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Why Infrastructure Projects Require High-Quality Management

Business and Tech

Rutledge, CAE, president and CEO of the Construction Management Association of America, about the value trained and educated program and construction managers bring to projects, and how hiring the right pros can help improve U.S. For those investing in infrastructure (government bodies, private companies, etc.), infrastructure.

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Innovation in Education: How Universities can Benefit from Dedicated Software

Qmarkets

It’s natural to consider education and innovation as mutually compatible. Innovation in Education: A Proud History DNA, Genetic Fingerprinting, CDs, Computers, and the Internet. This is just a short list of some of the greatest innovations that have been made within institutions of higher education.

Software 100
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L.I.V.E. (Lean Innovation, Validation & Execution): A new, more effective way to manage multiple innovation projects

Idea to Value

This new management method makes it nearly impossible for innovation teams to fail at delivering multiple challenging innovation projects faster, with less risk and lower required budgets. Most innovation experts often say that traditional management processes are not the way to run innovation projects. And this is true.

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Predicting innovation trajectories in K–12 education

Christensen Institute

There are lots of promising innovations in tiny pockets of the education system, but decades of advocacy and investment have failed to see those innovations scale. For a company, a value network might include its customers, suppliers, distributors, investors, and the competitive and regulatory landscapes that shape its business model.

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DEI Is Under Attack. Here’s How Companies Can Mitigate the Legal Risks.

Harvard Business Review

In June 2023, the Supreme Court effectively ended race-based affirmative action in higher education in the Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) case. On the heels of that decision, newly empowered activists have brought a barrage of challenges against workplace DEI efforts.

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Connection over content: A new era for education technology

Christensen Institute

The pandemic cast education technology (edtech) into a starring — and some might argue above-its-paygrade — role in education. It is unfair to hold edtech companies entirely responsible for these shortcomings. Although by no means perfect, before the pandemic, technologies in education had been steadily improving for decades.

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An innovation culture or a culture of continuity

Jeffrey Phillips

Another base principle is that most companies desire innovation in the form of new product and services to create new revenue and new market share. There is a more powerful desire in most companies, however, and that is the desire to avoid variance, reduce risk and maintain consistent, profitable operations. Answer is: probably not.

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