Sustainability Solutions: Driving Factors and Key Innovations
Yet2
MARCH 5, 2019
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Phil McKinney
MARCH 7, 2019
I’ve been in the innovation game for more than 30 years. Hard to believe. With that many years comes loads of experience but also some downsides. As with most things, when you’ve done something for a long time, you tend to fall into a pattern – a rut. You use your experience to recognize a […].
Destination Innovation
MARCH 7, 2019
Cruises are booming in popularity. In 2018 there were around 27 million cruise ship passengers worldwide. Most cruises have guest speakers on board. I have been a such a speaker with different cruise lines. It is not as easy as it might appear. Here are some things I have learned. 1. The Audience. The people who go on cruises are mostly prosperous, educated and retired.
Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage
If AI agents are going to deliver ROI, they need to move beyond chat and actually do things. But, turning a model into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. In this new webinar, Alex Salazar and Nate Barbettini will break down the emerging AI architecture that makes action possible, and how it differs from traditional integration approaches.
Exago
MARCH 8, 2019
‘Think equal, build smart, innovate for change’: this year’s International Women’s Day focuses on how innovation and technology can advance gender parity and the empowerment of women at a global scale, and we at Exago know first-hand just how important women are to help drive innovation in the workplace. The post Celebrating women’s power to innovate appeared first on Exago.
IdeaScale
MARCH 6, 2019
Law enforcement has no choice but to adapt to changing technologies and the changes that technologies cause among the populations they serve. Innovation may not change what police officers do, but it can improve how they do it. Making law enforcement simpler, better, and safer in a world that is changing more rapidly than ever is a gargantuan challenge.
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Destination Innovation
MARCH 7, 2019
Alex Pentland. Alex Pentland is a professor at MIT who combined staff identity badges with GPS positioning technology. This enabled him to observe the movements of workers in an office much in the same way as we might watch streams of ants crossing the gorund. Among the many fascinating findings in his book, Social Physics, he notes, ‘Email has very little to do with productivity or creative output.
Braden Kelley
MARCH 4, 2019
It seems like a simple question. One that you would expect to lead to some risk mitigation behavior, but it doesn’t.
IdeaScale
MARCH 5, 2019
Globalization brings us closer and closer. Ever since the rise of the multi-national corporation, bridging cultural, social, and political differences has become an increasing concern. Yet, innovation might be the most powerful vector driving these differences, while offering the tools to cross them. Innovation Builds Economies. One of the undeniable advantages of globalization is that new ideas and technologies can quickly spread across the world.
Digital Tonto
MARCH 3, 2019
Transformation is always a journey, never a destination. It takes more than a clever strategy and sound execution to see it through. Related posts: You Can’t Change Fundamental Behaviors Without. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Gireesh Sahukar
Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.
HYPE Innovation
MARCH 5, 2019
This is the third part of the broader series on "Ten Rules of Innovation Management." In five publications, I’ll share 10 best practices that will help you if you’re managing an online, collaborative innovation management program or thinking about launching one. Since the start of this series, I talked about the foundations of an innovation management program here (Rules 1-3) , and about how to request specific ideas through targeted campaigns here (Rule 4).
Innovation Excellence
MARCH 6, 2019
The greatest unfair competitive advantage for your small business is leveraging this critical shift in how you view the drivers of the future. As I was growing up I’d often quip that my grandmother, who had been born at the start of the 20th Century in a Greek village and lived to nearly the age.
IdeaScale
MARCH 7, 2019
CPG brands aren’t always associated with innovation, though they may be associated with innovation on a small scale. This could be where you’ll find exciting new consumer innovations in coming years. People buy the same brand of coffee for years, or decades, even. Packaging may change, but the product is predictable, and CPG brands have done well by offering the consistency that is so reassuring to the consumer’s everyday life.
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!
InnovationManagement
MARCH 4, 2019
To stay relevant in the digital era, most companies are considering design thinking, but continue to be immersed in a “Build it, and they will come” mindset. Often, due to a sense of urgency to play catch-up or disrupt the market, they skip empathy and define stages of design thinking and jump to ideation and build a prototype of the new solution.
Innovation Excellence
MARCH 3, 2019
Peter Drucker said that– business has two–and only two–basic functions: marketing and innovation. Well, your company probably already has a Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), and most likely a Chief Innovation Officer (CINO, to distinguish from your Chief Information Officer, CIO). So you have both Druckerian functions covered. You may also have a Chief Strategy.
Acuvate
MARCH 4, 2019
In order to understand at what point ‘data’ transitions into being ‘big data’, and what its key elements are, it is imperative that we study the 5 Vs associated with it: Velocity, Volume, Value, Variety, and Veracity. What is Big Data. “Big data” is a relatively modern field of data science that explores how large data sets can be broken down and analyzed in order to systematically glean insights and information from them.
