Sentences with phrase «about system innovation»

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Look at STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)-- if we focused on finding early indicators of high performers in our education system, then treated them differently as they progressed through school as potential Canadian innovators, by the time they got to Grade 12 and were thinking about university, they would be wildly ahead of the innovation curve.»

For all its impressive innovations, from the Android operating system to advances in artificial intelligence, Google still gets about 95 % of its revenue from online advertising, and industry watchers believe it will inevitably lose its edge there as rivals grow stronger.

Any conversation about disruptive new technologies, innovation in medicine, or our unprecedented health care delivery system is incomplete unless we also talk about money.

Anthem believes in the power of innovation to bring about transformational improvements to our health care system.

It makes culture fluid, redoubling the sense of vulnerability brought about by an economic system of «disruptive innovation» and expanded competition.

To learn more about Cablevey's innovations for tubular drag and cable conveyor systems, check out https://cablevey.com/conveyor-monitoring-system-cameras/ today!

No system can be foolproof when it comes to worries about evasion and avoidance, but it is right that the focus should be on easing burdens to SMEs to boost innovation and create jobs.

In her remarks, Teachout highlighted the potential for innovation through 21st century transportation technology by not «just treating the MTA like an ATM as Andrew Cuomo does, but investing in our transit system, and then encouraging entrepreneurs to come here to invest in new transit systems that we haven't even thought about yet.»

«One of the wonderful things about the U.S. health care system is that it's rapidly rewarding, which leads to rapid innovation.

As this innovation has the potential to save operating costs, Optasia System Pte Ltd and the Singapore Police Force will jointly test it with funding of about SG$ 492,620 from TEC.

The Institute: brings together a wide range of scientists, including physicists, engineers, chemists, biologists as well as HMS clinicians to address fundamental questions about the behavior and functioning of biological systems; allows biologists, engineers, and clinicians to potentially use such knowledge to foster applications and new technologies; and provides a way for the tool - developers (physicists, engineers, computer scientists) to work with the tool - users (biologists, chemists, clinicians) in the early stages of scientific inquiry and encourage scientific collaboration at the innovation stage of tool development.

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Southampton, UK About Blog A Chartered Geographer with more than 15 years experience in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), data management and geospatial innovation.

Gladwell's call to innovation and experimentation in our schools got me thinking about the idea of educational entrepreneurship and how supporting a spirit of adventure and risk within the boundaries of our public school system may allow us to realize more of the gains that we were hoping for rather than more of the same like the past two decades of tight control and, as Gladwell suggests, regimentation.

If we want charter schools to earn a broad base of popularity, we need to build stronger authorizing systems that enable school leaders to drive innovation while setting clear expectations about outcomes and accountability.

Furthermore Reason (2015) agrees that Taylorism opposes teams and innovations, because it is all about the system.

The Center, led by the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST) in collaboration with Vanderbilt University, represents a large system of partnerships designed to leverage and connect the most current knowledge from the learning sciences about reading development in students with disabilities, best practices within education, and innovation at the leading edge of education technology.

Discover new strategies to leverage digital content and hear about learning management system innovations that offer new opportunities to enhance teaching and learning.

Nancie's books for Heinemann include Systems to Transform Your Classroom and School, which takes teachers inside her award - winning school to learn about the innovations that make the biggest impact on achievement and community; Lessons That Change Writers, a year's worth of instruction straight from Nancie's file cabinets; and Naming the World: A Year of Poems and Lessons, which helps teachers to jumpstart their teaching of writing and literature each day by unpacking a poem with their students.

Tom Vander Ark recently wrote about several different approaches to accountability, including John Bailey's idea of state - created «innovation zones» that would free groups of schools from existing accountability systems.

In the new moment in our portfolio system, we are required to think fundamentally differently about the intersections between charter, innovation and district schools.

Districts should be key drivers within comprehensive accountability systems by supporting continuous improvement, tracking additional measures of school quality and student success, using these measures to inform local decisions about resources and supports, and serving as laboratories of innovation for the state;

The teachers unions in those cities, who profess to be all about the kids, social justice and progressivism, pound the table and insist that our outdated 19th Century Prussian - style zip - code mandated school system continue without any innovation, just more money.

Teaching unions have long argued that academisation has been used as a way of privatising the school system, while the government says it is about introducing innovation.

Designed to promote conversation about how to educate students for a rapidly changing and increasingly borderless and innovation - based world, this comprehensive and illuminating book from international education expert Vivien Stewart is not about casting blame; it is about understanding what the best school systems in the world are doing right for the purpose of identifying what U.S. schools — at the national, state, and local level — might do differently and better.

Instead of just interactive labs about the human body's structures and systems, have students investigate current health care technologies or practices and suggest innovations and improvements in treatment.

The draft also encouraged policymakers to think about educational vouchers, decentralizing urban school systems, and educational innovation.

Speaking about innovations and new features we should also mention cast iron sleeves in block of cylinders as well as second phase shifter on the Double - VANOS exhaust valve along with 244/228 duration camshafts, new pistons and connecting rods, intake manifold, renewed cooling system and electronic throttle body.

