Sun.Aug 25, 2019

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What Is The Purpose Of A Business?

Digital Tonto

Today, business leaders need to manage for mission, not for metrics. Purpose cannot be reduced to a simple concept like shareholder value. Related posts: 4 Things Every Leader Should Know About. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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How to Design for Success

Innovation Excellence

What do they want? Some get there with jobs-to-be-done, some use Customer Needs, some swear by ethnographic research and some like to understand why before what. But in all cases, it starts with the customer. Whichever mechanism you use, the objective is clear – to understand what they need. Because if you don’t know what.

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Book Review: 15 Minute Pause: A Radical Reboot for Busy People by Michelle Burke, Lilamani de Silva

Rmukesh Gupta

Overview: — I got this book as an advance review copy. Michelle and Lilamani have done a great job in writing this as a workbook. Ease of reading: — The book is written in a very simple to read language. As this is written in the format of a workbook, this is best read over a long period of time, doing the exercises that they suggest, reflect on the questions that they pose and trying out some of the ideas that they suggest.

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Truth Behind Sears Collapse and How Your Business Can Avoid It

Innovation Excellence

Common wisdom has it that Sears just couldn’t keep up with Amazon. The truth is much more interesting and holds a critical lesson that you need to know to build your business and brand. Richard Sears was brilliant. He took the personal relationship that each customer had with local general store keepers and scaled it.

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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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Leveraging Big Data for Mineral Exploration

IdeaConnection

Novel ways of using big data to discover new mine exploration sites.

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#1,542 – Terrascope

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

The Amazon rain forest is on fire. The Arctic is burning. Global temperatures are reaching new all-time highs on a daily and monthly basis. It’s no longer enough to rail about impending Climate Change. The change is already happening. We are in a Climate Emergency. At this rate our best hope for the survival of our species is to search for other habitable exoplanets that we could one day migrate to.