Tue.Jun 29, 2021

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The Difference Between Complicated and Complex Problems

Cascade Strategy

One of the best parts of the 2021 Cascade Strategy Fest was hearing speakers and participants share mental models that they used to cultivate strong strategic thinking. Often these models encoded some timeless business wisdom but did so in a way that was easy to remember and act. And once one of these clicks, it can completely transform the way you think about a particular concept or idea.

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Innovation and the Baskin-Robbins effect

Jeffrey Phillips

I'll start out this post by noting that I like ice cream. In fact, one could say that I am a connoisseur of ice cream. I like to eat ice cream at home, and when I am traveling I like to sample the local styles and flavors. Wisconsin, for example, has a lot of custard shops. Italy has delicious gelato. And so on. A childhood treat was a visit to Baskin-Robbins, which is famous for its range of 31 flavors.

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Is everyone creative?

Idea to Value

Yes. Everyone is creative. The challenge is that not everyone feels creative. Maybe you fall into this camp. Because a lot of people do. Often when I am giving keynote speeches or workshops, I will ask the very simple question: Are you creative? And I am always amazed that a large proportion of people respond by saying that they are not creative. This is such a shame, because everyone is born creative.

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How Open Source Can Help Drive Government Innovation

IdeaScale

Overview: Open source software, patents, and research provide the codebase, data, and information to anyone who wants to explore it. For governments, this allows better citizen engagement and support without committing substantial funds to upgrading or becoming locked into proprietary systems. What Is Open Source? First coined as a term in 1998, open source has its origins in the computer science sector and refers to software where the source code of the project is freely available and can be mo

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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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Invincible Company of the Month: Bosch

Strategyzer Innovation

You know you should start preparing your company’s future… but you just don’t know how to go about it. You think to yourself - ‘even if I had ideas, how would I know which one to go with?’. These are the questions that Bosch was grappling with when they decided to create an innovation funnel for their ideas, that would run on evidence rather than opinions.

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Management 3.0: Why you should get to know this Model?

mjvinnovation

Created by IT manager Jurgen Appelo in 2010, Management 3.0 is a collaborative and humanized management model which treats the employee as the organization’s main asset. It’s a management format that draws from the same source as Lean and Agile. It sports a flexible hierarchy with a focus on employee autonomy and participation is decision making. In this article you’ll understand what Management 3.0 is, what its basic principles are, and how you can start implementing it in your company to