Fri.May 10, 2019

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The Benefit of Being Strategically Disliked

Beyond the Obvious

The flipside to any positive emotional connotation or connection is a negative one. If you are inspiring enough such that some people love what you are doing, odds are you are going to be inspiring others to dislike your product with an equal passion. Plenty of companies trade on the fact that they represent something […].

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Digital Factory of the Incumbent

Innovation Excellence

Introduction Technological changes are one of the leading advocators to shape customer value. They are characterized by a process of social technological variations, rooted in different disciplines e.g., economics, sociology, and psychology. It implies that the competitive advantage is increasingly shaped by the management of the polysemic nature of the customer value.

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Kaizen Process - Roles and Responsibilities

Kainexus

The Kaizen process is a brilliantly simple approach to business operations. Kaizen is a Japanese word that means “good change.” The methodology is credited with helping the Japanese auto industry recover and outpace the competition following World War II. Organizations that embrace it can reduce errors and defects, speed up production, deliver more customer value, and improve employee satisfaction.

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15 Essential Books on Innovation

Braineet

These 15 innovation books are absolute must reads for every innovator, entrepreneur and intrapreneur. Read-on!

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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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WANT TO RUN BETTER MEETINGS? Ask For Permission to Facilitate

Idea Champions

Every day, around the world, there are millions of meetings. Maybe zillions. Many of these meetings suck. And if they don't suck, they underwhelm. One of the biggest reasons WHY is because many meeting participants, in various and sundry ways, undermine the facilitator. Unwilling to let go of control and have somebody else "run the show", meeting participants play out any number of passive/aggressive behaviors that erode the quality of the gathering.

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Solopreneurship is Still a Team Sport

Innovation Excellence

Despite rumors to the contrary, private medical practice is not dead. Yes, the numbers of employed physicians are growing, but, according to a recent AMA survey, 60% of physicians work in physician-owned practices. In addition, the report revealed that eighteen percent of physicians were in solo practice, down 6 percentage points over 5 years. Some define a.

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