The document discusses how an information development team at Platform Computing aims to innovate using social and collaborative media. The team wants to move from their current "Point A" of resource constraints and inconsistent processes, to "Point B" of taking better advantage of their skills through innovation. They define innovation as new ideas that create value, and see benefits like improved customer satisfaction. The team plans to use tools like Wikis, Google Docs, and Skype to collaborate on tasks like process analysis and visioning to naturally encourage innovation. Their goal is to discover gaps and opportunities to meet corporate objectives and innovate through implementing improvements identified in their collaboration.
Transforming Digital Government Services Workshop - Tuesday 21st OctoberPrecedent
Is your government organisation digitally reactive, strategic or transformational?
In an age where technological opportunities are increasing by the second, government organisations can't afford to be left behind.
Twenty-first century government organisations must be innovators and use technology to their advantage to deliver optimum services to their most important stakeholder - their users, be they a resident, business owner, customer or visitor.
This breakfast briefing session will cover three major elements necessary to spark organisation-wide digital change in your government organisation:
1. Discovery - understanding your current digital state and user's increasing expectations
2. Strategy - creating prioritised actions and a vision of your digital future state
3. Implementation - delivering tailored digital solutions for government to exceed your stakeholder's needs and expectations
This exclusive workshop is for senior decision makers who are digital champions within their government organisation, looking to drive real digital change.
Mobile Center of Excellence is perfect for organizations looking to ensure the long-term success of their mobile strategies and Applications. It’s built to help you create and define the building blocks of a successful Center of Excellence for Mobile.
Mobile UX COE Strategists will work with your team to understand your current state readiness, build a vision for the Mobile Center of Excellence within your organization, and define the requirements for standing up a Mobile COE. Beyond just the components of a Center of Excellence, helps team creates a realistic roadmap for COE creation based on the people, process, and technology maturity within your business
A New Framework for Disruptive Innovation Management - Dr. Jose a. BrionesJose Briones
Product innovation has been described as the way out of today’s difficult business environment. However, the rate of success of development projects, in particular white space or disruptive innovation projects remains too low.
We believe that a reason for the low success rate is the erroneous application of methods designed for incremental innovation like Stage Gate to projects with high levels of uncertainty. In this presentation we will discuss the different types of development projects based on degree of uncertainty, and the creation of different project tracks. Projects are managed using different tool sets based on the best fit between information available and decision making needs.
Project Management vs Innovation: Friends or Foes?Tathagat Varma
My talk at IBM's ShareNet session on Project Management vs. Innovation. I explored how classical project management is ill-suited for managing innovative projects, especially Kaikaku or the Disruptive Innovation, and discussed how Lean Startup offers one such approach.
Feedback welcome...
Innovation: The Intersection of Invention and Value. Jose A. Briones, Ph.D.Jose Briones
One of the biggest problems that a product manager encounters when starting an innovation program or project is to reach consensus on the definition of innovation. This is more than a semantics issue. Without agreement on exactly what the goal is - the team is unlikely to achieve it. In this introduction to the “Beyond Stage-Gate” series we will discuss
A new definition of innovation that applies not just to products but to services, business models or business processes
How to relate innovation and value
Why being new is not enough for something to be called innovative
What is necessary to define the innovation as incremental, radical or disruptive
How different types of innovations must be managed differently within the development process.
Overview of the function that DesignOps plays in the overall design organization.
1. What is DesignOps?
2. Who “Does” DesignOps?
3. What DesignOps “Does”
4. How DesignOps Does it
5. Why DesignOps Matters Now
6. Implementing DesignOps
7. Final Takeaways
Transforming Digital Government Services Workshop - Tuesday 21st OctoberPrecedent
Is your government organisation digitally reactive, strategic or transformational?
In an age where technological opportunities are increasing by the second, government organisations can't afford to be left behind.
Twenty-first century government organisations must be innovators and use technology to their advantage to deliver optimum services to their most important stakeholder - their users, be they a resident, business owner, customer or visitor.