If you want to go all anal about it, talking about pretenders... Mercedes - Benz basically created the first gasoline - powered automobile and thru time had safety innovations like independent suspension for all four wheels (swing axles), hydraulic braking system and the crucial safety cage (crumple zone) and the freaking ABS!

About 3M Library Systems 3M Library Systems is committed to helping libraries thrive by providing cutting edge technologies including RFID, automated materials handling (AMH), self check and security solutions, as well as our latest innovation 3M Cloud Library, the fastest growing eBook Lending Service.

Specifically, we get to talk about DRM - free ebooks, the Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS), and retail innovation.

Ways to describe this nascent paradigm vary — Banny Banerjee at Stanford Institute of Design talks about «design thinking»; at the Experience Design Group in Stockholm, Rolf Hughes and I consider it as a trans - disciplinary form of «disruptive innovation» — but held in common is the belief that designers should be critical thinkers and strategists first, capable of addressing cross-disciplinary problems by designing the social, political, economic and educational «systems» that give them greater reach, responsibility, influence and relevance.

In the long run I don't think we will succeed in getting transportation of oil by trying to stop oil production on a site - by - site basis, we are going to have to put a high price on transportation fuels that have high carbon emissions and get much more serious about driving energy innovation they can get the transportation system off carbon.

We need to start thinking in practical terms about how to get the technologies we need ready — as the authors say, «deep energy system decarbonization is likely to require an ambitious, focused agenda of rapid innovation and improvement in every critical technology area, even those commercially available today, as well as substantial «demand pull» efforts and policies to ensure early demonstration, industry maturation, scale - up, and «learning by doing.

Upon introduction of the bill, Inhofe said, «Moving beyond the confusing, command - and - control mandates of the past, Clear Skies cap - and - trade system harnesses the power of technology and innovation to bring about significant reductions in harmful pollutants.»

The document also suggests that it is urgent to bring about transformations in key economic systems, from energy, cities and food to the «take - make - waste» economy, and leverage evidence and new information technology, political leadership, coalitions for change and innovation.

The Green Leap Forward (GLF):  Here at The Green Leap Forward, we've previously talked about the need to look at innovation beyond just the technological, calling for disruptive systems over mere disruptive technologies. You similarly have an expansive view of «technology» and «innovation» beyond the way the media narrowly construes it.  How would you define these terms?

In addition, the film presents some great food for thought about our current system of building codes and zoning regulations, which hasn't seemed to keep up with the pace of alternative building innovations.

As this paper demonstrates, a massive expansion of energy systems, primarily carried out in the rapidly urbanizing global South, in combination with the rapid acceleration of clean energy innovation, is a more pragmatic, just, and morally acceptable framework for thinking about energy access.

Last year the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), itself, published its own report citing a «drastic rise in patent litigation» that also referenced a USPTO working paper ominously revealing that «economists, legal scholars and policy makers are concerned about the impact of patent litigation on the rate and direction of US innovation and on the functioning of the US intellectual property system.»

However, in the 21st century, digitized access is also critical in order to promote Canadian innovation in the space and to foster new thinking about an accessible and transparent court system and the all - too - murky litigation process in ways that would simply not otherwise be possible.

For the past week, the U.S. National Public Radio has broadcast a series of shocking reports about corruption and abuse in how the US Patent system is set up, and who is abusing it to the detriment of everyone else and innovation.

In my last post for Slaw I wrote about the importance of creating the conditions for justice innovation by building the skills needed to work in multidisciplinary teams and collaborate rather than «consult» with justice system users.

In our multi-disciplinary teams, we spent the fourth day brainstorming and designing prototypes of legal innovations, including an online dispute resolution platform to resolve claims under $ 2000 outside of the formal justice system, a document exchange and file management system, and a Pokemon GO inspired smartphone app to disguise learning about the legal system in a fun and interactive way.

One last thought on leadership. When truly disruptive innovation collides with any market, historically the big boys don't survive. They are lacking the bold leadership required to make major course corrections. The top ten most profitable law firms - 9 of which have no blogging presence to speak of — will lose their position if they don't join the party. As Kevin O'keefe noted this week, anonymity online is a losing proposition, while others disagree. We aren't just talking about blogging though, it's the whole social media system - Legal Onramp, JDSupra, and even LinkedIN, Twitter, and Facebook. These are powerful tools, and real leaders will understand, like their younger counterparts, it is much more significant to harness the power of fire, than to simply try and stamp it out for fear of getting burned.

I won't go into the details of that workshop as it has been previously written about here, but, in short, our stakeholders (and now our partners) were interested in learning about the innovation tools they might use to help them respond to the needs of users in the family justice system.

The big barriers to innovation seem to be (in no particular order): lack of data about the needs and experiences of users of justice systems; the natural monopoly of judges and lawyers; the challenge of developing the smart public - private partnerships that innovation needs; limited or no access to finance.

The broader lesson is about innovation in legal dispute resolution systems.

Here on Slaw, for example, Nicole Aylwin wrote last month about taking social labs approach to solving access to foster innovation in justice systems.

As far as access to justice is concerned, it's important to think about a major straight jacket on innovation: funding for new IT systems has to come from partners» debt.