Sun.Jul 02, 2017

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The Complex and the Chaotic: Going Beyond Incremental Innovation

HYPE Innovation

Innovation is easy. Or rather, certain kinds of innovation are. Faced with the challenge of improving a product or service in the marketplace shouldn’t present too much of a problem for organizations with capabilities in managing and deploying their knowledge base. Using good market research to keep a finger on the pulse of customer needs and desires should give a clear steer about what to change as they progress along a well-established pathway.

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5 Ways to Test Innovative Ideas (Cheaper and Faster)

Leapfrogging

A few weeks ago, Jeff Bezos voiced a dirty little secret about disruptive innovation: it’s not just about creating groundbreaking new products and services, it’s about creating groundbreaking new products and services that people actually want to buy. “At Amazon, we’ve had a lot of inventions that we were very excited about, and customers didn’t care at all,” Bezos recounted during an event in Colorado.

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Summer Reading List: 12 Books To Read On Your Way To A Revolution

Digital Tonto

Making change happen takes more than just passion and fervor, but strategy, organization and discipline. Related posts: Summer Reading List: 17 Great Books Every Innovator Should Read. Summer. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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5 Ways to Test Innovative Ideas (Cheaper and Faster)

Leapfrogging

A few weeks ago, Jeff Bezos voiced a dirty little secret about disruptive innovation: it’s not just about creating groundbreaking new products and services, it’s about creating groundbreaking new products and services that people actually want to buy. “At Amazon, we’ve had a lot of inventions that we were very excited about, and customers didn’t care at all,” Bezos recounted during an event in Colorado.

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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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Summer Reading List: 12 Books Can Help You Change the World

Innovation Excellence

Change takes more than just passion, but also strategy, organization and discipline. So for this summer’s list, I’ve got a list of 12 books that will show you how to do all that and truly change the world.

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The Martial Arts of the Mind

Idea Champions

Ten years ago I was invited to teach a course on "Innovation and Business Growth" at GE's Crotonville Management Development Center for 75 high potential, business superstars of the future. The GE executive who hired me was a very savvy guy with the unenviable task of orienting new adjunct faculty members to GE's high standards and often harsher reality.

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How Success Can Become Your Enemy

Innovation Excellence

If you've started a company chances are pretty good that you saw a pattern of opportunity emerging in the marketplace that most other people hadn't yet noticed. Identifying that pattern and then capitalizing on it meant convincing investors, employees, and customers that the pattern really existed--well before it was obvious. All of that preaching requires so much effort that once you've established a pattern for success you've just about etched it in granite.

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