Fri.Jun 29, 2018

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To Find Better Solutions to Your Challenges, Use This Eye-Opening Technique

Stephen Shapiro

Your past experience could be creating blind spots that are limiting your ability to see better opportunities… In an earlier article, I wrote about why expertise is the enemy of innovation. Our past experiences blind us to potentially new and different opportunities in the future. Therefore, we somehow need to shift our view of the world to be open to new perspectives.

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Meaning Making – How the Innovation-Driven Organization Imparts Purpose & Meaning

Innovation Excellence

As I visit and observe what I call the “existential festivals” – events like Burning Man, SXSW, TED, Sundance, Bonnaroo, and ArtPrize, for example – I ask myself, “What are people really trying to accomplish here – besides just having fun?” The answer I’ve come away with – after quite a bit of pondering –.

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Building and Testing The Killer Questions

Beyond the Obvious

I started collecting the Killer Questions when I was in my short-lived “retirement” early in 2001. As I relaxed in the Virginian countryside, my mind started to flash back to various experiences I’d had during my working life. Over the course of the preceding twenty years I’d seen dozens of highly innovative products and ideas come […].

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How Do You Respond to Bad News?

Michael Roberto

Source: Flickr stock photo As a leader, you should be creating an environment where people feel comfortable sharing bad news. You don't want them hiding problems, or worse yet, manipulating data to make it seem as though things are proceeding smoothly. When people do surface issues and concerns, leaders face a moment of truth. How should you respond?

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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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How to Measure Innovation? – The Definitive Guide to Innovation Management KPIs

Viima

You may have heard the saying, "you can't manage what you don't measure". While there might be an element of truth in the saying, not everything in life, or business, can be measured accurately.

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Why Measuring the Value of Your Innovation Program from Day One is Important

Planview

Every year Spigit conducts its “ State of Crowdsourced Innovation ” customer study to better understand how our customers build and manage their innovation programs. As we analyze this data year over year, we can see trends emerge and see how what’s important to them changes over time. One of the key findings from this research is that a significant shift occurs at around the three-year mark of having an innovation program.

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Will Elon Musk Crowdsource Tesla Manufacturing?

IdeaConnection

American business magnate Elon Musk has got people all over the world wondering if he is going to crowdsource some of the manufacturing of the Tesla Model 3. The reason for this flurry of speculation is a tweet he posted last week. The Model 3 car is crucially important for Tesla but it’s been beset by problems and according to reports has failed to meet any of its production or delivery targets.

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Study at NASA Reveals the Largest Hurdle to Open Innovation

Innocentive