This document discusses the challenges and opportunities businesses face in a time of rapid change and globalization. It notes that the business world will see more change in the next decade than any previous decade, and that the pace of change will only accelerate. It highlights how new markets are emerging globally, technologies are advancing quickly, and new types of jobs and industries are being created. The document emphasizes that success will require innovating, adapting, embracing new opportunities, and preparing for an uncertain future.
The document discusses the changing business environment and need for innovation. It notes that (1) the world is changing faster than ever before, (2) new opportunities are emerging from globalization and new technologies, and (3) businesses must innovate or risk failure as customer and competitor needs evolve rapidly. It encourages taking risks and thinking outside the box to discover new opportunities that can drive business success in this dynamic environment.
Gordon Brown has over 25 years of experience in marketing and business. He founded two companies, Circuit Break in 2001 which provides marketing consulting services, and Brain Juice in 2005 which focuses on creativity training and workshops. Brown also writes crime thriller novels. The document discusses definitions of creativity, techniques to spark new ideas like "Kick Start" and "Eccentric Thoughts", and barriers to creativity such as destructive criticism and the need for conformity. It emphasizes taking breaks, seeking stimulation, and re-expressing problems as ways to overcome barriers and unlock creative thinking.
The document discusses concepts related to innovation and creative thinking, including:
1) The "catalytic mechanism" concept of empowering people to take action rather than waiting for others.
2) The importance of divergent thinking, including deferring judgement, striving for quantity of ideas, bending reality, and combining/building on ideas.
3) Examples are given to stimulate creative thinking like storytelling and games. Visualization is also discussed as a technique.
The document discusses the fates of digital societies and draws parallels between Jared Diamond's book "Guns, Germs, and Steel" and startup ecosystems. It notes that different ecosystems give rise to different types of startups and that innovation exists everywhere, not just in the US. It emphasizes that ecosystem matters more than nationality and discusses strategies for startups to expand globally.
The road to innovation requires special behaviors and skills, we will explore both of them in this presentation. We will also follow a few innovative bread crumbs on the way.
The document discusses the changing business environment and need for innovation. It notes that (1) the world is changing faster than ever before, (2) new opportunities are emerging from globalization and new technologies, and (3) businesses must innovate or risk failure as customer and competitor needs evolve rapidly. It encourages taking risks and thinking outside the box to discover new opportunities that can drive business success in this dynamic environment.
Gordon Brown has over 25 years of experience in marketing and business. He founded two companies, Circuit Break in 2001 which provides marketing consulting services, and Brain Juice in 2005 which focuses on creativity training and workshops. Brown also writes crime thriller novels. The document discusses definitions of creativity, techniques to spark new ideas like "Kick Start" and "Eccentric Thoughts", and barriers to creativity such as destructive criticism and the need for conformity. It emphasizes taking breaks, seeking stimulation, and re-expressing problems as ways to overcome barriers and unlock creative thinking.
The document discusses concepts related to innovation and creative thinking, including:
1) The "catalytic mechanism" concept of empowering people to take action rather than waiting for others.
2) The importance of divergent thinking, including deferring judgement, striving for quantity of ideas, bending reality, and combining/building on ideas.
3) Examples are given to stimulate creative thinking like storytelling and games. Visualization is also discussed as a technique.
The document discusses the fates of digital societies and draws parallels between Jared Diamond's book "Guns, Germs, and Steel" and startup ecosystems. It notes that different ecosystems give rise to different types of startups and that innovation exists everywhere, not just in the US. It emphasizes that ecosystem matters more than nationality and discusses strategies for startups to expand globally.
The road to innovation requires special behaviors and skills, we will explore both of them in this presentation. We will also follow a few innovative bread crumbs on the way.
This document discusses marketing strategies for startups. It recommends building a remarkable product as the core marketing strategy. It defines a remarkable product as one that is worth talking about and that shows customers what they want before they know it. It also recommends marketing to influential early adopters who can spread the word. Finally, it emphasizes building customer loyalty through community engagement and a great customer experience.
