Tue.Oct 12, 2021

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Exploitation pays your salary while exploration pays your pension

Idea to Value

A few months ago, I had the privilege of sitting down with Steve Blank, widely credited as the founder of the Lean Startup movement, for a fascinating podcast interview. The quote above comes from a foreword he wrote for Lead and Disrupt , which is all about Ambidextrous Organisations. A company needs to be able to exploit its current core business to make a profit.

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Why corporate innovation is harder than a startup

Jeffrey Phillips

Since innovation is a difficult and often misunderstood word, or perhaps just because it is used to mean different things in different contexts, it can be difficult to understand why innovation at an entrepreneurial company or a startup is different from innovation in a corporation. I think the matter is obvious, but I wanted to explore the challenges and issues of innovating as an entrepreneur and contrast them with the challenges and opportunities of innovating in a larger corporation.

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Creating an Innovative Culture in a Remote-First Organization

IdeaScale

Overview: While the fundamentals of creating an innovative culture at a company remain the same when remote, such as encouraging ideas and using small teams to build up, the remote workplace offers new challenges for innovators. Look for ways to turn challenges into advantages with virtual whiteboarding, more accessible brainstorming, and shared touchpoints.

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A Vertical Computer Monitor Just Might Help You See the Big Picture

Entrepreneur - Innovation

If you're reading on your computer or programming all day, a vertical monitor might actually make more sense for your workflow.

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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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Brunner Promotes Eight Employees for Client-Focused Excellence and Results-Oriented Mindsets

Brunner

At Brunner, our heart is in delivering excellence and results for our clients. That passion for progress is part of our core values – heart, attitude, and collaboration, and recently eight Brunner employees across our Account Management and Channel Marketing teams have been recognized for their commitment to just that. Of the Account Management team, Jake Bendel, Candace Keudel-Schaffer, Erich Meier, and Ashley Miller have all made strong strategic contributions connected to our continued growth

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How Change Is Changing and What to Do About It

Rmukesh Gupta

I read this interesting blog post about the changing nature of change, specially in the organisational context, in which the authors (Paul Kurchina, Glen Gonzalez & Stephanie Overby) share their perspectives and distinguish between the “C” change and the “c” change. I would highly encourage you to read it here. Here my take on this topic: Organisations (business or otherwise) will need to learn how to manage change well.

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Podcast E34: From Boxes to Lines

Stephen Shapiro

This podcast celebrates 20 years since the launch of my first book, 24/7 Innovation. It also marked the time when I left Accenture and started my own innovation business. In honor of this special period in my life, I read the Prologue to that book and share some thoughts on where we have come in the last two decades. In this episode, we explore: how innovation and management theory have followed the times of the day (from Taylor to today). why past innovation strategies have focused on “bo

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A Simple Methodology For Continuous Process Improvement

Cascade Strategy

Your strategy is a living document. A work of continuous progress. Leave it alone for too long and it will rot. Nurture it and you’ll be rewarded.

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Dr. Abraham Khoureis on Building Compassionate Leadership

Carla Johnson

October 12th, 2021 So much of business is focused on investors and profits. What’s forgotten is the heart of the equation – customers and the employees who serve them. When a business sets its sights on how to give back to the world through their people, they’re able to make the world a better place. Not only that, but everyone. Read More. The post Dr.