Mon.Aug 22, 2016

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Exploring the Rich Tapestry within the Three Horizon Framework

Paul Hobcraft

Within our ‘business as usual’ attitudes, there actually lies the seeds of destruction. Today there is a relentless pace; we are facing stagnation in many maturing markets if we don’t evolve. Yet we actually subvert the future to prolong the life of the existing. We need to frame our innovation needs differently for exploring and exploiting innovation across different time horizons to move beyond the usual.

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Brainstorming with innovator Laurie Steiner

Betterific

In this installment of brainstorming with an innovator , we invite Laurie Steiner , who won our wireless innovation competition. I love doing these series, because we get to learn more about our members – what gets them going, why they do what they do, and how they come up with such creative ideas. Laurie is not just a great ideator, but an amazing human being who gives so much of herself.

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Exploring the Rich Tapestry within the Three Horizon Framework

Paul Hobcraft

Within our ‘business as usual’ attitudes, there actually lies the seeds of destruction. Today there is a relentless pace; we are facing stagnation in many maturing markets if we don’t evolve. Yet we actually subvert the future to prolong the life of the existing. We need to frame our innovation needs differently for exploring and exploiting innovation across different time horizons to move beyond the usual.

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Innovation Metrics: How to Stay on Track

Innovation in Practice

Before you launch your innovation campaign, you want to set up key performance indicators or KPIs for short. Key performance indicators help you keep track of your overall strategy and your individual innovation programs. They alert you when it’s time to intervene and take action to get things back on track. Without KPIs, you’re flying blind, so to speak, and you run the risk of falling short of your overall goal.

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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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Learning to forget the past

Innovation Excellence

Overcoming the 'way we do things' is a key ingredient to successful innovation, but it's one that few organizatiosn do well. This article looks at how you can successfully overcome the past to help you craft the future.

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Data Value and the Digital Business Platform

Information Playground

In a world where information is viewed as an asset on equal footing with other assets (e.g. people, automobiles, cash, etc), what is the ideal platform for tracking, capturing, and measuring data's value? As Wikibon analyst George Gilbert pointed out in our interview with Doug Laney last month, treating data as an asset is difficult because.

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Is There Such a Thing as Too Much Feedback?

Michael Roberto

The Wall Street Journal reports today on the changing culture at Kimberly-Clark , maker of products such as Huggies diapers and Kleenex tissues. In this article, Lauren Weber writes the following: "One of the company’s goals now is 'managing out dead wood,' aided by performance-management software that helps track and evaluate salaried workers’ progress and quickly expose laggards.