Mon.Sep 25, 2017

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Transcend the Usual, Redefine Risk Management

Daniel Burrus

One of the central principles of the Anticipatory Organization model is to move beyond the idea of mere competition. By that, I mean going past the idea of measuring your organization’s success and performance against others. Instead, set your own standards through transformational planning and ongoing innovation. In so doing, you redefine the concept of risk management.

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9 Ways to Understand the Political Fray and Stay the Hell Out of It

BrainZooming

I found this article recently. It was written back in my corporate days during the blog’s first year (June 27, 2008). Honestly, I’d forgotten about it. A search on the Brainzooming blog to track down content for an updated strategic thinking presentation uncovered it. Reading “9 Ways to Understand the Political Fray and Stay the Hell Out of It” after all these years, it may be the most beneficial article we’ve ever run.

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Become an Intrapreneur at Work

Innovation Excellence

Most companies recognise the need for more innovation and actively encourage employees to suggest and develop new business ideas. Paul Sloane shares eight key ways to help make your idea happen.

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Clarifying Design in Business Sciences: a Design Thinking Taxonomy

Open Innovation EU

This article is an extended book review of The Quest for Professionalism of George Romme , a 2016-published book by Oxford University Press. The book is a one-of-a-kind taking a much needed reflective approach to leadership and a critical note towards the level of professionalism that many of us are approaching the science of management and entrepreneurship with.

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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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localgov.co.uk: Crowdsourcing for ideas

Wazoku

Generating new ideas is challenging business, particularly for large organisations with well established ways of doing things. But it doesn’t have to be. The advantage of being a large organisation — whether a local authority or a company — is you have a potential resource that frequently goes unacknowledged as a source of ideas: the workforce.

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Top 5 Innovations in Solar and Photovoltaic Power

Innovation Excellence

The Department of Energy (DOE) has hit a key goal in solar energy cost reduction three years ahead of schedule, according to The Hill. The SunShot Initiative originally aimed to lower the price of electricity generated by utility-scale solar photovoltaic systems to $0.06 per kilowatt hour by 2020. This goal has already been achieved, and.

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How Retailers Can Position Themselves for the Future

Innovation Leader

Pano Anthos of the retail accelerator XRC Labs discusses five roles that the store can play in the future — and the importance of new trends in the industry.

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How Specific Should a Worker's Contract Be?

Michael Roberto

A set of studies by Eileen Chou, Nir Halevy, Adam Galinsky, and the late J. Keith Murnighan have examined how specific labor contracts should be. They conducted experiments on an online labor market. They wanted to know whether specifying work duties and responsibilities increased or decreased employee motivation. Here is what they found, according to Stanford Leadership Insights : Across nine different experiments, the researchers found that workers whose contracts contained more general langua

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IDEO's Tim Brown: How to Solve Problems Like a Designer

Michael Roberto

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