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Startup story-FUNTEK: "Scan and Chat", Making Instant Chat So Easy
Does the bombardment of substantial messages from your huge groups of friends give you social media burnout?
Communication software (APP) is the super portal for the mobile network era. In the modern society that almost everyone has a smartphone, the first thing you do when you wake up is to open the communication software (APP) and enter the world filled with messages of all kinds.
The communication software (APP) market is diverse, which includes world-famous APPs such as Facebook, WhatsApp, and local top-downloaded APPs such as KakaoTalk, Line, etc. While people are experiencing the richness in social media world, many issues have also quietly appeared to the public. Communication software (APP) not only has the long-term problem of unclear boundaries between public and private domains, brand owners are becoming less effective to finding new fans in the increasingly complex push rules and the massive amounts of data.
He Fang, Founder and CEO of FUNTEK Inc, discovered in 2015 that there were market vacancies in instant messaging where a large number of users needed temporary chats. With years of accumulated entrepreneurial and R&D capabilities, he launched an integrated solution that can help companies build exclusive instant messaging functions on their existing business platforms. In addition to shortening the communication cost between brand owners and users, the solution also helps brand owners find loyal fans in the rapidly changing market based on "finger economy".
PinChat Does Not Require Adding Friends, Providing Light Interaction between Brand Owners and Users
"Currently, most applications require users to scan the Code first and then download the App, while PinChat only require scanning the Code directly or clicks on the URL to open the chat page." The QR Code generated by PinChat can be delivered to various pages, chat software (APP), etc. Through the concept of "scan and chat", the privacy of users is ensured. The filling in of user's personal information and risk of exposing user's private social media identity can be eliminated. This allows users to quickly conduct preliminary chat conversations or information exchanges for work and business.
"After completing the preliminary conversations, if users are interested in the service provider, they will induce behavioral mechanisms automatically and download the brand APP on their own in the future. This can also find effective consumers and loyal fans." PinChat allows the interaction traffic and data between service providers and users to be on the self-built business platform. This not only improves the customer conversion rate and increases the adhesion of loyal fans, but also expands private domain traffic.
In response to the frequent changes of push rules in communication software (APP), FUNTEK propose that: "Fans are unlikely to perform unblock once the official account is blocked. Experiments have proved that the greatest benefit is to actively use the "preliminary interaction" without the need to add friends to allow fans to stay on your app in the beginning!"
IMKit Customer-Exclusive Instant Messaging Application Solution
In the past, brand owners often needed a lot of time and money to build their own communication platform. Now, it only takes half a day to build the "IMKit" solution SDK package on the company's existing business platform or APP, creating an exclusive instant messaging platform. It not only eliminates the costs and time for research and development of new platforms in medium and large enterprises, it also eliminates the need to spend money for future maintenance, allowing companies to get a hold on the data from communicating with their fans more effectively.
IMKit has basic functions such as private messaging, group chat, pictures, emoticons, etc. It also has rich extensions such as voice, appointment, voting, and bidding. It not only can store the message records and sales data on the customer's existing server through bank-level information security protection, but also can be effectively connected to the existing Chat UI and Chatbot, integrating them into the existing APP, official website and other platforms.
Continue to Make Exposure, Expecting to Have 2 Million Users in 2020
With the help of IMKit's SDK technology and PinChat, FUNTEK has entered the B2B2C business. It has collaborated with a wide variety of industries from online banking, e-commerce platforms to offline pharmacy channels, which not only increases traffic, but also increases fan adhesion and conversion rate significantly.
FUNTEK Inc., which is stationed in the Startup Terrace Linkou, expects PinChat to have 3 million users in 2021. It continues to participate in international exhibitions such as CEBIT in Germany, VIVA TECH in France, and Tech in Asia in Singapore, making its appearance on the international stage. In addition to being selected as a member of France Telecom's Orange Fab Asia accelerator program in 2017, it was also selected as a member of AWS JIC in 2019, and SparkLabs Taipei, a startup accelerator in Silicon Valley.
Next time, when you open an App to ask a brand owner about your favorite product, you might be using PinChat.
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Escape to Rio California Cafe
A lunchtime oasis, just steps from the heart of downtown.
Chris Duffey If it's available, definitely order the feijoada, Araujo's version of Brazil's national dish.
Rio California Cafe
1233 Preservation Park Way, Oakland
Hours: Mon.-Fri. 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
Cash, Visa, MasterCard
Spinach Empanada ... $4.50
Sunset (Sandwich) ... $5.95
Feijoada ... $9.95
Jerk Chicken ... $8.95
Fish Tacos ... $9.95
So it turns out that one of downtown Oakland's best-kept secrets is a Brazilian lunch spot on the first floor of a restored Victorian that sits within spitting distance of I-980.
To dine at the Rio California Cafe, you have to find your way to Preservation Park, which itself is a gem hidden in plain sight, a short stroll from City Center, past the chain restaurants in the outdoor "food court," past the parking garage — past all that teeming urbanity. Enter through a wrought-iron gate marked "Private Property" (no worries, the park is open to the public during the day) and it's as though you've been transported to, well, some other kind of place: gorgeous tree-lined thoroughfares, period-specific street lamps, a bona-fide Parisian fountain, and — most strikingly — sixteen Victorian homes lined up like a convocation of tastefully bedecked matrons.
Since the late Eighties, these very buildings have housed nonprofits and small, socially conscious businesses — more than forty of them at the moment. And one of them is home to Rio California, a place where the employees of those nonprofits, and whoever else cares to come, can get a big plate of jerk chicken or feijoada for less than ten dollars — where, if you sit out on the sprawling deck in the shade of a thick-trunked, leafy palm, you'll feel like you're dining at a cozy bed and breakfast, far away from the city and from work and from any unpleasant thing.
Ney Araujo, the cafe's gregarious chef-owner, opened Rio California in the late Nineties, as the brick-and-mortar successor of a sandwich cart business he'd operated on the UC Berkeley campus. According to Araujo, the food he serves is very much like what you'd find at a cafe in Rio, which is to say it spans a number of global influences — Italian, German, African. It's what Araujo calls "continental food with a Brazilian accent."
For starters, you can choose from about a dozen different sandwiches. These are a holdover from Araujo's street cart days, the recipes mostly adapted from his brother, who used to sell sandwiches on the beach in Brazil. Almost all of them are cold and salad-based — chicken salads, tuna salads. The "Sunset" is a tuna salad sandwich for people who like their tuna moist and mayo-heavy, with the addition of raisins and corn kernels for a mix of sweet and savory. Served on hearty multigrain bread, it's the kind of thing that's perfect for a bagged lunch or a picnic outing.
