Mon.May 16, 2022

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How To Use First Principles Thinking To Innovate

Phil McKinney

Thinking is one of the essential skills a person must learn. It allows us to decide, solve problems, and come up with new ideas. And yet, many people never learn how to do it properly. The history of thinking goes back centuries. The ancient Greeks were some of the first people to think about thinking, […].

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Winning for the wrong reasons

Idea to Value

What happens when you win a contest which is meant to reward skill and talent, but people say you didn’t deserve to win? Over the weekend, like millions of other people, I watched the Eurovision song contest 2022. The clear winner was the Ukraine, with 631 points, ahead of the UK on 466 points. Both were entertaining, with the UK having a more talented vocalist, and the Ukraine putting on more of a show.

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Linking sense of innovating purpose

Paul Hobcraft

Linking innovation needs constant evolving and recognizing. I have been working through my innovative points of focus, those that have, for me, my innovating purpose that needs constant referencing back and adapting to the future needs of innovation. So here are my points of focus with a number of reference links that I have selected and written upon in the past.

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Design Thinking Can Help Grow Sales

Tullio Siragusa

Design Thinking Can Help Grow Sales. Many businesses, in recent years, have started implementing Design Thinking to achieve more productive and profitable results. Specifically, Design Thinking is the way of using various techniques and tools to come up with innovative solutions centered around solving the problems that impact people most. . Sales growth methods used in earlier years are now becoming obsolete with rising competition in every sector across many markets.

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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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Leading with Connection: Reflections on Modern Leadership

Planview

If there’s anything we have collectively learned in the past two years, it’s that it takes effort to stay connected. Meeting new people, fostering relationships, building trust, collaborating – they’re all certainly possible in a hybrid / remote environment, but they require deliberate, consistent effort. At Planview, we’re very invested in helping businesses stay connected; our mission, which we repeat and display wherever we can, is to build the future of connected work.

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A New Horizon: Advancements in Solar Energy Technology

Wellspring

In a recent study, the Solar Renewable Energy Credits (SREC) reported that solar panel usage is up, with 1 in every 2,400 households installing solar technology annually. Solar energy only made up 3% of the United States’s electricity generation in 2020 , but this number is expected to grow exponentially over the next two decades. Emerging players and advanced capabilities have made this technology much more accessible in recent years with companies like Tesla developing products (since its Sola

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ADAPT OR STALL – THE KEY TO A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS IN A CHANGING WORLD

ImagineNation

In order to succeed in digital marketing, being open to learning and adapting as quickly as possible is crucial to business success and growth. To stall is not an option, so platforms offering information such as courses in MBA in Digital Business Management give you the ability to think outside the box, innovate in an uncertain and changing marketplace, as well as to develop suitable corporate business models.

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Don't Eliminate the Small Talk

Michael Roberto

[link] Like so many people, you might be tired of endless meetings. Your calendar seems filled with a vast array of meetings, leaving you little time to do your own work. You might be tempted to make meetings more efficient by just "getting down to business" and eliminating the "small talk" at the start. I might suggest that you rethink that strategy.

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Financial Innovation Success: Building a Metrics Framework

Wellspring

This article was originally published on Finextra.

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4 Strategies for Hiring Bilingual Employees

The Human Factor

Source. The world is changing at an ever-increasing pace, and so should your company. In order to remain competitive, you need to keep pace by hiring writers that will spek the language of your consumers. By investing in bilingual employees who are able to speak and understand the changing trends you are enabling your content to stay relevant. . With the continuing expansion of the digital world and the resultant globalization of communication, the need for language skills has never been greater

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and guest speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.