Mon.Aug 15, 2016

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9 Critical Steps Before Your Innovation Strategy Gets Sexy

BrainZooming

If you’re developing an innovation strategy initiative inside your company, is your primary focus on bringing executives together in a creative way to imagine new ideas? That’s the focus some companies get enamored with based on innovation training that puts creativity front and center as the key to jump starting innovation. From our experience, that’s far from the first step.

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10 Timeless Thoughts on Work & Life

Mills-Scofield

Though she's only 20, Samanee Mahbub 's insights into her 10 weeks in NYC are important for all of us at any age. How many of these thoughts do you identify with? They are timeless, universal and very human. Please read and reflect. " On New York, and on life After ten weeks in this city, I have a lot to reflect and think about on my last day before I embark on my next journey.

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3 Business Innovation Reports You Must Read Right Now

Innovation Excellence

The following business innovation reports cover three core elements that consistently prove important to success: developing a certain kind of company culture; the connection between data, legislature, challenges, and opportunities; and finally, emerging business trends that continuously impact enterprise innovation programs.

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Brainstorming with Innovator Thomas Williams

Betterific

In today’s installment of “Brainstorming with Innovator” we invite one of our most prolific and active members, Thomas Williams. Tom has been a member of the site for at least a year and since joining he has been a phenomenal source of innovation and a deep well of ideas. He has made a name for himself on the platform and is part of a unique and dynamic duo – his wife, Kelly Williams is just as creative and innovative.

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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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There Is No One True Path To Innovation

Innovation Excellence

Innovation has become like a religion in business today, with “innovate or die” as its mantra. When a company succeeds, people attribute its good fortune to superior innovation. When it fails, people say it lacked the ability to innovate, no matter how many new products it launched. The message is simple: you need to disrupt.

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Why A Few Box Office Hits Generate More Revenue Than Ever

Michael Roberto

The Wall Street Journal reports today on some interesting trends in the movie business. According to this article by Ben Fritz , a small number of blockbuster hits accounts for a higher fraction of total box office receipts than in past years. This year, the hits have included movies such as Finding Dory and Zootopia. Fritz writes, "Increasingly, success in the movie business requires being one of the handful of most popular movies that draw a disproportionate amount of attention on social media

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Inside/Out Innovation

Idea Champions

If you work in an organization that wants to establish a sustainable culture of innovation -- you have two basic choices: outside/in or inside/out. Outside/in is the most common approach. It assumes that re-engineering systems or processes is the way to go. You know the drill: do a little Six Sigma, cost cutting, continuous improvement, hire a few consultants to give pep talks and you're off to the races.