Wed.Nov 10, 2021

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The great GE innovation experiment

Jeffrey Phillips

GE, once a large conglomerate, has announced that it will divide itself into three companies , a healthcare company, an energy company and an aviation company. There are a few things I'd like to comment on about this announcement, but what is really interesting (at least from an innovator's point of view) is that we get to have a live experiment about the innovation capabilities and capacities of three sister businesses, all entering the market at the same time.

Agile 144
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Digital Disruption is Now a Business Standard. Will you Fight it or Embrace it?

Daniel Burrus

Thanks to the Three Digital Accelerators I identified in the early ’80s, which include computing power/processing power, storage, and bandwidth, we as a global society are at a time of extreme connectivity. Exponential digital technology is transforming every business process, and massive disruptions are at every turn. The reality is those Three Digital Accelerators are only going to continue to increase, and as a result, digital disruption will become even more widespread than they already are

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To me more Creative, Be open to being Bored!

Rmukesh Gupta

This is probably the best explanation that I have come across in a long time for the power of boredom. The current zeitgeist is all about shunning boredom. People do not want to feel the boredom. The moment they are alone with their thoughts, out comes the phone or the tablet and we get lost in the world of social media or the imaginary world of audio/video content.

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How to Set Up an Ideation Session that Delivers Breakthrough Results

Flying Fish Lab

If you want to come up with the next big thing (of course you do), you need to know how to run a proper ideation session. Every great product or service in the market today started out as an idea in someone’s head, and it was brought to life by a group of creative, motivated, and inspired people. Let your next ideation session be the one that creates your organisation’s next big idea!

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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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5 Lessons We've Learned From Leading a Hybrid Organization for 8 Years

Entrepreneur - Innovation

BetterUp's CEO shares insights into what makes a hybrid model work (or not) based on what he's seeing partnering with leading companies and drawing from the company's own experience as a hybrid-first start-up.

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How to Set Up an Ideation Session that Delivers Breakthrough Results

Flying Fish Lab

If you want to come up with the next big thing (of course you do), you need to know how to run a proper ideation session. Every great product or service in the market today started out as an idea in someone’s head, and it was brought to life by a group of creative, motivated, and inspired people. Let your next ideation session be the one that creates your organisation’s next big idea!

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Leading the Tired Team

CMOE

Jim Collins’ definition of the Stockdale Paradox teaches us that our faith that we will prevail in the end must be balanced with confronting the brutal facts of a situation—and given the challenging reality that we have all been living through since early 2020, this idea now seems more relevant than ever. At the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic, we were running on pure adrenaline.

Agile 98
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Why Your Black Friday Strategy Will Fail

Cascade Strategy

Americans are expected to spend $1.3 billion during the 2021 holiday season.

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If you want to understand innovation, understand novelty.

Mike Shipulski

If you want to get innovation right, focus on novelty. Novelty is the difference between how things are today and how they might be tomorrow. And that comparison calibrates tomorrow’s idea within the context of how things are today. And that makes all the difference. When you can define how something is novel, you have an objective measure of things.

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Steal like an Artist

Idea to Value

Some of the greatest creatives of all time started out by stealing. Not by stealing objects, but by stealing ideas. And far from it being a crime, I actively encourage you to go out and start stealing as well. Art is Theft – Pablo Picasso. In his short but enjoyable book Steal like an Artist , Austin Kleon suggests that all great artists started off by copying others, and then slowly learning their crafts through repetition before finally developing their own style.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and guest speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.