Encouraging a Culture of Innovation to Beat Competition

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Fostering
a culture of innovation and creativity in business can help one stay a
step ahead of competitors, by ensuring that products and services remain
up to date and in line with what customers need. Innovative businesses
often have strong, inspirational leaders and management and well-trained
and motivated employees. These businesses maintain a culture of
innovation, constantly looking at every aspect of the organization and
not just its products and services.

In
today’s business environment, it is difficult for businesses to
outgrow, out market, or out price the competition but driving innovation
while implementing continuous improvement will help businesses stand
out from the competition. Every business wants to innovate, even if it
is not on the same level as Apple or Google. Innovation has to have a
purpose. That’s exactly what Apple has been doing, and its devotion to
designing new customer experiences centered on technology has
contributed to a 1,300 percent rise in its stock price in the past 10
years and a market capitalization that exceeds that of Microsoft. Apple
keeps innovating because it has deliberately fashioned a culture of
innovation. The company’s steadfastness to design and innovate is built
into its DNA and that enables it to promote, conceive and implement
revolutionary ideas and remain in a continuous state of reinvention.

Business
innovation now a day’s does not only mean making the product
development better but it also means that companies should keep
reinventing themselves in ways, that the internal and external customers
goodwill towards the company increases. Research has found that
companies that do the best in a tough economy are those that innovate
and are open to outside ideas. The power of the crowd innovation is
being utilized by many businesses and many companies are doing
efficiently by outsourcing their first line support and service function
to the crowd. Air New Zealand’s Aviation Design Academy for example,
set out to design the best long-haul flying experience. Passengers were
asked to design parts of the flying experience on their new 777-300
aircraft – the cocktail, in-flight food, eye mask and one “freeform”
idea.

The
winners had the opportunity to take a flight from Auckland to London to
sample the implementation of their ideas. The competition attracted
huge number of entries and generated more interest in Air New Zealand’s
marketing initiative.

In many cases, CEOs see collaboration as
key to their success with innovation. They know they cannot do it all
using internal resources. So they look outside for other organizations
to partner with. True innovation requires someone who can visualize the
possibilities of an idea generation and who has the ability and tenacity
to successfully implement it. With successful idea management services,
organizations can blend the strengths with various feedbacks as a means
to encourage a culture of innovation. This way the best idea is most
likely to successfully beat completion in the market.

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Obtaining A Good Escort Job In London Tips On How To Locate The Appropriate Company

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Helping People through Employment Tribunal Claims

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It is a shame when a relationship turns sour. In professional relationships, things can and do break down on a regular basis. When it comes to employment, workers and employers both expect to be treated in a professional and fair manner. But up and down the country this wish is ignored, which is why employment tribunal law is so important.

Employment tribunal claims deal with disputes in the workplace and the decisions made in a hearing are legally binding. There is a range of reasons why a case could be referred to an employment tribunal. Unfair dismissal is usually one of the most common cases that get referred, and employment tribunal solicitors will always find the best ways of dealing with these cases so that the best of interests of everyone involved are considered. Getting Important Guidance from Employment Tribunal Solicitors

As with any court case or legal situation, an employment tribunal can be very nerve racking. But this does not have to be the case, as help is available from specialist sympathetic employment tribunal solicitors. London based law firms usually have dedicated and highly experienced solicitors who are experts in employment tribunal law.

Their job is to put the client at ease; fully explain the whole process and what will happen; detail the chances of success and impart a range of other helpful tips, all of which are designed to leave the claimant as worry free and as much in the know as possible. Employment tribunal claims are common, but the claimant must have good legal representation to ensure success. Employment tribunal solicitors will be more than happy to help anyone through the experience of an employment tribunal.

Making Employment Tribunal Law Straightforward

Unless the claimant is a legal professional themselves, most people find employment tribunal claims difficult to complete on their own. Employment tribunal solicitors aim to make the whole process go as smoothly as possible and of course aim to emerge successful at the end. Claimants’ chances of success in employment tribunal claims are dramatically increased with the help of the best, most experienced employment tribunal solicitors.

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Creative Innovation

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How creative is your innovation “process”?

Think about it? Is your innovation process highly prescriptive or very organic?


