Categoria: innovation
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Citibank is managing innovation
Vanessa Colella, Chief Innovation Officer, Citi Global Finance: How is innovation managed within Citi globally? Vanessa Colella: Under innovation, we run various components. First, we run venture-capital equity investments globally, in fintech, Big Data, machine learning, cybersecurity and ecommerce, for example. These are tools that will shape the industry long term in the next decade,…
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How To Use Competition To Drive Innovation
Research and development is thus an integral part in discovering these innovations. However, while essential, it can also be very costly. The key lies on how management can pursue research and development initiatives that minimize costs yet produce sustainable competitive advantage. In this case, traditional innovation methods will no longer work. The current business environment…
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China, the Innovation Dragon
THE YEAR AHEAD 2018 The world’s leading thinkers and policymakers examine what’s come apart in the past year, and anticipate what will define the year ahead. ORDER NOW The question now is whether China, well positioned to become the world’s innovation leader, will realize that opportunity in 2018 or soon after. China’s transformation has been…
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Brazil establishes national biofuels policy
Brazilian President Michel Temer has approved legislation creating RenovaBio, a new national biofuels policy. The law was published in the official federal gazette of Brazil on Dec. 26. The Brazilian Senate approved the bill on Dec. 12. RenovaBio aims to increase the use of all biofuels, including ethanol, biodiesel and biomethane, in Brazil with the…
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Supercluster makes big innovation pitch
The interim chief executive officer for Canada’s agri-food supercluster is all about getting industry players together to push it to new heights during the next few years. Rob Davies will lead the Smart Agri-Food Supercluster for now, as members continue to make their case to the federal government that they should have access to its…
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The Driver Of Innovation: Environment Or People?
Society loves to typecast people. It wants to stick you in a box and keep you there, especially true when it comes to careers. For most of my career, I’ve worked in business and worked as a writer simultaneously. Somedays, I feel more like a writer, other days I’m a business nut. But every day both…
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Innovation can, and must, be taught in schools: Education Minister
Minister for Education (Schools), Mr Ng Chee Meng, delivering his speech during the Appointment and Appreciation Ceremony for Principals SINGAPORE — As the Republic grapples with disruption and volatility sweeping through the “economy, society, science and, even politics”, Education Minister (Schools) Ng Chee Meng on Thursday (Dec 28) stressed the need to imbue in students…
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It’s all ‘about innovation’…
Billionaire Dan Gilbert’s Quicken Loans Inc. outgrew almost every U.S. mortgage provider by unfurling technology like its online Rocket Mortgage platform faster than big banks. Now closing in on the industry’s leader, Wells Fargo & Co., he’s picking more fights: Luring top tech talent to Detroit from Silicon Valley giants like Facebook Inc. and Google.…
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