Sun.Feb 21, 2016

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Understanding your Innovation Culture – A Case-Study from Swisslog

HYPE Innovation

How do your company’s employees react when asked to participate in enterprise collaborative innovation? Do employees cheer enthusiastically, as they are finally able to get involved? Perhaps there’s a degree of cynicism having seen corporate initiatives fail in the past? Do employees understand what you’re trying to do? It can be hard to understand whether you have an ‘innovation culture’ and to what extent that’s propagated the organization, however, running idea campaigns helps to develop a cl

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Interview with Dr Simone Ritter: how variety sparks new ideas

Idea to Value

I recently sat down with Dr Simone Ritter to discuss recent research into how creativity happens in the brain, and whether it is possible to improve it. Dr Ritter is an Assistant Professor at Department of Social and Cultural Psychology, Radboud University Nijmegen in Holland, and is leading a team looking into how people generate and select ideas.

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We Need To Change The Way We Think About Technology

Digital Tonto

Our failure to adapt to the future is less likely to be due to a lack of intelligence than a lack of imagination. Related posts: 5 Trends That Will Drive The Future of Technology. How Google’s. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Up Close and Professional with Gap’s Kyle Hermans

Innovation Excellence

The interesting thing about the dialogue I recently had with Kyle was well, only everything – starting with his customized title “Senior Director of Innovation Capacity and Organization Effectiveness” custom molded to fit Kyle’s extraordinary expertise. When asked to describe it – the words were so fluid it was abundantly clear this role is far more than a title but more a promise to pioneer new thinking.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

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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The short term actions needed for sustainable long-termism!

Norbert Bol

This month Larry Fink, the chief executive at BlackRock the world’s biggest investor with $4.6 trillion, sent a letter to the chief executives at S&P 500 companies and large European corporations to bring an end to a culture of short-termism and to focus on long term value creation. The appeal is not new, as other leading figures (e.g. Hillary Clinton , Mindy Lubber , Mark Carney ) have made this claim before.

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A New Wave of Open, More Social Digital Innovation?

Innovation Excellence

There are four aspects where technology will trend towards open to exploit our connected world that might offer up more opportunities to participate and explore Continue reading →

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