This breakfast briefing session will cover three major elements necessary to spark organisation-wide digital change in your government organisation:
1. Discovery - understanding your current digital state and user's increasing expectations
2. Strategy - creating prioritised actions and a vision of your digital future state
3. Implementation - delivering tailored digital solutions for government to exceed your stakeholder's needs and expectations
This exclusive workshop is for senior decision makers who are digital champions within their government organisation, looking to drive real digital change.
Mobile Center of Excellence is perfect for organizations looking to ensure the long-term success of their mobile strategies and Applications. It’s built to help you create and define the building blocks of a successful Center of Excellence for Mobile.
Mobile UX COE Strategists will work with your team to understand your current state readiness, build a vision for the Mobile Center of Excellence within your organization, and define the requirements for standing up a Mobile COE. Beyond just the components of a Center of Excellence, helps team creates a realistic roadmap for COE creation based on the people, process, and technology maturity within your business
A New Framework for Disruptive Innovation Management - Dr. Jose a. BrionesJose Briones
Product innovation has been described as the way out of today’s difficult business environment. However, the rate of success of development projects, in particular white space or disruptive innovation projects remains too low.
We believe that a reason for the low success rate is the erroneous application of methods designed for incremental innovation like Stage Gate to projects with high levels of uncertainty. In this presentation we will discuss the different types of development projects based on degree of uncertainty, and the creation of different project tracks. Projects are managed using different tool sets based on the best fit between information available and decision making needs.
Project Management vs Innovation: Friends or Foes?Tathagat Varma
My talk at IBM's ShareNet session on Project Management vs. Innovation. I explored how classical project management is ill-suited for managing innovative projects, especially Kaikaku or the Disruptive Innovation, and discussed how Lean Startup offers one such approach.
Feedback welcome...
Innovation: The Intersection of Invention and Value. Jose A. Briones, Ph.D.Jose Briones
One of the biggest problems that a product manager encounters when starting an innovation program or project is to reach consensus on the definition of innovation. This is more than a semantics issue. Without agreement on exactly what the goal is - the team is unlikely to achieve it. In this introduction to the “Beyond Stage-Gate” series we will discuss
A new definition of innovation that applies not just to products but to services, business models or business processes
How to relate innovation and value
Why being new is not enough for something to be called innovative
What is necessary to define the innovation as incremental, radical or disruptive
How different types of innovations must be managed differently within the development process.
Overview of the function that DesignOps plays in the overall design organization.
1. What is DesignOps?
2. Who “Does” DesignOps?
3. What DesignOps “Does”
4. How DesignOps Does it
5. Why DesignOps Matters Now
6. Implementing DesignOps
7. Final Takeaways
This is a condensation of InVisions DesignOps Handbook on https://www.designbetter.co/designops-handbook plus some additionel notes and quotes from podcasts and articles. These slides are put together in order to create a better overview of all the areas and focuses in DesignOps
Strategic Alignment by Design - Short Term Fire Fighting versus Unified Direc...UXDXConf
Transformation isn't just a UX project, it's the whole company project. Donal O'Mahony, Global Head of Experience Design at IoT Saas company Verizon Connect, has been leading experience transformation in his organisation to create incremental experience improvements with his 70 person X team.
In his talk, Dónal will discuss:
- Directional CFT leadership alignment to help deliver multi-year digital transformation.
- 'That was a great service design workshop, now what do we do?!'
- Shared goals - unifying leadership around customer outcome OKRs.
- One vision - telling an evolving, multi-year customer outcome story every CFT believes in.
Innovation should not be accidental, it can be managed! This short presentation walks us through different drivers, models, processes and engagement types around innovation.
Content of the presentation was tailored for Shared Service Centers.
Doing UX design in large organisations has its own set of challenges. It’s still relatively unknown in many industries but regardless of that, lots of UX teams are being mobilised for the first time in the organisation’s history. This challenge means that many professionals prefer not to work in large organisations, opting for workplaces where change can happen more readily. However, as the trend for businesses to create their own internal UX teams continues, a number of UX professionals are finding themselves in this environment. As client-side UX professionals in a newly formed UX team, we have had to figure out how to overcome all the challenges that this brings. Some techniques worked while others didn’t. Because change typically happens so slowly in large organisations, we have had to use creative strategies to stay motivated. By sharing our experience of embedding UX into a large financial organisation over the last 3 years, we will share our successes and failures.