This document provides guidance on how to effectively structure and deliver an elevator pitch. It recommends modeling a pitch after a movie by including elements of drama, suspense and resolution. The suggested structure involves introducing the problem, the solution, competitive advantages, market size, and a call to action. Examples are given of what to avoid such as talking too long, focusing on features rather than outcomes, failing to identify customer benefits, targeting the wrong audience, and omitting a call to action. Games and examples are referenced to help practice delivering successful elevator pitches.
The document provides an overview of Steve Blank's teachings on business models, customer development, and how startups differ from large companies. It discusses that startups search for a repeatable business model through customer development, while large companies focus on execution. Key points include:
- Startups are temporary organizations that search for a business model, while companies execute known business plans.
- The business model canvas is used to visualize hypotheses about the problem and solution that are then tested through customer development.
- Customer development involves building minimum viable products and pivoting based on feedback, rather than following traditional product launch processes.
- Founders run customer development teams rather than hiring functional roles like sales and marketing early on.
You may want to include everything in your pitch deck but you shouldn't. Learn about 10 slides you should include in your pitch deck and how companies like airbnb and foursquare made their pitch deck.
Airbnb is the leading online marketplace for short-term home rentals. The document discusses Airbnb's $1B investment opportunity at a $20B valuation. It summarizes Airbnb's business model, large addressable market across vacation rentals and new markets created, strong network effects and competitive advantages, and financial projections estimating high growth and returns. However, the author recommends passing on the deal given the high $20B valuation limits potential returns to only 0.7-1.1x on investment.
A redesign of the original airbnb pitch deck presentation, which the company used to raise their initial seed funding round.
These slides were redesigned using one of the templates in Slidebean, a pitch deck builder for startups: https://slidebean.com/pitch-deck-templates
The document provides an overview of lean startup essentials and the lean canvas business model. It discusses that startups often fail due to a lack of customers, and that the lean startup process involves testing solutions to problems through customer interviews to determine if the solution is worth further development. The lean canvas is then introduced as a tool that focuses on the problem, solution, customer segments, and revenue streams to help validate ideas before significant investment in the business model.
Venture Design Workshop: Business Model CanvasAlex Cowan
These slides support the various workshops I do and my online curriculum in two principal places:
1. Business Model Canvas Tutorial
This is a more fully articulated instructional, complete with templates: bit.ly/nicebmc.
2. Startup Sprints
This is a structured self-service for Venture Design/new venture creation: bit.ly/startupsprints.
The document provides guidance for developing a business model canvas over three days at a startup workshop.
Day 1 focuses on defining customer segments, validating problems, and sketching initial business model ideas. Day 2 involves further developing the business model canvas, designing surveys and questionnaires, and planning customer acquisition. Day 3 consists of finalizing the business model, preparing a pitch, and presenting to judges for feedback. The overall goal is to create a minimum viable product or prototype to demonstrate the business concept.
This presentation is based on the top seller book "Business Model Generation" by Alex Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur. This book introduces the Business Model Canvas, the world's leading tool in creating and analyzing business models. This great tool allows you to sketch out your business model visually without starting with a scary business plan.
You can take my online course which covers more content, examples, quizzes, challenges and provides a certificate of completion.
Get course discounts and learn more:
www.playtactic.com
I hope you find this beneficial and good luck on your business model ;)
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise boosts blood flow and levels of neurotransmitters and endorphins which elevate and stabilize mood.
This document is a collection of quotes and passages from Tom Peters discussing various topics related to excellence and innovation. It touches on themes like embracing failure, decentralization, execution, accountability, solving problems for customers, and tapping into opportunities like the women's market. Short snippets and ideas are presented without much additional context or connection between sections.
This document provides a summary of the speaker's trip to New Zealand and discusses various topics related to business excellence and innovation. It contains quotes and observations about the need for companies to embrace change, take risks, encourage diversity of thought, experiment frequently, and tolerate failures in order to drive innovation and long-term success. Key themes emphasized include the importance of revenue growth over cost-cutting, pursuing new opportunities through acquisitions or spin-offs, and cultivating "freaks" and diverse problem-solvers within organizations.
