Mon.May 22, 2017

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The innovation value lies within the new system

Paul Hobcraft

Core capabilities have upsides and downsides. As many of our business organizations seek to optimize their processes across the company, they are constantly reaching more outside to gain growing partnerships and greater innovation interactions. They are looking to complement and reinforce existing capabilities through more open innovation thinking and approaches.

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Innovation and creativity: the lasting competitive advantage

Jeffrey Phillips

I wrote recently about my last trip to Dubai, and the impact it had on me. Dubai is unusual because it combines a number of factors - an energetic leadership, a country and region hungry for growth and transformation, a significant investment pool, and a real "can do" spirit. Clearly things are changing quickly there, and everywhere. During the conference where I spoke we had several other speakers who were futurists, including Matthew May.

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Team Collaboration – What role does that table play?

BrainZooming

I was thinking about tables recently, and the role they play in creating or thwarting team collaboration. A table can… Provide distance and separation between participants. That can be both healthy or disastrous. It’s easy to use distance and opposition (as in sitting on directly opposite sides of the table) to foster disagreement, aggression, and otherness.

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The ABCs of Innovation: E is for Empathy

Innovation Excellence

Empathy’s the “ability to understand and share the feelings” of someone else from their perspective as opposed to your own. In the context of innovation it’s absolutely critical, yet authentic consumer empathy, as an active presence in many corporations, is somewhat scarce today.

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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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Comment on When a Map is a Compass by Utilisons une boussole pas une carte ! – Le blog de Guillaume Sorel

Stephen Shapiro

[…] une boussole plutôt pas une carte » a été initialement créée par Stephen Shapiro. Elle est proche du conseil donné par Oki Matsumoto : « Visez l’étoile polaire, […].

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Ten Signs You Need an Innovation Intervention

Innovation Excellence

Do you need an innovation intervention? Unless you feel that your innovation program is a runaway success and exceeding your expectations, the answer might very well be… yes.

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35 Awesome Quotes from Einstein

Idea Champions

Since 1986, every innovation workshop I've facilitated has included a poster of Albert Einstein. Somehow, Einstein's smiling countenance inspires everyone in the room -- no matter what their social style, gender, or title. The only thing I find more fascinating than this is the incredible amount of powerful quotes he left behind. 1. "The only real valuable thing is intuition.". 2.