Mon.Oct 07, 2019

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What Pundits Predicting the Future Always Seem to Get Wrong

Innovation Excellence

Peter Thiel likes to point out that we wanted flying cars, but got 140 characters instead. He’s only partly right. For decades futuristic visions showed everyday families zipping around in flying cars and it’s true that even today we’re still stuck on the ground. Yet that’s not because we’re unable to build one. In fact.

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Five Innovation Workshop Questions

InnovationManagement

There are a lot of best practices that we recommend to our customers: start with the end in mind, adopt criteria to drive ideation, use at least seven channels to communicate with your end user, respond to ideas with positive feedback and questions. But there’s another piece of simple advice that we give to all of our customers when they’re preparing an innovation challenge: seed your community with a few ideas before you launch.

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How Royal Caribbean is Deploying New Technologies

Innovation Leader

We go inside Royal Caribbean’s innovation lab in Miami and on board their ship, Navigator of the Seas, to see the company’s digital transformation in action.

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Are Petrol Stations the Future of Starbucks?

Innovation Excellence

Recently the Seattle Times published an article from the Washington Post highlighting a gas station in Maryland that has made the bold move of turning off its gas pumps and installing electric charging stations in their place. Which got me thinking… Given that in the early days of automobiles you had to go to the.

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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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We Can No Longer Live Our Lives Without Augmentation

helloFUTURE

We’ve nearly reached the point – or have passed the point in some cases, where we can no longer operate without augmentation. When was the last time you took a break from looking at your phone or disconnecting from social media? As I’ve said before, we are already cyborgs to a degree, and although we… The post We Can No Longer Live Our Lives Without Augmentation appeared first on hellofuture.

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Human-Centered Design Workshops

InnovationTraining.org

Find out what a human-centered design workshop encompasses and when your organization may benefit from a training here. Human-centered design is an up-and-coming innovation framework that essentially works as an extension of the design thinking process. If your organization is interested in becoming better at innovating with a human-centered design workshop, you’ll want to learn more about this evolving framework and how you can tap into its methodology here.

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Pursue Independence and Fulfillment Instead of Happiness

Tullio Siragusa

Pursue Independence and Fulfillment Instead of Happiness. According to studies and research it has been proven that being dependent can lead to situations which could affect one’s psychological well-being. For example, as a young adult sharing an apartment with your parents you will experience less privacy, and will often be obligated to follow certain rules, and accept decisions which may not be well-aligned with your life’s plan.

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The fast track to a life well lived is feeling grateful

Rmukesh Gupta

For the Ancient Greeks, virtue wasn’t a goal in and of itself, but rather a route to a life well lived. By being honest and generous, embodying diligence and fortitude, showing restraint and kindness, a person would flourish – coming to live a life filled with meaning and finding an enduring, as opposed to ephemeral, happiness. Today, that view hasn’t much changed.

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Pursue Independence and Fulfillment Instead of Happiness

Tullio Siragusa

Pursue Independence and Fulfillment Instead of Happiness. According to studies and research it has been proven that being dependent can lead to situations which could affect one’s psychological well-being. For example, as a young adult sharing an apartment with your parents you will experience less privacy, and will often be obligated to follow certain rules, and accept decisions which may not be well-aligned with your life’s plan.

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Rebel Brand and Corporate Monster Slayer

Rebel & Reason

" We’re closing our doors, paying our employees to get out there, and inviting America to OptOutside with us because we love great gear, but we are even more passionate about the experiences it unlocks.” Jerry Stritzke, president and CEO of REI, first announced the OptOutside movement in a 2015 letter released to the store's 5.5 million members, letting the consumer world know that the retailer had officially decided to close its operations on Black Friday (aka the biggest brick and mortar shopp

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How Mature Companies Are Scaling Transformational New Businesses

Scaling transformational innovations in large companies is challenging due to ‘Company Fit’ issues, which arise when the resources, processes, and priorities (RPPs) of the core business are not aligned with the needs of the new business. Many companies have learned how ambidexterity—the ability to both ‘exploit the present and explore the future,’ can help them address these issues for ideation and incubation of new innovations, but scaling transformative business innovations remains a challenge