The document provides guidance on connecting brands to people's lives in today's complex marketplace. It notes that people are overloaded with choices and information, making them frustrated, confused, and reliant on intuition over rational decision-making. As a result, brands must [1] empathize to understand people's expectations, [2] create balanced expectations around feelings a brand can deliver, [3] dramatize to elevate those expectations, and [4] demonstrate by delivering experiences that validate those feelings. A brand's role is to make people feel better about themselves and their decisions.
Tom Peters at International Institute for Research in Lisbonbizgurus
The document is a collection of quotes and passages on various topics related to business excellence and innovation. Some key points:
- Excellence requires being responsive to change, growing revenue, innovating or risking death, decentralizing decision-making, executing strategically, and holding oneself accountable.
- Organizations must take risks, try new things even if they fail, move up the value chain by solving customer problems, and view all roles as value-adding rather than just support functions.
- The future belongs to those who hang out with and benchmark themselves against innovators, have diversity of thought at the top, and focus on outcomes like customer success over just transactions.
This document provides examples of techniques a "Meddler teacher" might use to engage students in active, complex thinking. It describes how Meddler teachers avoid simply providing answers and instead allow students to struggle productively and think through problems on their own. Examples shown include posing thought-provoking questions, assigning perplexing open-ended projects, and pointing out logical fallacies in clickbait headlines to encourage critical thinking. The goal of a Meddler teacher is to prepare students to think independently and creatively solve complex issues.
The document discusses the need for organizations to attract and retain top talent to stay competitive in the coming years. It emphasizes that talent will be the key asset and basis of brands. Organizations must make work meaningful and empower employees to develop their careers. Non-conformists and rebels who push boundaries are most likely to drive innovation.
Tom Peters at Transforming Work, Life, & Organizations conferencebizgurus
The document discusses concepts related to excellence and innovation in organizations. It provides examples of how organizations can:
1) Embrace change, diversity of thought, risk-taking and rapid experimentation to drive innovation. Mistakes and failures should be seen as opportunities to learn.
2) Pursue decentralization, clear goal-setting, accountability and rigorous execution to achieve strategic objectives.
3) Continually move up the value chain by shifting from goods to services, solutions, experiences, and transforming customers' organizations.
Jason Clarke on Innovation - BiZFiT Keynote 25 May 2011SBDC WA
Jason, who is well known to ABC listeners through his regular interviews with James Lush, presented “the future belongs to those who see it first”, at a Small Business Development Corporation BiZFiT breakfast on Wednesday 25 May 2011.
This document discusses marketing strategies for startups. It recommends building a remarkable product as the core marketing strategy. It defines a remarkable product as one that is worth talking about and that shows customers what they want before they know it. It also recommends marketing to influential early adopters who can spread the word. Finally, it emphasizes building customer loyalty through community engagement and a great customer experience.
This document provides guidance on how to effectively structure and deliver an elevator pitch. It recommends modeling a pitch after a movie by including elements of drama, suspense and resolution. The suggested structure involves introducing the problem, the solution, competitive advantages, market size, and a call to action. Examples are given of what to avoid such as talking too long, focusing on features rather than outcomes, failing to identify customer benefits, targeting the wrong audience, and omitting a call to action. Games and examples are referenced to help practice delivering successful elevator pitches.
The document provides an overview of Steve Blank's teachings on business models, customer development, and how startups differ from large companies. It discusses that startups search for a repeatable business model through customer development, while large companies focus on execution. Key points include:
- Startups are temporary organizations that search for a business model, while companies execute known business plans.
- The business model canvas is used to visualize hypotheses about the problem and solution that are then tested through customer development.
- Customer development involves building minimum viable products and pivoting based on feedback, rather than following traditional product launch processes.
