Braden Kelley

JUNE 2, 2017

There is so much talk about innovation these days, it’s hard to sometimes distinguish the signal from the noise. In fact, the word innovation gets thrown around so much that it leaves people wondering: What’s really innovative?

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 2, 2017

I wrote a post “ Needing to Think Applied Innovation Services ” recently, it was extending my view that innovation needs to change. We need to think of innovation in different ways, we need to automate it and in addition augment it. I suggested in that post “we need to pull down what is needed” and design a totally ‘adaptive’ innovation process to fit a specific need.

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IdeaConnection

JUNE 2, 2017

Schoolchildren in India are getting an early introduction to entrepreneurship, innovation and open innovation. It has been announced that 457 Tinkering Laboratories are going to be set up in some of the country’s high schools. Tinkering Labs are open innovation workspaces equipped with tools such as simple robots, 3D printers and measuring instruments.

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Innovation Excellence

JUNE 2, 2017

Mick Simonelli and Celent asked current innovation leaders what criteria makes for good innovation leaders. Read the highlights of their research findings here.

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Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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Rmukesh Gupta

JUNE 2, 2017

Who is on the show: In this power packed episode, we host Jason Forrest, the CEO and the Chief Culture officer at the FPG group. As a sales professional, author, speaker, and coach, Jason’s job is to empower professionals and executives to unleash their human performance and master their leadership skills in sales, management, culture and service; for the purpose of increasing profit through people.

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eZassi

JUNE 2, 2017

FEI Boston – An Event Grounded in Remarkable People. There were over 500 people at FEI Boston 2017. I’ve been attending and speaking at FEI the last five years and noticed that this year’s attendees were from more diverse areas of responsibility. For those who did attend you can access the presentations on line at: Login to FEI Connect. Click on the ‘Presentation’ tab.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 2, 2017

Whenever I ask my clients to tell me about the quality of their company's brainstorming sessions, they usually roll their eyes and grumble, noting several of the phenomena below. Recognize any of them in your organization? 1. Lame facilitation. 2. Wrong problem statement. 3. Unmotivated participants. 4. Hidden (or competing) agendas. 5. Insufficient diversity of participants. 6.

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Michael Roberto

JUNE 2, 2017

Popularity can be a blessing and a curse for fast casual and fast food restaurants. Naturally, these chains want as many customers as possible to frequent their locations. However, customers will become disenchanted very quickly if the wait times become lengthy. The easy way to solve these issues is to open more locations. You can't continue to do that forever though.

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