Araujo also makes Brazilian-style empanadas, usually a couple of different kinds every day, with a thick, chewy crust. The chicken empanada was somewhat dry and bland, but the spinach version was excellent: savory, smoky, mushy, with a hint of spice. One of these, served with a side salad, would make for a light lunch on its own.
There are about eight hot lunch specials posted up on any given day, ranging from traditional Brazilian dishes to things like lasagna and seafood risotto. Everything's homemade. One of the most popular dishes is the jerk chicken: boneless thighs coated in a traditional Jamaican spice rub (made more Brazilian by the addition of extra cumin and black pepper) and then grilled until tender and succulent. The dish has a pleasant heat that's unlikely to inspire coughing fits — but if you're a spice junkie, you can doctor it up with the house-made tomato-based chili sauce. The plate comes with a side of rice (clumpy-looking but tasty) and a green salad with a refreshing cilantro-cream dressing.
Another day I ordered fish tacos: mild grilled tilapia fillets that served as a blank canvas for sliced avocado, sour cream, and a sweet-and-spicy corn and tomato salsa with just enough kick to leave my mouth tingly.
The one item you should never pass on when it's available, on Wednesdays and Thursdays — the one I'd drive across town, or even navigate a tunnel or bridge, for — is the feijoada, Araujo's version of Brazil's national dish. It's basically a bean stew: black beans slow-simmered until tender with bacon and pork loin and three different kinds of sausages (Portuguese linguica, a dense Cajun-Brazilian sausage, and a kind of mini Italian sausage with the soft texture of Spam). The stew is served with rice, tender-crisp collard greens, and skillet-toasted yucca flour. You can mix it all together or, if you're a daintier eater, mix a little at a time, with a dash of hot sauce, making sure you get a little of everything in each bite. The dish is the marriage of disparate elements that form a cohesive whole, and it's hard to identify which component is the star: maybe the beans, cooked until soft and oozy; or the yucca flour, which by itself is like coarse sand, but softens when mixed in the beans, adding texture and a bit of savoriness.
Best I can figure, almost everyone who eats at Rio California is a regular to some extent. Araujo greets everyone at the counter and takes their order, and then the customers shuffle off to a table inside or out on the patio, which I'd argue is as peaceful a place as you'll find in all of downtown Oakland. There are a disproportionately high number of solo diners, and you get the sense that this is their getaway — their "moment of Zen" in the middle of a busy workday. Everyone takes their time.
I never wanted to be that guy who blows up someone's secret lunch spot. But, in the end, some things are too good to keep to yourself.
"Keep it a secret," Araujo said conspiratorially to one first-time customer, who marveled, as I had, that he'd never guessed there was a restaurant here. "We can only do what we can do."
Restaurant Review Brazilian food Brazil Rio Preservation Park Rio California Cafe
1233 Preservation Park Way (Oakland-Downtown)

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President Trump has hired former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to help with his impeachment problem.
President Donald Trump is reportedly bringing former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi onboard to assist with matters related to impeachment, according to The Daily Beast.
Bondi, along with former Treasury Department spokesman Tony Sayegh, are expected to take temporary leave from their firms to join the White House.
The news, initially reported by The Wall Street Journal, brings Bondi's relationship with Trump back into the spotlight. Suggestions of a possible quid pro quo between the two surfaced in 2013, after Trump's $25,000 donation to a political action committee supporting Bondi's re-election campaign appeared to make some of his legal trouble disappear.
Trump's donation was made just four days after Bondi had announced that her office was looking into complaints of potential fraud surrounding Trump University. About a month after the contribution, Bondi's office determined it would not take action.


Dave Bautista won his MMA debut yesterday night defeating MMA veteran Vince Lucero in the first round after the referee stopped the fight with just over a minute to go.
The former WWE and World Heavyweight champion was on the receiving end of some hard shots in the opening two and a half minutes and wasn't good in trying to defend himself, finding himself backed up against the cage while Lucero pummeled him.
However Bautista then landed a takedown, pinned his opponent's right arm, took his back, and started hammering down on Lucero and the referee stepped in after Lucero couldn't protect himself better.
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Growing up, there are always a number of reasons why we pursue certain careers. Perhaps we want to follow our parents into their career to take over the family business, explore an area where we had success during high school, or try our hand at something with a positive financial return?
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As Australia's urban and regional centres continue to develop, businesses such as cafes, restaurants and hotels are amongst the first to emerge. Being in the service industry, these types of enterprises need staff, but are having trouble recruiting, according to the Australian Labour Force Report of 2015-2020.
More than 7 in 10 of cafe and restaurant businesses are lacking sufficient staff across the country.
At present, just over 7 in 10 (71 per cent) of cafe and restaurant businesses are lacking sufficient staff across the country. Additionally, 81 per cent of those proprietors believe that the skills required in the industry are somewhat lacking compared to recent times.
It's the same narrative in the hotel industry, with 39 per cent of business leaders experiencing a talent shortage. Again, two-thirds (66 per cent) noted that finding the right skillsets is proving difficult – highlighting the value of moving into this important career with the relevant qualifications. Of course, the industry growing is great, but this good work could be undone if the right people don't fill the positions.
According to IBISWorld, the Australian events industry is worth AU $3 billion – increasing around 1.3 per cent in revenue every year since 2011. At present, there are more than 4,300 Australian businesses seeking event professionals, making the sector one of the largest in terms of talent shortages.
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For some people, their age impacts their career decisions – whether young or old. However, with both age brackets moving through transitional periods, it is possible to take the hospitality and event management industries to your advantage. Based on Deloitte's Millennial Survey, 75 per cent of the global workforce will be made up of millennials by the year 2025. In fact, this demographic already account for 34 per cent of the current Australian workforce, according to McCrindle research.
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Poole's much-loved Victorian park is celebrating its 125th anniversary with a spectacular family extravaganza on Sunday 2 August.
Local residents are invited to join in the celebrations from 10am to 4pm as Poole Park showcases the park through the decades.
The fun packed day, which is supporting the £2.7million bid for Heritage Lottery Funding, includes lots of free activities to enjoy, with everything from vintage cars and period fashion to inflatables, art, sports, martial arts, a family dog show and much more!
You can take part in The Friends of Poole Park raffle and tombola for great prizes; they are also providing great support on the day with volunteers handing out programmes, collecting donations and manning their own stand and information kiosk.
There will be live music from The Zealots, Memphis Belle, Real Vintage and Miss Annie to name just a few as well as have-a-go face painting workshops throughout the day.
Visitors can also upload their photos as part of the exciting Poole Park Mosaic and become part of Poole's future history. Every £5 donated from every photo upload will help to unlock up to £50 in match funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The thousands of photos uploaded over the summer will be collated to form a magnificent mosaic, which when viewed from the distance will depict the original design of the park from 1890.