Is your innovation pipeline delivering a balanced portfolio of projects
and products or is it skewed to being incremental or hedging on high
risk disruptive innovation?

With all of the capability to
connect and communicate with other people and data, creating a balanced
and fruitful innovation ecosystem in today’s world has been made easier,
wouldn’t you agree? Or maybe not!

There are several issues that
we need to acknowledge, which are spoken privately but not always
openly discussed as you will see why. There are also two strategies that
we need to embrace, understand and implement.

Innovation Issues

Innovation is about being creative, creating that new “thing” that nobody else has thought of and adds value.


Below are some of the common innovation issues in the form of barriers
and constraints that I have come across whilst working in various
sectors such as the construction, pharmaceutical and biotech industry,
albeit with varying degrees. Think about how many of these you have
experienced within your organisation.

Standardisation – you are
working in a business and a world where you have to conform to
procedures, policies, legal requirements, so much so that creativity is
virtually non existent

Linearity – from standardisation you have
business processes, work flows, whereby you believe if you follow the
process you will get the right results. I believe it was Einstein who
said Insanity: “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting
different results.” There is a time when you need to go off-piste.


Diversity – within your business and organisation you will have a set
number of people with certain skill sets, training and knowledge based
on what you believe to be correct. There are over 7 Billion people in
the world and I would bet that there is someone, somewhere who is not in
your organisationthat has the block-buster idea or know how to develop a
transformation and disruptive innovative solution.

Passion –
how passionate are you and the people within your organisation about
your work, how it contributes to creating and developing new products
and services. Are you high performing organisation?

Creativity -
do you promote continual learning and development through dynamic
collaboration across your business and with outside organisations that
can help you to think creatively?

Visualisation – having
visibility of your innovation pipeline, that can be shared with anyone
and supports divergent thinking is part of creativity.

Poor
decision making – you are constantly being bombarded with data,
requests, distractions that it is becoming more difficult for your to
make informed decisions and is taking longer to make.

Fear
culture – fear of being wrong, getting a negative result and sharing it
because of what people might think of you or how it will affect your
career to get to the “top”.

You will notice in most of the items
above there are only one or two points that are system and technology
related while the others relate to people – you and me. And yet what I
have discovered is that businesses will typically focus on the
“tangible” assets such as the business processes, systems, equipment and
not on the “intangible” assets, which include people, the organisation
and knowledge (including data and information) that contains the highest
part of an organisations value and innovation capability.

Why is that?


Probably because processes and systems are easier to understand and
therefore easier to optimise. But are you optimising the right part of
your organisation?

People working collaboratively

I
recently attended a presentation to listen to the person who led the
engineering and construction delivery of the London 2012 Olympic Park.
It was truly amazing how leadership where able to pull so many people
together, deliver innovative designs and construction solutions and
still meet and sometimes exceed the key milestones and metrics that were
set, by working together as a team – a very big and diversified team.


The other key attribute that the presenter identified was clarity.
There was clear visibility of what the objectives where, how they were
going to do it, roles and responsibilities.

There were several
main points to the successful delivery of the London 2012 Olympic Park
but two in particualr resonated with me.

Collaboration – people working together to deliver an agreed outcome

Visualisation – the use of integrated visualisation tools such as BIM so everyone understood. Total clarity.

Helping people to collaborate with clear visibility can support and enhance your innovation capability.

Creative Innovation


Regarding the issues listed above I have considered their effect on
creative innovation and how collaboration and visualisation could
faciliate change and improvement.

Standardisation

If you
work in a highly regulated industry you will veer to the safe, low risk
position and more often or not you are driven there out of fear. Fear
of getting it wrong can lead to very serious consequences such as a
safety issue. This standardisation is further endorsed by people in your
organisation who make sure you follow the linear process so that you do
not step off the “proven path”.

This is further complicated
when you have other people trying to create something new and are
continually trying to step off the proven path. Both are working
separately and to a degree, in opposite directions. But isn’t amazing.
When a mistake is made or something does go wrong there is great
learning. When these groups gather to analyse and work out
collaboratively what went wrong, innovative solutions are created.


