Ford had already increased productivity through innovations in his production processes and believed that he could increase productivity further by competing for, and retaining, the best workers.
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First, we want to celebrate, and thank, a handful of individuals who, through innovations in their chosen technological fields, have been singularly successful at creating new economic and intellectual wealth for the rest of us to enjoy.
He has dedicated over 20 years of his research career to improving the lives and opportunities of some of the world's poorest people through his innovations in computing.
Niinami earns the hero designation through the innovations he has brought to convenience store operations, essentially creating a new business model, now including shops specializing in natural foods, produce and fixed price small items.
In the last three decades as some manufacturing has moved to other countries, the US economy has more than trebled by moving up the economic ladder through continuous innovations, past outdated manufacturing to services and the production of knowledge.
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Lots of need to move innovations through design, product development, marketing, derivative designs, prototype production, design for manufacturing, short-run specialty items and even prolific variation creation.
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That would act as a "huge magnet to pull new innovations through, right along the food-chain - from the labs, to the boardrooms, to the hospital bed".
Changing the game in construction is a process of winning through lots of innovations that prove themselves to customers and suppliers rather than trying to change a skeptical group overnight.
They grew the company with their own innovations and through (un-named at the time) open innovation with other technology makers and companies.
Industries typically transition through these types of innovations.
In many more cases, a great idea evolved progressively, often through a succession of more modest innovations or improvements, so that while the final product may be overtly better, its evolution was more gradual than punctuated.
Digital democracy is the concept of enabling good ideas and innovations to float from the bottom through the top of organizations using web tools.
Likewise, in the conventional thinking about markets, economic progress depends not on the labors of infinite economic actors but on the select few, the brainiacs, who rise to the top and generate innovations from which ordinary mortals benefit through a kind of trickle-down effect.
As our leaders in Washington work through the negotiations, they must ensure that American innovations are secured by strong intellectual property protection.
One of Jim's many innovations was the section called Follow-Through, which recaps stories we've gotten right--and, more fun, others where our conclusions were wrong.
Indeed, many of the innovations that Time Warner Cable has come up with through the years have to do with providing its customers with features that allow improved quality of the content they consume and to enable them to enjoy it better.
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In the food world, there have been a number of innovations related to managing the deluge of recipes available on the web through improved search and curation.
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Brilliant innovations that are creatively destructive meander from the bottom-up, iterating through Technology, Market and Implementation from the very beginning of research.
Instead of focusing exclusively on short term gains and efficiency innovations, the very goal of the firm has to shift to delighting customers through continuous value-adding innovation.
New mobile innovations allow businesses with mobile storefronts to track sales, inventory, and customers through m-commerce platforms that are integrated with their brick-and-mortar systems, and to set up easy-to-use, secure mobile transaction channels.
Google, for example, was judged by my Chinese observers to have originated by building upon the prior search-engine innovations of others, but then, as the arrow indicates, has subsequently grown through mastering the ability to both create and capture its own value.
So there's a lot that government can still do - not only through direct spending on Broadband, on housing, on road, on rail, but some of the innovations.
Through research efforts with CFSI as well as the Citi IPA Financial Capability Research Fund, in partnership with Innovations for Poverty Action, among others, we are seeing models of success and effectiveness.
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