Predictive Innovation: Core Skills

Predictive Innovation: Core Skills
Author: Mark Proffitt
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2012-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0578117282
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Predictive Innovation(r) is a revolutionary approach to innovation. It's a structured way of thinking that allows you to see what customers will want, in advance, and how to most profitably make it using readily available resources. It's proven by 25 years of scientific research and experience with the most innovative people and companies in the world. Stemming from work first applied at Apple Computer and now used at Samsung, Predictive Innovation(r) has been shown to increase profits by as much as 95 times traditional methods and cut risk in half. Core Skills is the first book in the series. It's an information packed practical how-to manual that doesn't ignore important theory. It gives you the foundation needed to start using Predictive Innovation(r) in business and your personal life. No fluff, it's serious science written in clear & easy to read language so it's accessible to everyone including non-native English speakers. Each of the 23 chapters covers a powerful tool that you could build a career on. Step-by-step instructions guide you through applying powerful skills. Every time you read it you will learn something new. It contains: - 125 photos and graphics - over 100 examples on a wide range of topics - 7 challenging exercises Whether you are a product manager, C-level executive, engineer, entrepreneur, student, teacher, or curious thinker, Predictive Innovation(r): Core Skills will fascinate you with a new way of looking at the wor

AI for Marketing and Product Innovation

AI for Marketing and Product Innovation
Author: A. K. Pradeep
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2018-11-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 111948409X
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Get on board the next massive marketing revolution AI for Marketing and Product Innovation offers creatives and marketing professionals a non-tech guide to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)—twin technologies that stand poised to revolutionize the way we sell. The future is here, and we are in the thick of it; AI and ML are already in our lives every day, whether we know it or not. The technology continues to evolve and grow, but the capabilities that make these tools world-changing for marketers are already here—whether we use them or not. This book helps you lean into the curve and take advantage of AI’s unparalleled and rapidly expanding power. More than a simple primer on the technology, this book goes beyond the “what” to show you the “how”: How do we use AI and ML in ways that speak to the human spirit? How to we translate cold technological innovation into creative tools that forge deep human connections? Written by a team of experts at the intersection of neuroscience, technology, and marketing, this book shows you the ins and outs of these groundbreaking technological tools. Understand AI and ML technology in layman’s terms Harness the twin technologies unparalleled power to transform marketing Learn which skills and resources you need to use AI and ML effectively Employ AI and ML in ways that resonate meaningfully with customers Learn practical examples of how to reinvest product innovation, brand building, targeted marketing and media measurement to connect with people and enhance ROI Discover the true impact of AI and ML from real-world examples, and learn the thinking, best practices, and metrics you need to capture this lightning and take the next massive leap in the evolution of customer connection. AI for Marketing and Product Innovation shows you everything you need to know to get on board.

Educate to Innovate

Educate to Innovate
Author: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2015-04-07
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0309368820
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Robust innovation in the United States is key to a strong and competitive industry and workforce. Efforts to improve the capacity of individuals and organizations to innovate must be a high national priority to ensure that the United States remains a leader in the global economy. How is the United States preparing its students and workers to innovate and excel? What skills and attributes need to be nurtured? The aim of the Educate to Innovate project is to expand and improve the innovative capacity of individuals and organizations by identifying critical skills, attributes, and best practices - indeed, cultures - for nurturing them. The project findings will enable educators in industry and at all levels of academia to cultivate the next generation of American innovators and thus ensure that the U.S. workforce remains highly competitive in the face of rapid technological changes. Educate to Innovate summarizes the keynote and plenary presentations from a workshop convened in October 2013. The workshop brought together innovators and leaders from various fields to share insights on innovation and its education. This report continues on to describe the specific skills, experiences, and environments that contribute to the success of innovators, and suggests next steps based on discussion from the workshop.

Technological, Managerial and Organizational Core Competencies: Dynamic Innovation and Sustainable Development

