Proof Of Concept

On a desperately overcrowded future Earth, crippled by climate change, the most unlikely hope is better than none. Governments turn to Big Science to provide them with the dreams that will keep the masses compliant. The Needle is one such dream, an installation where the most abstruse theoretical science is being tested: science that might make human travel to a habitable exoplanet distantly feasible. When the Needle’s director offers her underground compound as a training base, Kir is thrilled to be invited to join the team, even though she knows it’s only because her brain is host to a quantum artificial intelligence called Altair. But Altair knows something he can’t tell. Kir, like all humans, is programmed to ignore future dangers. Between the artificial blocks in his mind, and the blocks evolution has built into his host, how is he going to convince her the sky is falling? Proof of Concept is a science fiction novella from Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Gwyneth Jones. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

SETTING A STANDARDThe Essential Guide to Navigating Your Proof of Concept is your guide to understanding how to execute a world-class PoC. This book was released to document the essential best practices for managing a world-class Proof of Concept. By this, we mean we want to set a high standard for qualifying, defining, executing and closing a Proof of Concept. ELEVATING OUR GAMEThe Essential Guide to Navigate Your Proof of Concept proposes adopting methodologies and approaches to advance often haphazard approaches to conducting Proof of Concepts today. This book outlines a clear and common sense based thinking and practice in completing a Proof of Concept. A Proof of Concept is a strategic sales tool and not just a stop-gap measure. Understanding the strategic value of a PoC elevates its importance with your customers while influencing when and how a sales team uses a PoC to advance an opportunity towards a close. A sales team that takes this higher view of a PoC will project a different mindset and professional level with their customers. Although a PoC is often free to a customer, that doesn't mean it lacks value. Elevating how you conduct a PoC elevates your team's importance and investment in a PoC with your customers.A WORLD-CLASS APPROACH TO PROOF OF CONCEPTSIn The Essential Guide to Navigate Your Proof of Concept, it proposes that I propose that sales engineers set and maintain a higher standard when executing a PoC. There are identifiable traits which distinguish a "world-class PoC" including:*knowing how a PoC fits within the account and how it advances the opportunity*having a clear plan of execution*establishing a consistent feedback loop*executing a documented and published PoC*using project management practices that ensure the right things get done at the right time by the right resources*agreeing to success criteria before you start the PoC*designing a PoC with the customer in mind*ensuring a PoC is an illustration, not an implementation*using a PoC to showcase your team and culture*leveraging a PoC to build relationships and trust with your team and solution THE WAY OF EXECUTING A POC - GETTING THE WIN!The reason we execute a PoC is to win a customer towards our solution. Within the context of a PoC, as sales engineers, we are looking for a technical win. Acquiring a technical win means that a customer has reviewed your solution and selected it over others. This means that as a sales engineer, you have won the opportunity from a technical perspective. But that doesn't mean it leads to an actual purchase order.A New OutAn outcome of executing a world-class PoC is to ensure that we acquire the technical win to allow your sales lead to work towards the business win. A business win is defined as progressing a technical win into a purchase order - meaning the customer invests in your solution.The Essential Guide to Navigating Your Proof of Concept was written as a guide for sales engineers to execute a world-class PoC. Like a travel guide, this book was written to lead you through the planning and processes which lead you towards a world-class PoC.The proposed methodology is common sense concepts, practices and mindsets. Some of the foundational features of the proposed method include:*Thinking and planning your PoC in four stages*Knowing and engaging with all the PoC stakeholders*Using standard templates to document and manage a PoC*Understanding how to use a PoC to deepen your customer relationship *Learning when a PoC is off course and how to self-correct*Understanding when a PoC is not the right vehicle to advance an opportunityThe focus of The Essential Guide to Navigating Your Proof of Concept is to advance a clear and understandable methodology for executing a world-class PoC.