- Founders run customer development teams rather than hiring functional roles like sales and marketing early on.
You may want to include everything in your pitch deck but you shouldn't. Learn about 10 slides you should include in your pitch deck and how companies like airbnb and foursquare made their pitch deck.
Airbnb is the leading online marketplace for short-term home rentals. The document discusses Airbnb's $1B investment opportunity at a $20B valuation. It summarizes Airbnb's business model, large addressable market across vacation rentals and new markets created, strong network effects and competitive advantages, and financial projections estimating high growth and returns. However, the author recommends passing on the deal given the high $20B valuation limits potential returns to only 0.7-1.1x on investment.
A redesign of the original airbnb pitch deck presentation, which the company used to raise their initial seed funding round.
These slides were redesigned using one of the templates in Slidebean, a pitch deck builder for startups: https://slidebean.com/pitch-deck-templates
The document provides an overview of lean startup essentials and the lean canvas business model. It discusses that startups often fail due to a lack of customers, and that the lean startup process involves testing solutions to problems through customer interviews to determine if the solution is worth further development. The lean canvas is then introduced as a tool that focuses on the problem, solution, customer segments, and revenue streams to help validate ideas before significant investment in the business model.
Venture Design Workshop: Business Model CanvasAlex Cowan
These slides support the various workshops I do and my online curriculum in two principal places:
1. Business Model Canvas Tutorial
This is a more fully articulated instructional, complete with templates: bit.ly/nicebmc.
2. Startup Sprints
This is a structured self-service for Venture Design/new venture creation: bit.ly/startupsprints.
The document provides guidance for developing a business model canvas over three days at a startup workshop.
Day 1 focuses on defining customer segments, validating problems, and sketching initial business model ideas. Day 2 involves further developing the business model canvas, designing surveys and questionnaires, and planning customer acquisition. Day 3 consists of finalizing the business model, preparing a pitch, and presenting to judges for feedback. The overall goal is to create a minimum viable product or prototype to demonstrate the business concept.
This presentation is based on the top seller book "Business Model Generation" by Alex Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur. This book introduces the Business Model Canvas, the world's leading tool in creating and analyzing business models. This great tool allows you to sketch out your business model visually without starting with a scary business plan.
You can take my online course which covers more content, examples, quizzes, challenges and provides a certificate of completion.
Get course discounts and learn more:
www.playtactic.com
I hope you find this beneficial and good luck on your business model ;)
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise boosts blood flow and levels of neurotransmitters and endorphins which elevate and stabilize mood.
This document is a collection of quotes and passages from Tom Peters discussing various topics related to excellence and innovation. It touches on themes like embracing failure, decentralization, execution, accountability, solving problems for customers, and tapping into opportunities like the women's market. Short snippets and ideas are presented without much additional context or connection between sections.
This document provides a summary of the speaker's trip to New Zealand and discusses various topics related to business excellence and innovation. It contains quotes and observations about the need for companies to embrace change, take risks, encourage diversity of thought, experiment frequently, and tolerate failures in order to drive innovation and long-term success. Key themes emphasized include the importance of revenue growth over cost-cutting, pursuing new opportunities through acquisitions or spin-offs, and cultivating "freaks" and diverse problem-solvers within organizations.
The document provides guidance on connecting brands to people's lives in today's complex marketplace. It notes that people are overloaded with choices and information, making them frustrated, confused, and reliant on intuition over rational decision-making. As a result, brands must [1] empathize to understand people's expectations, [2] create balanced expectations around feelings a brand can deliver, [3] dramatize to elevate those expectations, and [4] demonstrate by delivering experiences that validate those feelings. A brand's role is to make people feel better about themselves and their decisions.
Tom Peters at International Institute for Research in Lisbonbizgurus
The document is a collection of quotes and passages on various topics related to business excellence and innovation. Some key points:
- Excellence requires being responsive to change, growing revenue, innovating or risking death, decentralizing decision-making, executing strategically, and holding oneself accountable.
