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Innovation at Bell Labs

Leading Blog

Cellular communications, the laser, digitized and synthesized music, the solar battery cell, the first orbiting communications satellite, and the UNIX operating system, are all products of Bell Labs. Finding an aspect of modern life that doesn’t incorporate some strand of Bell Labs’ DNA would be difficult.

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Are You Recognizing Your People’s Best Ideas?

Great Leadership By Dan

The system, originally developed by a British officer and shared with Sims, required reworking some machinery around the weapon and retraining sailors on how to fire the weapon. Undaunted, Sims continued to send reports upward toward his superiors claiming the merits of his newly developed system. and then watched it die.

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How Covid Affected Young Asylum Seekers

The Horizons Tracker

Shining a light The researchers have worked to produce a docu-animation that aims to highlight what life was like during Covid for children and young people in the asylum system. The film is based on a 20-month study that examined the life of young asylum seekers from 13 different countries.

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Using Smartphones For Cheap Medical Diagnostics

The Horizons Tracker

The paper describes how silicon chips can be coated onto special film, and when photographed by a smartphone used to detect everything from drugs in our blood to bacteria in water. The initial system was tested with the iPhone SE, with the accuracy of results comparable to those produced by benchtop measurement systems.

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 8/19/13)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Bob''s blog entries "Givers take all: The hidden dimension of corporate culture" "How Do You Create Innovation in Your Business? of the Oxford Princeton Program) in “The Corner Office” Compelling People Dave Kerpen HBR Huffington Post Hugh Martin (chief executive of Sensity Systems) in “The Corner Office” Inc.

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Unusual Ways to Save Money In Your Business

Strategy Driven

If you are in a competitive marketplace and you rely on natural resources or raw materials, chances are that you will need to look for innovative ways to reduce your costs and maintain your profitability. You should have a just-in-time supply chain system, and a system that allows you to get the right people in the right jobs.

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Pixar’s Competitive Advantage? A Connection Culture

Michael Lee Stallard

He has rejected the traditional Hollywood star system and its often toxic work environment and replaced it with an environment that emphasizes community and long-term relationships. As such, everyone needs to contribute their ideas and opinions, everyone’s work matters and everyone makes a difference in the quality of a film.