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Sustaining a Healthy World Through Growing Crop Health

Business and Tech

According to the Global Agricultural Productivity Report, the world is facing setbacks in agricultural production. Extreme weather events, climate change, economic shifts, and some government policies have impacted crop health and yields across the globe, and with it, some of the tools that deliver that production most efficiently. ­­.

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Does Merging Two Struggling Firms Create Value?

Michael Roberto

[link] Fortune's Chris Morris has reported that Neiman Marcus has rebuffed an acquisition offer from Saks, a competitor in the luxury retail market. Neiman, in 2002, filed for bankruptcy , but has emerged in a better position, with less debt. How much distraction will an integration effort create?

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Third Place and the Starbucks empire: the user experience at the heart of strategy

mjvinnovation

In 2002, in his book Celebrating the Third Place , Oldenburg classified the “popular coffee shop chain” as a facsimile of a third space, citing its “high volume and fast turnover operations that present an institutional environment at an intimate level.”. Download our Trend Report now!

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Digital Twins: what it is, how it works, and the advantages of this technology

mjvinnovation

Originally, this term was coined by Dr. Michael Grieves in 2002. The situation changed in the 2010s, with the development of IoT, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and Cloud Computing. It is a virtual prototype of a “living” and dynamic object, which means that it is updated whenever its physical twin undergoes changes.

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A brief history of work, innovation and skills in the UK

Wazoku

The need for people and organisations to innovate has always been there but what’s much harder to comprehend, and therefore navigate, is the rapid pace of change we’re experiencing, on a scale we’ve never seen before. Promoting change of any kind was seen as a threat to the established order. A new era of work and technological change.

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Innovation Networks – Needed Now More Than Ever

The Inovo Group

Changing Organizational Behavior in a VUCA World. A large, multinational company with several different business divisions, globally dispersed R&D and marketing operations, and a moderately hierarchical but highly matrixed reporting structure has a financial imperative to meet growth and profitability expectations.

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Regulations Work – Applaud SOX and Dodd- Frank

Adam Hartung

One major finding is that the makeup of Boards is changing, for the betterment of investors – and most likely everyone else in business. Boards once had members that almost never changed. But this has changed. According to NACD, 72% of public boards reported they either added or changed a director in the last year.

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