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What Makes a Home Truly Smart?

Business and Tech

The first step is to meet the building code. Building codes are minimum standards, yet nearly 30 percent of new homes are built where there is no code or where codes are over 20 years old. After meeting the code, it’s time to go beyond it. There are options to build safer, stronger homes. Going beyond.

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Investing in Women Through Technology Training

Business and Tech

The biggest obstacle impacting women today is the subconscious biases impacting perception of competence,” said Shaddix, whose background includes marketing and tech policy research. Depending on the business, a basic understanding of how to code can help you design a website, create a shopping integration and analyze your business drivers.

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The Global StartUp Ecosystem

Paul Hobcraft

The 2017 report by Startup Genome recently came out (April 5, 2017) You can find it here “ Global StartUp Ecosystem Report 2017 ” which provides a 150-page review of the global state of startups. Silicon Valley happened due to a steady stream of investments since the end of the 2nd world war.

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Goodhart’s Law: When a target becomes its own enemy

Idea to Value

Goodhart’s Law is named after economist Charles Goodhart, who in an 1975 essay about Monetary policy noticed that “ Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes. In 2015, Google used machine learning to let Google Photos tag faces of friends in uploaded photos.

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Mandatory Vaccine in Canada? We Cover Off Vaccination Mandates with Law Firm Sherrard Kuzz: A Must Read

Innovators Alliance

The idea of a mandatory vaccine in Canada, including a vaccine policy and mandating that employees be vaccinated, continues to be an issue that is top of mind for Canadian employers. In September of 2021, we held a chat on the topic of vaccine policy. Information on the Service Canada codes can be found here. .

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An Innovation Management Solution that Meets Your FedRAMP Requirements

IdeaScale

This program helps government entities buy cloud services with confidence in the security levels of the services and their underlying software. IdeaScale now has an agency reviewing its FedRAMP offering and is on path to receive its first Agency Authorization early this fall.

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Expert Interview Series: B.J. Shannon of TINYpulse About the Role Employee Feedback Plays in Idea Management

IdeaScale

We turned traditional engagement surveys and performance reviews on their heads and made them TINYer and more regular. If a business owner or manager were to say to you, “I don’t need a software program to spot a burned-out employee,” how would you respond? How important is it to engage the entire organization?