Thu.Jul 26, 2018

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Lessons About Culture and Creativity

IdeaScale

One of our customers recently had the good fortune to hear Adam Grant speak at an event. Adam Grant “has been Wharton’s top-rated professor for seven straight years. He is a leading expert on how we can find motivation and meaning, and live more generous and creative lives. He has been recognized as one of the world’s 10 most influential management thinkers ” and in this presentation, he shared some insights that resonated with both our customers and with us.

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For Innovators Rejection comes with the Territory

Destination Innovation

Joanne K Rowling is the British author of the Harry Potter series of fantasy novels which have become the best-selling book series in history with over 400 million copies sold. She acted as screenwriter and producer on the Harry Potter movies which is the second highest-grossing film series ever. Rowling was born in Gloucestershire in England in 1965.

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Top 10 Tech, Software, Innovation Conferences in Europe till the end of 2018

7innovation

Here is the list of Top 10 (my choice) Tech/Software/Big Data/Telco conferences in Europe till the end of this year. Web Summit – Lisabon – 5-8.11.

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Why a Startup Team Needs Solid Management

InnovationManagement

Startups are moving the business at the moment, given the fact that many successful entrepreneurs are starting their new projects within this environment, especially if they're tech related.

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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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What is better – Being People Centric or Being Process Driven?

Rmukesh Gupta

One of the decisions that every business needs to make, in order to continue to grow is to put in place processes that can provide enough stability, predictability and consistency of experience. Without the right processes, the growth is chaotic and can strangle the business itself. On the other side, there is this whole conversation about how it is important to be people centric in order to do well.

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Quotes to Inspire Big Thinking

IdeaConnection

Whether you think outside the box, have your best thoughts while in the shower or walking the dogs let these quotes turbo-charge your thinking to solve whatever problems or challenges you are currently working on. “Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.” Zig Ziglar. “The breaks you take from work pay you back manifold when you return because you come back with a fresher mind and newer thinking.

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Lessons in Creativity and Leadership

Rmukesh Gupta

The team at FilmBilder has done it again. They have created another fun way to depict an important concept in a fun and engaging way. Have a look at the video before we can go further. What I learnt from the video: 1) The most important criteria for creativity to flourish is the presence of exploration and fun. True innovation happens when we step back from our routine.

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Our CEO Diana introduces the Exago Start New Edition

Exago

Exago Start innovation software quickly gets your teams to join in with your company’s innovation initiative. With ready-to-go and field-tested configurations, this idea management software ensures fast engagement and results, offering guidance in every phase of your programme. The post Our CEO Diana introduces the Exago Start New Edition appeared first on Exago.

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#1,338 – Noveto

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

For the most part I think I’ve lived at the perfect time. Growing up before computers and cell phones became ubiquitous allowed me to have a normal childhood, free of distraction and full of imaginative wonderment. While coming of age in the Internet Era has allowed me to enjoy all the conveniences of modern life. However, my timing may have been off in one regard: growing up without Noveto.

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How Management Theories Become Memes - and Why That Matters

HYPE Innovation

I have a confession to make: I have a thing for investigative journalism. I'm talking about the kind of journalism that inspires scripts for " Spotlight ," that starts movements like #MeToo, or that confronts us with uncomfortable (but fascinating!) truths about the art world. I’m drawn to it because it’s dense, direct, factual, persuasive, and it forces change.

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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

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Introduction to the 100 Task Startup playbook

Innovation Excellence

Martin Bell is a global startup advisor, angel investor, and Founder & CEO of Bell Ventures. He was previously with Rocket Internet SE, and helped build, scale, and assess ~50 companies. He came up recently with a new tool for startups, the 100 Task Startup playbook. He kindly accepted to us on a tour to the playbook.

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