Fri.May 13, 2016

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The secret to this government department’s innovation success: Small teams

Idea to Value

Is it possible for government agencies to innovate? Yes, if they use the right people. And in the case of the US Government: a startup mentality. In the video above, Haley Van Dyck outlines how her teams at the United States Digital Service used the skills and techniques of Silicon Valley to effect real change in departments which were in dire need of innovation.

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Dance Your Challenge

Gregg Fraley

Shake Your Booty. The Creativity and Innovation point of this blog takes about three paragraphs to develop, so business readers, let me tell you a brief story to set it up. I was having dinner this week with Gary Schwartz , a fine actor and improv-er who was blowing through Chicago to promote his new children’s book, The King of Average. Gary studied with a hero of mine, Viola Spolin (he’s the leading expert on her games and methods).

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What This Video Of A Drone Fishing For Tuna Can Teach You About Disruption

Faisal Hoque

Drones and fishing had nothing to do with each other until someone decided they could. Here's what an agile mind-set's made of. The post What This Video Of A Drone Fishing For Tuna Can Teach You About Disruption appeared first on Faisal Hoque :: Entrepreneur | Author.

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Innovation Workshop Lessons – 6 Keys to Facilitating Executive Interviews

BrainZooming

We’ve said it before, experience its confirmation repeatedly, and will thus say it again: One of the best ways to learn more about what you know is to teach it to someone else. The latest confirmation took place this week as we created and presented a new Brainzooming innovation workshop on how to develop insights to fuel innovation. We’re several engagements into a relationship with a client implementing a sweeping innovation initiative across its organization.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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Book Review: The Digital Transformation Playbook (3.5/5)

Rmukesh Gupta

There is a lot of talk around Digital Transformation and everyone is exploring what would Digital Transformation mean to different organisation and I have been thinking and writing about it as well. It is in this scenario that i came across this book – The Digital Transformation Playbook , written by David Rogers and my interest was piqued and decided to spend my time reading the book.

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3 Acts of Courage (for innovation)

Innovation Excellence

My MBA start-up competition @hultbiz just finished. My best teams were awesome. Every team demonstrated plenty of inspiration and perspiration, but the best teams were willing to do a few very uncomfortable things that the average teams weren’t.

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How Mastering CEO-Speak Can Help Lead to Successful Implementation of Your Innovation

Innovation Excellence

Mater CEO speak is key to selling New Product for internal support Continue reading →

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The Amazon Reviews Are In!

Idea Champions

In 2015, somewhere between 600,000 and 1,000,000 books were published. How many of them are YOU going to read? Probably less than ten. That's why I'm quoting the following people who have reviewed my book on Amazon. I want mine to be one of those ten. " Storytelling at Work is funny, wise, relatable and most importantly, reminded me of how to be more courageous in every day life. both work life and personal.

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Why Do We Stick with Poor Hiring Practices?

Michael Roberto

Iris Bohnet wrote in Harvard Business Review last month about the hiring process. She asked the question: Why do employers continue to use unstructured interviews as their primary method of evaluating candidates when this technique has many known flaws? She points to many studies showing that unstructured interviews are not effective predictors of on-the-job effectiveness.

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Jimmy Kimmel on Uber's New Late Fee

Michael Roberto

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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.