January, 2014

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The Creative Impact of Improvisation

Boxes and Arrows

'Improvisation is a very old and time-tested form of theater. The earliest use of improvisation is found in records of a Roman farce performed in 391 BC. Given its long history, it’s surprising to me that in our modern world, comedy–and comedic improvisation–is considered a low-brow form of entertainment. It is generally eschewed by the erudite.

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A Hall of Fame for the Rest of Us

Bill Fischer

Few things are as exciting for a baseball fan as the selection of this year's class of Hall of Fame inductees. I'm sure that it's the same in football and soccer and other similar activities, including Rock and Roll, although without as much press, given the age and allure of [.

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Innovation and the Benefits It Can Bring to a Company or an Organization

Innovation 360

Innovation and the Benefits It Can Bring to a Company or an Organization. Innovation is an essential factor that drives the performance and productivity of a business. This also helps you and your business grow. In totality, a business that seeks to innovate is more productive and is able to generate a lot of jobs as compared to a non-innovative active business.

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Clay Christensen: Why Most Innovation Leaders Will Fail

Innovation Leader

Christensen, author of the seminal business book “The Innovator’s Dilemma,” warns that too many executives don’t understand the “corporate laws of physics” in enough detail — and think they can simply will the organization to change how it works.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Evolving a Creative Workplace: Step 6

Boxes and Arrows

'In this series, I’ve been using an organic garden analogy to describe how we’ve grown Intuitive Company sevenfold over the past five years. In previous installments I gave advice on how to prepare your organization for growth , and what it means to plant the right people into the mix, water and add fertilizer to encourage success , and then till and experiment to continue pushing yourselves.

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Evolving a Creative Workplace: Step 7

Boxes and Arrows

'After discussing how to prepare , plant , water , fertilize , till and experiment with and then observe and protect your organic garden of a team, I’m happy to announce that the last two steps are quite fun. You’ve worked hard to grow your business and have made the necessary tweaks along the way. Things couldn’t be better. Or could they? Picking comes next, and it’s a way to recognize the highest achievers and celebrate successes.

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Importance of Performing an Innovation Diagnostics

Innovation 360

Importance of Performing an Innovation Diagnostics. Many business owners and CEO’s tend to wonder why their proposed innovation programs are a failure. These programs are not likely to deliver the results that they expect. Actually, innovation is always included in the agenda of the higher ups. Nevertheless, they do not spend more time in assessing the innovation capabilities of their organization.

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Why News Corp. Innovates ‘Under the Radar’

Innovation Leader

After launching a high-profile iPad newspaper that didn't succeed, the Manhattan-based publishing company is taking a quieter approach to incubating new products.

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Can Your Company Invent the Future?

Innovation Leader

In the book "The New Killer Apps: How Large Companies Can Out-Innovate Start-Ups," Chunka Mui examines how Walgreens worked to claim a new position in healthcare.

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Learnings from GE on Connecting with Entrepreneurs

Innovation Leader

GE hunts for breakthrough ideas by engaging with startups and academic researchers in new ways. See how the group held a first-of-its-kind event last fall.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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Why Dyn Celebrates Big Projects like Big-Budget Movies

Innovation Leader

A fast-growing New Hampshire tech services company borrows an idea from Amazon to create movie-style posters that mark product upgrades and new offerings.

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Four Steps Hershey’s Uses to Reduce Innovation Risks

Innovation Leader

Director of Adjacency Innovation Deborah Arcoleo lays out the four steps she uses to de-risk innovation initiatives.

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Elements of Learning Experience Design

Boxes and Arrows

'The process of designing any sort of human experience, regardless of purpose or platform, is centered around reaching a desired outcome, ideally with as little fuss and as much joy as possible. The purpose of an experience and the platform on which the experience takes place will vary: purchasing a plane ticket on a tablet to vacation, enjoying a musical performance in a theater, or learning to code in a classroom.

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Changing Lanes

Boxes and Arrows

'In the course of your life, unless you have inherited your family’s Piggly Wiggly fortune, you will have held a number jobs. Maybe you started out in your teens by bagging groceries, or perhaps you filled up that piggy bank by babysitting or mowing lawns. That first job hopefully taught you some valuable lessons about life. You probably learned that time is money, that you have to work hard in order to do well and keep that job, that learning new skills can be challenging but also rewarding, an

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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.