Daniel Burrus
MARCH 6, 2019
This visceral image of “industry” being gritty and exclusively blue-collar is true to some degree, but when “4.0” is added to it, it takes on a whole new meaning, and blue-collar workers end up believing the narrative that robots and artificial intelligence (A.I.) will delete their jobs. Though common, this fear is unwarranted. Despite the now-proven Hard Trend that A.I., advanced automation and robotics, 3D printing, and other industrial Internet of Things (IoT) advancements often replace munda
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Innovation is key to overcoming crises. This guide outlines how businesses can navigate uncertainty by adapting strategies, embracing open innovation, and strengthening resilience. Learn how to reassess business models, engage external expertise, and build a robust innovation ecosystem. Explore the three phases of crisis response—from immediate adaptation to long-term transformation—and discover how collaboration accelerates progress while reducing costs.
Innovation Leader
MARCH 6, 2019
Many of history’s most respected intellectuals — not just the senior leadership at your company — have said silly things about new ideas that had not yet realized their potential.
Innovation Excellence
MARCH 7, 2019
When Steve Jobs and Apple launched the Macintosh with great fanfare in 1984, it was to be only one step in a long journey that began with Douglas Engelbart’s Mother of All Demos and the development of the Alto at Xerox PARC more than a decade before. The Macintosh was, in many ways, the culmination.
Rmukesh Gupta
MARCH 7, 2019
In this short animation, Dr. Sandi Man n talks about why boredom is an important emotion for us and what role it plays in the creative process. Boredom creates a space where we can daydream and allow our sub-conscious mind to connect unrelated things and these connections lead to new insights and creative ideas. If we really want to experience creative breakthroughs , avoiding boredom is not an option.
Svava
MARCH 6, 2019
20 Ways How To Think and Act Like an Innovator.
Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage
When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m
hackerearth
MARCH 5, 2019
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a system of interrelated devices that have unique identifiers and can autonomously transfer data over a network. IoT ecosystems consist of internet-enabled smart devices that have integrated sensors, processors, and communication hardware to capture, analyze, and send data from their immediate environments. IHS Technology predicts that there will be over 30 billion IoT devices in use by 2020 and over 75 billion by 2025.
Innovation Excellence
MARCH 4, 2019
In 1961, the first minicomputer, called the PDP-1, arrived at the MIT Electrical Engineering Department. It was a revolutionary machine but, as with all things that are truly new and different, no one really knew what to do with it. Lacking any better ideas, a few of the proto-hackers in residence decided to build a.
Innovation Walk
MARCH 6, 2019
Ignas Survila is reinventing micromobility. CEO of Unicorn Scooters , Ignas created electric kick scooters exclusively for sharing. Also a co-founder at Citybirds , the Lithuanian entrepreneur has been awarded for his functional and modern designs, such as Pigeon. Join us in this interview about micromobility, Unicorn Scooters , and the role of design in shaping the future of urban mobility.
Beyond the Obvious
MARCH 8, 2019
One thing is to know what your customers want to do, another is to understand how they intend to get it done. It’s easy to look at their goals and tell yourself that your product will match their needs. However, if you don’t understand their internal philosophy about what they are doing and why they […].
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The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.
InnovationManagement
MARCH 7, 2019
Global innovation projects demand particular leadership competencies in a multicultural and networked environment. Leaders need substantial cultural and market intelligence, facilitation, and orchestration skills in order to accelerate innovation and performance around the world. Yet current leadership models are not designed for this highly challenging environment where performance is critical to international market success.
Innovation Excellence
MARCH 2, 2019
One of the enduring factors in creating an agile and innovative business is purpose. Purpose answers the question: why do we do what we do? It gives a sense of determination to your ambition and direction. It gives a different flavour to your work then a vision, mission or strategy. To me a vision provides.
Tullio Siragusa
MARCH 4, 2019
Eight Ways to Adopt Radical Innovation. As each of us make progress in our careers and lives we learn all kinds of ways to doing things. We learn to apply best practices and processes that often serve to help us avoid risks and do things right. At the heart of true innovation, however, is the need to continually birth new ideas, and new ways of doing things.
Innovators Alliance
MARCH 6, 2019
One of the biggest challenges CEOs face in their roles is not having someone to confide in. Someone who “gets it.” Being the ultimate decision maker can be isolating, especially considering the overwhelming responsibility and pressure CEOs feel to consistently deliver results. Harvard Business Review reported that 50% of CEOs admitted to feeling lonely at work.
Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street
In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.
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