By telling the story of our journey as a UX team within a large financial organisation participants will understand some strategies of their own to use in their own organisations. Some of these strategies not only help to further the cause of user experience design but also to stay motivated through difficult times.
Technology Innovation Project Management- an exploratory study of what projec...Johnny Ryser
This dissertation researched what successful technology innovation project managers do. Where research up to now has focused on leadership perspectives, tools and methods, this study focus on what project managers actually do. The primary objective of this research was to uncover insights on what the everyday look like for the project manager, and to build knowledge on the future of project management training.
Want to foster a culture of innovation at work? Here are 3 tips to be an effective agent of change. We will share a framework to assess your organizational readiness for innovation and offer strategies to help you in your journey.
Visit: http://fosterinnovationculture.com/
If you work with services, whether in technology, physical or human services, this talk will give you a high level understanding of the Service Design process and how you can use simple tools to find a problem worth solving, and solve it well.
Note: If you are an experienced service designer you may find the content fairly high level :)
How to bring products to market with efficiency? How to learn what customer values and buy product for? If you have these questions and this session will help you get started! In this session we will go over different product development methodologies which can be used to bring products to markets in time and on budget. We will look at different agile development methodologies including scrum, which is very popular. And then finally we will look at lean startup framework and methods, which is great way to look beyond just development of product i.e. developing right product or sell-able product which customer would buy.
Outline of my presentation delivered to the Technovation Programme Conference on February 25th 2014 last. The audience consisted of my Technovation Programme colleagues, all academic and industry mentors, other academics, Enterprise Ireland, County Enterprise Boards, industry people and other invited guests.
DesignOps Team-of-One: Navigating Your First YearJackie Ajoux
Design operations is not for the faint of heart. In many ways, design operations for the team-of-one is a choose-your-own-adventure game; it’s essential to choose your own path in this new discipline. In this session, you will learn about the challenges encountered, and lessons learned from the perspective of a single-player design operations manager at EA, one of the largest gaming companies in the world. You’ll walk away from this talk with a strategy guide on how to navigate design operations in your organization, and the methods and best practices you can use to be a resilient team-of-one.
A Pragmatic Approach To Corporate Innovation – Experiences of Consafe LogisticsIdeon Open
Here's a good example of how large companies engage in open innovation in order to preserve their leading positions in the industry. Consafe Logistics presented their innovation logic at Hands On Open Innovation workshop.
This is a condensation of InVisions DesignOps Handbook on https://www.designbetter.co/designops-handbook plus some additionel notes and quotes from podcasts and articles. These slides are put together in order to create a better overview of all the areas and focuses in DesignOps
Strategic Alignment by Design - Short Term Fire Fighting versus Unified Direc...UXDXConf
Transformation isn't just a UX project, it's the whole company project. Donal O'Mahony, Global Head of Experience Design at IoT Saas company Verizon Connect, has been leading experience transformation in his organisation to create incremental experience improvements with his 70 person X team.
In his talk, Dónal will discuss:
- Directional CFT leadership alignment to help deliver multi-year digital transformation.
- 'That was a great service design workshop, now what do we do?!'
- Shared goals - unifying leadership around customer outcome OKRs.
- One vision - telling an evolving, multi-year customer outcome story every CFT believes in.
Innovation should not be accidental, it can be managed! This short presentation walks us through different drivers, models, processes and engagement types around innovation.
Content of the presentation was tailored for Shared Service Centers.