It takes an issue, for people to react and come together. What if you
were to “fail” in a controlled way – fail quickly, continously, learn
quickly and do it cheaply.

Celebrate that failure as a new
learning and do it as a group rather than specific departments or
individuals. What would that do to help increase your innovation
capability?

Measuring people

People work differently;
they have different skills and capabilities for learning and being
creative. When in a group do you consider their performance from that
perspective or do you revert to the dreaded Personal Development Plan
and measure them individually. You can have fantastic individuals but
unless they are team players, team collaboration will be low and will
stunt your innovation and growth. Look at any team sport and who are the
winners.

Aesthetic collaboration

Is your organisation
and people being bombarded with data, information, emails – demands for
immediate answers and responses? You probably have emails for example
that you do not even bother to look at – you have become anesthetised to
this communication. Similarly, if your innovation follows a linear,
prescriptive process and is a continuum of targets and milestones,
following procedures religiously, completing work that you know to be of
no innovative value, but carry on for fear of non-compliance, you have
an anesthetised process.

You need to create a culture and
environment for aesthetic collaboration by developing a visual and
social process that captures ideas through social critiquing,
communication – collaboration acts as a catalyst for transformational
innovation. This creates a “lens” for you to focus on. This is when your
senses are at their peak and will help you and your colleagues become
more creative such that you gain insights and ideas that create new
value for your organisation and supports improved and quick decision
making.

Key to aesthetic collaboration is to be more visual and
have the ability to visually collaborate (socialise) with a diversity of
people both internally and externally. Having this unfamiliarity of
people and uncertainty of not knowing what will be said, what divergent
questioning, thinking and answering will occur creates a high degree of
excitement, alertness and focus. It is genetically built into us. I am
sure you have experienced this haven’t you?

Visualisation


To support aesthetic collaborations the ideasneed to be dynamic and
interactive. Typically you will capture these onto spreadsheets for
analysis, develop a presentation to visualise and email it to
communicate to other people. Sounds familiar?

You only have to
look at the use of BIM (Building Information Management) within the
engineering industry and the positive effect it has including an
increase in innovation. Being able to visualise a complicated “boring”
drawing into a 3D, fully rendered visualisation of what a building will
look like allows a diversity of people to interact, create ideas and
solutions that the engineer would never think of.

This I
remember vividly when reviewing hospital bedrooms with nurses during
their coffee break using visualisation to walk “virtually” through and
see the wards that they would be working in. There was a long list of
design points that us engineers just did not even think about. This
co-creation was a new experience and developed a passion within the team
to succeed.

Creative Innovation

I hope this has helped
you to think how you can develop a creative innovation culture within
your organisation using collaboration and visualisation as potential
catalysts for change and creative innovation.

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Thinking About A Career In Forensic Ballistics

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If you’re searching for a career in forensic ballistics you’re obviously interested in forensics itself and firearms. This exciting division of forensics was probably first employed in Court to steer towards a conviction in London in 1835. Since then, this science has certainly become considerably more challenging.

Forensic ballistics involves the collection, identification, classification and analysis of evidence in relation to firearms in criminal investigations. This may involve identifying tool marks (or breech marks) that can be transferred from the weapon to a fired bullet and bullet fragments as well as the trajectory of the bullets fired. Other areas include gun powder residue analysis, fingerprints, fibres and blood associated with the weapon or bullets. As with many areas of forensic science, ballistics works closely with other departments including the law enforcement agencies.

The firearm itself does not need to be located to obtain a match, and indeed, this match doesn’t always require a lot of effort on the part of the forensic ballistics expert. The FBI and the specialist Firearms-Toolmarks Unit, keep a fully integrated national database referred to as Drugfire. When facts are put into the database, it will seek a match with other information and flag this up to the user.

If you’re considering a career in forensic ballistics and expecting a top salary, forget it! Once you leave college, and depending on any past experience you may have, you may expect an average of between 22000 to 35000 dollars in the United States. Increments are typically paid every six months or so depending on how you advance. The income is low as you continue to be in training for a minimum of a couple of years after you start, so dont expect to be heavily associated with anything too serious to begin with.

