Tag: bmw
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Innovation requires experience
The centrepiece was the Innovation and Skills Plan, a series of proposals that included additional venture capital funding, new support for innovation in key growth areas and superclusters, and Innovation Canada, an initiative to bring siloed projects and funding programs for innovators under one roof. More recently, the government in its 2017 defence policy…
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Innovation & Transformation: they are not synonymous
Innovation and transformation are often used synonymously, but they are different in the digital world. In some instances, transformation can lead to innovation. In others, innovation can lead to transformation, but this mutually causal relationship is often overlooked since they are thought to mean the same thing. While indeed related, it is crucial for modern…
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Meritocracy vs mediocrity? Bureaucracy is the factor that kills productivity.
“You’ll meet them all again on their long journey to the middle.” That’s the late, great Philip Seymour Hoffman reading Lester Bangs in Cameron Crowe’s thinly veiled autobiographical film Almost Famous. Bangs is contextualizing the struggles of the film’s protagonist, William — his would-be protégé and Crowe’s stand-in. William is a precocious adolescent promoted to…
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BMW em Araquari SC vai exportar 10 mil carros
Após 11 anos, carros produzidos no Brasil voltam ao mercado americano em volume significativo. A fabricante alemã BMW vai exportar 10 mil unidades do utilitário X1 produzido na fábrica de Araquari (SC). Os embarques começarão em julho. Para dar conta da demanda extra, que se estenderá até o fim do ano, a montadora vai contratar 300 funcionários…