Kainexus

JANUARY 5, 2021

I don't think I'm going out on a limb when I say that I believe we are all glad to have 2020 in the rearview mirror. While life isn't going back to normal any time soon, there is hope on the horizon. The COIVD-19 vaccine rollout is on the way, and our healthcare professionals have made great strides in treatment for the disease. Last year at about this time, we laid out some suggested continuous improvement resolutions for 2020.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 5, 2021

There was a time a few years ago when a small town in China produced up to 60% of the world’s oil paintings. That town is called Dafen, and is on the outskirts of Shenzhen (which itself has seen a boom in innovation output in recent years). Dafen specialised in a small trade in original artwork, but was best known for one thing: Making most of the replica oil paintings in the world.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 5, 2021

Performance is an important part of innovation management. You need a way to tell if your organization is performing high, low, or somewhere in the middle. A high-performance organization possesses common traits that set it apart from the rest. Here are some of those characteristics and how you can benefit from them. What is a … Continued. The post What Are the Characteristics of a High-Performance Organization?

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Innovation Leader

JANUARY 5, 2021

Utility companies typically aren’t known for innovation.

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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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CMOE

JANUARY 5, 2021

The year 2020 made one thing clearer than ever before: shunning the online world is not a viable strategy for any business, no matter how well-equipped it is to attract activity offline. When lockdown measures were rolled out, companies that relied on foot traffic quickly ground to a halt. They had two options: start operating online or shut down for the foreseeable future.

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Stephen Shapiro

JANUARY 5, 2021

Episode #10 of the Invisible Solutions podcast is now live. In today’s episode we explore one of the lenses from Invisible Solutions: #19 PAIN VS GAIN. We often hear the expression “Build it and they will come.” With innovation, a more accurate statement is “Eliminate a pain and they will come.”. 2020 was a year of crises and innovation. Challenges and opportunities.

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