Innovation Hardwired

Innovation Hardwired
Author: Alexis Goncalves
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2008-11-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0615260063

Innovation is the fundamental source of value creation in companies and an important enabler of competitive advantage. Innovation is inherently a highly cross-functional activity that, when it works well, creates a constructive tension between competing objectives of development cost, product value, performance, quality, and time to market. I have entitled this book Innovation Hardwired because the ability to consistently and continually bring an innovation to market involves: (a) hardwiring all the cross-functional activities in an effective way and (b) hardwiring several organizational factors - factors that, to use a biological metaphor, are embedded in a company's organizational DNA. Just as nature's DNA spells out the exact instructions required to create a unique organism, organizational DNA determines how effectively an organization will consistently and constantly innovate and create new value for all stakeholders.

Reimagining Innovation; the Future of Exponential Leadership

Reimagining Innovation; the Future of Exponential Leadership
Author: Aaron Bare
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2020-08-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1728370493

Bill Gates, Windows, and Microsoft changed the world . . . but they were just the beginning. With the rise of digital technology, business moves at unprecedented speeds and now moves at an exponential pace. This pace is wreaking havoc to the business landscape as we know it. Disruption has brought “too big to fail” companies to their knees in a matter of months and it has made some industries obsolete. Any company or leader that doesn’t move at an exponential pace will be crushed by the new, massively transformative exponential organizations. These organizations are quickly expanding their purpose and invading new industries every day. Guides like Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and more continue to provide us a roadmap for how to navigate the exponential horizon. Through a collection of nine keys of exponential leadership, we have created a formula to navigate the disruption. Exponential leadership—combined with emerging technologies, change, and disruption—will not only disrupt the world but will save it. It is time for a new generation of leadership. A leader that is purposeful, conscious, digital, and above all, exponential. Join us for a journey to reimagine innovation.

Development Challenges, South-South Solutions: July 2012 Issue

Development Challenges, South-South Solutions: July 2012 Issue
Author: David South, Writer
Publisher: DSConsulting
Total Pages: 20
Release: 2012-07-05
Genre:
ISBN:

Development Challenges, South-South Solutions is the monthly e-newsletter of the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation in UNDP (www.southerninnovator.org). It has been published every month since 2006. Its sister publication, Southern Innovator magazine, has been published since 2011. Contact the Office to receive a copy of the new global magazine Southern Innovator. Issues 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 are out now and are about innovators in mobile phones and information technology, youth and entrepreneurship, agribusiness and food security, cities and urbanization and waste and recycling. Why not consider sponsoring or advertising in an issue of Southern Innovator? Or work with us on an insert or supplement of interest to our readers? Follow @SouthSouth1.

Handbook of Research on Inclusive and Innovative Architecture and the Built Environment

Handbook of Research on Inclusive and Innovative Architecture and the Built Environment
Author: Peng, Ng Foong
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 553
Release: 2023-06-19
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1668482541

There is an urgent need to emphasize inclusivity in architecture and the built environment. Innovative technologies within the field of architecture are being developed to enhance inclusivity in architectural approaches and development processes. It is essential to research inclusivity in architecture and the built environment toward holistic sustainable development. The Handbook of Research on Inclusive and Innovative Architecture and the Built Environment discusses inclusive and innovative approaches to providing socio-cultural value within architecture and the built environment. It focuses on issues of diversity, sustainability, resilient designs, and more. Further, the book expands the knowledge and awareness of architecture and the built environment towards inclusivity in design development and emerging advanced technology. Covering topics such as architectural challenges, global health, and urban morphology, this major reference work is an excellent resource for architects, government officials, urban planners, practitioners, students and educators of higher education, researchers, and academicians.

Innovative Testing and Measurement Solutions for Smart Grid

Innovative Testing and Measurement Solutions for Smart Grid
Author: Qi Huang
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2016-04-25
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1118889924

Focuses on sensor applications and smart meters in the newly developing interconnected smart grid • Focuses on sensor applications and smart meters in the newly developing interconnected smart grid • Presents the most updated technological developments in the measurement and testing of power systems within the smart grid environment • Reflects the modernization of electric utility power systems with the extensive use of computer, sensor, and data communications technologies, providing benefits to energy consumers and utility companies alike • The leading author heads a group of researchers focusing on the construction of smart grid and smart substation for Sichuan Power Grid, one of the largest in China’s power system

Business Experiments with R

Business Experiments with R
Author: B. D. McCullough
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2021-03-03
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1119689708

BUSINESS EXPERIMENTS with R A unique text that simplifies experimental business design and is dedicated to the R language Business Experiments with R offers a guide to, and explores the fundamentals of experimental business designs. The book fills a gap in the literature to provide a text on the topic of business statistics that addresses issues such as small samples, lack of normality, and data confounding. The author—a noted expert on the topic—puts the focus on the A/B tests (and their variants) that are widely used in industry, but not typically covered in business statistics textbooks. The text contains the tools needed to design and analyze two-treatment experiments (i.e., A/B tests) to answer business questions. The author highlights the strategic and technical issues involved in designing experiments that will truly affect organizations. The book then builds on the foundation in Part I and expands the multivariable testing. Since today’s companies are using experiments to solve a broad range of problems, Business Experiments with R is an essential resource for any business student. This important text: Presents the key ideas that business students need to know about experiments Offers a series of examples, focusing on a specific business question Helps develop the ability to frame ill-defined problems and determine what data and analysis would provide information about that problem Written for students of general business, marketing, and business analytics, Business Experiments with R is an important text that helps to answer business questions by highlighting the strategic and technical issues involved in designing experiments that will truly affect organizations.