- Organizations must take risks, try new things even if they fail, move up the value chain by solving customer problems, and view all roles as value-adding rather than just support functions.
- The future belongs to those who hang out with and benchmark themselves against innovators, have diversity of thought at the top, and focus on outcomes like customer success over just transactions.
This document provides examples of techniques a "Meddler teacher" might use to engage students in active, complex thinking. It describes how Meddler teachers avoid simply providing answers and instead allow students to struggle productively and think through problems on their own. Examples shown include posing thought-provoking questions, assigning perplexing open-ended projects, and pointing out logical fallacies in clickbait headlines to encourage critical thinking. The goal of a Meddler teacher is to prepare students to think independently and creatively solve complex issues.
The document discusses the need for organizations to attract and retain top talent to stay competitive in the coming years. It emphasizes that talent will be the key asset and basis of brands. Organizations must make work meaningful and empower employees to develop their careers. Non-conformists and rebels who push boundaries are most likely to drive innovation.
Tom Peters at Transforming Work, Life, & Organizations conferencebizgurus
The document discusses concepts related to excellence and innovation in organizations. It provides examples of how organizations can:
1) Embrace change, diversity of thought, risk-taking and rapid experimentation to drive innovation. Mistakes and failures should be seen as opportunities to learn.
2) Pursue decentralization, clear goal-setting, accountability and rigorous execution to achieve strategic objectives.
3) Continually move up the value chain by shifting from goods to services, solutions, experiences, and transforming customers' organizations.
Jason Clarke on Innovation - BiZFiT Keynote 25 May 2011SBDC WA
Jason, who is well known to ABC listeners through his regular interviews with James Lush, presented “the future belongs to those who see it first”, at a Small Business Development Corporation BiZFiT breakfast on Wednesday 25 May 2011.
This document provides guidance for first-time founders on raising capital. It discusses pitching to angels and venture capitalists, emphasizing the importance of understanding the investor's perspective. Key tips include focusing the pitch on addressing a real problem and potential for huge market size and revenue. Due diligence, negotiations, and trust-building are important final steps to closing a funding deal. Additional resources are recommended for ongoing learning about startups.
This document contains 13 multiple choice questions about key concepts from Chapter 3 of an innovation textbook. It discusses Peter Drucker's views on innovation at Starbucks and other companies. It also defines several innovation-related terms.
I am interested in developing executive training or professional development workshops that function as 'surprise' and 'mystery' tours and collective performance art.
I have brought a squash to the class last Friday (as a form of improvisation and surprise).
In particular, students like puzzles (the student who gets the answer first gets a dark chocolate).
If you view it as a slideshow and try to guess the answers to the puzzles, then the experience might be quite fun:)
You can find the description of this class below.
In this class that is designed as a collective performance art, we review some of the biggest names in the landscape of entertainment, creativity, and business. From space to magic, from basketball to fashion, from animation to computer games, from film music to architecture we have a trans-disciplinary tour of storytelling and creative careers. We have a series of exercises in asset creation and imagination. We have a lot of puzzles. We dream about the university of the future. However, the main actor in all of this experience (the connecting thread/anchor) is a squash.
The document discusses best practices for traveling to meet with customers or work in the field ("market work"). It emphasizes 6 key lessons: 1) practicing management by walking around (MBWA); 2) leading by example through visible behaviors; 3) making the work about serving others, not oneself; 4) demonstrating effective leadership style in high-pressure situations; 5) sharing challenges and successes with employees on the front lines; and 6) leaving a positive impact through meaningful contributions. The overall message is that traveling for work provides opportunities to better understand operational realities, strengthen relationships, and lead most effectively.
Want to tell better marketing and brand stories? Want to develop a better emotional connection with your audience? In this presentation, with Erin Blaskie, we uncover what it means to connect with your target market and tell the story that matters most to them.
