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Preparing for Re-entry into the Physical Workplace: Lessons from NASA

Michael Lee Stallard

Their daily in-person interactions are limited to the few people they live with and their other interactions are intermediated through digital technology. Consider these similarities: They are physically isolated for a long period of time from family, friends, and the majority of their work colleagues.

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The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

Skip Prichard

And, as anyone who closely follows simulation and prototyping tools knows, their use has become pervasive in manufacturing businesses, even though companies still grapple with the integration and management issues I wrote about in 2003. The employee was forbidden to work on the project. ” -Stefan Thomke.

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What Is The Job Metaverse Is Trying To Do?

The Horizons Tracker

That we’re still largely waiting for such an immersive world to take hold, despite much-hyped initiatives, such as Second Life, perhaps underlines the difficulties the technology has had in keeping pace with such a vision. Digital twins. It’s a market that is already worth $3.1 Worth paying attention to?

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If You Want Innovation, You Have to Invest in People

Harvard Business Review

As the convergence of digital technologies drives unprecedented levels of change in global marketplaces, it is very much a reality that a company must, as Bill Gates put it, “innovate or die!” In the race for relevance to future customers, the greater a company’s innovation capacity, the greater its chance of success.

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The Future of Business Is Social: Seven Principles That Lead to.

Strategy Driven

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. Essentially, these statistics tell us that companies need to embrace and capture the voices of their employees and customers if they want to innovate and thrive.

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Even Cement Can Be Special

Harvard Business Review

And where there is differentiation, there can be innovation. Perhaps drawing on a national affinity for design, Italcementi has rediscovered cement as the raw material of architectural beauty, transforming a drab, gray powder into a technologically advanced and aesthetically sophisticated building material.

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Amazon Turned a Flaw into Gold with Advanced Problem-Solving

Harvard Business Review

Several years ago, Amazon was struggling with scaling its e-commerce infrastructure and realizing that many of its internal software projects took too long to implement, a major pain point from a competitive standpoint. What he realized was that what many of these teams were building wasn’t scaling beyond their own projects.

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