Thu.Dec 07, 2017

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You Have Observed and Thought. Now What?

IdeaScale

Innovation, like anything, is built one stroke at a time. When it comes to innovation, you’ve followed the example of Galileo and observed your industry. You’ve taken a cue from Edison and Thomas Watson, founder of IBM, and thought through your observations. So, what’s next? You build a team, execute a plan , and keep working it. Planning In Innovation.

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Wrap Up Those 2017 Loose Ends and Finish the Year Strong

Braden Kelley

As 2017 comes to a close, perhaps you are a manager or leader with a project that you are responsible for finishing before the end of the year. Why not get an MBA-qualified resource to help you complete the work?

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5 Things Innovative Companies Can Learn From Amazon

InnovationManagement

It is no secret that Amazon is a titan of industry. Given their tremendous success, they are quite obviously doing more than a few things right. While there are undoubtedly a myriad of different reasons that this company has become the giant that it now is, today we will be taking a look at five of the lessons that other companies can learn from Amazon.

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What is a “Fail Fast” Organizational Culture?

Innovation Excellence

How could developing a “fail fast” culture help organizations unfreeze, survive, flow and flourish with the current levels of fear, ambiguity, uncertainty, volatility and instability in 21st century organizations?

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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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Should we rush to a cashless society?

Wazoku

In Sweden, cash transactions make up less than 2% of the total transaction value across the entire economy. The small number of centralised banks are co-operating in a push toward a cashless society – so much so that micro card readers have been issued to the homeless to allow them to accept donations from credit and debit cards. Cities in China are being purpose-built as cash free, India has been outing large denominations of cash notes in a publicised attempt to tackle corruption and travel gi

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5 Things to Know Before Managing A Corporate IP Portfolio

Anaqua

by Vincent Brault, SVP of Product and Innovation at Anaqua. Currently, 80% of the average company’s valuation is in their intangible assets, and the number is even higher for tech companies and start-ups [1]. Intellectual property is driving business growth and value in our emergent global economy. Ostensibly, IP is the business. Today, the cost of managing a patent for its lifetime runs a corporation roughly $100K.

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Fewer Experts, More Innovation?

Michael Roberto

Riitta Katila, Sruthi Thatchenkery, Michael Christensen, and Stefanos Zenios have conducted some fascinating new research about the role of experts during the innovation process. They studied over 200 surgical instrument ventures. The scholars examined the role that physicians played during the growth and development of these new ventures. Here's what they concluded: To be sure, entrepreneurs in highly specialized and technical industries need the knowledge that only users (doctors, lawyers, eng