Sun.Dec 18, 2016

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The New Year: Going From "I-It" to "I-Thou"

Mills-Scofield

Pemaquid Lighthouse, Maine © Mike Taylor & Sonia MacNeil [link]. 2016 is coming to a close, and not soon enough for some. 2016 (well, most of the 20th & 21st Centuries) has been a year of I-It * – where the I (yes, that’s us folks) treat others as It’s – as functions, transactions, products, services – provided for our benefit and happiness.

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Design Thinking as Worldview

Innovation Excellence

Design thinking is considered a human-centered framework for problem solving, used in formal innovation work in many fields: health care, consumer products, software, medical devices, durable goods, services and city planning. Design thinking has been perhaps the most lauded innovation method. In brief, the phases include empathy, define, ideation, prototyping, testing and storytelling.

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Innovation Roundtable Series, co-produced with Imaginatik

Innovation Leader

This fall, we brought together executives in seven cities for roundtables. The topics? Best practices in creating internal incubators, running hackathons, and more.

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Postal Innovation

Innovation Excellence

It’s the time of the year when we are deluged with packages, many of which are delivered by the US Postal Service (USPS). The surge in e-commerce has resulted in challenges for the main delivery services, and the USPS has responded with creative solutions such as Sunday delivery. I was in Atlanta on a Sunday.

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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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Tis the Season to Tell Your Stories

Idea Champions

'Tis the season to tell your stories, folks! Your families are gathering. Your friends are coming to visit. The tribe is reconvening, whether it's around the fire, the dining room table, or the turkey in the kitchen. Wherever you find yourself, you will have lots of opportunities to share with others -- not just the gifts you bought at the mall, but the stories of your life -- memorable moments of truth that have moved you and are likely to move others.