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Virtual Reality Could Help With Caring For Disabled People

The Horizons Tracker

Living with disability “Being a disability support worker requires many attributes including patience, honesty, and compassion, as well as skills in first aid, administration, information technology, teamwork, providing personal care, and problem-solving,” the researchers explain.

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Design Thinking: A Guide to Creative Problem Solving for Everyone

Strategy Driven

Design Thinking: A Guide to Creative Problem Solving for Everyone seeks to assist in addressing a full spectrum of challenges from the most vexing to the everyday—whether you work in a design field or not. Design thinking has been recognized as an important means to innovate in the context of developing new products and technologies.

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Financial Rewards Make People Suggest Fewer but Better Ideas

Harvard Business Review

Employees have proven to be a valuable source for innovative ideas. Which is why more companies are testing crowdsourcing initiatives and other ways to encourage people to innovate. But the research on whether rewards actually yield more innovation is mixed. He asked if he could use it for research.

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CEOs Must Engage All Stakeholders

Harvard Business Review

Because of the web, social media, and advances in mobile and interactive communications and information technologies, the experiences of human beings are now at the heart of value creation. Apple under the leadership of Steve Jobs offers a metaphor for the future role of the CEO as a co-creative engagement orchestrator.

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Marketing’s New Digital Role Is Shortchanging IT

Harvard Business Review

Once a realm defined by its creative expression, trade shows, and glossy literature, marketing has instead become the place in the organization that pulls together all of the information necessary to find, sell to, and serve the customer effectively and efficiently. Starving IT of budget takes a heavy toll on innovation.

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A Role for Specialists in Resuscitating Accountable Care Organizations

Harvard Business Review

Any innovative care redesign must include all providers and cannot pit generalists against specialists. Computerized clinical decision support with embedded evidence-based practice guidelines can fill in information gaps. Health information technology will support these new partnerships and foster team-based care.

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How to Make Sure Good Ideas Don’t Get Lost in the Shuffle

Harvard Business Review

As an experienced manager, he knew that his manufacturing and operation division’s success depended on getting creative ideas from his employees. Over the past three decades, we have researched how leaders motivate their employees to come up with creative solutions to organizational problems. As a result, innovation can stall.