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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. Laws and attitudes around the world towards LGBTQ+ people and their rights are changing.

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Is Myopia the Biggest Threat to Innovation?

IdeaScale

For decades, it was the technological leader in photography. Ignoring change is often a bad idea. How did Napster, which enjoyed a brief moment of popularity in 2001, back when broadband was limited mostly to colleges, kill a $14 billion industry? Here are a few case studies and what organizations can learn from them.

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Retaining the innovative spark

Jeffrey Phillips

They are willing to do almost anything in order to succeed, and often change direction as their experimentation and new products succeed or fail. Safe in their market leadership, both dominated their markets - film and cell phones - until new competitors with different technologies or platforms emerged. iTunes was released in 2001.

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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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IA Summit 10 - Whitney Hess Keynote

Boxes and Arrows

Hess implores us to stop feeling so disenfranchised and misunderstood, to stop isolating ourselves and strive for the influence to bring about the change that drives us to do what we do. Do we want to be a footnote in a technology textbook, or do we want to “cross the chasm&# and embody the change that we talk about amongst ourselves.

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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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Four Ways To Become A Successful Future-Fit Organization

PlanBox Innovation

In 2001, the Agile movement suggested a new way of approaching that work more efficiently. Focusing more on working closely with the client, embracing change, iterating and experimenting with a minimal viable product was needed to rapidly deliver a better customer experience. Create alternate futures.

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