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How Technology is Empowering the Modern Property Manager

Business and Tech

Elizabeth Francisco, president of ResMan, offers expansive insights from being a woman in business to the rapid advancement of property management technology. Bias showed itself as I came up through the multifamily industry and then in technology with investors, peers, competitors, and prospective customers.

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The Global StartUp Ecosystem

Paul Hobcraft

The 2017 report by Startup Genome recently came out (April 5, 2017) You can find it here “ Global StartUp Ecosystem Report 2017 ” which provides a 150-page review of the global state of startups. Silicon Valley happened due to a steady stream of investments since the end of the 2nd world war.

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Innovation fails because humans have emotions

Idea to Value

A while back, one of my consulting partners from another office asked me to review their client’s innovation process. Their team had been engaged to review why their innovation process was not delivering results. What companies and management don’t realise is that this is a completely normal human reaction.

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Creating Innovation Connections as the Customer Advocate

IdeaScale

They did just that, and by 2011, e-books sales surpassed sales of print books. In fact, by April 2011, Amazon became the world’s largest e-book retailer. They can find product reviews—whether positive or negative, can post their own reviews, can interact with other customers, and can even sell their used products back to others.

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Bypass the Naysayers

Destination Innovation

Fifty Shades of Grey is a 2011 erotic romance novel by British author E. Reviewers were generally very critical of the standard of writing in the book and of the way it described explicitly erotic scenes featuring bondage and sadism. It went gold in the USA with over 1 million copies sold.

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Best Practices for Internal Crowdsourcing: Lessons Learned from NASA

IdeaScale

The center was created in 2011 by the federal Office of Science, Technology, and Policy to foster innovation at NASA and throughout U.S. This is due to fear —of the unknown, change, the possibility that making the change might be too hard or take up too much time, etc. government departments.

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Using Design Thinking to Ready Your Company for the Green Economy

IdeaScale

In 2011, EY and GreenBiz Group conducted a survey of executives employed by companies generating revenue greater than $1 billion. Research : This is where you want to do all sorts of discovery about the problem (interview people, review studies). Dive deep into the problem in order to learn more.