Fri.Aug 16, 2019

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How Behavioral Economics is Killing Innovation

Innovation Excellence

When my daughter Maya was in middle school, she decided to repeat a behavioral economics experiment featured in Dan Ariely’s book Predictably Irrational for her science project. In her experiment, she offered participants from the control group two options. Facebook access, she suggested, was going to cost money. It would cost $5 a month to access Facebook.

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13 Essential Process Improvement Tools

Kainexus

After many years speaking with leaders and managers looking to implement continuous process improvement tools in their organizations, we’ve learned a few things. The first is that every organization is different and what scores a home run for one, may not even get a hit in another. The second is that despite these differences, many of the process improvement tools that have been developed over the last 50 years can be adapted to be useful for organizations of all types and sizes.

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Finding Ways to Offer Underused Resources

Beyond the Obvious

I’m an innovation guy. It may not say so on my business card, but that’s what I do. I encourage people, whether inside HP or in my meetings with customers around the world, to accept that they and their product are going to have to change. No matter how popular and successful your work is, […].

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Building a high-growth scale up – What we learned from Upscale 4.0

Wazoku

For 6 months in 2019, Wazoku was fortunate enough to be one of a cohort of 30 companies on the awesome Upscale programme, run by Technation UK. Having recently graduated from this programme I wanted to share some of my key learnings from it. The reassurance of 30 businesses all in a similar stage of scale up. It might sound a bit cliché, but to know that there are a number of other founders all going through very similar challenges is really incredibly reassuring.

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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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Fintechs: what are they and how to face them?

mjvinnovation

Fintechs are startups where technology is applied in financial services or used to help companies manage the financial aspects of their business, including new software and apps, processes and business models. Fintechs are a new business model in the financial industry, and they are revolutionizing it. In Brazil and in the world. Throughout this article, you will deepen this concept and understand why fintechs are a watershed in a sector so consolidated in world capitalism.

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Building a high-growth scale up – What we learned from Upscale 4.0

Wazoku

For 6 months in 2019, Wazoku was fortunate enough to be one of a cohort of 30 companies on the awesome Upscale programme, run by Technation UK. Having recently graduated from this programme I wanted to share some of my key learnings from it. The reassurance of 30 businesses all in a similar stage of scale up. It might sound a bit cliché, but to know that there are a number of other founders all going through very similar challenges is really incredibly reassuring.