni at various companies (search through social networks) to those students who were hired through formal on-campus recruiting programs (formal search).

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