The document discusses how to build a startup culture and mentality within an existing corporate organization. It emphasizes that leadership must lead the culture change by getting the right people onboard who embrace the startup mindset of taking risks, failing fast, and constant iteration. Other key points include focusing on the mission to drive passion, being bold and concise in communications, and making progress through small wins. The overall message is that cracking the startup code begins by transforming the organizational culture to one of agility, passion for the mission, and an embrace of risks and fast learning from failures.
This document discusses innovation and contains discussion questions about key concepts from Peter Drucker's work. It defines innovation as a change in process or application of new inventions that increases value. Drucker's four questions about innovation focus on exploring opportunities and systematic abandonment refers to replacing outdated products and services. Starbucks is used as an example of paradigm change through creating a new social experience around coffee.
This is about creativity management, need for more innovation in business and the web2.0 incorporating much of innovative concepts. much more information and webinks in the slide notes when downloaded
DTI SUCCESS MINDSETS OF ENTREPRENEURS by Ardy RobertoArdy Roberto
What are the eight mindsets that make an entrepreneur successful? Ardy Roberto shares his story and stories of entrepreneurs and their mindsets that made them successful.
This presentation was made at the DTI SSF Summit in Bicol last August 31, 2016.
Weird, Useful, Significant: Internet marketing NOWIan Lurie
If you want to succeed on the internet, talk to the slightly weird/obsessed audience who will hang on and pass on your every word. Don't demand significance. EARN IT.
Similar to Motivation, The Entrepreneur's Mind - StartUP Academy Nov 2013 (20)
Dr. Sean Tan, Head of Data Science, Changi Airport Group
Discover how Changi Airport Group (CAG) leverages graph technologies and generative AI to revolutionize their search capabilities. This session delves into the unique search needs of CAG’s diverse passengers and customers, showcasing how graph data structures enhance the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated search results, mitigating the risk of “hallucinations” and improving the overall customer journey.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Art of the Possible with Graph - Q2 2024Neo4j
Neha Bajwa, Vice President of Product Marketing, Neo4j
Join us as we explore breakthrough innovations enabled by interconnected data and AI. Discover firsthand how organizations use relationships in data to uncover contextual insights and solve our most pressing challenges – from optimizing supply chains, detecting fraud, and improving customer experiences to accelerating drug discoveries.
Maruthi Prithivirajan, Head of ASEAN & IN Solution Architecture, Neo4j
Get an inside look at the latest Neo4j innovations that enable relationship-driven intelligence at scale. Learn more about the newest cloud integrations and product enhancements that make Neo4j an essential choice for developers building apps with interconnected data and generative AI.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
Building RAG with self-deployed Milvus vector database and Snowpark Container...Zilliz
This talk will give hands-on advice on building RAG applications with an open-source Milvus database deployed as a docker container. We will also introduce the integration of Milvus with Snowpark Container Services.
How to Get CNIC Information System with Paksim Ga.pptxdanishmna97
Pakdata Cf is a groundbreaking system designed to streamline and facilitate access to CNIC information. This innovative platform leverages advanced technology to provide users with efficient and secure access to their CNIC details.
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
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This keynote will reveal how Deloitte leverages Neo4j’s graph power for groundbreaking digital twin solutions, achieving a staggering 100x performance boost. Discover the essential role knowledge graphs play in successful generative AI implementations. Plus, get an exclusive look at an innovative Neo4j + Generative AI solution Deloitte is developing in-house.
Unlocking Productivity: Leveraging the Potential of Copilot in Microsoft 365, a presentation by Christoforos Vlachos, Senior Solutions Manager – Modern Workplace, Uni Systems
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Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
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* Importance and benefits of vector search
* Practical use cases across various industries
* Step-by-step implementation guide
* Live demos with code snippets
* Enhancing LLM capabilities with vector search
* Best practices and optimization strategies
Perfect for developers, AI enthusiasts, and tech leaders. Learn how to leverage MongoDB Atlas to deliver highly relevant, context-aware search results, transforming your data retrieval process. Stay ahead in tech innovation and maximize the potential of your applications.
