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The New Wearable That Can Detect Fatigue In Real-Time

The Horizons Tracker

Researchers from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology have been working on a nanotech-based solution that promises to go a step further. As such, the material is ideal for biosensors that aim to detect very small changes in chemical concentration. Testing for fatigue.

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Bots Won’t Just Help Us Buy Stuff. They’ll Help Us Become Better Versions of Ourselves

Harvard Business Review

.” The more creatively, comprehensively, and innovatively these selves can be digitized, the greater the opportunity to help workers develop and deploy the optimal traits and qualities they desire. “Your heart rate is the highest it’s been this week,” the app might display after a stressful meeting.

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What Neuroscience Reveals About Creating Better Leaders In Today’s Organizations

Tanveer Naseer

To do that it has made use of imaging technologies such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and positron emission tomography (PET), along with brain wave analysis technologies such as quantitative electroencephalography (QEEG). This makes empathy a handy data-gathering tool that’s employed in the decision-making process.

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Solving the Twin Crises of Energy and Water Scarcity

Harvard Business Review

Automobile manufacturers, for example, create products that rely on metals, chemicals, oil, and gas, which are among the most energy- and water-intensive industries. Others, including technology and telecommunications companies, are major customers of — and suppliers to — those industries.

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How Businesses Can Support a Circular Economy

Harvard Business Review

In his speech at COP21 European Union Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs, and Fisheries Karmenu Vella stressed the need to switch to a more circular economy. A good example of this comes from UK-based Fonebank: it buys old smart phones to refurbish them and sell them as smart phones, giving the older technology a second life.

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Uniting the Religions of Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

They also stressed organizational learning (meaning, capturing the methods of Lean so that other parts of the organizations could adopt them). Most missionaries of the BPM religion come from a heritage in information technology. What's more, the company helped develop Hammer's PEMM concept and is now training Lean managers.