The Mayor of Poole will invite everyone to gather together at 2.30pm and form the figures 125. A drone will pass overhead and take aerial photographs commemorating this significant milestone in Poole Park's history.
The Prince of Wales together with Princess Alexandra and their children were invited to officially open Poole's 'People's Park' on 28 January 1890. The grand opening didn't quite go according to plan as the Princess and her two daughters stayed away with suspected Siberian flu.
The streets from Parkstone Park to Poole Park, as well as those of old Poole, had been lavishly decorated with splendid triumphal arches constructed and a band had been hired to play in the pavilion. A hurricane force wind and blinding rain hit Poole around 3am on Saturday 18 January. The severe storm only abated at daybreak to reveal ruined decorations and a wrecked pavilion. The opening was hastily revised with Prince Edward eventually taking a tour of Poole Town before declaring Poole Park officially open in a ceremony on the platform of the railway station prior to boarding his train.
Councillor John Rampton, Cabinet Portfolio Holder for Parks and Open Spaces, Borough of Poole, said: "For 125 years Poole Park has been known as the 'People's Park' so it's great to see the whole community get behind this special celebration on 2 August. We hope of course that there will be less drama than the events surrounding the opening in 1890!
Michael Collins, Vice Chairman of The Friends of Poole Park, added: "This great celebration comes at a significant time and presents a wonderful opportunity for The Friends of Poole Park. We have some great events in the pipeline which we hope residents and visitors will enjoy, and hope that those who enjoy the park and events could give a little time to help as volunteers, or join as members. You can join on Sunday at the event and get membership all the way through 2016 at no extra cost."


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Die Abenteuer eines Zehnmarkscheines (K. 13513), also known as Adventures of a Ten Mark Note and Uneasy Money, is a German silent film directed by Berthold Viertel. It was released in 1926. This film is considered lost.

Cast
 Mary Nolan
 Oskar Homolka
 Werner Fuetterer
 Maly Delschaft
 Francesco von Mendelssohn

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1926 films
Films of the Weimar Republic
German silent feature films
Films set in Berlin
Films shot in Berlin
Lost German films
German black-and-white films
Films directed by Berthold Viertel

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What is another name for national holiday?
Is national holiday capitalized in a sentence?
How do you put an out of office message on a public holiday?
What is meant by regional holiday?
How do you declare a national holiday?
How do you announce an employee public holiday?
When is Oman's National Day?
When did Oman gain independence from Portugal?
"The victors will parade at Lansdowne Road on the national holiday and the juniors at the same venue eleven days later."…What is another word for national holiday?
government holiday
business holiday school holiday
Bank Holiday long weekend
What is a national holiday example?
NATIONAL HOLIDAYS means New Years Day, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, day after Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
Why is it called observed holiday?
An Observed Holiday is when a public federal holiday is celebrated on a date that is not the actual event's anniversary date. An Observed Holiday is when a public federal holiday is celebrated on a date that is not the actual event's anniversary date.
Holidays, whether religious, secular, or national, are proper nouns and therefore should be capitalized. This includes all national holidays when businesses are closed, such as Columbus Day, and most religious and holy days, such as Hanukkah.
What is the synonym of serious?
Some common synonyms of serious are earnest, grave, sedate, sober, solemn, and staid. While all these words mean "not light or frivolous," serious implies a concern for what really matters. a serious play about social injustice.
Which is a national holiday?
There are eleven annual U.S. federal holidays on the calendar designated by the United States Congress….Federal Holidays Calendar
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day January 21 Monday
George Washington's Birthday** February 18 Monday
Memorial Day May 27 Monday
Independence Day July 4 Thursday
Hello, I wanted to wish you a happy holiday season and remind you that I am currently out of the office. I will only reply to emails marked as URGENT. I will try my best to respond to all other emails after I return.
What is the difference between celebrating and observing a holiday?
observe: To perform or celebrate duly or in a prescribed manner (a rite, ceremony, etc.); to mark or acknowledge (a festival, anniversary, etc.); = KEEP v. 12. celebrate: To observe with solemn rites (a day, festival, season); to honour with religious ceremonies, festivities, or other observances (an event, occasion).
What national holiday day is it today?
What Holiday is Today? ( July 11, 2022)
Holiday location
National Blueberry Muffin Day – Unofficial (Food & Drinks)
All American Pet Photo Day – Unofficial (Animals)
National Mojito Day – Unofficial (Food & Drinks)
National 7-Eleven Day – Unofficial (Food & Drinks)
A national or regional holiday from work on a specific day, usually for cultural reasons or celebrations.
What can I replace very serious with?
Synonyms & Antonyms of serious
earnest,
grave,
humorless,
no-nonsense,
po-faced.
[British],
sedate,
severe,
What's the big deal synonym?
What is another word for big-deal?
substantial
considerable
significant big
important major
sizeable material
meaningful solid
A proclamation is issued by the President of the United States. An Act of Congress. This requires a legislator to propose the day and congress votes approval. For other countries, the president (or head of the government) or the national legislature declares it to be a national day.
How do you declare a holiday?
Create a holiday, spread the word and celebrate it when the day comes. If you want to make it official, you may have to talk to your local representative – only an official act of the legislature or government can make a holiday a national day.
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The United States has established by law the following 12 permanent federal holidays, listed in the order they appear in the calendar: New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday, Inauguration Day (every four years following a presidential election), George Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day, Juneteenth National …
Dear employees, It is to inform you on the behalf of (Authority name and job designation) (Company name) that there has been a holiday announced in the company on (Date to Date). The holiday is from the government under the act: abc-123 on the eve of Eid/Puja/Holy Christmas.
Is it in observance or observation of a holiday?
An observance is (1) the act of complying with rule, custom, or law, (2) the act of celebrating a holiday or other ritual occasion, or (3) a customary rite or ceremony. Observation is the corresponding noun for all senses of observe not related to rules, holidays, rituals, and ceremonies.
What are synonyms for observed?
Some common synonyms of observe are celebrate, commemorate, and keep. While all these words mean "to notice or honor a day, occasion, or deed," observe suggests marking the occasion by ceremonious performance.
When is Oman National Day? Oman's National Day is November 18th. This date celebrates independence from Portugal control in 1650. This holiday is the start of a two-day break, as November 19th is also a public holiday to mark the birthday of the Sultan of Oman, Qaboos bin Said al Said.
Why is November 19th a public holiday in Oman?
This holiday is the start of a two-day break, as November 19th is also a public holiday to mark the birthday of the Sultan of Oman, Qaboos bin Said al Said. If either of these days falls on a weekend, a substitute day may be observed.
