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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower Innovation

Most innovators don’t have a technical background, so it’s hard to evaluate the truth of the situation. And unless they have a tech background, they can’t look under the hood themselves. The answer is to engage a trusted outside source for a Technical Review – a deep-dive assessment that provides a C-suite perspective.

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Research: How Ratings Systems Shape User Behavior in the Gig Economy

Harvard Business Review

Incremental rating systems, employed by platforms like TaskRabbit and Airbnb, offer a detailed view by listing and often providing insights into every individual review score. Averaged rating systems, used by platforms such as Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash, present an overall score that aggregates all individual ratings.

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Why the Tech Industry Won’t Disrupt Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Digital technology advances have the power to help address the shortcomings of care delivery: It costs too much, its quality isn’t what it could and should be, and millions of people live hundreds of miles from the nearest hospital and/or don’t have a primary care doctor.

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5 Tech Issues That Can Slow Down Innovation

IdeaScale

In our minds, technology and innovation are interconnected. However, for every technological advancement, there seems to be a learning curve or adjustment period as we try to figure out how to implement automation into our daily lives. Technology: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back? source: pixabay.com. 1 The Devil in Design.

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Reaching Unreachable Candidates

Speaker: Patrick Dempsey and Andrew Erpelding of ZoomInfo

Advanced search: Narrow the search to find candidates using specialized filters like education, and current company technologies. Candidate and company profiles: Preview and expand search results to find a candidate's job history and career experience or a company's details.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower Innovation

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. After all, that’s what tech innovation is all about. Can you provide specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, and what the system will do for them? Wireframes?

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What’s Lost When Data Systems Don’t Communicate

Harvard Business Review

In every industry, many large corporations have teams that help bridge outdated, disconnected systems, and databases. Without them, there is no way companies can upgrade their technology without causing disruption to their operations.

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Measuring Innovation Performance

Why do only a third of the organizations worldwide have formal innovation metrics in place despite accepting that innovation is critical to survival? Download this eBook to learn about the 5 basic principles that guide every successful innovation process.