SETTING A STANDARD: The Essential Guide to Navigating Your Proof of Concept is your guide to understanding how to execute a world-class PoC. This book was released to document the essential best practices for managing a world-class Proof of Concept. By this, we mean we want to set a high standard for qualifying, defining, executing and closing a Proof of Concept. ELEVATING OUR GAME: The Essential Guide to Navigate Your Proof of Concept promotes methodologies to counter and replace the often haphazard approach used to manage a proof of concept. This book outlines practical and applicable ways to ensure that your proof of concept is "world-class". The Essential Guide to Navigate Your Proof of Concept promotes a methodology and a new approach to increase your technical win-rate. Sales teams should leverage a Proof of Concept as a strategic sales tool to win business - but that is not always the case. To improve how your sales team leverages a Proof of Concept, learn and apply the book's principles. The Essential Guide to Navigate Your Proof of Concept proposes that a Proof of Concept execute at a "world-class" standard by equipping sales engineers on the best practices that elevate their approach, technique and processes when managing a Proof of Concept. This book was written for sales engineers by a sales engineer with real-world experience working in leading enterprise-scale organizations.The Essential Guide to Navigate Your Proof of Concept promotes a clear and understandable approach for managed a Proof of Concept using a four-step methodology. Along with purpose-built tools and templates, it enables a sales engineer to qualify, define, execute, and close a Proof of Concept. TAKING A WORLD-CLASS APPROACH: The Essential Guide to Navigate Your Proof of Concept provides a sales engineer with an approach to establishing and maintaining a high standard for executing a proof of concept. THE REASON FOR EXECUTING A POC IS TO GET THE WIN: For a sales engineer, it is critical to acquire the technical win from a proof of concept. Earning a technical win means that a customer has reviewed your solution and selected it over others. This means that as a sales engineer, you have won the opportunity from a technical perspective. But that doesn't mean it leads to an actual purchase order. Executing a world-class proof of concept also means that you set up the outcome of a PoC to also earn the business win (purchase order). A FRAMEWORK AND TOOLS TO GET THE JOB DONE: The Essential Guide to Navigating Your Proof of Concept is written to inform and guide sales engineers through the planning and process of high-quality proof of concept customer-centric experience.

This highly anticipated print collection gathers articles published in the much-loved International Journal of Proof-of-Concept or Get The Fuck Out. PoC||GTFO follows in the tradition of Phrack and Uninformed by publishing on the subjects of offensive security research, reverse engineering, and file format internals. Until now, the journal has only been available online or printed and distributed for free at hacker conferences worldwide. Consistent with the journal's quirky, biblical style, this book comes with all the trimmings: a leatherette cover, ribbon bookmark, bible paper, and gilt-edged pages. The book features more than 80 technical essays from numerous famous hackers, authors of classics like "Reliable Code Execution on a Tamagotchi," "ELFs are Dorky, Elves are Cool," "Burning a Phone," "Forget Not the Humble Timing Attack," and "A Sermon on Hacker Privilege." Twenty-four full-color pages by Ange Albertini illustrate many of the clever tricks described in the text.

One of the major shortcomings of the current drug discovery and development process is the inability to bridge the gap between early stage discoveries and pre-clinical research in order to advance innovations beyond the discovery phase. This book examines a drug discovery and development model, where the respective expertise of academia and industry are brought together to take promising discoveries through to proof of concept, providing a means to de-risk the drug discovery and development process.

Smartphones for Chemical Analysis: From Proof-of-Concept to Analytical Applications, Volume 101 in the Comprehensive Analytical Chemistry series, highlights new advances in this broadening field, with chaters that cover Smartphone-based assay benchmarking using traditional instrumental analysis, Smartphone-based water analysis, Sample preparation in smartphone-based analysis: Current status and challenges, Application of smartphone-based analysis in the medical field, Smartphone-based biosensors in the food analysis field, Bioreceptors for smartphone detection, Smartphone "anatomy": Features used for ubiquitous sensing, and much more. Additional chapters cover End-user integration for at-home analysis, Hyphenating paper-based biosensors with smartphones, Smartphone based Fluorescent and chemiluminescent sensing, Smartphones for portable surface enhanced raman spectroscopy, Towards a universal applicable photonics approach and sustainable spectral data, Integrating blockchain and image analyses on smartphones to create a secure food export pipeline, Smartphone-based electrochemical (bio)sensors: state of the art and perspective, Micro-and nanoplastic detection through a point of site platform platform, and Benchmarking using ambient mass spectrometry. Provides up-to-date, expert opinion on this emerging topic Covers a wider range of the chemical analysis field, from food to medical analysis Highlights current challenges with solutions proposed

This report, jointly developed by the European Observatory, OECD, and WHO Europe, serves as a proof of concept for a Health Systems Performance Assessment (HSPA) dashboard. HSPA is pivotal for health system transformation, providing policymakers with key indicators to identify and address system performance issues. This brief represents a step towards more policy-friendly dashboards, emphasizing the need for a focused set of HSPA indicators aligned with policy goals. The brief highlights the alignment and complementarity of the WHO-Observatory global HSPA framework and OECD's renewed framework, which aid policymakers in navigating health systems with actionable, policy-relevant indicators. These frameworks establish connections between performance indicators, health system functions, and overarching goals, supporting a coherent policy dashboard. Tracer indicators, like workforce, digital health, and service delivery outcomes, are emphasized as crucial for assessing key policy areas. The report underscores the importance of investing in data collection and infrastructure at national and international levels to make HSPA effective. It advocates for continuous improvement and collaboration among major international organizations, including WHO, OECD, EU, and the Observatory, to align methodologies and support informed policy decision-making.