Business – Page 44

Analysis, App, Apple, Business, Coding, Science & Technology News

Leading a digital transformation by learning to code

October 29, 2015

Leaders reach their positions by mastering yesterday’s and today’s business. Almost by definition, they don’t have first-hand experience with a disruptive shift in their market when they encounter it. A lack of intuition around the new and different can at best slow progress and at worst lead to serious strategic missteps.

NOTE: For those wanting to enter the programming profession, DaVinci Coders is currently accepting applications for Jan-Feb courses. Small class sizes so seating is limited.

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Business, Ecological Products, Great New Product, Great Videos, New Inventions, People Making a Difference, Science & Technology News, Solar Power

Nokero Solar launches world’s most efficient light bulb

October 22, 2015

After nearly 6 years in the solar light business, Nokero Solar has finally created the perfect mix of performance and price. This week they launched the world’s most efficient light bulb.

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Business, Ecological Products, Latest Trend

Unverpackt is the first zero-waste grocery store in the world

October 14, 2015

People in Berlin, Germany have created a store with eco-conscious customers in mind – the Original Unverpackt (Original Unpackaged). You won’t find any paper or plastic bags here—or any kind of bags for that matter. This new grocery store creates zero waste by allowing customers to purchase exactly how much they need, reducing waste in their homes.

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Analysis, Business, Employment, Future, Futurist, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News, Tom Frey

The future of recruiting, with top futurist Thomas Frey

October 14, 2015

The DaVinci Institute’s senior futurist and executive director, Thomas Frey, shares a glimpse at how current workplace trends – from freelancing to coworking – are shaping the future of recruitment.

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Alternative Transportation, Automobiles, Business, Futurist, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News, Self-driving Cars, Transportation

Toyota plans to have self-driving cars on the road by 2020

October 13, 2015

Japanese car maker Toyota announced this month that it has planned to have self-driving cars commercially available by 2020 — the same year Nissan, General Motors and Google plan to have autonomous vehicles on the road.

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Analysis, Business, Coworking, Future, Latest Trend

The future of coworking and why it’s not just for startups and freelancers anymore

October 12, 2015

DaVinci Institute, Westminster, Colorado

Would you define your workplace as fun, friendly, inspiring, collaborative, and productive? If not, you may have to ditch your own desk and take a seat at a coworking space near you. Even if you aren’t an entrepreneur or freelancer, the benefits of coworking, according to Deskmag’s annual Global Coworking Survey, are pretty hard to ignore: 71 percent of participants reported a boost in creativity since joining a coworking space, while 62 percent said their standard of work had improved.

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Analysis, Business, Education, Internet, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Micro learning has a huge impact on e-learning design and development

October 12, 2015

Bite-sized learning or micro learning is an e-learning paradigm that has taken the corporate training world by storm. In a recent survey conducted by Rapid Learning Institute, nearly nine out ten L&D professionals stated that bite-sized online learning modules are their priority. The huge increase in the use of short online learning modules has resulted in major changes in world of e-learning design and development. Let us now see what they are.

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Alternative Transportation, Analysis, Business, Economy, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News, Transportation

Why America’s shipping ports aren’t automated

October 8, 2015

At the Port of Oakland there are massive cranes sitting there that are veritable money-printing machines. As ships coming from Asia dock in the San Francisco Bay, these industrial behemoths quickly usher goods-bearing containers off the deck and onto land. Modern container ships are filled with thousands of containers. At peak efficiency, a single crane can remove about 40 of these per hour — and for each one they unload, companies moving containerized cargo are charged a terminal handling fee of around $300.

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Bitcoin, Business, Crypto-Technology, Patents, Science & Technology News

Bank of America has filed patent application for cryptocurrency wire transfers

October 6, 2015

In March, Bank of America (BoA) filed a patent application titled “System and Method for Wire Transfers Using Cryptocurrency .” The application was published on September 17 by the U.S. Patents and Trademarks Office.

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Analysis, Business, Employment, Great Videos, Human Behavior, Science & Technology News

Top 5 things you need to be happy at work

October 10, 2015

There’s a mountain of research on what makes people truly happy at work. What would make you happier at work? It’s not necessarily free meals and massages (though those are nice, as companies on Fortune’s list of the Best Companies To Work For have figured out). And it’s not even necessarily lots more money. We’ve scoured the research and identified five science-backed attributes that make people happy at their jobs.

NOTE: For anyone looking to transition into a high impact work environment, check out the private offices and coworking spaces currently available at the DaVinci Institute.

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Analysis, Apple, Business, mobile technology, new technology, Science & Technology News

Virtual digital assistants have potential to positively impact employees

October 1, 2015

Business-oriented virtual digital assistants (VDA’s) have the potential to help relieve employees from mundane and time-consuming tasks. Digital assistants have the ability to positively impact lives using what market intelligence firm Tractica describes as “the fusion of speech recognition, natural language processing (NLP), and artificial intelligence (AI) and hold the potential to have a transformative impact on user interfaces in the mobile, automotive, connected home, and enterprise domains, among others.”

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Business, DaVinci Institute, Future, Futurist, Human Behavior, Latest Trend, Tom Frey

The Perfection Quandary

September 29, 2015

Futurist Thomas Frey: I often wake up in the middle of the night with a big idea, something I’ve dubbed the grand epiphany. But as it turns out, very few actually fit into the “grand” category.

Whenever they do, big ideas carries with them a heavy responsibility, the responsibility of either moving them forward or allowing them to die in the silent echo chambers of our own grey matter.

For this reason, I’ve often equated my eureka moments to that of being tortured by my own ideas. Yes, grand ideas are a wonderful playground where you can dream about starting a new company, solving some of the world’s biggest problems, and constructing visions of wealth and influence, all in the time it takes most people to get ready for work.

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