Wed.Apr 05, 2017

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The 3 Things You Need to Build an All Star Team

Digital Tonto

We need to change the way we evaluate, recruit, manage and train employees. Related posts: How To Build Trust, Even With Your Enemies. How to Build Cooperation. How to Build an Innovative Culture. 5. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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7 Collaborative Strategic Planning Process Impacts (Even if the Plan Sits on the Shelf)

BrainZooming

Talking to executives, you hear the expectation that an organization should implement a solid strategic plan strategy-by-strategy. To the extent a strategic plan is not implemented in that way, it falls short in some fashion. This goes along with the idea that if you never remove the big strategic planning notebook from your office shelf, it is a complete failure: you might as well not even do a strategic plan.

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Accelerate Growth Using Hard Trends

Daniel Burrus

Certain mindsets and ways of thinking are genuinely habit forming. Taking years of successful growth for granted is one of them. Companies and organizations often inadvertently stunt their own success by making certain assumptions when it comes to growth. For example, let’s say your company has been growing by 8% a year for the past 10 years. It would be easy to assume that you will grow 8% next year.

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Innovation and the Mythical Idealized Future State

Mike Shipulski

When it’s time to innovate, the first task is usually to define the Idealized Future State (IFS). The IFS is a word picture that captures what it looks like when the innovation work has succeeded beyond our wildest dreams. The IFS, so it goes, is directional so we can march toward the right mountain and inspirational so we can sustain our pace over the roughest territory.

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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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Comment on Turning Failure into Success by Wellington Manjengwa

Stephen Shapiro

Hi Stephen, I think many of us can relate to your airline experience. And yeah, I must agree that when something that seems bad turns out good, it makes us feel good. In my case for example, I was asked by a restaurant manager if I liked their food and I honestly pointed out the things I didn’t like. It turned out that I was given a discount and they promised that they will be improving their food.

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Mentoring versus Coaching for Innovation

Guide 4 Innovating

I lot of people get caught out in not knowing the differences between Mentoring and Coaching. Equally, when you are in the coaching mode you need to guard against moving over to the mentoring mode unless it is conscious ways. We are facing highly competitive environment changes. The key to the need of having facilitation is to bring fresher, more innovative and leading-edge solutions into any innovation thinking but it is often all about the blending of experiences and the relationship dynamics

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The Story of Technology

Innovation Excellence

Every age is defined by its technology. The stories of Dickens wouldn’t have been possible without the steam engine and the industrial revolution it brought about. For that matter, neither would the those of Vanderbilt or Carnegie. And what would the 20th century have been like without the internal combustion engine and electricity? Yet we often miss.

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Successful companies nurture original, innovative thinking

Wazoku

Unless organisations harness the talents of their entire team, they put themselves at risk of delayed growth and difficulty in sustaining longevity. What better time to think about women in business than following the last two months in which we have seen not only three awards events in the UK that celebrate the ‘power’ of women, but also the widely recognised International Women’s Day.

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You Have Stories to Tell

Idea Champions

Here is the retelling of an old tale I first heard from Prem Rawat. The story can be interpreted in a number of ways. For this particular moment, I am telling the story to draw your attention to the fact that within you, hidden from sight, there are many wonderful stories still to be told. I encourage you to tell them. MitchDitkoff.com.

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The Life Sciences Industry: Decision Making from Batch to Continuum

IdeaScale

The life science industry is close to a significant transformation. Regulations are tightening considerably. In developed markets, governments are restricting the freedom to price new drugs. For many therapeutic areas in developed nations, mortality rates have drastically come down. This makes it difficult to demonstrate significant improvement in health outcomes over standard of care.

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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.

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Business Casual Conferences from the Future? Dress Code Optional.

Idea Champions

Idea Champions has just launched a new conference design and facilitation service. So new, in fact, that the page on our website hasn't even been uploaded. While God may be in the details, YOU are in this moment and I just wanted to give you a heads up before all the digital proof is posted. If you have a big conference coming up and you want it to have major impact, we're your resource -- savvy conference designers, team builders, keynote speakers, facilitators, innovation catalysts, edutainers