Braden Kelley

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Recently I had the opportunity to sit down and have a chat with Will Sherlin of 3PillarGlobal about my latest book Charting Change on The Innovation Engine podcast.

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Mills-Scofield

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

When is a fact true? This is a major question we’re asking given the pre/post-election. Sometimes, the answer isn’t a simple yes it’s true or no it’s not true. Sometimes the caveat “it depends…” provides critical insight into the context, constraints, veracity and therefore, applicability of the fact. Let’s take 2 seemingly contradictory facts we’ve heard this past year: Violent crime is up Violent crime is down According to the FBI and other studies , overall violent crime in the USA is at hist

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

I recently had the opportunity to visit the Institute for Advanced Study, the place where Einstein worked till his death in 1955. His arrival there was a sort of a tipping point for America—after him the trickle of leading scientists coming from Europe became a flood—and the legend of the place is still very much intertwined with.

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Innovation in Practice

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Backing up your car in those crammed, hard-to-see spaces just got safer and easier, thanks to Pearl Automation’s innovative use of the Task Unification Technique. Task Unification is defined as: assigning an additional task to an existing resource. That resource should be in the immediate vicinity of the problem, or what we call The Closed World. In essence, it's taking something that is already around you and giving an additional job.

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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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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Recently I had the opportunity to sit down and have a chat with Will Sherlin of 3PillarGlobal about my latest book Charting Change on The Innovation Engine podcast. In this conversation we focused on how to make change efforts stick within any organization. Among the topics we discuss are how non-software companies can still benefit.

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Michael Roberto

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Over the past few years, Massachusetts has witnessed a vibrant debate about whether the state should stop the strict enforcement of non-compete agreements that employers require many employees to sign. Many entrepreneurs and venture capitalists have argued that Massachusetts is at a substantial disadvantage to California, a state that does not typically enforce non-compete agreements.

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Michael Roberto

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

We have all heard the expression, "Variety is the spice of life." Is it true? Do we value variety highly? Does it make us happier? Years ago, social psychologists Richard Hackman and Greg Oldham developed their now-famous job characteristics model. They argued that five key characteristics affected outcomes such as job satisfaction, intrinsic motivation, and quality of work produced.

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