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Continuing the Energy Transition Journey

Paul Hobcraft

Everywhere you turn, you stumble across reports on one aspect or another of the energy transformation we are undertaking. Technology innovation, suggested new business models, outline proposals for changing policies, processes, and market design all are being “sketched out.”

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Citizen Science and the Future of Cancer Research

IdeaScale

In 2016, The National Cancer Institute launched the Cancer Research Ideas crowdsourcing website to enable the research community and the public to submit ideas on how best to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer. The ideas informed the recommendations of the Blue Ribbon Panel’s final report that organized research into ten categories.

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Living in a globally connected world of Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

This report assesses 56 countries on how their economic and trade policies contribute to and detract from innovation globally. The report is found here: https://itif.org/publications/2016/01/20/contributors-and-detractors-ranking-countries%E2%80%99-impact-global-innovation. The US sits at 10th position and China at 44th.

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How Chief Innovation Officer (CINO) may replace the traditional Chief Information Officer (CIO)

hackerearth

The 2018 Gartner CIO Agenda Survey demonstrates that technological innovation and digitalization are changing the way CIOs work. Of the CIOs surveyed in India, 51 percent reported that they were heading innovation, whereas 49 percent reported that they were leading digital transformation. billion on technology in 2016.

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The Innovation Intensity needed in the Energy Transition

Paul Hobcraft

The recent reporting back on the development of the energy transition we are undertaking seems depressing reading. We need to accelerate innovation and technology adoption. The IEA assesses the status of 46 critical energy technologies and sectors and offers some general advice on how to get “on track” with this SDS approach.

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Mapping the customer journey is the top driver for digital transformation

Paul Hobcraft

A recent Altimeter report “ the 2016 State of Digital Transformation ” discusses these problems, along with many others. So that you are aware, the data and insights in this report are based on the input of more than 500 digital transformation strategists and executives who are leading change within their organizations.

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Water4: market-creating innovation at the heart of Sierra Leone

Christensen Institute

In addition, fewer than 15% of countries surveyed in the 2019 UN GLAAS report had the financial or human capacity to implement their plans for safe drinking water. . Estimates suggest that $260 billion is lost globally each year due to lack of basic water and sanitation. . The effects of not having access to safe water are dire.