Tue.May 08, 2018

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5 Strategic Thinking Questions to Engage Employees in Reorganization

BrainZooming

A participant at a Brainzooming creative leadership presentation stayed afterward. He asked an intriguing question. His department is about to undergo a reorganization. Currently, certain people are underutilized. While the reorganization isn’t intended to move them out of the department, he wondered how to best involve all the team members in re-imagining the department.

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Why do we Underestimate the Power of Progress?

Destination Innovation

How well-informed are you about the state of the world? Please try this short quiz. How did you get on? Most well-educated people do badly in this little test. The average person gets only two or three questions right out of 13. This is because we generally hold a distorted view of the world – we see the world as much poorer and less developed than it really is.

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A Successful Customer Experience Innovation Workflow

IdeaScale

Last week, IdeaScale introduced a proven product improvement workflow that is being used by our highest performing communities. This week, we continue that trend by showcasing a workflow that has been used to demonstrably improve customer experience and customer satisfaction. Organizations like this gather ideas from employees about how to make customers lives better and they track their progress by measuring their customer NPS Score.

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Why It’s Time to Become Your Company’s Chief Laziness Officer

Stephen Shapiro

Most of the work you do is not important and in fact slows you down… My first real job was working for a large computer manufacturer in their production control department. After two months there, the department head called me into his office and told me I was the laziest person he’d ever met. And he meant this as a compliment. When I first started this job, I worked 50 hours a week and my direct supervisor worked 60 hours a week.

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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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Now That We’ve Captcha’d Your Attention…

Boxes and Arrows

The other night I listened to my friend swear his way through the online purchasing process for concert tickets. He knew who he wanted to see, how many tickets he wanted, and his budget. All was going well until he got to a point in the journey that kept tripping him up, and the longer it went on the more frustrated he became. As UX practitioners, these are the types of experiences we try to avoid; we would never knowingly place an obstacle in a user journey that would cause such frustration.

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Overcoming the Not-Invented-Here (NIH) Mindset

Innovation Excellence

When Chris Messina, a former Google designer, conceived of a simple way to filter content and create channels on Twitter in 2007, he blogged about his idea: “Every time someone uses a channel tag to mark a status, not only do we know something specific about that status, but others can eavesdrop on the context.

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Amazon Alexa Is Becoming Ubiquitous – And That’s an Apple Threat

Adam Hartung

Apple's Siri is 7 years old, but the neighbor kids down the street Alexa and Cortana are only 4 years old but growing up much faster. Alexa may soon be the popular kid on the block.

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New York Field Study Drops in on Nasdaq, Dow Jones, and Kickstarter

Innovation Leader

Our 2018 New York Field Study brought over 70 executives to Manhattan and Brooklyn, stopping at the offices of Dow Jones, Nasdaq, and more.

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Amazon Alexa Is Becoming Ubiquitous – And That’s an Apple Threat

Adam Hartung

Apple's Siri is 7 years old, but the neighbor kids down the street Alexa and Cortana are only 4 years old but growing up much faster. Alexa may soon be the popular kid on the block.

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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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#1,307 – Chronic Pain Test

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

It’s finally happening!!! One of my long standing ideas to be able to measure exactly how much pain a person is in is finally on the verge of happening thanks to Australian researchers!!!! According to New Atlas , “The research team found that there are identifiable molecular changes in immune cells when a person is suffering from chronic pain. Using hyperspectral imaging analysis these pain biomarkers can be instantly identified, meaning a clinician could determine a patient’s pain toler

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#1,308 – Google Lens

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Have you ever come across an object and wondered about its origins? Perhaps while browsing in an antique shop, walking around your neighborhood, or sitting in your grandmother’s living room. If so, maybe there was someone that you could ask to satiate your curiosity. Someone who knew about the object’s history. Where it came from. How old it was.