Fri.Jul 14, 2017

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10 Questions to prove that you can run a Design Sprint today

Board of Innovation

At the time we’re writing this post, we’ve run 20+ design sprints for Fortune 500 companies and other organizations. We’ve experienced an increasing interest and experience around design sprints, and our clients are well aware of it. Many innovation practitioners know the overall structure and objectives of this kind of innovation program.

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How IoT is Transforming Unexpected Industries

Innovation Excellence

By the late 1990’s computers became truly transformative, followed by Internet and email as conduits to a continuous flow of information that could be processed, analyzed and turned into action. Today, as digital connectivity transforms physical machines, we’re likely into the early days of a similar productivity boom.

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Crowdsourcing Project for the Health of the Oceans

IdeaConnection

Capelin are small fish found in the North Atlantic, North Pacific and Arctic oceans. They are forage fish, which means they are an important part of the marine ecosystem as a food source of other species such as seals and puffins. They also play a role in keeping the oceans healthy. And the more we know about these fish the greater the insights into the health of our oceans and the animals that live there.

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A Prescriptive Process for ‘Make vs. Buy’ Decisions

Innovation Excellence

You are about to develop a new product (or service, or process). However, your company may not have the skills or intellectual property to develop a part of it, so you are faced with the classic 'Make vs. Buy' decision. Do you have your own people develop that part, or do you use an external company for that?

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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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Design Thinking 2.0 - Turbo charge how you innovate

Values Centered Innovation

“Design thinking” has swept the world. While there have been many methods for finding innovative yet practical solutions to business and social challenges – such as the “Creative Problem Solving” process of Osborn and Parnes – somehow “design thinking” has caught the world’s fancy like no other. In part, its popularity has grown because “innovation” has been named as a top-3 strategic priority by thousands of executives over the past decade.

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Why Amazon Echo Is Killing It While Windows Phone Is Dead — Developers Are What Matters

Adam Hartung

Amazon is working toward dominance in the voice-activated assistant market by stimulating app development through lower prices and wide distribution. Apple has a huge base of smartphones on which to build. Google is on almost every device. Have you heard of "Viv"? Here are the major strategic issues of this dynamic and disruptive industry as the players navigate "The Rapids" of growth.

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Happiness Is It's Own ROI

Idea Champions

Illustration: gapingvoid. MitchDitkoff.com.

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Ten Top Tips for Speakers

Destination Innovation

If you want to speak like a professional speaker then here are ten great tips: Before you start to compose your talk think about the single most important point you want to get across. Audiences cannot absorb a large number of messages. So make sure that your key theme is not lost in a plethora of ancillary topics and stories. Patricia Fripp gives this advice.

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Avoiding Overwhelm – Managing the Workload of Being a Leader

Rmukesh Gupta

One of the challenges that all entrepreneurs face is managing the workload. Being an entrepreneur is not easy. It takes a lot of time, energy, effort and attention. In this short video , Amy Jen Su , shares her perspective of how can we manage our workload and still have peace of mind and not get overwhelmed. She shares the 4P’s that we need to work on individually in order to achieve the 5th P (Peace of Mind): Personal Operating system: What she means is how we do operate as an individual