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#LSCon day 1, Leapfrogging serious lean agile innovation performance ecosystems for 90%

Challenge to Learn

Leapfrogging serious lean agile innovation performance ecosystems for 90%. Leapfrogging After this we had the formal opening (1500 attendees, 30% up from last year) by David Kelly and the Keynote from Soren Kaplan about Leapfrogging to learning breakthroughs and innovation. People love innovation but they hate surprises.

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How HR Can Improve Psychological Safety in the Workplace

KnowledgeCity

The concept of “synergy,” which fuels both creativity and job satisfaction, is described by the American Psychology Association as “a social process that occurs when a group, by acting in concert, achieves an outcome that is superior to what would be achieved by the most capable member or by any simple pooling of individual member efforts.

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Getting ready for #LSCON

Challenge to Learn

As keynotes we have: Soren Kaplan – Redefining innovation. Innovation, big data and our mind. And not at least the initiative about serious eLearning from a number of our thought leaders urging us to do a better job (and they are right, check it out). Innovation. Douglas Merrill - Redefining Data.

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Presidential Thoughts on Innovation and Technology

Kapp Notes

Gordon Synder of Gordon's Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) Blog has a great post titled Obama on Technology and Innovation where Gordon summarizes Obama's policy. Develop a skilled work force - America Must Educate Its Workforce For The Innovation Age. I have reproduced some of it here but check out the entire post.

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The Future of Executive Education Is Here

CLO Magazine

These organizations are quickly moving away from traditional executive education into the realm of business innovation. The talent lab represents the company’s new mindset regarding the interplay between talent and innovation and includes a high-tech physical space to match. The talent lab isn’t the typical corporate university.

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Happy Employees, Happy Company

CLO Magazine

We found these same five dimensions regardless of country, industry or job level.”. Cheryl Allen, vice president of human resources at Kaplan Professional, an education services company, agrees that creating a positive employee environment has a financial impact. “We

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What it means that MS LifeScience Award Goes to 3D Virtual Conference Design

Kapp Notes

Event By now you've probably already heard that the Microsoft Life Sciences Innovation Award 2010 has gone to a project that uses a 3-D virtual environment to hold a virtual scientific poster session. But Microsoft with no known 3D product or initiative has recognized the importance of 3D for innovation. And the impact is huge.