What does the two day holiday mean for Omanis?
The two day holiday means that many Omanis will take the opportunity to return to their home villages which means that traffic level on these days may be much heavier than usual.
Marks Oman's independence from Portugal in 1650, making it the oldest independent state in the Arab world. When is Oman National Day? Oman's National Day is November 18th. This date celebrates independence from Portugal control in 1650.


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One in Seven Marketers Have "No Plan" in Place for GDPR
A study finds a minority of businesses still don't have a plan in place for the impending regulatory update.
Mustafa Mirreh19 Oct 2017
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Although the majority of organisations are now making preparations for the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a concerning portion still do not have a plan in place to be compliant by May 2018. All businesses will be responsible for managing, protecting and administering personal data under regulations coming into effect from May 25 2018.
The Direct Marketing Association (DMA) surveyed over 1,000 companies and found that while 15% of marketers believed their businesses are on track with GDPR, a further 17% are falling behind their current preparations. This is up from 11% from May 2017.
In terms of marketer's awareness and preparations for the update, 77% rate their awareness as 'good' and 74% feel somewhat or relatively prepared for the changes. However, despite the majority (85%) implementing their plans for GDPR, 58% believe they are fully prepared for the forthcoming changes.
"We should use the new laws as a catalyst to transform the way we speak to customers, making every engagement human-centric. This will enable organisations to build trusted, authentic and transparent relationships with their customers," commented Chris Combemale, CEO of the DMA Group.
Marketers are feeling the brunt of GDPR with 42% expressing their organisation will be affected by the regulations, while a further 65% said the new law will be a hindrance to their marketing.
Top concerns for marketers on the GDPR law are consent (28%) and legacy data (18%) respectively, while the main priorities are updating privacy policies (15%), integrating systems (12%) auditing current data (12% and managing data breach processes (11%).
Combemale responded that businesses must "keep in mind the customers' right to privacy".
"It's important that businesses put the principles of accountability, transparency and trust at their core. Allowing them to go beyond simply being the right side of the law and actually build a sustainable long-term relationship with customers about their data," he added.
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The *LAST NIGHT ON EARTH SINGLE* I first heard this song back in 2004 (???) when I didn't own a computer or anything else that played CDs...I only had a few U2 cassettes and the car-cassette player..It was a huge terror to try to listen to U2 as I couldn't stop from listening to U2...I needed it all the time like a Drug...This led to constant fights with my parents, especially my dad... So back to the song...The son of my mothers' friends had a computer and had a few U2 songs, he knew I loved U2 and played them for me....It was my first introduction to Lemon and Last Night On Earth....i couldn't believe the Greatness of these Masterpieces !!! I was addicted, like a Junkee without the Junk ....I couldn't feed my U2 Hungriness...As the visits were rare ...His mother gave me a Walkman ...Which I used to listen to some U2-compilations I made...I wouldn't dare play my Pristine Original U2 cassettes...I played it until I broke it...Until the cassettes melted into Sheer U2-Desperation...It wasn't until very late that I got a computer....... Then sometime in HighSchool, I Bought *POP* on CD!!! Everything changed...It got my U2-Greediness Fired up like GUNPOWDER when Adam takes the stage in SouthAmerica !!! From then on for a considerable amount of time, Pop was my favourite U2 album...Although I was fully aware of Achtung Baby and listened to that a lot too...But there was a problem...I didn't have it on CD...So the fights over the Car-Cassette player continued until I fully completed my CD-Discography and got a proper laptop and Headphones!!! ...Now the Single-Greed is On !!!! The Pop singles are all reworked and perfected and the B-Sides are Insane !!!!!!


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Fifa faces court action over World Cup OneLove armband ban
Tom Morgan
22 November 2022, 2:40 pm ·5-min read
Fifa faces court over England OneLove armband row - England's Harry Kane with UEFA One Love armband during the UEFA Nations League Group C Match at San Siro Stadium, Italy - PA/Nick Potts
The German Football Association (DFB) has warned Fifa it faces court action over the OneLove armband ban.
Legal steps are being explored by the national governing body who are part of a European collective with England and Wales.
The DFB's media director Steffen Simon told German Deutschlandfunk radio described how the likes of the FA were facing "extreme blackmail" of "massive sanctions" from Fifa. England, Wales, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany and Denmark had already said they had been put under pressure by Fifa, who had threatened to issue yellow cards.
As a result Harry Kane wore the Fifa-approved "no discrimination" band in a last minute switch on the day of the 6-2 victory over Iran.
DFB spokesman Stefan Simon told German newspaper Bild that it had lodged a case over legal validity at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland.
"Fifa has forbidden us from using a symbol of diversity and human rights," he said. "It said the ban would be linked to massive penalties (in the nature of) sporting sanctions without concretising exactly what it meant. The DFB is keen to clarify whether Fifa's procedure is in fact legitimate."
Kane complained on Monday that the FA's decision to back down had been "taken out of my hands".
The captains of seven World Cup nations, including Kane and Gareth Bale of Wales, had repeatedly vowed to wear the armband in support of LGBT rights in Qatar, where homosexuality is illegal.
But hours before kickoff, Fifa threatened "sporting sanctions" against any player who defied their rules. Two yellow cards would have seen Kane suspended for England's final group game.
Following a morning of crisis talks, a joint statement from seven football associations said they could not put their players "in a position where they could face sporting sanctions".
"We are very frustrated by the Fifa decision, which we believe is unprecedented," the statement read.
Vertonghen hits out at Fifa over OneLove
Jan Vertonghen has claimed players are being "controlled" at the Qatar World Cup as the Belgium defender hit out at Fifa's decision to ban teams from wearing the OneLove armband at the tournament.
Belgium were one of seven European teams whose captains were due to wear the armband – an anti-discriminatory symbol designed to promote inclusion – at the tournament in protest at Qatar's criminalisation of homosexuality.
But Fifa's threat to book players who wore the armband led to that alliance of national associations – Belgium, England, Wales, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland and the Netherlands – abandoning the plan.
Fifa have received widespread condemnation for their stance while the countries planning to protest have been criticised for wilting under pressure from football's world governing body and not sticking to their guns.
Now Vertonghen has waded into the debate by questioning how Fifa could oppose a campaign that challenges discrimination.
Speaking ahead of Belgium's opening Group F match against Canada on Wednesday, the Anderlecht and former Tottenham defender said: "It's a tough question. If it's too late [to make a statement against discrimination], I don't know. If you make a statement now by wearing it, that would mean punishing yourself.
"But now I'm afraid to say anything. I don't feel comfortable saying anything, and that's telling enough, that we are put under pressure.
