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Why You Should Give Crowdsourcing A Go

Flying Fish Lab

Here are a few reasons why: Crowdsourcing is a term given in 2006 by two editors at Wired, Jeff Howe and Mark Robinson, to describe how businesses were using the Internet to "outsource work to the crowd.". The Platforms and their Technology can simplify the process. Get ideas to challenge internal “group think”.

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Vision Video Of The Near Future: Diverse Thinkers Wanted

Phil McKinney

I started creating these vision video’s back in 2006 when I was at HP. The most recent film titled The Near Future: Diverse Thinkers Wanted, explores the impact of technologies on our work lives. Last week, we released our fourth installment in the Near Future series of vision videos.

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#1,749 – DNA Origami

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

The researchers anticipate that the same approach could be used to design DNA origami vaccines for a wide variety of viral diseases, and they are now working on adapting the technology to develop a potential vaccine for SARS-CoV-2.” It involves the folding of DNA to create 2D and 3D shapes at the nanoscale.

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The Universality of Leadership: Challenging Industry-Specific Biases

Tullio Siragusa

When he took the reins at Ford in 2006, the company was facing dire financial straits. Taking over a tech giant that faced existential threats from rising mobile technologies, Nadella communicated a new vision of “Mobile-first, Cloud-first” for Microsoft. The digital revolution, for instance, affects everyone from bankers to bakers.

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

Wazoku

Advances in mechanisation, mass production and, more recently, technology have shaped where and how we work, as well as what we produce. A new era of work and technological change. New technology in the home made it easier for women to do paid work, relieving them of time-consuming housework.

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Idealize the Answer

Destination Innovation

The only constraint was that their designs be technologically feasible – i.e. no science fiction. They were thinking 20 to 50 years ahead of their time and many of their ideas could not be realised until technology advanced and became affordable. i] Idealized Design, Ackoff, Magidson and Addison, Wharton School Publishing 2006.

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Companies betting big on open innovation

hackerearth

[This paradigm] assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, as they look to advance their technology.” ( Henry Chesbrough, 2006 ). The confluence of diverse ideologies and technologies help build better business models that are sustainable in the long term.