Exponential Theory

Exponential Theory
Author: Aaron D. Bare
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2021-10-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 163195668X

​"A Blueprint for Future Entrepreneurs"-Daymond John, Shark Tank Investor"Innovating Through Extreme Uncertainty"-Ash Maurya, Lean Canvas Creator​ According to Steve Jobs, “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” The rise of digital technology in business has made this statement truer now more than ever. Today, businesses can be created, marketed, and ready to interact with customers in the blink of an eye, with nothing more than an internet connection! This accelerated pace of business is wreaking havoc on companies that are “too big to fail,” sometimes in a matter of months. Any company or leader that doesn't move at an exponential pace will be crushed by new, massively transformative organizations that are invading new industries every day. Thankfully, guides like Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk continue to provide us a roadmap for navigating this exponential horizon. Exponential Theory provides ten keys of exponential leadership in order to solve climate change, social imbalances, and other wicked problems. It is time for a new generation of leadership—one that is purposeful, conscious, digital, and above all, exponential.

Applied Innovation: A Handbook

Applied Innovation: A Handbook
Author: Stephen A. Di Biase
Publisher: Premier Insights LLC
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2015-03-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1505416876

"Applied Innovation: A Handbook" outlines how a start-up CEO can take an innovation from concept to repeat sales including everything from the strategic elements of what innovation is to business models and intellectual property to how one sets up an advisory board etc. This work focuses on offering a road map for building a company from the ground up but can be applied to existing firms as well. The premise is that anyone can learn and apply the concepts of innovation in any part of their business and personal life if they know what is required.

Wired for Disruption

Wired for Disruption
Author: Henna Inam
Publisher:
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2020-07-10
Genre:
ISBN:

The COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting nearly every aspect of our daily lives, but as Henna Inam points out in Wired for Disruption, agility is already a hardwired trait in each of us. Her timely book gives us the 15 accelerators (specific tools and practices) we need to switch on our in-built agility in order to thrive and be a force for good in times of disorder and chaos. There are five big challenges of leading in disruptive times: First, our neurobiology sees disruptive change as a threat to survival. This evolutionary reaction slows down our adaptation by reducing cognition and increasing burnout. Second, our old mindsets and biases prevent us from seeing new reality clearly. This prevents us from being creative. We need meta-learning to learn, unlearn and relearn. Third, our threat states and fluid teams of the future make collaboration harder, just when it is most needed to create opportunities. Fourth, while we recognize we're more interdependent than ever, we are missing the skill sets to influence our wider eco-system. Fifth, upskilling and growth is urgently needed for millions to solve our collective challenges. This requires a step-change in our ability to grow ourselves and others. These are Henna Inam's Five Shifts in Agility that we need to switch on: 1. Neuro-Emotional Agility: the ability to activate neural states that accelerate our adaptability. 2. Learning Agility: the ability to rapidly learn, unlearn, and re-learn based on the situation in front of us. 3. Trust Agility: the ability to develop just-in-time trust with diverse fluid teams and energize creative contributions. 4. Stakeholder Agility: the ability to influence multiple stakeholders with competing needs toward solutions that serve the broader ecosystem. 5. Growth Agility: the ability to grow ourselves and others to accelerate a future-ready workforce. Disruptions are opportunities to re-imagine, re-invent, and re-invigorate - to create something better. We have many collective problems to solve for a thriving planet that works better for all. Henna Inam's Wired for Disruption helps each of us be inspired, use our voice, and activate the embedded agility already within us. You can join her community of leaders inspired to be a force for good in disruption at www.transformleaders.tv

Law, Video Games, Virtual Realities

Law, Video Games, Virtual Realities
Author: Dale Mitchell
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2023-10-20
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1000987833

This edited volume explores the intersection between the coded realm of the video game and the equally codified space of law through an insightful collection of critical readings. Law is the ultimate multiplayer role-playing game. Involving a process of world-creation, law presents and codifies the parameters of licit and permitted behaviour, requiring individuals to engage their roles as a legal subject – the player-avatar of law – in order to be recognised, perform legal actions, activate rights or fulfil legal duties. Although traditional forms of law (copyright, property, privacy, freedom of expression) externally regulate the permissible content, form, dissemination, rights and behaviours of game designers, publishers, and players, this collection examines how players simulate, relate, and engage with environments and experiences shaped by legality in the realm of video game space. Featuring critical readings of video games as a means of understanding law and justice, this book contributes to the developing field of cultural legal studies, but will also be of interest to other legal theorists, socio-legal scholars, and games theorists.