"That's a regrettable situation that I've never experienced in football and I hope I won't experience again. We are being controlled and I don't really like making political statements anyway, but if you can't even wear a captain's armband with normal messages like 'no to racism', or 'no to discrimination', then hey what [can you say]?
"I shouldn't be saying anything about it because tomorrow I want to appear at the game. It's a pity that we have been put in this situation, and I want to leave it at that."
Fifa faces court action over England OneLove armband ban - Belgium's defender Jan Vertonghen gives a press conference at the Qatar National Convention Center (QNCC) in Doha, on November 22 - Getty Images/Jack Guez
Hansi Flick, the Germany coach, felt they were backed into a corner by England and Holland's decision to back out and wishes the protest had been seen through, despite the threat of sanctions.
"Together with the other countries the team wanted to take a stand," Flick said. "Now Fifa have threatened us with sanctions and the associations that played yesterday. It was very short notice. If you want to run a campaign like this together, you should really stick to your decisions.
"There is no point now taking action, it is a shock for the team that we are not allowed to do it as it was taking a stand and showing the values we represent. The values I represent as well as the team is based on mutual respect and appreciation, that is part of life and I expect that from everybody. Some parties see it differently.
"We talked about it. A yellow card can happen. If [Joshua] Kimmich [the Germany captain] then has to leave the pitch, we have options. However it is unclear, and the mere threat of sanctions was something that was difficult for us, especially as it was so short notice ahead of the first games of England and Holland. We didn't have time to react. The associations decided to not take anything from the players, taking the responsibility off their shoulders. I'm sorry we can't even be here and take a stance for human rights, apparently."
Kimmich believes wearing the armband would have sent a strong message. "I was barely involved, it was a decision of the FAs and supported by everyone – England, France and all the others," he said.
"Generally speaking I was quite surprised as a couple of weeks ago when we discussed the armband I felt people were criticising, that people thought it was pointless and just a fig leaf but I think it is a strong stance to take."
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How Laundry Day Disappeared
Before the electric washing machine, a laundry load demanded four hours of manual labor and lots of hot water. Today your laundry choices make a big difference in cost and energy savings.
The typical household washes 300 loads of laundry a year. Got dirty clothes? Throw them into the washer with detergent, push the buttons, and they'll come out clean a half-hour later. It seems simple enough, but today's washer reflects a century of innovation, with many changes that made washing machines more efficient.
The introduction of home electricity in the early twentieth century led to an explosion of innovation that heralded the Second Industrial Revolution. By the 1920s, electric water heaters, air conditioners, washing machines and home furnaces had all been invented and were creating a mass market for home appliances. Among all these inventions, the washing machine may have done more than any other device to reduce household labor.
According to Susan Strasser, a University of Delaware American history professor and author of Never Done: A History of American Housework, "Mondays used to be the standard laundry day, and it could take all day."
Before the washing machine's invention, cleaning the family's laundry demanded hot water, strong soap and washboards, paddles or plungers. It was backbreaking labor, mostly performed by women, and made only slightly easier by wooden tub washing machines invented in the 19th century. A single laundry load could take four hours. After the invention of the electric washing machine, it took only 41 minutes.
The original Thor washing machine.
In 1908, the Hurley Machine Company of Chicago, Illinois, introduced the first electric-powered washing machine, the Thor. According to washing machine historian and museum keeper Lee Maxwell, a Westinghouse motor and a mechanism made up of chains and pulleys turned a wooden drum 8 revolutions in one direction, then reversed the action. With the mechanisms exposed and no on-off switch, Thor could be a dangerous contraption that might snag the operator's clothes or hair. Happily, manufacturers saw the opportunity for a better approach using stainless steel tubs with the mechanism enclosed.
In 1922, Thor 32 was "the last word in clothes-washing efficiency." Household efficiency expert Mrs. Christine Frederick wrote You and Your Laundry, to explain new laundry techniques.
In 1911, Frederick Louis Maytag, an Iowa inventor, added an electric washing machine to his line of farm machinery, and in 1922, Maytag introduced the Gyrafoam, which boasted the first vaned agitator. Mounted in the bottom of the steel tub, it agitated to gently force water through the clothes. The gyrator and a rotating drum are design features that persist today in top-loading washing machines.
Washing machines caught on fast. Imagine - instead of washing clothes manually, you could put hot water in the machine, plug it in, and come back 20 minutes later to run the clothes through a wringer that did not need to be hand-cranked. By 1920, 1300 companies were producing washers. Maytag quickly took the lead, making a fifth of all washers in 1924. By 1927 Maytag had sold more than a million washers, an amazing number when you consider that the country's entire population was 119 million.
Another significant innovation took place right before World War II when Bendix introduced the first automatic washer in 1937, followed by General Electric and Maytag models for the consumer market. Automatic machines had a timer and could autofill, rinse and spin-dry. Housewives could put their laundry into the machine and leave it unattended until the load was done, so by the 1950s, laundry had been reduced from a day-long ordeal to a couple hours.
In Evolving Households: The Imprint of Technology on Life, Economist Jeremy Greenwood argues for an even larger impact--that household appliances liberated married women from household tasks and led to a dramatic increase in their labor-force participation.
By the 1940s, the Whirlpool Surgomatic boasted "touch button" controls and featured external rollers to squeeze the water out of wet laundry.
Today's washers boast a suite of automated features that make laundry relatively quick and easy. With 300 laundry loads a year, around 10% of a typical home's electricity goes to washing and drying clothes, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council. You can reduce that cost by making smart choices.
The government's ENERGY STAR program has been very successful at reducing the water and energy cost of washing machines. In 1990, an average washer used 2.67 kilowatt hours (kWh) per cycle. Compare this to a typical washer in 2010, which consumed just .66 kWh per cycle – a 75 percent decrease. ENERGY STAR certified clothes washers use about 25% less energy and 33% less water than regular washers. Over the lifetime of the product, models that have earned the ENERGY STAR rating can save $380 in energy costs alone.
Is it time to update your washer? Washing machines that are 10 years old are significantly less energy efficient than current models. If you have a decade-old clothes washer, it's costing you, on average, $185 a year. When shopping for a new washer, do your research and look for both ENERGY STAR ratings and utility or state rebates.
Choosing more efficient washers has a big impact. If every clothes washer purchased in the U.S. were ENERGY STAR certified, it would save $3.3 billion in energy costs each year and avoid more than 19 billion pounds of annual greenhouse gas emissions. That's like taking more than 1.8 million vehicles off the roads.
Here are some tips for reducing the energy waste of your weekly laundry load:
If your washer is more than 10 years old, consider replacing it with an ENERGY STAR model that saves on both water and electricity.
Wash large loads, rather than multiple small ones, and use cool water when you can. About 80-90% of the energy used by a washing machine goes to heating water.
