Destination Innovation

JULY 21, 2016

Organic foods at the Hospital. Can you innovate and improve business performance by copying another company from an entirely different industry? This is what the Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital in Michigan did when it wanted to transform its customer service and operational efficiency. The hospital borrowed some of the practices of a five star hotel and even hired a new CEO who had previously worked for Ritz Carlton.

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BrainZooming

JULY 21, 2016

Summer travel is a fascinating study in how little people think about the ways their bodies AND their clothes will be stretched beyond normal limits. It’s a great opportunity to practice keeping your eyes very focused on what you are doing and ignoring the “local scenery” Being on the road during the summer is also a great opportunity to write a “Larry King-style” summer travel blogging update.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 21, 2016

While many baby boomers are preparing to leave the workforce; organizational leadership at most companies are not prepared to lose them. As reiterated in a McKinsey Quarterly Survey, the baby boomer generation is “the best-educated, most highly skilled aging workforce in U.S. history.

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Svava

JULY 21, 2016

What Makes Idea Hunt Stand Out as Crowdsourcing Platform for Innovation?

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Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

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

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 21, 2016

Reynald Chapuis is Innovation and CSR manager at France Job Center (Pôle Emploi). He shares with us the various and tangible initiatives he lead at Pôle Emploi, from participative innovation, E-Novaction platform, Innovation Lab, Innovation App store, emploi-store.fr, to the open innovation cluster, Lab RH. Welcome to a world where unemployment is not a fatal, but can trigger a rebound.

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Open Innovation Innovation Management Collaboration 41

Information Playground

JULY 21, 2016

A little over a year ago I began sharing some of the preliminary results of EMC's  Architecting for Value research partnership with Dr. Jim Short from the San Diego Supercomputer Center. One of the key findings was the value shift from products to data.  The research was showing that established corporations had a strong desire to augment their product revenues with data revenues.

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Michael Roberto

JULY 21, 2016

Jonah Berger of Wharton has written a new book titled, Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces that Shape Behavior. He was recently interviewed for an article on the Knowledge@Wharton website. In that interview, he discusses how the presence and influence of others sometimes helps us, and on other occasions, can have a detrimental impact. Here's an excerpt from that interview: There’s this wonderful old study on motivation.

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