Business and Tech

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

What we think about when picturing a specific industry may be perpetuating biases and excluding parts of the workforce. Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Employment for Women (ANEW) and other pre-apprenticeship programs around the country have been successfully placing women in the construction trades for over 40 years. Although women make up only 3% of construction workers on the tools, in Seattle and Boston, where this programming exists, women make up almost 10%.

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski When someone tells you their truth, what do you do? Do you ask them to defend? Do you tell them what you think? Do you dismiss them? Do you listen? Do you believe them? When someone has the courage to tell you their truth, they demonstrate they trust you. If […].

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Business and Tech

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In the late part of the 20th century, the skilled trades were thriving. As soldiers returned from war and families were growing at a rapid pace, infrastructure also boomed, which led to high demand for a workforce of men and women to support those industry needs. In schools across the country, classes like wood shop and mechanics were offered to students, providing skill that would afford them the opportunity to work, be successful, and proud.

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InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Learn the basics of data storytelling and find training resources, articles, videos, and more. Data is all around us – from our schools, to our workplaces, and internet habits. Data storytelling recognizes that data on its own is often not enough to move people to action. Instead, we need to build narrative stories to engage audiences with data and provide value that serves a purpose.

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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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Interviews with more than 40 CDOs in 2019 and 2021 explore how DEI has transformed in the wake of George Floyd’s murder.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Thinking of innovation as an innovation ecosystem in design. We need to re-think innovation and provide a new level of innovation integration and optimization. What we see increasingly is the need to change to a different thinking, one of what “ innovation ecosystems.” can provide. In designing these innovation ecosystems, we might have the potential answer to overcoming and giving innovation that chance to be more central to the core of the business.

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Moves the Needle

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

One of the most under-appreciated aspects of the global economy’s Digital Transformation may be surprising at first blush: Customers have a lot more power now. While lax antitrust enforcement and the erosion of consumer protections might suggest otherwise, generally, consumers’ needs, desires, and whims are addressed in a multitude of ways, such that the customer gets to choose. .

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Engagement How To Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 52

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Trying to do everything yourself is bad for both you and your team.

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Destination Innovation

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Today some 40% of heterosexual couples and 60% of same-sex couples meet online according to a survey by sociologists Michael Rosenfeld and Sonia Hausen of Stanford University. [i] Dating apps have become the preferred way to meet for people wanting relationships. Computer dating started in 1965 when a group of Harvard students created Operation Match, a mainframe programme which asked users to fill in questionnaires about themselves and their interests.

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