Check whether your water heater is working efficiently in order to minimize the cost of loads that require hot or warm water.
Choose washing machines that rate the highest in water efficiency. Top loaders with agitators score relatively poorly compared to high efficiency top-loaders or front-loaders.
Pay attention to how much moisture the spin cycle has removed from your clothes. Spin out as much water as you can before moving a load to the dryer (or hanging dry). Front loaders get more water out of clothes than the typical top loader.
If your utility has variable rates, use electric washers and dryers when rates are low. If you have solar power, schedule laundry when the sun is shining to tap your clean power.
Looking to the future, washing machines may use a tenth of the water of current front loaders, translation into significant energy savings. The Xeros washing machine uses detergent and nylon polymer beads that absorb stains from laundry with as little as one gallon of water. Hotels are already using commercial Xeros machines, and the company is working with washing machine manufacturers to adapt their innovation for home use. Xeros has also innovated to capture plastic microparticles before they can leave the house in wastewater.
Clothes that come out of a washer with minimal moisture, as in the Xeros system, translate into lower drying costs, too. So what about innovations in dryer efficiency? Ultrasonic dryers will literally shake the water out of clothes using low energy, high frequency vibration created by piezoelectric transducers. They are 3-5 times as efficient as current dryers and get the job done in about a half hour. Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are working with General Electric to develop this innovative technology for the consumer market.
The washing machine is a daily labor saving appliance with more innovations on the horizon. So the next time you wish your laundry took less time, remember our foremothers, who devoted their Mondays to laundry.
Watch for our next blog post, where we'll share insights about dryers from Sense's data and an analysis by the Natural Resources Defense Council that points to the need for big improvements in dryer efficiency.
This article was written by Carol McGarry, Communications Director at Sense, who can remember her grandmother doing laundry in an old wringer washing machine and hanging it out to dry.
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Connectivity, assisted driving, and e-mobility are just three keywords that are shaking up the world of traditional automotive OEMs. They have the power to radically change a century-old business model. All too understandably, "being the next Nokia" is a common fear in the industry. As digital technologies force all departments to undergo changes, automotive companies need to shift up a gear if they want to grasp the opportunities that digitalization brings.
Top management are acutely aware that they have to develop digital products and services; to prevent new players from making even bigger inroads into their market, but also to generate attractive recurring revenue streams on a subscription basis. No wonder all big OEMs are creating digital labs, buying promising startups, and building cross-divisional task forces. But every day seems to bring a new hot topic, and without an overall strategy, most OEMs try to hastily follow every new digital trend – with limited results. Despite frantic activity, the efforts fail to materialize due to unclear responsibilities, silo mentality, and a lack of communication between R&D, production, marketing, and sales.
What OEMs need is a profound shift in mindset. They need to abandon their traditional, product-centered engineering approach that focuses on what is technically doable. To succeed in an evolving digital world, they need to be customer centric and develop new products and services that make commercial sense because they add value for the customer. Offering features like traffic sign recognition or seat heating on demand and charging small amounts to the customer's credit card on a pay-per-use basis may be possible thanks to digital technologies – but will customers really love this idea so much that they pay (enough) for it?
With less emphasis on car ownership, the sharing economy will endanger principal revenue models. And for those customers who still want to buy a car, the way they expect to do so is set to radically change in a digitalized world. Even more important for OEMs' profits, the aftersales business will become a main area of concern: By reducing the number of parts to repair, e-mobility and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) will put pressure on the share of their business that is currently generating the highest margins. On the other hand, digitalization can help OEMs to improve their customer relationship management and regain some of the market share that they have lost, especially for cars older than two to three years.
The current level of connectivity means automatic scheduling for service appointments, closing a service contract online, and performing preemptive maintenance checks could long be standard procedure – but they aren't. Ignoring opportunities to engage customers in a long-term relationship will soon become a problem for OEMs as independent aftermarket players start to realize the huge potential of connected cars. Without stable and recurring revenue streams along the entire customer life cycle, OEMs will face a noticeable drop in profits.
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It is telling that none of the big OEMs are known for impressive examples of how to deal with digitalization – even though connected car solutions such as GM's OnStar and BMW's Connected Drive have been on the market for several years. Product features mostly include safety-related items like eCall and concierge services, as well as remote diagnostics.
Tesla and the new Chinese Geely brand Lynk & Co present themselves as much more digital than established OEMs, but granted, they operate under different conditions. One of the key differences between Tesla and the traditional OEMs is their direct interaction with customers. Without the intermediate step of a dealer network, they are able to directly sell product features, arrange services, and even run updates remotely. Dealers play an important role in the traditional OEM business model and will continue to do so in the near future, but it is clear that certain things needs to be discussed: Who owns which kind of data? Who is allowed to sell what kind of product or service to the customers? How are future revenues and profits split?
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Customer centricity is key for future success. This guiding principle needs to be applied to all new products and services and is much more than just another buzzword. When really put into action, customer centricity requires each OEM to thoroughly transform itself. Here are four key action points for the automotive industry:
Develop new products and services from a customer perspective! Take into account how customers' expectations regarding convenience and seamless channel integration (e.g., between their smartphone and car navigation and entertainment system) evolve on a day-to-day basis. Ensure you are state-of-the-art, especially as the driving experience is losing importance while requirements for convenient and carefree entertainment and connected services are increasing.
Walk before you run! Becoming the next Apple, Google, or Amazon is ambitious, but you won't get there from one day to the next. You first need to do some groundwork. Set clear responsibilities and goals, have people from all relevant functions working together, and don't forget underlying processes such as payment and channel integration before developing fancy new digital products.
Work with what you already have! With the current level of connectivity, OEMs have a lot of data they could use to better engage with customers during their life cycle, as well as to implement preemptive maintenance and on-time scheduling of services. Grabbing these low-hanging fruits makes a big difference in an increasingly digital world.
Get ready to introduce new revenue models! Selling digital services is very different from selling cars. Other industries are far ahead when it comes to implementing recurring revenue streams and one-time micro payments. Automotive OEMs need to think in both directions to succeed with their new digital products.
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After centuries of near uni-directional innovation—from the West to the rest—we are in the early days of a massive rebalancing, aided by connective technologies. Innovation now happens everywhere.
Innovation has always been important to humanity—it's the driver of increased prosperity and well-being. It has also been steadily increasing in importance to business in a fast-changing, opportunity-rich, and highly competitive world. The evidence is plain, for example, in MBA programs, where innovation courses for the next generation of managers are rapidly proliferating. Bill Gates expressed the point in stark terms: Companies must "innovate or die."1 So where does innovation come from?
