Sat.Aug 05, 2017

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Platforms Are Transforming How We Need To Compete

Innovation Excellence

In 1980, an obscure professor at Harvard Business School named Michael Porter published Competitive Strategy, which called for managers to drive efficiency by optimizing their firm’s value chain, maximize bargaining bargaining power with buyers and suppliers, while at the same time minimizing threats from new market entrants and substitute goods. These concepts launched Porter into.

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Failure Has Become Fashionable

Michael Roberto

Everyone is talking about becoming more tolerant of failure these days. You read it everywhere. Failures are really learning opportunities. You learn more from failure than success. You have to be willing to fail if you wish to innovate. Experimentation entails some failures; without them, you won't create anything truly bold. You have to make it ok to fail.

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Four Steps Required for Becoming a Great Leader

Innovation Excellence

Developing an awareness of how others see you is one of the hardest but also most important things you can do. Here’s how. Whether you’re leading two or 2,000 people I can assure you of one immutable truth about leadership that you need to always keep in mind; all eyes are upon you. I’m not.

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7 Practices of Highly Inspired People

Rmukesh Gupta

I have been writing every for this blog for the past 20 days and every time I open up my laptop to write, I don’t necessarily have an idea that I want to write about. I need some kind of an inspiration, some seed of a thought which can then go on to become a blog post. This is what writers call inspiration. As entrepreneurs, we our productivity and effectiveness is at its highest when we are inspired.

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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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50 Awesome Quotes on Vision

Idea Champions

1. "If you can dream it, you can do it." - Walt Disney. 2. "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, and magic and power in it. Begin it now." - Goethe. 3. "The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." - Michelangelo 4. "It's not enough to be busy, so are the ants.