Fri.Sep 01, 2017

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5 Must-Have Traits of Startup Founders

Idea to Value

Entrepreneurs often must find a successful way to differentiate their venture from the competition in a challenging marketplace. This challenge is combined with the goal of trying to make ends meet when expenses are high and income may be low, trying to determine what consumers truly want or need, and more. As the leader of your startup, your unique qualities and personality traits play a critical role in the overall success of your business.

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13 Ways to Sponsor Strategic Planning Process Success

BrainZooming

Chuck Dymer and I led the first step in a client’s multi-day strategic planning process this week. The client wants to envision its organizational role decades into the future. This initial visioning exercise was hugely successful and fun. And fun was an important expectation since they found us by Googling “strategic planning fun” and downloading our eBook on the topic of fun strategic planning.

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What percentage of your brain do you really use?

Idea to Value

We have all heard the myth that we only use 10% of our brains. But how close is this to reality? It would be more accurate to say that we only use between 1% – 16% of our brain, at any one time. This is because of the amazing way that our brain is set up to use energy as efficiently as possible. Check out this great video (above) which goes into more detail about how the brain is set up to work, and how this evolution has enabled the unique ability for humans to become creative.

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How to Run Successful Corporate Hackathons with Ideation Software

Planview

“Every human being has a great idea.”. This quote by Lale Kesebi, Chief Communications Officer and Head of Strategic Engagement at Li & Fung, perfectly sums up an opportunity that’s right in front of every company’s face. Whether your organization has 100 or 100,000 employees, each individual has ideas for new products or improvements, drawn from their day-to-day experiences and knowledge.

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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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Towards Superhumanity

100%Open

There is a consensus building amongst scientists , technologists , economists and politicians that we are on the verge of entering the next phase of the evolution of our species. Yet there is profound disagreement as to whether this is actually a good thing and there are significant differences in opinion about how this could and should be managed, supported and regulated.

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Crowdsourcing Hurricane Relief and Rescue Efforts in Houston

IdeaConnection

While the world looked on in shock at the pictures coming out of Houston, Texas, some people swung into action, developing crowdsourcing initiatives to help rescue victims and coordinate relief efforts to flood-hit areas. Their actions have helped to save countless lives. Relief and Rescue. Among the crowdsourcing undertakings is Harvey Relief , a people-powered project involving more than 500 individuals.

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Avoiding Analysis Paralysis

Michael Roberto

University of Chicago Professor Sanjog Misra commented to the business school's magazine about the problem of analysis paralysis. Professor Misra offered an interesting perspective on how to avoid this classic decision trap. He teaches a class focused on the use of algorithms and data analysis in marketing. Misra argued that you have to be very clear about the question you are trying to answer BEFORE you begin your analysis.

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Rise of the Innovation Lab: GE FirstBuild Success [podcast]

Innovation Excellence

FirstBuild is a creation of GE Appliances. They established an open community with access to world-class engineering and design talent for exploring ideas and creating home appliances. To learn more about how FirstBuild works and what makes it successful, I spoke with Taylor Dawson, their Product Evangelist.

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Homes for our Troops

Michael Roberto

Exactly one month from today, I'll be running the Twin Cities Marathon (October 1st). The marathon represents one of my goals during this sabbatical year from Bryant University. I'm running to raise funds for an organization called Homes for our Troops, an amazing and well-managed charity that helps build specially adapted homes for severely disabled veterans.