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Innovate and Persuade with a Well-Judged Nudge

Destination Innovation

Here are some simple examples: Putting calorie counts on menus encourages people to make healthier choices – salads instead of french fries. In 2010 the British Government set up a Behaviourial Insights Team (BIT), which became known as the ‘Nudge Unit’ Its aim was to save at least ten times its running cost.

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What is Digital Transformation in Business and Why is it Important?

Moves the Needle

The term began gaining popularity in the corporate world around 2013, and since then, digital transformation has become synonymous with the digitization of customer-facing products. But enterprise organizations have been known to exhibit “not built here” syndrome, meaning, they don’t trust solutions that weren’t developed in-house.

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7 Things Every CEO Should Know About Their Patents

Anaqua

To give two stark examples, we turn to the market crash of 2008 – caused by a cascading failure in financial markets that devastated our economy and destroyed market capitalization – in 18 months, the Dow lost over 50 percent of its value. billion to patents and developed technology, $2.5 End of 2012 $7,473. End of 2011 $1,578.

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The dos and don'ts of innovation shared by 10 global leaders

hackerearth

In a meeting in 2013, IBM CEO Virginia Rometty gave her workers quite a talking to, telling them to move fast and respond to customers faster to combat poor revenues. For example, Yelp is happy to stand behind employees keen to try out new ideas. These leaders are looked up to because they led by example.

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Uncertainty is the Innovator’s Friend

The Inovo Group

In 2011, after more than 20 years of research, Harry Klee, a professor in the Horticulture Sciences Department at the University of Florida, developed the “perfect” tomato. This is an example of the type of uncertainty that continually confronts innovators and entrepreneurs, whether they work in large or small companies.

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How Technology is Empowering the Modern Property Manager

Business and Tech

At the time we were looking to raise capital (between 2011 and 2013), businesses with women on the executive team received only 7 percent of the venture funding. Residents in a community are welcomed members, and interactions with the management team and fellow residents are encouraged.

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3 Dimensions of Innovation: the 23 Capabilities your company needs to succeed

Idea to Value

And companies regularly boast about how they are spending millions (and sometimes billions) of dollars into research & development to come up with innovative new offerings. Delivery: A team of people who have the ability to take rough ideas and develop them into a customer-facing innovation.

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