Fri.Oct 21, 2016

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4 Visionaries Who Saw Far Into The Future And How They Did It

Innovation Excellence

Successful people solve problems. Look at any great fortune, whether it be Carnegie, Ford or Gates and you find that the source of their vast accomplishment was a problem solved. Even more prosaic executives spend most of their time solving one problem or another, with greater or lesser skill. The contrast in outcomes can be attributed.

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How Open Innovation Can Reduce Delhi’s Pollution

IdeaConnection

Delhi in India is often referred to as one of the world’s most polluted cities. Industry, traffic, power plants and dust are the principle causes. In an effort to reduce the colossal pollution levels, city authorities recently teamed up with the University of Chicago to organize an open innovation competition – the Urban Labs Innovation Challenge.

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Going Back to the Garage: the rise of the Fintech intrapreneur

Innovation Excellence

I recently attended a Fintech Meetup event involving 400 people present to hear the CEO of one of Australia’s four biggest banks speak about his innovation strategy. Unsurprisingly, it was to embrace innovation through technology and to create a people first culture. Interestingly, the people involved in organizing, hosting and even attending the event, seemed.

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Private Innovation Challenge Goes Live

Betterific

Betterific is a platform that connects brands with consumers to co-create and refine new products. It is a place where Innovation Happens. Our mission is to spread the crowdsourcing gospel, so we work with all types of brands, with different levels of regulations and comfortability with utilizing the crowd. We certainly don’t want to restrict their ability to tap into Betterific’s open and social crowd.

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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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How Macy’s Could Set Itself Up For Success, Not Just Survival

Innovation Leader

Macy’s should “go small or go home.” Mark Nitkey, formerly of Apple, Victoria’s Secret, and Ahold, explains how Macy’s should approach innovation in the Age of Amazon.

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Why We Need More Board Regulations If We Want Real Accountability

Adam Hartung

Wells Fargo’s CEO John Stumpf resigned last week. This week he also resigned from the Boards of Directors at Chevron and Target. For those 2 roles he was being paid something like $650k/year. The interesting question is, why was he on those boards at all? Wasn’t being the CEO, and on the board, at one of America’s biggest banks a full time job?

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Strategic Planning Process Ideas –  9 Ways to Keep Things Fresh

BrainZooming

Someone downloading the new 11 Ideas for Fun Strategic Planning eBook when we released it stated his biggest strategy challenge as coming up with fresh ways to do the same strategic planning exercises with the same executives every year. I hear that challenge in a big way. When we were developing the Brainzooming strategic planning process inside a Fortune 500 company, we used it to plan strategy across a whole portfolio of services and clients in a B2B setting.