Technological, Managerial and Organizational Core Competencies: Dynamic Innovation and Sustainable Development
Author: Nobre, Farley Simon
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 731
Release: 2011-09-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1613501668
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Innovation involves a set of processes which support the production and transformation of knowledge into new processes, technologies and products, goods and services, and provide an organization with particular strengths and value relative to other firms. In such a view, innovation is a key source of customer benefits and sustainable competitive advantage. Technological, Managerial and Organizational Core Competencies: Dynamic Innovation and Sustainable Development investigates the impact of knowledge management, information systems, finance, organizational networks, internationalization, strategic management, marketing, entrepreneurship, and sustainability on an organization that pursues dynamic innovation and sustainable advantage. This book provides research and practice for graduate and undergraduate programs, as well as business firms with different technological, managerial, and organizational perspectives. Further Description from the Editors: This book represents the culmination of an international project to compile inter-disciplinary research that most contributes to innovation. More specifically, this book is about innovation in firms, industries, nations and society. It speaks to professionals and researchers who want to improve their understanding of dynamic innovation and sustainable development. The Editors’ goal is to foster cross-pollination among researchers. To this aim, the Editors have selected and assembled 35 chapters that illustrate multidisciplinary theoretical perspectives and empiric results on innovation and the roles of Sustainability, Organizational Networks, Entrepreneurship, Knowledge Management, R&D&T (Research, Development and Technology) Management, Marketing, Finance, Internationalization, and Information Systems in the organization that pursues dynamic innovation and sustainable development. Innovation involves processes, organizational elements (or resources), and Organizational Abilities (OA) that support the production and transformation of knowledge into new knowledge, processes, structures, technologies and products, goods and services. At the firm and industry levels of analysis, innovation can provide organizations with strengths relative to other firms, clusters, and nations and it is a key source of customer benefits and sustainable development. At the collective and societal levels of analysis, innovation can provide humanity with economic, social and environmental wealth through sustainable development. The uniqueness of this book lies in the participants’ efforts to identify Organizations' Creative Areas (OCA) that can provide core competencies for the organization in pursuit of dynamic innovation and sustainable development. In this perspective, innovation is a dynamic system and it is contingent upon a set of core competencies that couple to each other. Therefore, changing of even one competence can affect the organization's ability to innovate. The book avoids the term competitive advantage and adopts a more fruitful perspective of sustainable development – “the process of achieving human development … in an inclusive, connected, equitable, prudent, and secure manner”. An inclusive perspective sees traditional competitive advantage as occupying one extreme, whereas truly sustainable development occupies the opposite extreme. Sustainable development must benefit not only the organization and its customers, but also the whole society and the future of humanity through sustainability. Most chapters of this book fall between these extremes.

Leadership for Evidence-Based Innovation in Nursing and Health Professions

Leadership for Evidence-Based Innovation in Nursing and Health Professions
Author: Daniel Weberg
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Total Pages: 493
Release: 2019-09-30
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1284171361
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Leadership for Evidence-Based Innovation in Nursing and Health Professions, Second Edition takes a patient-centered approach, discusses the perspectives on the dynamic of innovation and evidence as well as emerging competencies for leaders of healthcare innovation, making it the ideal textbook for DNP and Masters level leadership courses.

Theory of Technology

Theory of Technology
Author: David Clarke
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2017-07-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351472178
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The history of technology is often troubled by good ideas that do not, for one reason or another, take off right away--sometimes for millennia. Sometimes, technology comes to a standstill, and sometimes, it even reverses itself. Thus, unlike science, which seems to proceed at a reasonable and calm rate, the progress of technology is difficult to theorize about. While in science many developments are predictable to a certain extent and this predictability may, at times, direct or stymie science's progress--as with stem-cell research and cloning--technological advances, such as the Internet, are often sudden and unpredictable, and therefore frightening. In Theory of Technology, David Clarke brings together nine authors who try to understand technology from a variety of viewpoints. Rias van Wyk, in "Technology," parses the concept into many angles, including its anatomy, taxonomy, and evolution. Karol Pelc, in "Knowledge Mapping," discusses tracking the evolution of the emerging discipline of technology management. Jon Beard, in "Management of Technology," pursues a similar mapping endeavor, but looks to the patterns of the literature of technology management. Thomas Clarke, in "Unique Features of an R&D Work Environment and Research Scientists and Engineers," takes the reader on a tour of how people of technology present unique challenges to not just management but whole organizations. Richard Howey, in "Understanding Software Technology," places enterprise software into a meaningful pattern of technology management. Fred Foldvary and Daniel Klein, in "The Half-Life of Policy Rationales," discuss how new technology affects old policy issues. John Cogan, in "Some Philosophical Thoughts on the Nature of Technology," maintains that our Aristotelian search for the essence of technology is doomed. And Peter Bond, in "The Biology of Technology," establishes a basis for the development of a socio-biological approach to understanding the pheno

Control, Mechatronics and Automation Technology

Control, Mechatronics and Automation Technology
Author: Dawei Zheng
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 526
Release: 2015-12-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1315752158
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This proceedings volume contains selected papers presented at the 2014 International Conference on Control, Mechatronics and Automation Technology (ICCMAT 2014), held July 24-25, 2014 in Beijing, China. The objective of ICCMAT 2014 is to provide a platform for researchers, engineers, academicians as well as industrial professionals from all over th

