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The author discusses his journey from growing up in the north of Italy to his current role as the first‐ever Chief Design Officer of PepsiCo, the food and beverage multinational corporation. He describes what he calls his mission of human‐centered innovation. What is required, he notes, is people whom he dubs “the unicorns.” He writes that “at PepsiCo, we have an organization of more than 300 design...
The authors, including Murray, the President of Lackawanna College in Scranton, Pennsylvania; write about innovation initiatives at the school, and their relevance to other organizations. They focus on what they call “Little Innovations,” described in their words as innovation born from necessity as an organization considers how to solve a central, pressing problem. They delineate five steps to little...
The need to match education and business goals is an endeavour and a challenge for any educational institution, especially for higher education institutions. This challenge has become an important focus over the last decades due to the claimed relationship between education and innovation as well as the potential for economic development. The biggest challenge seems to be to overcome the barriers...
This paper describes a theoretical foundation and a successfully implemented curriculum that satisfies traditional disciplinary requirements, as well as interdisciplinary and innovation focused learning experiences via a thematic approach. Our work contributes an example of successful integration of business and engineering curriculum using foundational themes transcending disciplinary boundaries...
The world of today is not looking for innovations that are mere incremental but those that are disruptive. Aakash, the Low Cost Tablet (LCT) initiative by Indian govt. was launched in 2011 amidst dominance by the likes of Apple, Amazon, and Samsung etc. Single most objective of this initiative was affordable ICT learning tool for the 220+ million students. LCT like Aakash can be seen as a disruptive...
Those of us involved in teaching about or using Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) are well aware that this is an area subject to continual rapid change. This paper begins by examining the various external influences on ICT curriculum. It then makes the point that any new technology or idea must be adopted before it can be used and asserts that the adoption and use of both new ICT curriculum...
General management education is often criticized as irrelevant, out of touch, too ldquotrade-school,rdquo too interested in training financial services professionals and consultants, and insufficiently focused on innovation, the major driver of the economy. Technology management (TM) education has always focused on practical and relevant management issues and innovation has been a major theme. We...
Services science has emerged as the key factor in developed economies as it becomes the main driver of productivity and economic growth. With the evolution of consumer and business processes, it has become a large part of economy. Services have become the main differentiator guided by the principle that every business has to be a service business in order to survive and compete effectively. The explosion...
Along with development of economic globalization, the business innovation becomes increasingly significant in China. The business innovation is not only a specific environment of the business, for instance customer, suppliers, competitors and so on, but it needs the general environment to give it an atmosphere as well. On the basis of foreign advanced theory, the writer carries out the research of...
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