Doing UX design in large organisations has its own set of challenges. It’s still relatively unknown in many industries but regardless of that, lots of UX teams are being mobilised for the first time in the organisation’s history. This challenge means that many professionals prefer not to work in large organisations, opting for workplaces where change can happen more readily. However, as the trend for businesses to create their own internal UX teams continues, a number of UX professionals are finding themselves in this environment. As client-side UX professionals in a newly formed UX team, we have had to figure out how to overcome all the challenges that this brings. Some techniques worked while others didn’t. Because change typically happens so slowly in large organisations, we have had to use creative strategies to stay motivated. By sharing our experience of embedding UX into a large financial organisation over the last 3 years, we will share our successes and failures.
By telling the story of our journey as a UX team within a large financial organisation participants will understand some strategies of their own to use in their own organisations. Some of these strategies not only help to further the cause of user experience design but also to stay motivated through difficult times.
Technology Innovation Project Management- an exploratory study of what projec...Johnny Ryser
This dissertation researched what successful technology innovation project managers do. Where research up to now has focused on leadership perspectives, tools and methods, this study focus on what project managers actually do. The primary objective of this research was to uncover insights on what the everyday look like for the project manager, and to build knowledge on the future of project management training.
Want to foster a culture of innovation at work? Here are 3 tips to be an effective agent of change. We will share a framework to assess your organizational readiness for innovation and offer strategies to help you in your journey.
Visit: http://fosterinnovationculture.com/
If you work with services, whether in technology, physical or human services, this talk will give you a high level understanding of the Service Design process and how you can use simple tools to find a problem worth solving, and solve it well.
Note: If you are an experienced service designer you may find the content fairly high level :)
How to bring products to market with efficiency? How to learn what customer values and buy product for? If you have these questions and this session will help you get started! In this session we will go over different product development methodologies which can be used to bring products to markets in time and on budget. We will look at different agile development methodologies including scrum, which is very popular. And then finally we will look at lean startup framework and methods, which is great way to look beyond just development of product i.e. developing right product or sell-able product which customer would buy.
Outline of my presentation delivered to the Technovation Programme Conference on February 25th 2014 last. The audience consisted of my Technovation Programme colleagues, all academic and industry mentors, other academics, Enterprise Ireland, County Enterprise Boards, industry people and other invited guests.
DesignOps Team-of-One: Navigating Your First YearJackie Ajoux
Design operations is not for the faint of heart. In many ways, design operations for the team-of-one is a choose-your-own-adventure game; it’s essential to choose your own path in this new discipline. In this session, you will learn about the challenges encountered, and lessons learned from the perspective of a single-player design operations manager at EA, one of the largest gaming companies in the world. You’ll walk away from this talk with a strategy guide on how to navigate design operations in your organization, and the methods and best practices you can use to be a resilient team-of-one.
A Pragmatic Approach To Corporate Innovation – Experiences of Consafe LogisticsIdeon Open
Here's a good example of how large companies engage in open innovation in order to preserve their leading positions in the industry. Consafe Logistics presented their innovation logic at Hands On Open Innovation workshop.
Twitter, frikis y periodistas: ¿es tan complicado?
Índice:
Diferencias Twitter y Facebook para el posicionamiento web
Vocabulario de Twitter
Errores frecuentes en Twitter
Trucos para usar Twitter
Trolls
Monitorizar Twitter
User-centric design for large enterprisesInVision App
Ideally, your design process is perfectly user-centric. In practice, it's hard to keep pace while having a large number of stakeholders involved in different stages of your projects.
This in-depth webinar with Jean-Marcel Nicolai of Centric Digital will look at the challenges to overcome when you ideate and design for large companies, and how to stay user-centric and nimble in large business environments.
Cannibis Program Webinar Series - Roman Arzhintar on Collaborative Product B...Vator
Innovation series by Kristin Karaoglu
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Short URL: http://vator.tv/n/47af
Cannabis Program Webinar Series - Paul Armentano of Collaborative Product Building
Infusionsoft Socially Enabled Internal Communication ProposalKimberle Morrison
We're growing and needed a more effective and scalable way to communicate internally. This presentation outlines our process and the rationale behind how and why we decided to go with a socially enabled system for communication and collaboration
Are You and Your Organization Ready for Design Transformation?Chris Avore
This talk was originally presented at the 2019 Information Architecture Conference on March 15 in Orlando Florida. The presentation examines how design leaders need to evolve their approach to leadership, elevate design maturity, and examine how their org prioritizes and launches new products in an increasingly complex business environment where many organizations are conducting large transformation efforts.