For the last few centuries it came mainly from the West. Certain key ingredients necessary for innovation to flourish were in place in the societies and economies of the Western hemisphere far earlier than elsewhere. This advantage became such a powerful, self-reinforcing phenomenon that many in the West came to view their innovation advantage as something like a birthright, an intrinsic relative strength that could never be taken from them.
But in an enormously important trend for business, that is changing. Now, thanks to spreading economic growth, shifting national priorities and new "open" technologies, innovation comes from everywhere. Players based in emerging economies—and, in the West, many other players who lack the assets of large-scale firms—are becoming forces to reckon with in global innovation systems.
For those responsible for corporate innovation, this shift is challenging much of how they do their work. To keep evolving their offerings and ways of operating, companies are looking beyond their internal research and development functions and connecting with innovators at the fringes of their businesses. This will require different aptitudes and, perhaps harder to put in place, different attitudes. But if they can learn to embrace what is "not invented here," organizations of all kinds can participate in an exciting new world of innovation possibilities.
If you think about what is required for innovation, it comes down to a few basic elements and conditions. Raw intellect is required to produce novel ideas. But ideas are only a small first step in the innovation process; there must also be incentives for inventors to turn those ideas into reality. Putting them into production and bringing them to market at scale requires substantial infrastructure. And since that requires investment far in advance of the hoped-for returns, there also need to be infusions of capital.
These came together in the West, both at the level of the economy and within the closed systems of firms. Corporations like Xerox and General Motors pulled together high-intellect groups in lab settings to cook up inventions, all kept tightly under wraps.2 Governments put a priority on fundamental scientific research, and made it easy for commercial entities to capitalize on the publicly funded and "best-in-class" work of universities. Managers devised standard processes by which the most promising possibilities were selected and funded, and leveraged their infrastructure to get them engineered, manufactured, and marketed in a consistent, high-quality fashion. Firms were able to profit handsomely from the bets that paid off. With every subsequent successful innovation, a company's infrastructure gained scale, improving the chances that the next one would be a success. With such self-reinforcing systems in place, some nations' economies matured at faster rates than others'. It was hard to see how to break the lock that Western corporations had on innovation.
Hard, that is, until now.
A key change is in the infrastructure now required—or rather, not required—to bring a good idea to fruition. We are now decades into the revolution unleashed by information and communications technology, and the effect on industries has been a radical "de-verticalization" of the elements required to launch new offerings. Capabilities that were once exclusive to large businesses are now available on efficient open markets. Innovators no longer need to assemble large organizations, let alone make enormous capital outlays for plant and equipment, because infrastructure is available to them on an as-needed basis. Open platforms that enable collaboration are the new infrastructure of innovation.
Indeed, infrastructure these days could even be a liability—the millstone that limits agility. Players with the largest infrastructure in place could find themselves at an innovation disadvantage. We have already witnessed the phenomenon of "leapfrogging"—the upside of having essentially sat out an era of infrastructural investment and, unencumbered by legacy systems, being able to jump more quickly into the next era. This happened 20 years ago in emerging economies with respect to telephony, as their adoption of mobile phones far outpaced mature economies', thanks to their lack of land lines.3 With new, potentially transformative technologies coming online every few years, from DNA sequencing to 3D manufacturing, there will surely be many other opportunities for seeming laggards to leapfrog leaders.
But infrastructure is not the whole story behind today's more accessible and democratic innovation. Managers are now more generally knowledgeable about the processes by which ideas are transformed into profitable offerings. "Innovation is revealing its secrets," as our colleague Larry Keeley, Deloitte Consulting LLP, puts it—among them, that the word innovation has been applied to what are actually multiple different ways and realms in which companies create new value.4 It is not simply about creating new products and services, but also involves systemic changes elsewhere—including financing and business models, new processes, and enhancement to delivery systems and client experience. And scores of tried and tested tactics to drive these changes have been identified and are now available to all.
Would-be innovators are also being fueled by new incentives as governments put new emphasis on innovation. The encouragement goes far beyond specific market interventions such as tax subsidies for pioneers in next-generation technologies like solar power. Particularly in emerging economies, where businesses have prospered by being "fast followers" or suppliers to Western firms, policymakers are encouraging homegrown innovation in numerous ways. See for example figure 1, showing how various countries' investments in biomedical R&D have grown over time.
The strong resolve of Singapore, South Korea, and especially China could not be more evident.
Of course, all the infrastructure, incentives, and infusions of capital in the world can't achieve innovation if there aren't good ideas to begin with. When it comes to intellect, no one would claim that the West ever had a monopoly; raw brainpower is evenly distributed in the world. Much of the trend we're describing is about tapping historically underutilized pools of it. There are also new developments making these pools larger.
Also propelling the talent shift is the rise of digital natives—a global cohort that, thanks to fundamental demographics, is increasingly dominant in the developing world.12 This youthful source of strength will grow along with expanding Internet penetration. (Today, more than 60 percent of the world's population still lacks reliable Internet access—but that is changing fast.)13 It is clear that emerging-market Millennials are attracted to innovative businesses: In a recent Deloitte survey, more than 86 percent of respondents from this cohort claimed that their employment choices were strongly influenced by a company's reputation for innovation—a higher proportion than that reported by developed-economy Millennials.14As they attain positions of leadership, expect to see more creative exploitation of the opportunities inherent in 21st-century technology.
Together, these developments are likely to reshape the global business landscape, steadily undermining the historic advantages of incumbents while empowering new actors. As innovation thrives outside large firms, it will also escape its long-time association with the institution-rich economies of the West (figure 2). It will become ever more accessible and open as organizations around the world gain greater (and lower-cost) access to the elements that drive it. Larry Keeley calls it "the biggest revolution in innovation that I have seen in 30 years."15 Innovation will now come from anywhere—and everywhere.
Managers will need to respond thoughtfully and strategically to this transformation of the innovation ecosystem. First, from a defensive standpoint, they should acknowledge that the threat of disruption—of their products, processes, and business models—is very real, and likely to come from an unexpected direction. More positively and proactively, they should find ways to make the unfolding developments work in their favor.
[The] biggest obstacle to innovation is not the scarcity of ideas—rather, it is the lack of capabilities to engage far-flung and unusual sources of perspective on a regular and ongoing basis.
Apple's and Android's success in pursuing "platform" strategies has been widely observed.20 They provide a foundation on which many external parties can build by designing applications that will run on it. This makes it easy for these parties to create and capture value, and as they do so, the platform itself will become more valuable and its creator more profitable. But to date, relatively few leaders have seriously explored how their own companies could potentially emulate this model.
