Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 16, 2016

At this point in business evolution, every CEO understands the need for more innovation. After a decade of reading about it, getting pounded over the head with the Jobs/Apple story and watching new innovations disrupt entire industries, businesses are starting to react. More and more of them are doing innovation, with drastically different outcomes.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Here is a quickie strategic thinking question for you: If you saw your life as a teeter-totter, what rules of life would guide your behaviors and how you treat others? Teeter-Totter Rules of Life. If teeter-totter rules of life guided your strategic thinking and actions, would you. Realize that while it is great to be higher than somebody else, it is not going to last?

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 16, 2016

We tend to be very short-sighted, we corporate executives. Our lifespans are relatively brief, all things considered. There are over 240 years since the founding of the United States, and using a 20-year cycle for generations that suggest approximately 12 generations of people during that brief window. Most of us work for approximately 40 years, but we rarely.

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IdeaConnection

DECEMBER 16, 2016

In recent weeks Facebook has come in for huge criticism across the globe after some users complained that fabricated news stories had influenced the US presidential election. And now the social media giant has responded with a raft of new features to fight the fake news and hoaxes, and it includes enlisting the help of the crowd. The new features were announced on Thursday, and in a blog post a company spokesperson said: “We believe in giving people a voice and that we cannot become arbite

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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

DECEMBER 16, 2016

I recently got a call from my mother asking me to help her watch House of Cards on Netflix. She was frustrated and complained, “I keep pressing the thing and nothing happens!” It was hard to get her to understand I had no idea what thing she was pressing or what was supposed to happen when.

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Rapid Innovation in digital time

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Philippe Lebeaupin is Innovation Coach at Lab Covea, and one of the founders of this incubator for intrapreneurs. He explains the way he coaches intrapreneurs' projects, sharing some exciting business pivots along the way!

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Wazoku

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Wazoku – a crowdsourcing company based in West London – has named the MS Society as their first ever charity partner. The partnership aims to empower the MS Society’s work to support everyone with multiple sclerosis (MS), and will kick off at Wazoku’s annual Christmas ‘Kuathon’ – a 48-hour hackathon – at their headquarters in North Acton from 12-13 December.

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Innovation Leader

DECEMBER 16, 2016

AIG and John Hancock execs discuss how insurance companies can innovate in the face of regulatory oversight, privacy concerns, and the status quo.

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