20 Innovation Tools that can help make innovation projects more successful and enjoyable.
We hope that this booklet can inspire you to challenge the way you innovate. Try out some of it with your teams right away, rather than wait for the perfect occasion.
The FPDP helps you to scale the Design Thinking approach. The slides show the main content, a short explanation and a first step into roles and the process itself. Check out how a combination of best practice and experience helps you to scale your product and service development.
Visual Braindump applies the Design Thinking process, designed by IDEO and combines it with Kanban and their own best practice to provide the scaling opportunity.
Please explore the presentation below for more detail, or reach out to one of the key contacts if you’d like to discuss how Venture Path could help your organisation innovate and grow.
Transitioning to an Omnichannel Culture by Using the Cultural Middleware™ App...Barry C. Collin, IDSA
Goals: Provide both companies seeking to become omnichannel and software vendors providing the enterprise tools to facilitate omnichannel culture with an introduction including:
- Perspectives
- Understanding
- Tools to ensure successful implementation
... of an Omnichannel Culture.
Austin Hay is the VP of Consulting Services for The Growth Practice. He helps Enterprise companies Walmart jumpstart digital product growth. In this talk, he gives lessons in designing and implementing growth practices in the enterprise.
Building & launching mobile & digital productsAnurag Jain
These slides are an introduction to Product Management for building & launching mobile & digital products for consumers. It covers the basics of Product Management as well as gives an overview of the Product Management process and a practical, iterative approach to building products.
Innovate Vancouver: Strategic Innovation Planning & Learning Management Fram...Innovate Vancouver
The attached presentation provides a high level overview of the strategic innovation, technology, and planning framework.
Questions can be sent to:
Travis Barker, MPA GCPM
Innovate Vancouver
Consulting@innovatevancouver.org
https://innovatevancouver.org
What is Design Thinking and how does it help engaging better with all users of a product? I can teach you how to apply the process step by step, or you can hire me to train a small team or do a project. Fail fast low cost solution to improve any company's service, products, processes, organization, and even strategy.
Similar to Lavacon2010 collaboration innovation_smithaschwanden (20)
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
1. Why Innovate?
Getting to Point B
How & why to get past the assumptions, understand the
benefits, and become “innovative”
2. Session description
(from LavaCon program)
• ―Maybe you are like us, and have been mandated by those-
on-high to ―innovate‖. Maybe you‘ve subscribed to the myth
that innovation is good for its own sake. Or maybe you‘ve got
disgruntled customers.
• What does it mean to ‗innovate‘? How can it help you get
from your current state to a better one? Can a department
that is already resource- and budget crunched carry out true
innovation? How does innovation align with and support
overall department or corporate strategy? What are the real
benefits of innovation?
• Hear how one team is using social/digital media (among other
enabling technologies) in a corporate context to support the
stages of baseline analysis, market/ customer study, strategic
process analysis, team visioning, and finally innovation.‖
3. Today‘s session will cover…
• About us
– Point A: Where we are
– Point B: Where we want to be
• (Re)Definitions
– Defining ―innovation‖
– Redefining ―social media‖
• Getting there
• On the road
5. Who we are
Jim Smith Vivian Aschwanden
• Technical Communicator, • Technical Communicator,
20+ yrs, including— 13 yrs, including—
– 7 at IBM – 7 at Leitch/Harris Broadcasting;
– 11 at Platform Computing 3 as group leader
– 2 as Manager of ID/UX – 6 at Platform Computing
Team at Platform • Project Manager (CAPM)
• Starting PhD in Linguistics – 3 yrs
at University of Toronto • vaschwan@platform.com
• jsmith@platform.com
5
6. What we do
• Information development at Platform
Computing:
– Plan, design, write, deliver user
documentation for all Platform software
products
– Participate fully in all phases for product
development from initial product requirements
to user experience design to packaging
delivery
7. Point A – Where we are
Jim’s Perspective Viv’s Perspective
• Mature, creative team • Strong (but complacent)
• Resource constraints senior team with
keep team at capacity untapped potential
with project work • Inconsistent, immature
• Not enough time to processes
contact customers • No singular vision
• Goals: • Goal:
– Improve efficiencies, – Improve processes to
performance, & customer better manage doc projects
satisfaction and improve quality
8. Point B – Where we want to be
• Take better advantage of team‘s maturity
and capabilities to meet goals
• The end of our journey will be ―some kind of
innovation‖ by ―some method or definition‖
– For example, a new technology to help advance
our processes, free up resources
• Expect to use collaborative tools, social
media, and other enabling technologies to
get there
10. Defining ―innovation‖
• New ideas and concepts that create value
• Value/benefit could be financial, but also
social, environmental, etc.
