Mon.Aug 13, 2018

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Proactive versus Reactive Innovation: Learning from Nature

Innovation Excellence

I’ve always believed that we can learn how to innovate, and organize our businesses by learning from nature. One example is to question Wall Street’s obsession with short-term results, by understanding how giant redwoods maximize long-term growth by embracing variations based on short-term changes in resources. [link] I also believe that we can learn a.

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3 Ways to Stay Ahead of Disruptive Brands Screwing Up Your Customer Expectations

BrainZooming

Years ago, I attended a services marketing conference sponsored by a prominent university. One professor made an intriguing claim: customers compare a brand’s performance on specific features to the best performance of any brand offering that same feature. The instructor pointed out a specific example of how this happens with customer expectations. If a brand were offering subpar, phone-based customer service, it wasn’t being compared exclusively to direct competitors who also offered horrendous

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Super Balls and Glass Balls

Rmukesh Gupta

I am currently reading the book – Breakthrough: How to Harness the Aha! Moments That Spark Success by Scott Duffy and David Meltzer. So far the book has turned out to be an easy read and has some interesting stories to teach some very good (though not very surprising lessons). . One of the thing that the authors talk about in the book is about the ability to manage different priorities as an entrepreneur or an intrapreneur.

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Flipping the Script on Innovation

Innovation Excellence

“If the Door is Shut, Open it. If the Door is Open, Shut it.” Change of State Innovation In looking for innovations it is sometimes helpful to consider whether your product or service is open or closed. If it is open what would happen if you enclosed it? If it is closed what would happen.

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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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Your Self – An Owners Manual

Rmukesh Gupta

I came across this post by Dave Pollard that I found amusing, informative, exhaustive, fun and wise – all at the same time. I could not stop myself from sharing this on my blog. . You can read the entire post on Dave’s blog – here. Go back and read some of his earlier post as well, while you are on his blog. A wealth of information and wisdom awaits. .

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How the I-Team is Working to Amplify Civic Innovation in LA

Innovation Leader

LA’s i-team tackles ambitious projects, from improving recruiting at the Los Angeles Police Department to helping residents stay in their homes as neighborhoods gentrify.

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Storytelling Skills for Innovators

Innovation Leader

Noted author Evan I. Schwartz, Director of Storytelling at Innosight, discusses the storytelling devices that innovators need to know.

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Less than 5% of Fortune 500 Companies with Women CEOs

Linda Bernardi

WOW- less than 4.8 percent Fortune 500 companies run by women CEOs! It is 2018 and I am baffled that with Indra Nooyi’s departure soon from Pepsi, that only 4.5% of Fortune 500 companies will be run by women CEO’s. This is unacceptably dismal. We have not come far at all. Only 23 out of 500. This is after decades of attention and scrutiny over this topic.

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