Your on-going training will involve a considerable amount of further reading on all relevant areas of law such as identifying firearms, wound analysis, different ammunition etc. You will also need to attend seminars and courses to make sure you understand how to handle evidence, the best way to safety assemble and disassemble firearms and microscope techniques. You will end up amply trained in how guns and ammunition are manufactured, how to give expert testimony in court and also attend many more lectures and seminars – much like being back in college! As with any forensics career, learning is dynamic as new approaches and machinery is constantly evolving.

A career in forensic ballistics is just that, a career for life. If you’re a bit uncertain, think hard before going down this road as it is a long one. It will be your job to thoroughly investigate the evidence and try and keep a pace ahead, and when required, to give clear and explicate evidence in court.

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Gaining Justice with Employment Solicitors

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Gaining Justice with Employment Solicitors

All workers in the UK, irrespective of the industry in which they are employed, are legally entitled to certain standards in the workplace. As well as the more obvious things such as adequate health and safety levels, there are various other laws which are in place, and employment solicitors are on hand to help when employees are treated illegally.

For example, it’s a sad yet inevitable fact that some companies do not meet the minimum standards required for working conditions. Employment law solicitors can advise workers who have suffered in this area, and it needn’t cost a penny. No win no fee employment solicitors work hard from day one to get you the maximum possible compensation you deserve. Unfair Dismissal? Employment Solicitors Can Help

Losing a job is a traumatic experience at any time, but it’s even worse when it’s done illegally. Anyone who feels they have been the victim of unfair dismissal needs to contact a reliable firm of employment law solicitors. London is home to a vast number of businesses operating in all industry sectors, some of whom do not treat their staff as well as they should.

With such a wide choice of employment solicitors, London workers are never likely to be far away from a reliable firm. Whether the individual employee works for a small, family-run business or a huge multinational corporation, he or she is legally entitled to certain standards within the workplace. Making Contact with Employment Solicitors

It’s straightforward for any employee to take their case to employment law solicitors. Most employment law firms offer clients a free consultation to start with, and once they’ve assessed the merits of the case they usually act on the basis of no win no fee.

Employment solicitors have specialist knowledge of this often complex area, and will be on hand to guide clients through the whole process. A telephone call or email is all it takes to start the ball rolling and in no time, you could be under the expert guidance of employment law solicitors. With them on your side, your chances of success are greatly increased.

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Resume Writing Tips From Abl Employment

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Are you seeking a rewarding job but dont know where to look? ABL Employment can help! As a locally owned staffing agency, ABL can help you find temp-to-hire jobs in London, Burlington, Hamilton, Toronto and the surrounding areas. We also offer job opportunities in Vancouver and throughout BC. We specialize in general labour jobs, like assembly jobs and packaging jobs, as well as forklift, material handling and warehouse jobs.

When reviewing potential candidates applications, the staffing coordinators, or recruiters, at ABL Employment look for well-formatted and informative resumes. To help give you a leg up on the competition, we have formulated a list of valuable resume writing tips. Making use of these tips will ensure that you stand out from the competition and get you one step closer to an interview.

Know your resumes purpose: You are not writing a resume in hopes of getting a job; you are writing a resume in hopes of getting an interview. Try to briefly summarize your best qualities. You can expand on the information you provide in your resume when you meet with the employer in person.
Keep it clean: Whether you like it or not, most employers will make a judgement about your resume without even reading it through first. Make sure it is organized, with eye-catching typography and appropriate titles.
Edit: Editing is key for resume writing. Tailor your resume for the job you are applying for. Most employers probably wont care about that job you had as a grocery store cashier when you were 14. Also, do NOT try to cram three pages of information onto one pageit looks crowded and messy.
Short & sweet: Be concise and to-the-point. Try to keep your resume to one or two pages. Beyond two pages, employers will lose interest and you will miss out on a chance to get a job!
Provide professional contact information: If you dont already have one, create a professional-sounding email. Nobody is going to take you seriously with an email like . Similarly, make sure the answering machine at the phone number you provide on your resume isnt silly or inappropriate.
Proofread: There is no place for spelling or grammar errors in your resume. Make sure the language you use is accurate, but stay away from slang and jargon. You should never assume that the employer knows all the specialized terms you do.
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