Tue.Sep 26, 2017

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How to create a culture of collaborative innovation in younger generations

Exago

Millennials and Generation Z are often disconnected from the strategic vision of a big organisation because they cannot see any links between their everyday work and the company's business objectives. Being able to align an individual's everyday work and goals clearly with the organisation’s strategy gets people to think in new ways and imagine new possibilities.

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Understanding the Source of Employee Innovation

IdeaScale

Boredom is one of those facets of life that consistently amaze. How can any person be bored when there is so much around us that stimulates our intellect and inspires our awe? And why do we continuously and mindlessly scroll through television channels and facebook feeds instead of focusing our energy on creating something of beauty or value? Boredom persists.

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Keep the Kitchen Cabinets from Overflowing

Boxes and Arrows

Don’t laugh. I’m sure you’ve done this before. At the office, there’s a refrigerator cleanup every two weeks. At least I think it happens every two weeks. The office administrator sends out an email or posts a note on the fridge, warning you that things will be dumped if they’re not labeled. You’ve seen these long-forgotten food containers of who-knows-when science experiments pushed up against the back of the fridge.

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Aligning Organizations for Digital Innovation

Innovation Excellence

To understand the challenges and opportunities associated with digitalization, MIT Sloan Management Review and Deloitte surveyed more than 3,700 business executives, managers, and analysts from organizations around the world. They have recently published their findings in a report, titled Aligning the Organization for Its Digital Future.

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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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Pressure for Directors to Sit on Fewer Boards

Michael Roberto

The Wall Street Journal's Sarah Krouse and Joann S. Lublin report today that several major institutional investors have been pressuring companies to reduce the number of directors that simultaneously sit on a number of other boards of directors. The writers report that, "The number of directors on five or more corporate boards has declined in recent years.

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Innovation and Intrepreneurship at SMEs: T3LGROUP France

Innovation Excellence

Nicolas Bry interviews Benjamin Ott, a young innovator working at T3LGroup, a French SME with a long tradition of developing new manufacturing processes, and product applications for office products, and shopfitting equipment.