Wed.Sep 18, 2019

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Innovation as a Career Path & Breakthrough Capabilities

Innovation Leader

Large organizations have a history of stopping and starting when it comes to breakthrough innovation. Babson’s Gina O’Connor and Andrew Corbett tackle these pain points.

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The Global Climate Strike: A Call for Innovation

IdeaScale

Climate change is real but reversible. No matter where you live in the world, you have likely experienced more unusual weather lately. Whether that means temperatures that are hotter or cooler than normal or devastating storms, the reality of climate change can no longer be ignored. With this emergency in mind, IdeaScale urges you to participate along with us in the Global Climate Strike Friday, Sept. 20.

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When to pull the plug and learn from failure

Innovation Excellence

Creating a new venture, championing a new process or offering a new course or program is exciting. However, statistically, it is more likely you will fail than succeed and there is a fine line between determination and pig-headed optimism. You might not have the skills to do what you love. At some point, you will have.

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“Innovation Ops” had been an oxymoron. Now it’s a best practice.

Wellspring

Even just a few years ago, conventional wisdom held that “innovation” and “operations” didn’t belong in the same sentence. Performance targets ruin the creative impulse. Science needs space, time, and freedom to flourish. Innovation can never be bottled into an efficient, machine-like operation.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Increase Employee Skills to Decrease Talent Shortages

Daniel Burrus

When it comes to the future of your industry, how secure do you feel, not only in your position, but in your career and abilities as well? The era in which you go to school for a specific skill or trade, develop your acumen, and grow a career until retirement has passed. The future of your career doesn’t depend on whether employment is available at a given company; it depends on how employable you are.

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Edge Data and Trust Insertion

Information Playground

In a previous post I looked at the history of trust insertion technologies for enterprise storage systems. I commented that these enterprise concepts can be applied to data flowing into an edge ecosystem. In this post I'd like to propose an example stack that highlights trust insertion techniques being applied against incoming device data. The diagram below proposes an example stack and compares it against the enterprise model.

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IIoT Myth #1: IIoT Technology is Always Insecure

Taivara

ARTICLES & RESOURCES. IIoT Myth #1: IIoT Technology is Always Insecure. by Taivara , Technology Innovation. Common Myth: IIoT is always insecure. IIoT technology actually can be secure. Every new technology goes through this stage in its beginning. When new technology is born, the creators are focused on proving that the technology works, making it easy to use, and getting people to adopt it quickly.