Tue.Nov 07, 2017

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36 Cognitive Biases that Inhibit Innovation | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

In this post I’ve unpacked 36 cognitive biases that can stifle your innovation efforts, how they might apply to the field and a proposed solution or mitigant for each. If you’ve got some alternative mitigants to address these biases, I’d love to hear from you in the comments.

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15 Expectations for Servant Leadership

BrainZooming

This week marks the tenth anniversary of the Brainzooming blog. I’ve told the story of its inception previously. Looking back ten years, suffice it to say that starting to write and publish about the work I was first doing in the Fortune 500 world as a VP of Strategic Marketing and then in launching Brainzooming was one of the most important career decisions I ever made.

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The Living Labs Driving Open Innovation in the Public Sector

Innocentive

Open innovation is becoming well established as an important business model. But can it be used in public services, creating opportunities for citizens to participate in generating solutions for their communities? We think it has a lot of promise – and we’re not alone. Communities around the world are gathering together to solve a wide range of challenges – health, transport, access to technology, energy, food, and more.

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Five Innovation Lessons from 3M

Innovation Excellence

3M is an iconic innovative company. Although mostly known for “sticky and scratchy things” (post-its and sandpaper), 3M have over 55,000 products, releasing 25 new products per week and had over 3700 global patents granted in 2016. Over 90,000 employees, 200 manufacturing plants and 86 labs are all focused on progressing 3M’s innovation agenda, but.

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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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To Be Creative, Keep Feeding Your Mind

Idea Sandbox

To be and stay creative, keep feeding your mind new ideas and information. Try new things. Visit new places; different parts of the world. Take a different route home from work. Learn a new language. Read Wikipedia entries about topics you know nothing about. Meet and talk to people with different interests and backgrounds. When you add new knowledge and ideas to your brain you create new neural.

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Combining Paper Prototyping with Digital Prototyping

Dawid

Paper->Digital->Digital-on-Paper->Digital “If a picture is worth 1000 words, then a prototype is worth a 1000 meetings?”—?IDEO (So. Freaking. True.) Paper Prototyping is the most overlooked and misunderstood method of requirements gathering, design, or sharing understanding. Have the people you’re designing for do the prototyping Misunderstood because consultants still come in, grab some people for a few days, then come back with some prototypes, get some feedback, go away and come b

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VOICE AMERICA RADIO INTERVIEW with Mitch Ditkoff on Fostering a Culture of Innovation

Idea Champions

Here's everything you wanted to know about how to foster a culture of innovation in your organization -- a 56-minute VOICE AMERICA radio interview with Mitch Ditkoff, Co-Founder and President of Idea Champions and the writer of this blog. OK. maybe it's not everything you wanted to know, but at least it's trending in that direction. (Please forgive me for using the word "trending".

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The Dangers of Benchmarking

Michael Roberto

Freek Vermeulen of the London Business School recently penned an insightful blog post titled "Don't Be Fooled By Success." He explains three key downsides associated with benchmarking the top firms in your industry. First, he explains that managers often confuse cause and effect. The "best practices" that they observe might not be the driver of high performance, but instead the result of success.

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Great Customer Experience is not Just the Responsibility of the Brands

Rmukesh Gupta

Yesterday, I went to a unisex salon for a grooming session. I was attended by a young stylist. I started to engage him in a conversation. I asked his name (Sohail) and the place from where he came from (Chandigarh). I asked him about how long he was in Bangalore, how did he end up here in Bangalore. He said how his uncle had come to Bangalore in search of work and he got him a job at this salon (owned by someone in Delhi).