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Innovation SOP: Driving Corporate Innovation by Bettering Employee Engagement

Qmarkets

An example highlighted by Gartner involved a telecommunications company that was embarking upon a major changes in its workflow. This helps ensure that they become exemplary corporate citizens capable of helping graft significant change onto the organizations that they work for. When this is executed properly, the results can be formidable.

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Smart Cities and Digital Innovation: a guide to the future.

The BMI Lab Blog

This point is of great importance since Smart Cities are digitizing data from basic services, such as energy, public transportation, water supply or telecommunications. That includes data privacy management, a critical issue that shouldn’t be dismissed, as well as data reliability. Cities can’t afford poor data management with these services!

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10 examples that show the value of cognitive diversity

Hutch Carpenter

Reference : Eric von Hippel, et al, Performance Assessment of the Lead User Idea Generation Process (pdf). A retired telecommunications engineer in New Hampshire saw the issue as one involved magnetic coupling between the sun and the Earth. She brought a particular expertise that turned out to be relevant to solving the problem.