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#1,819 – Week In Review

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

It’s a technical process that is 5 million times more efficient than current storage methods, according to researchers. Smithsonian Magazine explains: The keyboard, made by a company called EmojiWorks, is the result of a weird communication quandary. The EmojiWorks keyboard could change all of that, writes McCormick.

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Overwhelmed, underwhelmed at the Web Summit, Lisbon

Paul Hobcraft

I am taking the opportunity to review the Web Summit, held in Lisbon last week of 5th (evening) to 8th November 2018. The Web Summit, originally Dublin Web Summit, is a technology conference held annually since 2009. The company was founded by Paddy Cosgrave, David Kelly, and Daire Hickey. Overhype is an understatement.

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The Profitability of Well-Being: The New Corporate Priority

Business and Tech

From endless cycles of closures and re-openings to restrictions that change business models and structures, businesses have been altered in ways we could have only imagined. This is evident in a recent report from MIT Sloan Management Review , which found more employees quitting their jobs to run away from toxic workplace culture.

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11 female innovation leaders share their definition of innovation

Idea to Value

What simple thing can a company do to change their conversation / perspective about innovation? But it can also be a new process, a new combination, a new workflow – really across the board changing the existing order of things, but in such a way that new value is created. I asked them all: What is your definition of “innovation”?

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Organizational Debt is like Technical debt – but worse

Steve Blank

These shortcuts add up and become what is called technical debt. You fix technical debt by refactoring , going into the existing code and “cleaning it up” by restructuring it. Organizational debt was coming due. Does customer communication need to change ? Their content was topical, targeted and refreshed daily.

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Innovation Budget Planning: 8 Things to Consider

eZassi

As Forbes magazine mentioned in an article last year “The presumption is that R&D spending is somehow connected to increased innovation, revenue growth and profits. Having a great R&D process and achieving market success with the technologies we invent are two different things.” A five-year plan may no longer hold true.

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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

ScaleUps, and those that invest in them, face the next-level challenge of growing revenue at scale; that is, exponentially relative to expenditures in capital, people, and technology. Inertia is the resistance to any change in the current state of motion. Just how to find the right mix is what a unicorn knows.

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