Wed.Jul 07, 2021

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Is South Africa the Next Silicon Valley?

InnovationManagement

When you think of the most innovative places in the world, what do you picture? Silicon Valley and its array of tech startups? Tokyo, because it has the highest number of patents filed worldwide? London, where over 15% of the workforce is employed in the tech sector? Or are you imagining somewhere else? The post Is South Africa the Next Silicon Valley?

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Our innovation era: creative destruction or destructive creation- which?

Paul Hobcraft

I keep coming back to the dilemma often faced in innovation- do we practice “creative destruction” or “destructive creation? We are entering some perilous times in climate change and what this will mean in destruction in what we know, what we value and what we are used to. I can’t imagine when Joseph Schumpeter outlined his groundbreaking efforts for explaining “ creative destruction ” he or anyone else could imagine this being flipped around to what we are facing more of today

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Delighting customers with less

Idea to Value

Sometimes, less is more. I just had a wonderful experience which reminded me that in order to add value to your customers, you don’t always need to find new things to add and new features for everything. It is human nature to try and solve problems by adding more , rather than focusing on less. But we were just at a little family restaurant which showed that this is not the only way.

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Our innovation era: creative destruction or destructive creation- which?

Paul Hobcraft

I keep coming back to the dilemma often faced in innovation- do we practice “creative destruction” or “destructive creation? We are entering some perilous times in climate change and what this will mean in destruction in what we know, what we value and what we are used to. I can’t imagine when Joseph Schumpeter outlined his groundbreaking efforts for explaining “ creative destruction ” he or anyone else could imagine this being flipped around to what we are facing more of today

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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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Crowdsourcing: Diversity and Inclusion in Innovation

IdeaScale

On June 25, 2021, the president signed an Executive Order (EO) to advance diversity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) in the Federal workforce. The EO “charges all agencies with assessing the current state of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility within their workforces and developing strategic plans to eliminate any barriers to success faced by underserved employees.

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Red pill or Blue pill innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

As readers of this blog (and you know who you are) are bound to know by now, I am a movie fanatic. I love good movies, average movies, older movies and so forth. I like movies that I can quote, and also like movies that are based on my favorite books. I am one of those people who is constantly astounded when I say " African or European swallow " and people give me a blank look.

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The Importance of a Plan B

Cascade Strategy

If we’ve learned anything from the last 18 months, it’s that the world is much more uncertain than we could ever have imagined. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced businesses around the world to reimagine what their offering looks like in these crazy times, with many of them scrambling to pivot their organization in order to stay afloat.

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The Time is Now: Make Your IT Future-ready with Modernization

Acuvate

The Time is Now: Make Your IT Future-ready with Modernization Recently, IBM surveyed 380 CIOs and CTOs from mid-sized and large enterprises in the UK and US. The survey findings will give you a fair picture of where today’s businesses stand in terms of being future-ready. State of Being Future-ready in 2021 60% – Business […]. The post The Time is Now: Make Your IT Future-ready with Modernization appeared first on Acuvate.

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Avoiding the Tough Decision: Do We Prefer Bad News?

Michael Roberto

Source: Inc.com How much do we hate making tough decisions? A great deal! In fact, we dislike that process so much that we might just prefer a worst case scenario. Why? In that situation, the decision no longer rests in our hands. We are forced to select a course of action, rather than having to consider several options. This preference for the worst case has been identified in new research published in the Journal of Consumer Researech.

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Data INTELLIGENCE vs. Data STORAGE (Part I):

Linda Bernardi

For decades, we have been fascinated and engaged with collecting and storing data and performing analytics (extracting information from data) POST STORAGE. Today we need to think super-real-time-data intelligence! The amount of data was nowhere close to what we have today, real-time analytics was not the primary concern, and analytics were performed by a small group of people with results shared much later, across a company.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and guest speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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Qmarkets Integration Suite Expanded with Google Workspace and Microsoft Azure

Qmarkets

We’re pleased to share that the Qmarkets platform is now certified by two of the leading cloud platform marketplaces: Google Workspace (formerly known as G-Suite), and the Azure Government Marketplace. While the Qmarkets platform has been available on the main Azure marketplace for several years, it recently received full certification to be included in the more stringent Azure Government Marketplace.