A valuable platform in a more familiar industry context can be found in Chongqing, China, the epicenter of the world's biggest and most dynamic region engaged in the production of motorcycles.22 One of the largest manufacturers there, Dachangjiang, found itself short of high-quality local suppliers. Rather than try to build a single, verticalized channel of suppliers, however, it broke its design into several modules and, for each, awarded two to three suppliers the responsibility for developing parts.23 The suppliers worked under common, tight timeframes, but were given great latitude to fashion the different modules, and assurance that Dachangjiang would support innovative designs with investments in the appropriate equipment and processes to build them. The suppliers responsible for each module found modes of collaboration that worked for them, and they varied; there were vertically integrated state-owned enterprises, traditional joint ventures, and more loosely coupled arrangements.24 Interestingly, these collaborations didn't end with participation on Dachangjiang's platform. Some of them parlayed their new expertise into growth in adjacent markets, such as automotive.25 Thus, not only was Dachangjiang's need for a vibrant supplier network met, but the network proved capable of far more innovation than would have occurred had it been directed and controlled by a single entity.
In each of these cases, the platform offers standardized interfaces and a plug-in architecture that can be leveraged by third-party innovators. Most of the costs of doing business are already embedded in that infrastructure, making it easier for smaller entrants to participate, either by targeting niche or emerging opportunities, or by offering something better to the platform's core market. And in each case, the platform thrives because everyone participating in it has a stake in its success. It's an arrangement that looks increasingly sensible as it becomes harder for individual firms to assemble and own the complete set of capabilities and knowledge required to sense and respond to market opportunities. Platforms are the bases of "business ecosystems," and a key dimension of future approaches to innovation.
Various technology executives claim that by the end of this decade, everyone on earth will be connected.28 We can therefore expect further acceleration of the tremendous changes already underway, with a continued rebalancing of the contributions to global innovation from emerging economies. The vectors, velocity, and variety of innovation can be altered fundamentally and permanently.
Today, awareness of the power and potential of this shift is limited. After all, it challenges more than a hundred years of history, and undermines deeply embedded assumptions. But the business world is adapting, and can, in the years ahead, rapidly adjust to the new reality. It will become an increasingly important agenda item for organizations to track, sense, and act upon. Businesses will likely work to develop more accurate sensing mechanisms in order to discover the innovations brewing around the world, and will embrace new models and innovation systems themselves.
The conventional wisdom around keeping a tight hold of ideas could become a drag on organizations that are too slow to let go of it. But as they necessarily engage in new forms of collaboration, many more will discover greater returns from facilitating flows of innovation through open networks. And they will come to recognize that their biggest obstacle to innovation is not the scarcity of ideas—rather it is the lack of capabilities to engage far-flung and unusual sources of perspective on a regular and ongoing basis. And successful innovation will continue to become far less mysterious, as what was once seen as "lightning in a bottle" is increasingly parsed, researched, codified, and turned into reliable (if never foolproof) methods.
Innovation is being democratized away from the insulated confines of the corporate lab and outwards toward the edges of social and market value webs. This transformation is being driven by three factors: the golden age of the platform, rivers of data being shared between connected consumers, and a growing awareness that the final value of things often expands tremendously when users are free to customize, collaborate, and recreate.
The golden age of the platform can be thought of as one of many small operating systems loosely connected. These coupled ecosystems are being developed in ways that allow for individual components to be constantly monitored, tested, altered, swapped out, or shut down. The resulting architectures are cohesive without being deterministic, allowing for rapid innovation at lower cost and without interruption. Success over these platforms is not dependent on accumulated knowledge or embedded infrastructure, so much as on the ability to swarm emerging problems and solutions quickly. Distributed networks of innovators are enabled by the very platforms that they now have the ability to change and improve. And those self-forming bands of problem solvers are essentially location-free.
Increasingly, we live within the so-called Internet of Things, a world in which everyone and everything is connected, with data being the essential lubricant. "Big data" and "analytics" have been buzzwords in the technology and corporate worlds for some time now, but the measurable impact and potential of this data is now starting to become clear. The truly stunning thing about big data is not how much of it there is, but its breadth of distribution. Current sensing, pulsing, and polling devices built into our digital worlds allow us to see one another, both as individuals and collectively, with the clarity that makes smart, data-driven, innovation possible practically everywhere.
As these ecosystems have developed, and as the amount and quality of data has improved, an enormous opportunity zone has opened. Salesforce has over 1 million developers, most of whom are not on our payroll, who customize the Salesforce platform at the point of usage to unlock value which often remains hidden to us at the hub. Rather than fight that, we run the company to magnify the innovation quotient at those distant transactional edges. End users might now find themselves delighted by the contributions of the whole ecosystem—customers, partners, and ISVs—augmenting the innovation they're used to, delivered by the folks at Salesforce.com.
For centuries, Western developed economies have enjoyed an extraordinary set of advantages in innovation. But this is now, truly, a global game. After centuries of near uni-directional innovation—from the West to the rest—we are today in the early days of a massive rebalancing. As the nature and means of innovation changes dramatically, there will be new models, participants, and approaches, and amazing opportunities for established incumbents and emerging players alike.
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Laura Parson, Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator of the Higher Education Administration program at Auburn University, doesn't necessarily describe herself as an international scholar. Her research addresses topics such as women and underrepresented STEM students in higher education; how institutional processes, procedures and discourses impact the effectiveness of postsecondary teaching and learning; and ethnographic research methods, specifically institutional ethnography.
"I study institutional structure," Parson said. "For example, I've studied the discourse of STEM in Western culture, which is often individualistic and competitive. It's considered a 'chilly' climate, meaning it may be more challenging or hostile for women and underrepresented groups. I'm interested to see if those same discourses are present in different countries. Are there more supportive discourses globally? It might change how we create a STEM climate here."
Comparative study: Institutional ethnography in Hungary
As the first recipient of the Gloria R. Nathanson Research Fund for International Education, Parson traveled to Hungary to explore these questions in light of recent legislative changes in Hungary that have partially undermined institutional autonomy. She spoke with institutional stakeholders to do an institutional ethnography regarding how the changes to the law were impacting the day to day lives of students, and also to explore how the STEM climate in Hungary compares to that of the U.S.
With the information she gleaned there, Parson also provided updates the AACRAO EDGE Database Hungary country profile in light of recent changes to the law. Parson's research is under review to be included in an upcoming issue of C&U and subsequent manuscripts are in progress to be submitted to other journals.
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"It was so wonderful for me as a scholar to be connect to this funding opportunity through AACRAO; I wouldn't have been able to travel to Hungary without it," Parson said. "AACRAO is also a wonderful place to disseminate my research to an interested and engaged community and meet a lot of wonderful people in the field, broadening the opportunity to further talk about research."
Parson has also been in conversations with other AACRAOans, including Robert Watkins, about initiating a podcast in the field to talk with other scholars about current research.
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