#MongoDB #VectorSearch #AI #SemanticSearch #TechInnovation #DataScience #LLM #MachineLearning #SearchTechnology
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8. МИСЛЕНЕТО НА ПРЕДПРИЕМАЧА
PASSION: the ability to burn in
bright flames for a goal
CREATIVITY: the ability to
create new value
COMMITMENT: the ability to
put the goal above your ego
AWARENSS: the ability to
notice things around
CONSCIOUSNESS: the ability to
see the world from the
perspective of someone
responsible for it.
WICKED: the ability to cut
edges
FAILURE: the ability to rejoice
failure
EXPERIENCE: the ability to
breakdown experience into
useful bits of information
10. МИСЛЕНЕТО НА ПРЕДПРИЕМАЧА
SEEKING OPPs:
exhaustive
enumeration and
evaluation of materials
available
BUILDING OPPs: comes
from asking questions
on how existing
situations can be
improved
PROBLEM
S
CHANG
E
RECOGNITION of OPPs:
reflection on what
goes around you to
ascertain why they
happen and see
possible need for
solution
OPPORTUNI
TY
CREATION of OPPs:
build doors for
opportunities if it
doesn't knock
11. КАК ДА ОТКРИВАМЕ ВЪЗМОЖНОСТИТЕ
THINK
Imagination running wild
LISTEN
Become a giant question mark.
LOOK FOR GAPS
Gaps are related to time
useless to one, meaningful to others
THE POWER OF
ASSOCIATION
train your association muscle
combine the not obvious
FILTER
What does this have to do with me, with my expertise?
How does this fit into my picture of the universe?
ASK FOR IT
When you meet someone bright ask them for a thought
Great minds share
14. В КАКВО ***BEEP*** СЕ ЗАБЪРКВАМЕ
There will be more confusion in the business
world in the next decade than in any decade
in history. And the current pace of change
will only accelerate.
15. В КАКВО ***BEEP*** СЕ ЗАБЪРКВАМЕ
S&P Stability Ratings*
1985
2006
LOW RISK
41%
3%
AVERAGE RISK
24%
14%
HIGH RISK
35%
75%
*Likelihood of
stable long-term earnings growth
16. В КАКВО ***BEEP*** СЕ ЗАБЪРКВАМЕ
3,000 million people want to have what most
Westerners already have – and they want it
NOW!!!
17. В КАКВО ***BEEP*** СЕ ЗАБЪРКВАМЕ
600,000/engineering degrees/2004/China
350,000/engineering degrees/2004/India
70,000/engineering degrees/2004/U.S.A.
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CHINA NOW HAS
200 cities with
>1,000,000
population.
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Level 5 (top) certification/
Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering
Institute:
35 of 70
companies in the world are from India
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25% of India’s Population with highest IQ’s...
...is GREATER than the total population of the
US.
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Top 10 jobs in-demand today...
...did not existed in 2004.
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We are currently preparing people...
...for jobs that don’t yet exist...
...for using technologies that haven’t been
invented...
...in order to solve problems,
we don’t know are even problems yet
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FACEBOOK
now has over 500 000 000 registered
users
...if it was a country, it would have been the 3rd
largest in the world.
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Number of Google Searches per month
2,7 billion in 2006
36.1 billion in 2009
100.0 billion in 2012
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The amount of unique information that will
be generated this year:
4 exabytes (4.0x10^19)
That is more than the previous 5000 years
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Brands have run out of juice. They are dead.
Kevin Roberts/Saatchi & Saatchi
ME TOO = ME DEAD
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Age of Mass Production:
Age of Mass Convenience:
Age of Aesthetics:
What the next age will
be?
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“If you can’t win on cost, then you’re left with
cool.”
Anon./NZ
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“You know a design is good when you want
to lick it.”
Steve Jobs
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Consumers of the world congratulations!!
We have been recently told that the Mall of America in Minneapolis attracts 40
million visitors a year – more people than Disney World, Disneyland and the
Grand Canyon combined!!
Shop till you drop!!!
