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Change Isn’t About Persuasion. It’s About Power

Digital Tonto

In 2013, the political scientist Moisés Naím published The End of Power, in which he argued that because of the increase in mobility and technology and decrease in poverty, the power of institutions was diminishing. Power hadn’t ended exactly but, as he put it, power was becoming “easier to gain but harder to use or keep.”.

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Can creativity training really improve your creativity?

Idea to Value

A 2015 study of 180 participants over 9 weeks showed that creativity training not only significantly improved the participant’s view of their own creativity, it resulted in those participants producing more creative output A 2016 study showed one 1.5

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Strategic Thinking Skills – What Does Your Analysis Style Look Like?

BrainZooming

One slide during the workshop focused on analysis styles and featured two contrasting images. They are grossed out by the idea of mucking around in all the data and putting multiple sources and analysis looks together to learn new things that aren’t apparent when information is kept separate.

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Do you need to be intelligent in order to be creative? The threshold theory

Idea to Value

Kim (2005) : Meta analysis of 45,880 participants found relationship between creativity test scores and IQ scores is negligible. Result: Low correlation between creative achievement and low intelligence, strong correlation with high intelligence. Does not support the threshold theory. Does not support threshold theory. Inconclusive.

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New Study: 2018 State of Embedded Analytics Report

Why do some embedded analytics projects succeed while others fail? We surveyed 500+ application teams embedding analytics to find out which analytics features actually move the needle. Read the 6th annual State of Embedded Analytics Report to discover new best practices. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Five Crowdsourced Ideas that Came From Unlikely Places

IdeaScale

For World Cerebral Palsy Day in 2013, he asked for a wheelchair that either had an extended range or could run indefinitely. A Quicker Analysis. These five, in particular, might surprise you and offer guidance for your crowdsourcing strategy. The Solar-Powered Wheelchair. It’s saved time and made his workspace safer, to boot.

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65% of Venture Capital-backed deals fail to return investment, and only 4% make substantial returns

Idea to Value

The chart above shows the financial outcomes for 21,640 different financing deals between 2004 and 2013 (note that these were the total number of deals, not individual companies). However, new data from Correlation Ventures shows just how risky investing in new companies can be. Only 10% of investments made a return of more than 5x.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.