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How to Win in Africa

Leading Blog

And technology? High volumes—low margins—cost-effective—technology driven. Develop programs to grow talent from within and make gender diversity a priority. They say business leaders tend to “underestimate Africa’s size and potential as a market, and overestimate the challenges of doing business there.”.

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Think Outside the Building

Leading Blog

Health isn’t the hospital or even the doctor’s office. Health might be a function of nutritious food, clean air, or stress-free work. And as the routinized parts of jobs are replaced (or augmented) by technology, increasing numbers of people will find themselves working on tasks outside the building.

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Robots for Health Care from Toyota

Curious Cat

This increases the need for health care and for assistance with everyday tasks from the elderly. Japan is also among the leading countries for developing robots for health care and living assistance. Japan has an extremely rapidly aging population. That gives them a chance to be successful.

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How Innovation Is Completely Different in Established Organizations than in Startups

Leading Blog

They require great technological conversions. But technology may, in fact, be a minor part of the task. The established companies want access to the startups’ technology expertise, while the startups want access to the established companies’ customers and data, this can be a match made in heaven.

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Nine Rules for Employee Engagement

Chart Your Course

Results range from happier customers to higher profits and stock prices, to lower health care costs. Skill Set Development. This desire has increased in recent years, due to the rapid pace that technology is changing the way businesses work and the skill sets they require. Support for Continued Education.

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For Whom Do We Innovate?

Mills Scofield

SYMF spun out of the BrainGate lab at Brown University and Massachusetts General Hospital to develop communication technologies for people who can''t communicate effectively because of neurological injury and disease. The growth of tablets as a platform has helped make SpeakYourMind''s technology practical and affordable.

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Why Everyone's Working So Hard

Marshall Goldsmith

They enjoyed incredible job security, great benefits, lifetime health care, and guaranteed pensions. Decreased Health Care and Pension Security The concept of guaranteed lifetime health care and pension has been greatly eroded in the U.S. Instead, new technology has created a "24/7" mindset.