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Soren Kaplan, Leapfrogging to Learning Breakthroughs and Innovation, Opening Keynote at #LSCon

Learning Visions

Soren Kaplan, Redefining Innovation: Harness the power of surprise for business breakthroughs. So how do we create breakthrough innovations? Kaplan went out to research his book and looked for books with the words “Surprise” in the title. InNOvation. Cool things they’ve done at Inuit: The innovation wall of fame.

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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. If you don't like my summary, you can read the whole thing at John McCain's Technology page at his web site.

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Workplace as Learning Lab

The Performance Improvement Blog

Michael Noble, in his post for “Chief Learning Officer” titled, How to Build a Learning and Innovation Performance Lab , suggests that learning professionals should start looking for workplace opportunities to try out new ways of learning. Of course, he recognizes the obstacles. The imperative is to do R&D for new business models.

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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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Exciting 3D Event to Discuss Virtual Clinical Trials

Kapp Notes

Innovations in Clinical Research Workshop. Join an esteemed panel of industry experts and technology innovators to discuss the current and future state of the Virtual Clinical Trial. TITLE: Innovations in Clinical Research. LOCATION: Microsoft Technology Center. Lisa Clune - CEO – Kaplan Eduneering.

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Happy Employees, Happy Company

CLO Magazine

The Employee Experience Index, or EXI, surveyed more than 23,000 workers across a number of countries and was conducted by human capital management solutions company Globoforce and information technology company IBM. Harriott said the responsibility to ensure employees feel happy and valued falls on senior leaders.

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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. see Pfizer's $2.3