Health Professions Education

Health Professions Education
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2003-07-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 030913319X
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The Institute of Medicine study Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001) recommended that an interdisciplinary summit be held to further reform of health professions education in order to enhance quality and patient safety. Health Professions Education: A Bridge to Quality is the follow up to that summit, held in June 2002, where 150 participants across disciplines and occupations developed ideas about how to integrate a core set of competencies into health professions education. These core competencies include patient-centered care, interdisciplinary teams, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, and informatics. This book recommends a mix of approaches to health education improvement, including those related to oversight processes, the training environment, research, public reporting, and leadership. Educators, administrators, and health professionals can use this book to help achieve an approach to education that better prepares clinicians to meet both the needs of patients and the requirements of a changing health care system.

The Future of Work

The Future of Work
Author: Thomas A.Q.T. Truong
Publisher: Thomas A.Q.T. Truong
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2024-07-02
Genre: Computers
ISBN:
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Artificial intelligence (AI) stands at the cusp of revolutionizing the global job market, echoing previous technological upheavals such as the Industrial Revolution. "The Future of Work: How AI Will Transform Industries and Jobs" delves deeply into the multifaceted impacts of AI on employment, offering a comprehensive framework to understand and navigate this landscape. The book opens by defining the conceptual and functional parameters of AI, emphasizing its capabilities to mimic human reasoning, learning, and task execution. Drawing parallels to historical technological shifts, it sets the stage for the profound changes AI brings. We then explore the fundamental distinction between job displacement—anxiety-inducing automation—and job transformation—opportunities for innovation and creativity. Through compelling statistics and predictions from authoritative sources like McKinsey and the World Economic Forum, the magnitude of AI’s influence becomes palpable. Next, the narrative zooms into specific industries profoundly affected by AI. It scrutinizes high-risk sectors such as administrative roles, highlighting the susceptibility of tasks like data entry to automation. Contrasted with this is the emergence of new roles in data analysis, blockchain technology, and AI specialization, which promise to reshape the employment landscape positively. The book does not shy away from addressing the inequities and disparities AI may exacerbate. It provides an incisive analysis of gender and geographic impacts, shedding light on how women and low-income countries face unique challenges. These sections thoughtfully consider nuanced aspects of how AI interacts with societal structures, urging for equitable solutions. Highlighting AI's potential to serve as a force multiplier in enhancing productivity, examples are presented from logistics optimization to autonomous negotiations, and manufacturing process improvements. These case studies showcase AI’s role in freeing humans from routine tasks to focus on more complex and rewarding activities, propelling businesses toward unprecedented efficiency and growth. Recognizing the necessity of proactive measures to manage the transition toward an AI-driven future, the book underscores the significance of upskilling and reskilling. Through inspiring company transformations and individual success stories, readers gain practical insights into adapting to new realities. Policies aimed at social support, redeployment, and rigorous training programs are advocated as crucial responses to potential job displacement. In its conclusion, the book balances a tone of cautious optimism. It acknowledges AI’s immense potential while prescribing vigilant and forward-thinking strategies to harmonize technological advancement with human-centric work values. The future outlook encourages readiness to continuously adapt, emphasizing the notion that AI evolution is an ongoing process set to redefine industries and job markets perpetually. "The Future of Work: How AI Will Transform Industries and Jobs" stands out for its unique perspective brought by an AI expert recognized as an MIT AI Innovator Under 35 Europe 2023. This work combines rigorous research with personal insights, offering a powerful, authoritative analysis necessary for anyone invested in understanding the future of the job market amid AI advancements.

Commercialization Secrets for Scientists and Engineers

Commercialization Secrets for Scientists and Engineers
Author: Michael Szycher
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 559
Release: 2016-12-19
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1498730612
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Commercializing a knowledge-based product or service requires a realistic, methodical approach combined with a great deal of perseverance. Commercialization Secrets for Scientists and Engineers serves as a high-level guide to answering key questions and critical issues that confront founding entrepreneurs on their quest to commercialize their knowledge-based innovations. It highlights the unique problems shared by all technologists across knowledge-intensive fields and how to overcome the most predictable obstacles faced by technology entrepreneurs. It demystifies the process of commercializing advanced products that require a high degree of specialized knowledge. Typically, these are "disruptive technologies" with the potential to revolutionize whole industries. The book simplifies the launch of high-tech ventures such as pharmaceuticals, genetic and biotechnology products, wireless devices, fuel cells, and minimally invasive medical devices. Additionally, it will help readers bring their disruptive technologies to profitability.