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Mystical guidelines for creating great user experiences

Boxes and Arrows

'The Jewish Torah teaches that the Creator created our world through ten utterances–for example, “let there be light.” The Jewish mystical tradition explains that these utterances correspond with ten stages in the process of creation. Every creative process in the world ultimately follows this progression, because it is really a part of the continual unfolding of the world itself, in which we are co-creators.

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Baby Steps To Breakthrough In Regional Economic Development

Gregg Fraley

'Creativity, Innovation, and Economic Development — Embracing the Challenge. Better Questions Means Better Answers for Regional Economic Development. It’s about Attitudes, Projects, and Baby Steps. Economic Development is important and challenging work. Having just interviewed players in this field and surveyed some regional initiatives — it’s clear that innovative work is being done in regional economic development — by some.

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Why is this company giving $1,000 to anyone with an idea?

Improvides

With it's new Kickbox programme, Adobe is giving every employee with an idea the opportunity to go out and experiment on it. The smartest part: they're completely happy for that idea to fail. Adobe as a company has an innate link with creativity. After all, it produces some of the most widely-used software products used […]. Originally published at Why is this company giving $1,000 to anyone with an idea?

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Coming: Dips, Rocks and Thunderstorm

Mills-Scofield

'Joseph Pistrui'' s post from his blog really resonated with me and I thought it would with you! Jospeh is a friend, colleague and wise man. He diverse background and expertise gives him the credibilty to speak on our very dynamic world. So read on and please ponder. And thank you, Joseph, for letting me repost your words here! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~.

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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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Welcome to Water Talkers

100%Open

Water is such a precious and finite resource but most people don’t really realise it, especially in the UK where it rains a lot. It is very easy for us to take water for granted but it is vital to our wellbeing and also in ensuring there is food to eat and that we have the energy we need. In the longer term, we are all going to have to have coordinated approach to use water more efficiently.

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Alaska Airlines’ Lean Startup Test in Airport Lounges

Innovation Leader

Two members of the airline’s Customer Innovation R&D team discuss a recent test of a new system aimed at delivering a more personalized travel experience.

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What's Missing?

Mills-Scofield

'When we are looking for patterns, trying to understand or discover customer needs, trying to learn something in general, we tend to look for what’s there. We look for what we see, hear, touch, smell, taste – for what we observe. This can take time and focus. Sometimes we have to look at the negative space as well, the empty space around the ‘thing’ we are observing.

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Innovating Into the Unknown

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Do you sometimes find it is hard to understand what is really going on? Or are you ever uncertain about what you should do next? If so you are most definitely not alone. In this era of endless connectivity, information obesity and organisational complexity, a common response for many people can be analysis paralysis. In other words it’s often easier to delay making a decision, perhaps by conducting another bit of research, or calling another meeting, as a substitute for actually doing something

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How a Startup Gave Kwikset a Lead in Smartlocks

Innovation Leader

Kwikset had been experimenting with various keyless entry products, but nothing clicked until they partnered with a startup…

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Are You On a Salvage or Launch Mission?

Mills-Scofield

'Sunk Costs: money you spent that can’t be recovered… salvaged. This month, I’ve been working with a few companies struggling to walking away from sunk costs. Despite how ‘obviously’ inane it may be, many companies keep throwing good money after bad. They keep spending more money to try to salvage any use or benefit from what is sunk – down at the bottom of the sea.

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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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Science Will Eat Itself

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CERN is one of the most amazing places on earth and remains one of humankind’s greatest achievements. Big science, big technology, big government collide in the exploration of new knowledge and insights into the nature of the universe. The age-old argument is that we invest in this kind of blue skies academic research, it reaps rewards from that we all benefit.