Mon.Dec 12, 2016

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Visioning Exercises for Strategic Planning – New eBook Shows You How!

BrainZooming

Wherever you are in the strategic planning cycle, you may discover the need for a new or updated direction for your organization. How can you effectively employ visioning exercises in strategic planning that invite your entire organization to contribute their perspectives? That is where visioning exercises that employ a collaborative approach come into play.

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Leadership Lessons from a Design Thinking Pioneer

Innovation Excellence

The former CEO of Herman Miller, Max DePree said, “I’ve got so many MBAs, but what I need is a poet. Poets are the original systems thinkers.” This poetic mode is the critical perspective for a human-factor and design business – and Herman Miller is the most apt precursor in the design thinking revolution, so they.

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Van Gogh Air BnB: 2016 Epica Gold Winner for Innovation

Innovation in Practice

Established in 1987, Epica is the only prize in the area of creativity judged and awarded by journalists who work for marketing and communications magazines worldwide. This year’s Epica Gold winner for the Innovation Category goes to Art Institute of Chicago “Van Gogh BnB” by Leo Burnett in Chicago. The Art Institute of Chicago, wanting to creatively and strategically market their new Van Gogh’s Bedroom exhibit, followed the innovative recommendation of Leo Burnett agency.

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Capturing and supporting innovation in the building industry

Innovation Excellence

Whilst the construction industry is not one that is renowned for being particularly innovative, there are in fact a number of fascinating technologies emerging in the sector. For instance, you’ve got the drones that track project progress to the use of augmented reality to do likewise, or even the wearable device that aims to ensure.

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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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Technology Scouting Software for Open Innovation

eZassi

Business is evolving faster than ever. Consumer demands have never been higher, and large organization who don’t innovate will eventually die (think of Blockbuster or Xerox). Large organizations like these can no longer exclusively rely on the internal R&D team or employee base to produce the product innovation and insights that will keep them in the game.

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How Innovation and R&D Can ‘Increase Awesome’

Innovation Leader

Kevin Parsons of Northrop Grumman shared how his innovation group is influencing the culture and bringing business units into its process.

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Leading Dispersed Teams

Michael Roberto

Eric McNulty, director of research at the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative, has written a blog post for Strategy + Business that addresses how to lead dispersed teams effectively. McNulty argues that teams should not be managed virtually the entire time that they are working together on a project. Instead, a geographically dispersed team should come together in person from time to time.