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14 LGBTQ+ Innovators, Inventors and Scientists who changed the world

Idea to Value

An American Geophysicist, Cox and his colleagues were instrumental in developing a way to measure the changes in the Earth’s magnetic alignment and the geomagnetic polarity time scale. In 1954, he was found dead due to a reported cyanide-based suicide. Her duty was to operate the robotic arm on the Challenger SPAS-1.

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The Next Supply-Chain Challenge Isn’t a Shortage — It’s Inventory Glut

Harvard Business Review

Electronics littered shelves in 2001 after the dot-com bubble burst. And now, the high-tech industry is feeling the weight of a volatile market that has led to excess component inventory. It’s a forward-looking metric based on the classic momentum equation: current inventory x rate of inventory change.

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Is Myopia the Biggest Threat to Innovation?

IdeaScale

For decades, it was the technological leader in photography. The Harvard Business Review’s autopsy of how Kodak lost its way reveals what happened. Ignoring change is often a bad idea. Take a hard look at what change in your industry means and what will be necessary to be ready for it. The Music Industry.

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If An Early Idea Got Your Business This Far, What Will Advance You Further?

Daniel Burrus

However, as times changed, these entertainment personalities eventually burned out faster than they came in due to a sophomore slump of a follow-up to their viral song or movie that put them on the map. Good question, and the answer is that they would have been dead in the water, because change is the only constant.

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How to Embed Agile Thinking at Every Level of Your Company

CMOE

The term agile was coined in the information technology (IT) field in 2001 and was used to refer to a group of methodologies. Embedding agile thinking at every level of the company involves five practices: Change employee mindset. The best way to do this is by observing changes in employee behavior. Individual motivation.

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IA Summit 10 - Day 2

Boxes and Arrows

Download Experience strategy: Dealing with a UX mid-life crisis – Richard Dalton, Rob Weening We make changes to our user experiences based on heuristics, usability testing, and data, but do we really know if we’re improving the overall experience over time and across projects?

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New Decade, New What?

100%Open

The trouble with predicting innovation is that the changes that people tend to foresee take a long time to materialise if they ever do. Clarke made one bizarrely accurate prediction as two astronauts in the movie 2001 can be seen reading a newspaper on something that looks suspiciously like an iPad, that he calls a Newspad.