Tue.Jul 26, 2016

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What Kipling has to say about innovation culture

Jeffrey Phillips

There's a poem I love, that we post-modern types aren't supposed to love, because it was written by a colonialist Victorian, which by itself is almost enough to discredit any literature. I'm talking today about the poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling. If is a poem about keeping your wits about you when others are losing theirs, and keeping your course and beliefs when others doubt you.

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Disruptive Innovation Takes the Sharing Economy to Sea

Daniel Burrus

“Disruptive innovation” is one of the most overused and misunderstood phrases of this digital age. Using digital technology to ease our daily frustrations by questioning traditional methods and delivering empowering alternatives or more efficient business models is something that should be celebrated rather than feared. The way that we order a cab, book a room, watch a movie or listen to a song has changed completely over the past few years.

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Innovation in the World Demands Adaptability in the Workplace

Innovation Excellence

The online magazine Digital Trends suggests that automation will commandeer around 5 million jobs by 2020. That means that 5 million workers are going to have to resign themselves to joblessness, or will have to improve current and even learn new sets of skills so that they can flourish.

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Technology Marketplace Report

Yet2

Current Searches: yet2 is searching for solutions. Seeking: Material and manufacturing process to encapsulate a skeleton structure. An open work skeleton structure can be very strong and light weight, but it needs protection against common environmental insults and for internal components. Seeking: Radiation-hardened or -tolerant means of analyzing and outputting data in a high-resolution graphical format.

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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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Play to Win

Innovation Excellence

While certain roles depend upon pinpoint accuracy (surgeons, logistics, pharmacy), most industries can be rethought and create more value – and most experiences can be made better – with a sense of wonder and human-centric user viewpoint.

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Innovator Skills: Your colleague can’t draw a bicycle!

Board of Innovation

Of course, you can sketch a bike. Give it a try. 2 circles, a few lines & you should be done. I often ask participants of our workshops to do this exercise. On average just one out of three is able to visualise a functional bike. Others draw a variation on the sketch you see above. They forget a chain. Read More. The post Innovator Skills: Your colleague can’t draw a bicycle!

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A Framework for Data as an Asset

Information Playground

In February of 2015 I wrote about a potential "metadata lake" architecture that could manage and measure data like an asset. At the time  Dr. Jim Short  and I had just started our joint research on  data valuation architectures. In January of this year we held our first  data value workshop. The research itself focused on two areas: (1) the emergence of new business processes that were involved with the valuation of data, and (2) the impa

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How Corporations Can Manage New Ventures and University Projects as Extensions of their Advanced Product Development

Corporate Innovation

Professor Ikhlaq Sidhu and I recently started talking about how the interest of corporations in the innovations created by startups is leading to changes in corporate R&D models, an area he has been studying for some time. As we continued our conversations we felt that it will be important to start publishing some of our thoughts. This is the first of what we hope to be a series on posts on how startup innovation is impacting corporate R&D models.

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How Corporations Can Manage New Ventures and University Projects as Extensions of their Advanced Product Development

Corporate Innovation

Professor Ikhlaq Sidhu and I recently started talking about how the interest of corporations in the innovations created by startups is leading to changes in corporate R&D models, an area he has been studying for some time. As we continued our conversations we felt that it will be important to start publishing some of our thoughts. This is the first of what we hope to be a series on posts on how startup innovation is impacting corporate R&D models.

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How Corporations Can Manage New Ventures and University Projects as Extensions of their Advanced Product Development

Corporate Innovation

Professor Ikhlaq Sidhu and I recently started talking about how the interest of corporations in the innovations created by startups is leading to changes in corporate R&D models, an area he has been studying for some time. As we continued our conversations we felt that it will be important to start publishing some of our thoughts. This is the first of what we hope to be a series on posts on how startup innovation is impacting corporate R&D models.

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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