Fri.Aug 19, 2016

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The basket of bad ideas scenario

Jeffrey Phillips

So, over my resistance, my teenage son encouraged, no demanded, that we go to see Suicide Squad, the latest in a series of "superhero" movies intended to entertain us and drive profits for Hollywood. Much as I expected, the movie was poorly plotted, poorly acted, a virtual pastiche of every hero movie ever made. You could basically predict every scene, what key actors would say or do.

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The Dysfunctional Innovation Ecosystem

Innovation Excellence

We naturally think an ecosystem should be positive or encouraging toward their end goal and naturally evolve to support their stated purpose. However, innovation tends to be different. If left unchecked or allowed to evolve on its own, innovation within an organization tends to become an innovation prevention program instead of a positive ecosystem to.

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Open Innovation Solutions to Drought Problems

IdeaConnection

Congratulations to the EDDI team for taking the $100,000 first prize in Samsung’s ‘Makers against Drought Challenge’ The global contest received more than 500 ideas for open innovation projects involving IoT (internet of things) technology to solve such tricky challenges as water scarcity. The winning team is comprised of six New York-based developers and their submission was an ElectroDialysis Desalinator for Irrigation (EDDI) system.

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PBTO37: Surge – Identifying and riding Trends in Your Marketplace with Mike Mikhalowicz

Rmukesh Gupta

In this episode, we welcome Mike Mikhalowicz back to our podcast. This makes him the first guest to be on our show twice. This in itself is a testament to the fact that I find him and his insights particularly helpful to all of us entrepreneurs. In this episode, we talk about his latest book – Surge. He shares his thoughts and ideas on how entrepreneurs can identify an imminent trend (lots of Tesla electric cars in early 2018 on the road) and how we can use these trends to grow our busines

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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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Online Marketing Is Dead. Long Live Online Marketing!

Innovation Excellence

We marketers have all heard the jokes about how half our marketing is working—but we never know which half… That’s a message I really like, actually. We need to hear it from time to time, because—let’s be honest—there remains some truth to it. When online marketing came on the scene, it seemed as if all.

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Comment on Why Being Self-Centered is Good by Stephen Shapiro

Stephen Shapiro

Thank you so much for sharing your story. I am touched that you took the time to write and I am glad that my article helped clarify some thoughts you’ve had. It is a touchy subject as society tells us we need to be self sacrificing and give everything to everyone else. But in doing this we rob ourselves of our power – and our ability to contribute.

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