Mon.Mar 29, 2021

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A Simple Strategy to Help Us Achieve Our Goals

Michael Roberto

Source: Gold Dust Dental Lab Katie Mehr, Amanda Geiser, Katherine Milkman, and Angela Duckworth have published an interesting new study that highlights a simple strategy that might help us achieve our goals. They studied people's efforts to exercise more often. They introduced a simple strategy; they call it "copy-paste prompts." In their experiment, they gave some participants the following instructions: "In this study, we want to help you learn about an effective hack or strategy that someone

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Planned Obsolescence: How companies are deliberately making their products worse

Idea to Value

If you ever had the feeling that products don’t last as long as they used to, you might be right. It turns out that in order to keep consumers buying products year after year, some companies are actually deliberately reducing the quality of their products. In some especially nefarious situations, these companies may be updating their products through software even after you bought them, in order to make the performance worse.

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Innovation guardrails

Jeffrey Phillips

Have you ever been driving along a dark road at night, and been thankful for the guardrails that line the roadside? Of course, if the road is relatively flat and straight, guard rails are not very important, except to keep you out of the oncoming lane. But consider a high mountain pass, with rock facings on one side and a relatively sheer drop just off the other side.

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The Curious Case of the Artist in the Archives

Mills-Scofield

What did you do during the pandemic? That seems to be the question now. For Jessica Esch, her insatiable curiosity combined with her serendipitous discovery of oral histories in the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art led to the creation of a new form of art she calls typelooping. Totally – Jessica Esch: Fill in the Blanks, November 2020 ; Source Quote: Oral history interview with Kay WalkingStick, 2011 Dec 14-15.

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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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How Illumina is Building a Genomics Ecosystem

Innovation Leader

Amanda Cashin is the Global Head of the Illumina Accelerator, a startup accelerator that is dedicated to making human genome sequencing more accessible and useful. We spoke with Cashin about recent accomplishments.

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Why everyday workbench innovations matter?

Inspiring Next

Really? Safety and Innovations are both an outcome of mindset or a cultural issue. They both require constant situational awareness, creativity, ideation and risk reduction at operational level, and management commitment at the top levels. That mean Heinrich’s triangle for shop floor safety should also be applicable to enterprise innovation. Corporate Innovation Triangle Heinrich’s safety… Read More » Why everyday workbench innovations matter?

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The Curious Case of the Artist in the Archives

Mills-Scofield

What did you do during the pandemic? That seems to be the question now. For Jessica Esch, her insatiable curiosity combined with her serendipitous discovery of oral histories in the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art led to the creation of a new form of art she calls typelooping. Totally – Jessica Esch: Fill in the Blanks, November 2020 ; Source Quote: Oral history interview with Kay WalkingStick, 2011 Dec 14-15.

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Why People Resist Our Innovative Ideas and How To Overcome It

Innovation in Practice

Try to recall and go back to those moments when your ideas got rejected. How did you handle those rejections? Did you just instantly give up? When you get rejected, the key is to use that as your motivation to come back with an even better idea. . How Rejection Breeds Creativity. Having our ideas rejected actually motivates us to be even more creative.

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Process Consulting: understand the benefits for your business

mjvinnovation

“Innovation” used to mean the difference between dictating trends in your sector or following the trail of your competition’s success, but today the term refers to a fundamental condition of existence for businesses in the volatile and demanding Digital Age. But why are we starting a blog post about process consulting by talking about innovation?

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How Text Messaging Fills Positions Faster

ExactHire - Innovation

Move over Zoom. The pandemic has bumped up another mode of communication: texting. Overall, 50 percent of the population is using text more often since the pandemic began. And if you’re one of the few recruiters not using text messaging for hiring, I might be SMH (shaking my head) at you. Texting has been on the rise since the first 10-year old Millennial received a cell phone—check that—since the first two 10-year old Millennials received a cell phone.

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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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What Matters in Innovation — Mar. 29, 2021

Innovation Leader

What do you need to know to kick off your week? Innovation Leader’s Kaitlin Milliken, Derisk CEO Alex Slawsby, and IdeaScale CEO Rob Hoehn share.

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How Text Messaging Fills Positions Faster

ExactHire - Innovation

Move over Zoom. The pandemic has bumped up another mode of communication: texting. Overall, 50 percent of the population is using text more often since the pandemic began. And if you’re one of the few recruiters not using text messaging for hiring, I might be SMH (shaking my head) at you. Texting has been on the rise since the first 10-year old Millennial received a cell phone—check that—since the first two 10-year old Millennials received a cell phone.