Fri.May 01, 2020

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Innovation traits that are critical now: comfort with ambiguity

Jeffrey Phillips

I'm writing a series of blog posts that examine what skills are necessary to innovate in a post COVID pandemic environment. In the first installment, I wrote about the importance of "beginner's mind" , because in the post-COVID future, some past experiences and knowledge may not be meaningful, and looking at new challenges with a fresh perspective will be valuable.

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Three critical skills to get you from big ideas to a real business

Strategyzer Innovation

There are many skills required in entrepreneurship and innovation. In this blog, we outline three learnable ones that are crucial to move from a big idea to a real business opportunity. It is critical for innovators to know how to design a business model, understand its strengths and weaknesses in order to continuously improve it, and also know how to test and validate the critical hypotheses underpinning your business model.

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Here’s how you can come up with outside the box innovations

Viima

If you’ve been working in innovation for at least some time, you’re probably sick and tired of hearing people talk about “thinking outside the box”, or the need to create “outside the box innovations”. The phrase has become one of the most overused clichés out there. However, just like so many other clichés, there’s an underlying reason for this being the case even though I personally dislike the term.

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Brunner Takes Home Two Awards at The Drum Marketing Awards

Brunner

While the event may have looked a little different this year, the excitement was still every bit as strong at The Drum Marketing Awards USA virtual awards. Brunner was nominated for three awards: Best Long-Term Strategy: The Home Depot Rental 2019 Regional Campaign Strategy. Best Brand Content Strategy: The Home Depot Rental 2019 Content Marketing Strategy.

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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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Highlights from Our April Coverage on COVID-19 and Innovation

Innovation Leader

We’ve gathered the best pieces of advice on adapting to the current public health crisis from our live show, and other online coverage, to kick-start your May.

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Considering a New Career Path? Here Are Some Options

The Human Factor

source. The coronavirus pandemic has left many of us with a lot of time on our hands. We’re being encouraged to stay home and only go out for essentials, such as food or medicine. The kids are off school. We can’t go out and socialise. This has given us time to reflect on our lives and our career paths and many of us are coming to the realisation that we’re roped into jobs that we’re not particularly fussed about.

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Happiness = Haves Divided by Wants

Michael Roberto

Yesterday, on the last day of class with my seniors, I shared with them the key points from this excerpt of Arthur Brooks' terrific essay in The Atlantic titled, "The Three Equations for a Happy Life, Even During a Pandemic." E QUATION 3: SATISFACTION = WHAT YOU HAVE ÷ WHAT YOU WANT Many great spiritual leaders have made this point, of course. In his book The Art of Happiness (written with the psychiatrist Howard Cutler), the Dalai Lama stated, “We need to learn how to want what we have not to h

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Interview with an Innovator: Dave Birss on Removing Barriers to Great Ideas

Carla Johnson

Learn how drinking alcohol can help remove barriers to creativity, innovation and coming up with great ideas. The post Interview with an Innovator: Dave Birss on Removing Barriers to Great Ideas appeared first on Carla Johnson.

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THE BEGINNING OF MASTERY: Wax on, Wax Off

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#1,643 – Micrashell

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

It’s becoming more and more apparent that masks and other facial coverings are here to stay. A standard core feature of the new normal. So much so, that companies are now even seeing the coronavirus pandemic as a business opportunity, using branded masks to further their mass appeal. At the forefront of this movement is Disney which is set to release masks featuring Star Wars characters and Marvel superheroes.

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How Mature Companies Are Scaling Transformational New Businesses

Scaling transformational innovations in large companies is challenging due to ‘Company Fit’ issues, which arise when the resources, processes, and priorities (RPPs) of the core business are not aligned with the needs of the new business. Many companies have learned how ambidexterity—the ability to both ‘exploit the present and explore the future,’ can help them address these issues for ideation and incubation of new innovations, but scaling transformative business innovations remains a challenge