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Innovation adoption in the technology lifecycle for Energy Translation

Paul Hobcraft

To date, our energy system has been based mostly on fossil fuels (oil, coal, gas) and as we extract these they are non-renewable, but these are the primary cause of the carbonization crisis we are all facing on planet earth. And you are finally taking out carbonization fully. The six critical focal points of the energy transition.

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Why Business Strategy Shouldn’t Be “Scientific”

Innovation Excellence

Feynman’s point was that we can’t merely mimic behaviors and expect to get results. Yet even today, nearly a half century later, many executives and business strategists have failed to learn that simple lesson by attempting to inject “science” into strategy. It seems more than a little silly, and of course, no cargo every came.

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Top 9 Actionable Employee Engagement Ideas and Activities

Acuvate

Another report by The Workplace Research Foundation states that increasing employee engagement investments by 10% can increase profits by $2,400 per employee, per year. When employees feel engaged, appreciated and considered a part of something bigger than just a “job,” they feel happier and strive to be more productive.

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The 5 Ways Chairman Lampert Destroyed Sears’ Value

Adam Hartung

USAToday alerted investors that when Sears Holdings reports results 2/25/16 they will be horrible. For most investors, employees and suppliers this report could easily be confused with many others the last few years, as the story is always the same. Mr. Lampert had no time for staff who did not see things his way.

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Innovation Networks – Needed Now More Than Ever

The Inovo Group

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. Stanley McChrystal Ret. Figure 1 – Three Levels of Network.

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How Telltales Told You Not to Own Wal-Mart, and Continue To Do So

Adam Hartung

In the case of Wal-Mart I pointed out that an absolute maniacal focus on retail stores and low-cost operations, in an effort to be the low price retailer, was being made obsolete by on-line retailers who had costs that are a fraction of Wal-Mart’s expensive real estate and armies of employees. At that time WMT was about $54/share.

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When innovation led to a reversal of fortunes

hackerearth

Here’s a look at top companies who took customized innovation routes to pull themselves back from the brink of failure: APPLE. The Danish toy-brick maker Lego, founded in 1932, reported its highest revenues ever in March 2017. (Read WSJ ’s “Is a Peanut-Butter Pop-Tart an Innovation?” for some bit of honest and brutal humor.).