Fri.Feb 15, 2019

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It Takes More Than Members To Make A Team

Bill Fischer

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Between The Top-Down and Bottom-Up Organization: The Power of Two-Way Dialogue

Tembosocial

Between The Top-Down and Bottom-Up Organization: The Power of Two-Way Dialogue. There’s a spirited debate between business strategists: can a company survive today’s Glass Door-reviewed, Youtube-recommended, five-star ranked marketplace with a traditional top-down organizational structure or does it need to go bottom up? At the heart of the argument is this fact: customer experience improves when a company’s employees are actively engaged at work.

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GrowKomp 2.0: Building Innovation Connectivity Across Regional Business Ecosystems

Innovation 360 Group

Successful innovations happen in clusters, with people coming together to break down barriers, share knowledge, and create new systems. A single idea, no matter how powerful, has little hope of changing of the status quo unless it is connected to a larger framework and supportive culture. We call this Innovation Connectivity. Likewise, the creativity of a single division or even a single company alone is rarely enough to overcome the inertia of “the way it’s always been.

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How to Pick the Right Problem

Innovation Excellence

The 12 steps to biomedical innovation starts with being a problem seeker, not a problem solver. Eventually, to be successful, customer problems and solutions need to meld around a VAST business model i.e. one that is not just profitable, but that demonstrates: 1. Validity Regardless or which elements of your model you choose, they have to be valid. In other.

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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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Seven Facilitation Fails

Gregg Fraley

Facilitation of Innovation Meetings Requires a Highly Specific Set of Skills, Frameworks, Tools — and Experience. Professional Facilitation and/or Training Makes a Difference*. Seven Facilitation Fails. Innovation projects are about a lot of meetings. Meetings about getting a project mandate, visioning, what to innovate, how to innovate, challenges to take on, jobs to do, experiences to create, research exploration, insights development, problem framing and problem reframing, project road-

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Why Your Company Should Have a Data Driven Culture

InnovationManagement

The Information Age has made way for several innovations across the business world. While the business industry—much like the American educational system—has been slow to the uptake of implementing technological advancements into their marketing and planning strategies, the 2020s herald a new age for the use of data and technological advancement in companies big and small. 2019 is a fantastic transition year for learning how to use big data in a big way.

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How Does Team Size Affect Innovation?

Michael Roberto

Source: Wikimedia Commons Lingfei Wu, Dashun Wang & James Evans have published a paper in Nature titled, "Large teams develop and small teams disrupt science and technology." The scholars assembled a dataset of more than 65 million papers, patents, and software projects from 1954-2014. They discovered that larger research teams tended to develop incremental improvements, while small teams conceived disruptive innovations.