Mon.Aug 24, 2020

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Do you recognize your innovators leaders position?

Paul Hobcraft

Often innovation succeeds or fails by the personal involvement and engagement of a ‘selected’ few. Recognizing the types of innovation leadership might help you manage the innovation work a little better. So can you recognize the traits of your innovation leader? Are they a front-end or back-end innovation leader? Here’s how you can begin to spot the difference.

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How to Lean in To Empower Your Team

Tullio Siragusa

How to Lean in To Empower Your Team. Organizations are shifting from the conventional authoritarian leadership model to more empowered workers. This transition requires a complete behavioral change from top to bottom of any organization. Empowerment is not about taking your hands off to let employees sink or swim, it is an active process that involves teaching and coaching team members to be adaptive, to self-serve, to make decisions and to make them right without needing instructions or rubber

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John Hancock Exec on Getting More Digital, Fast, in a Socially-Distant Era

Innovation Leader

As the pandemic surged, John Hancock saw more Google searches related to life insurance. But its traditional approach to policies involved in-person medical exams. Here’s how they adapted.

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How to Use the Closed World Principle of Creativity

Innovation in Practice

Creative thinking can be systematic and routine. All you have to do is learn how to use your brain and learn a new way to generate high-quality ideas on demand. . One method of creative thinking is the Systematic Inventive Thinking or SIT method. But you never want to proceed with the techniques in the SIT method without first defining the closed world. .

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

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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Solutions always begin with understanding

Tembosocial

Any time you throw technology at a problem you’re dead in the water. Solutions always begin with understanding. There are so many tools to keep remote workers connected and build bridges to safely return to work. It’s a program-focused approach and not a feature-focused one that will ensure those bonds remain strong.

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#1,878 – Genius Phones

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

We all know how technologically remarkable our cell phones have become. Their ability to search the web and have us interface with a variety of apps with just our voices or a swipe here or a swipe there is incredibly impressive. Simply put, the amount of computing power stuffed into our pockets is awe-inspiring. Suffice it to say, we’ve certainly come a long way.

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