Sentences with phrase «point about innovation»

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During the Q&A for Malcolm Gladwell, who gave an opening keynote speech on differing innovation styles, addressed this point while fielding a question about why so few women - owned companies break the million dollar mark.

Throughout our chat, he noted some interesting points about food industry innovation, which really apply to all disruptors.

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett's annual letter to shareholders recently gained a lot of attention when he pointed out one very important point about the future of America: don't bet against U.S. innovation.

But Europe is about to point to a better way of balancing the interests of technological innovation and privacy concerns.

Acknowledging Mr. Gordon's point that living standards have not advanced since the 1960s the way they did in the previous 50 - year period, he nevertheless echoed Mr. Cowen's newfound optimism about innovation.

His final and most controversial point in response to the legislative changes question was about what he dubbed «enabling innovation».

«Customer - back innovation is not about doing cutting - edge innovation for its own sake, but identifying specific customer pain points and developing solutions to address them.»

«I saw a lot of this in the submissions... this moment in time is that pivotal point in which sustainability and e-commerce are coming together [with] people looking to reduce use of materials and thinking about innovation in terms of e-commerce.»

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The ironic thing about the «New» super Mario games, and the point that they're missing, is that the old ones offered more innovation and newness in each installment than any of the new ones.

I'll give the script points for flipping the script and making this about female teen horniness instead of the tractional male libido but that's about where the innovation stops.

Malcolm Gladwell, the author of The Tipping Point, suggests that our public schools would benefit from a spirit of innovation rather than one of regimentation.Those of us who have been hanging around public education for more than, say, 15 years may remember a time when words like creativity and imagination were an important part of our conversations about curriculum design, teaching, learning, and lesson planning.

At this point, the easy process of picking and choosing which laws to follow via the innovation district mechanism means that the taxpayers and parents in your district won't necessarily have certified teachers to instruct their children, won't necessarily be informed if they don't, won't know if their class sizes exceed 22:1 in early grades, and won't have information about much of anything affecting their children's education.

He pointed out some pertinent points about the weaknesses of the large publishing houses» reaction to self - publishing and other technological and business innovations, as well as the effects of self - publishing «flooding».

Firstly his premise is mistaken, ebooks are not the disruption, merely the manifestation of the disruption (of which more below) and secondly even if we are to accept his categorization of ebooks as the disruption / sustaining innovation, he misses a key point about the nature of the trade publishing industry that undermines his argument.

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The info I'm about to share is not to brag or make this all about numbers, but to point out that a combination of following advice and innovation seems to be working — so far at least.

In the modern world of videogames where we're constantly complaining about there not being enough innovation, point and click titles stand as a rare and unusual exception: they don't really need to be changed.

That said, as game makers it's our responsibility (and pretty much the most fun thing about getting to make games for a living), to both find / embrace / make better those familiar reference points while delivering innovations that are meaningful, really unique... and fun.

Returning to the discussion about how things haven't always fit into a set mold, there are some who claim that the Mario Party franchise has barely had any innovation whatsoever, to the point that the very fact that it's gone on for so long is a shock.

Lovins made an important point about the source of innovation and change to watch for and nurture, and one arena where he doesn't expect much progress:

3) The third point, about emissions taxes or caps imposing heavy costs for no climate benefit, presumes that such limits won't spur innovation, efficiency and a shift to lower - emitting energy sources.

The latter part is more original stuff, as I (i) make the case for how China's clean energy push is in fact consistent with its overall economic reform, e.g. Scientific Development, reduction of excess industrial capacity, natural resource price reform, western development, boosting domestic consumption, and Going Out strategy; (ii) describe China's activities in innovation and R&D and its desire to create, not just produce, energy technologies of the 21st century; (iii) address criticisms that China's «indigenous innovation» policies are protectionist in nature by pointing out the myopia of such observations from a US (or EU for that matter) policymakers point of view; (iv) provide thoughts about what the proper U.S. policy response should be.

So when I say «energy innovation» policies, I'm not talking about a silver bullet, I'm talking about a suite of policies from R&D, demonstration, financing, deployment, and market - based that not only develop the clean tech we need, but creates a competitive market for them, and get those technologies to market quicker than if left alone.My concerns shared in the post are those that ignore the innovation piece and assume, to a point a you do, that price or regs or taxes will have not just an immediate impact but a LARGE impact.

Uncertainties in climate from many sources suggest the need to refocus on effective and pragmatic, resilience and no - regrets policy options — e.g climate pragmatism and technical innovation — rather than endlessly quibbling about climate talking points.

As Solar Impulse II initiator and pilot, Bertrand Piccard, pointed out in an inspiring speech about green innovation: «You can't have growth if you produce what people already have.»

Over the last few weeks, I've produced a few posts about different components of infrastructure, and now realize that maybe we should take a step back, discuss the general topic a bit more, and cover some essential points before diving deeper into the reasons such innovations as smart grids, electric cars and clean energy may or may not be as sustainable as promised.

Sam Glover: One of the things that you've talked about before is just pointing out how many innovations that we all use came to us by way of designing for disability.

Evan, I don't think that's the point Seth is making about innovation.

Steven raised a good point about where technology sits on the students» agenda beyond the hobby level, asking whether the University or the students are the drivers of technological innovation.

Linna admits that this approach has weaknesses, but he says that, given the paucity of information about law firm innovation generally available, determining what law firms claim to be doing about innovation on their own websites is a helpful starting point.

Nonetheless, here at Neota Logic we're quite cheerful about disruptive innovation, so we'll join in to comment on a few points made in the recent discussions.

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You can't move these days without law firms and legal IT vendors talking about disruptive innovations however in this LexisNexis Business of Law white board video (which runs under five minutes) Christopher T. Anderson argues that «The debate misses the real point.

There is a particular point I'd like to make about how and why these hackathons are driving innovation in our industry, but first, for those unfamiliar with what...

Unfortunately, Artificial Intelligence (or AI) is a polysemy or «suitcase term» — arguably it encompasses too many disparate topics to be a useful starting point for conversations about legal innovation.

The point of this column is to talk about different types of innovation.

These new approaches weren't without challenges, but team members opened their minds to new ideas and I think we all learned a lot about these different ways of working, which is the whole point of innovation in the first place.

Moore suggested that innovation in insurance distribution isn't about changing existing channels and isn't even about offering digital insurance quotes without advice, noting at one point that consumers not only want someone to whittle down carrier choices for insurance policies but also to help them make the final carrier and quote selection.

This is not guaranteed of course, but it highlights an essential point: startups are about innovation, daring, and having fun on the roller - coaster ride to — who knows where?

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