Tue.Jan 30, 2018

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Using Design Thinking to Ready Your Company for the Green Economy

IdeaScale

In 2011, EY and GreenBiz Group conducted a survey of executives employed by companies generating revenue greater than $1 billion. In that report, EY shared that “76 percent of survey respondents anticipate natural resource shortages will affect their core business objectives over the next 3-5 years and that 65 percent of respondents stated their CFO has become involved in sustainability.” With interest in sustainability and CSR continuing to accelerate, many organizations are looking

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Expecting or Reacting to innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

I'm a bit mystified this morning, mystified by the fact that so many people I interact with are constantly talking about innovation, and how often they are surprised by it or overtaken by events. The word innovation seems to be on everyone's lips, is constantly in the news, but somehow the concepts behind these words never go beyond the surface. Why is it that smart people who are constantly speaking about innovation and hearing about innovation are so often overtaken by innovation?

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35 Lessons Learned (or Reconfirmed) in the Last Two Years Away from Corporate Life

BrainZooming

For the first six years of The Brainzooming Group, I published a list near our anniversary date with twenty-five lessons learned or reconfirmed in the most recent year away from full-time corporate life. I skipped the article for two years as the pace and focus of business expanded. When things took a dramatic stop , turn , and figure out how to regroup recently, I revisited the idea, figuring I HAD to have learned or reconfirmed many lessons during the two-year hiatus for this previously annua

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Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2017

Innovation Excellence

After a week of torrid voting and much passionate support, along with a lot of gut-wrenching consideration and jostling during the judging round, I am proud to announce your Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2017: Sarah Miller Caldicott A great grandniece of Thomas Edison and innovation process expert, Sarah Miller Caldicott was co-author of.

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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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Book Review – Three Box Solution

Rmukesh Gupta

Name of the book: The Three Box Solution: A Simple Framework for leading innovation. Author of the book: Vijay Govindarajan. Publisher: HBR Press. Overall Rating: 4/5. Implementability of ideas: 4/5. This is a book about how to lead innovation in an organisation. The framework that Vijay suggests is simple to learn and keep in mind.

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What You Can Learn About Innovation from 25 Amazing Artists

Idea Champions

If you are an aspiring innovator, there's a lot you can learn from some of planet Earth's most revered artists. These are the people who stare at a blank canvas or a lump of clay and end up making magic. This is your task as well. Your life is the blank canvas. The idea you are toying with is your first stroke. What will happen next (or not) is up to you.

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Hackathon with a Public Institution — It’s Not What You Think (It Is in Fact Possible & Fun!)

CREATORS

Insurance & Pension Hackathon in Tel Aviv, November 2017 In this article we share everything we have learned creating a hackathon with the Authority for Capital Markets, Insurance and Pension (at the Israeli Ministry of Finance) to foster and support innovation in insurance and long-term savings. It was challenging, but a lot fun. It turned out to be impactful and inspirational for all the stakeholders involved.

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Integrity as a Competitive Advantage

The Human Factor

Remember when we used to look up to our political and business leaders as role models for honesty, integrity and good character? Me neither. Actually, I do. But it seems like a long time since leaders displaying integrity was the rule rather than the exception. Instead of working together to effectively govern the country, Republicans, Democrats, AND others pander to the extremists in their parties.