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“Forget China, India and the Internet: Economic
Growth Is Driven by Women.
—Headline, Economist, April 15, 2006, Leader, page 14
GIRLS ARE THE NEW BOYS!
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What workers really think about work?
!
!
•
Only 17% are actively ‘engaged’
•
63% aren’t engaged !
•
20% are actively ‘disengaged’
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People don’t quit jobs... they quit bosses.
Ken Blanchard
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4 IDEAS on getting it
done
get that vision thing!
create other leaders, not followers!
give your team a damn good listening to!
be an enemy of the status quo
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When two people in business always agree,
one of them is unnecessary.
William Wrigley jr
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If you want to be part of this team - have an
opinion.
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“You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people than
you can in two years by trying to get other
people interested in you.”
Dale Carnegie
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“90% percent of what we call ‘management’
consists of making it difficult for people to
get things done.”
Peter Drucker
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“The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the
time. The last 10% takes the other 90% of the
time.”
Richard Templar
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Scare yourself, otherwise you’re not doing
anything new.
Mary Murphy Hoye, Head Of R & D, Intel
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“We have a ‘strategic plan. It’s called doing
things.”
Herb Kelleher – Founder Southwest Airlines
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The secret of getting ahead is getting started
Agatha Christi
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Nothing is more dangerous in war than
theoreticians.
Marshall Petain
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Innovation Index: How many of your Top 5
Strategic
Initiatives score 8 [out of 10] or higher on a :
“Weird”
“Profound”
“Wow”
“Game-changer”
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The one thing you need to know about individual
success:
Discover what you don’t like doing and
STOP
doing it."
Marcus Buckingham
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People can be divided into 3 groups
those who make things happen
those who watch things happen
those who ask ‘what happened’?
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A typical day at the office for me begins by
‘What is impossible
that I am
going to do today?’
asking
!
Daniel Lamarre, president, Cirque du Soleil
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“The best swordsman in the world doesn’t need
to fear the second best swordsman in
the world; no, the person for him to be afraid of is some ignorant
antagonist who has never had a sword in his hand before; he doesn’t do
the thing he ought to do, and so the expert isn’t prepared for him; he does
the thing he ought not to do and often it catches the expert out and ends
him on the spot.”
!
Mark Twain
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“How do dominant companies lose their position?
!
Two-thirds of the time, they pick the wrong
competitor to worry about.”
Don Listwin (commenting on Nokia)
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!
“Are there enough weird
people in the lab these
days?”
!
V. Chmn., pharmaceutical house, to a lab director
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“The surplus society has a surplus of SIMILAR
companies, employing SIMILAR people, with
SIMILAR educational backgrounds, coming up
with SIMILAR ideas, producing SIMILAR things,
with SIMILAR prices and SIMILAR quality.”
!
Kjell Nordstrom and Jonas Ridderstråle, Funky Business
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Why Do I love FREAKs?
!
(1) Because when Anything Interesting happens ... it was a
FREAK who did it. (Period.)
!
(2) FREAKs are fun. (FREAKs are also a pain.) (FREAKs are
never boring.)
!
(3) We need FREAKs. Especially in freaky times.
!
(4) FREAKs are the only (ONLY) ones who succeed—as in,
make it into the history books.
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“ARE YOU BEING REASONABLE?
!
Most people are reasonable; that’s
why they only do reasonably well.”
Paul Arden
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Risk pays off
• The Great value innovator Jesus took risks and was crucified.
• Alfred Nobel took risks and passed away in solitude.
• Van Gogh took risks, was ridiculed and committed suicide.
!
• For every Bill Gates and Michael Dell, or any other well known, risk-prone, explorer,
there
are thousands of others who tried and failed. They lost everything!
!
We should hail them, because the innermost mechanism of human
progress is called failure. If it were not for all the fools trying to do
the impossible – over and over again – we would still be living in
caves.
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“If people never did silly things,
nothing intelligent would ever
happen.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“You miss 100% of the shots you never
take.”
Wayne Gretzky