Wed.Jul 13, 2016

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Eleven Ways to use Crowdsourcing

Destination Innovation

How are firms using crowdsourcing? Its adoption has been widespread and companies are finding many new uses for the technique. Ideascale have published a white paper on crowdsourcing which you can download. Here are the ways that are identified in the paper which also contains many examples and links: 1. Solution Finding. This is when you use crowdsourcing to find the solution to a difficult or complex problem. 2.

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4 Things Publishers Need To Know To Compete In The Digital Age

Digital Tonto

Just like any other industry, in publishing the product drives the business. Your success is driven by customer demand for your product. Everything else is optimization. Related posts: The Data. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Creative Quickies – How are you supporting creativity and new ideas?

BrainZooming

When it comes to whether an organization demonstrates ample creativity and new ideas, you have to place a load of responsibility on the leadership. How the leaders encourage and cultivate new ideas (or don’t) will affect the volume and richness of creativity throughout the organization. If you want to go deeper into our thinking on the topic, here are a variety of articles on how leaders both support and stand in the way of creativity and new ideas.

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Get inspired by these 4 TED talks on Creativity in Business

Board of Innovation

Creativity improves the process of solving problems. It doesn’t matter if we’re talking about developing a new product, a strategy or an innovative way to stay ahead of the competition. Creative problem solving gives that competitive edge that any business is striving to achieve. How can you apply creativity in business? Dive in and get some expert advice from these.

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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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5 Steps Towards a Clear Focus to Any Business Challenge

Innovation Excellence

It’s essential to phrase your focus properly. If you ask the wrong question you will simply end up with useless answers. Use these 5 guidelines to make sure your focus is razor sharp.

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Starbucks and JPMorganChase Pay Raises – Just Following Trends

Adam Hartung

This week Starbucks and JPMorganChase announced they were raising the minimum pay of many hourly employees. For about 168,000 lowly paid employees, this is really good news. And both companies played up the planned pay increases as benefitting not only the employees, but society at large. The JPMC CEO, Jamie Dimon, went so far as to say this was a response to a national tragedy of low pay and insufficient skills training now being addressed by the enormous bank.

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Hire people that run toward even the toughest problems.

Mike Shipulski

If you don’t have a problem, there’s no problem. There are no resources without a problem and certainly no focus or momentum. If you don’t know your problem, stop. Take time to define your problem using a single page. Make a sketch or make a block diagram but make it clear. Make it so the problem description stands on its own. After you’ve defined your problem and someone calls it an “opportunity”, walk away because they can’t help you.

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The Value of an Innovator Mindset

Innovation Excellence

When it comes to driving innovation, the single most important consideration is mindset—the mindset of those attempting to achieve innovation, and the mindset of those they encounter. This is not speculation. In my peer-reviewed research, I have measured mindset and compared it to value creation, and it makes a huge difference in innovation success.