• Can be incremental or radical
• Common types of innovation:
– Product/service innovation
– Process innovation
– Marketing innovation
– Business model innovation
11. Why innovate?
• Avoid ―The Twelve Death Signs‖1 –
resuscitate with innovation!
• Grow your personnel, dept, company
before resuscitation is required!
– ―There are two ways to grow: … either
through mergers and acquisitions or through
innovation‖2
1 http://innovationwiki.brighton.ac.uk/index.php/The_Twelve_Death_Signs
2 "The New Organisation - A survey of the company", The Economist, p.8, January 21st 2006
13. How innovative are you? 4
Incremental Innovation Radical Innovation
Exploits existing technology Explores new technology
Low uncertainty High uncertainty
Focuses on cost or feature Focuses on processes, products or
improvements in existing products or services with unprecedented
services, processes, marketing or performance features
business model
Improves competitiveness within Creates a dramatic change that
current markets or industries transforms existing markets or
industries, or creates new ones
4 http://www.innovationtoolbox.com.au/why-innovate/innovation-can-be-incremental-or-radical
14. Redefining ―social media‖
• Collaborative, real-time communication
tools that are frequently web-based
• We prefer ―communicative and
collaborative media‖
15. Why collaborate?
• Collaborate to:
– Improve processes
– Reduce constraints keeping team at capacity
– Find more time to connect with customers
– Envision & define stable set of processes
– Re-energize & innovate team
• Result of collaboration:
– Encourage innovation through the use of
collaborative tools
16. Burning question
• How can collaborative tools, social
mediums, and other enabling technologies
help you to innovate?
18. Enabling technologies
• Business tools we use that fit our definition
– Wikis, SharePoint
– LiveMeeting
– Google Documents
– Skype
– eSupport Knowledge Base
– Community websites (HPCCommunity.org)
– CMS workflows
– Facebook
– Twitter
19. Real examples
• LiveMeeting
– Used for remote install and config assistance
between field engineers/support/sales and our
customers
• Eclipse
– Rree downloadable window into development
team repository – used for collaborative content
editing
• Twitter
– Product uses portlets within status dashboard;
Twitter message board included so users can
communicate in real-time with admins
20. Real examples (con‘t)
• Free & shareable Google documents great for
– Estimates
– Schedules
– Brainstorming documents
– Flow charting
– Reviews
– Remote meetings
– …any collaborative work
22. Achieving our goals
• How can we use social media and other
enabling technologies to perform…
– Baseline analysis
– Market & customer studies
– Process analysis
– Team visioning
23. Process analysis & team
visioning
Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Checkpoint Phase 4 Phase 5
Identify basic Align with corp Create Assess Discover gaps, ways to Implement
ID process & dept goals support pkgs process meet other corp improvements &
objectives & innovate innovation opps
June/July Sept Oct December February Mar/Apr
24. Are we there yet?
• Questions:
– How do we know we've innovated?
– Is simply doing something different "innovation―?
– Can social media help to innovate?
– Do we need collaboration to innovate?
• Our answer:
– Starting with the small seeds these social media
tools give to us, and through collaboration and
the resulting generation of new ideas, innovation
springs forth naturally