At Googol, we specialize in assisting companies to create long lasting growth by increasing their innovation capabilities and in developing their opportunities.
An organization can be innovative by exploring new ideas, whether highly creative or simply unique applications. Innovation does not need to radically change the world, but small ideas with potential, if implemented widely, can drive organizational growth. True innovation differs from invention in that innovators champion ideas until change occurs and benefits are realized. Successful innovation management means finding and aligning more and better ideas than competitors to gain competitive advantage. Innovation thrives in cultures that encourage risk-taking and collaboration around continuous improvement.
Research and development involves both basic and applied research aimed at solving problems or creating new products and services. R&D is important for organizations as it enables businesses to generate wealth over time through good planning and use. Innovation drives economic growth and stability as new ideas can catalyze eras of new products and services that change economies by making them stronger and more vital. R&D can result in valuable inventions, ideas, and designs that maintain a business's competitive advantage.
HR Summit and Expo Africa 2015 - Seminar Presentation by Tasneem Mohamed, Chi...The HR Observer
Developing an innovation culture & creative competence for business unusual:
What is needed for organisations to take advantage of future success, is a complete re-education in thought process and decision making – a new mind-set for the creative age. This 30 minute thought provoking seminar will provide you with road map to help you start laying the foundation for an innovative today and tomorrow.
Paula Gildert, VP Development Strategic Sourcing at Novartis - Strategic valu...Global Business Events
This document discusses strategic sourcing and procurement at Novartis. It emphasizes delivering value beyond just cost savings through innovation and collaboration. The document outlines Novartis' focus on patients and purpose to care for and cure diseases. It presents a new strategy for procurement that aims to drive innovation, growth, and business excellence while ensuring quality and integrity. The strategy involves becoming trusted business partners who understand customer needs and bring insights to develop joint goals. It advocates transforming how Novartis works through a more intensive approach involving suppliers to deliver breakthroughs. The goal is to develop skills in business expertise, change management, facilitation, coaching and consulting to create trusted advisor presences.
Spire Strategy is a company founded by Gary Allen that aims to help business leaders succeed through collaboration, transparency, and prioritizing performance without compromising others. The company takes a direct approach to establish shared definitions of success across differing experience levels and personalities. It primarily works with digital and new media agencies, bringing efficient project management and quantifiable results through experience in marketing strategy, data analysis, and business modeling. The outcome of Spire's test and learn process is measurable results, confidence in investments, and repeatable ROI such that clients can solve challenges with Spire's help and repeat the process after Spire leaves.
This seminar teaches an approach called ThriveAbility that provides a framework for sustainable innovation and organizational transformation. Attendees will learn how to define and measure ThriveAbility, create implementable business transformations, and become leaders capable of aligning stakeholders. The seminar will introduce the concept of Factor 100 change and showcase pioneering organizations that have achieved breakthrough sustainable innovations. Participants will apply the ThriveAbility approach to their own organizations through strategic scanning, prototyping projects, and leadership exercises. The three-day event will take place in March 2013 in France.
5 Steps to a Profitable Service Business - Using our 5-step framework, we’re going to show you how to think strategically about how people drive performance and, as a result, profitability.
Rasmus Hougaard, Jacqueline Carter, and Gillian Coutts have authored a book called "One Second Ahead" that offers a proven formula for enhancing performance and wellbeing at work through mindfulness. The book is based on 10 years of work by Potential Project, a global leader in customized organizational mindfulness programs for over 200 large organizations worldwide including Accenture, Nike, and Google. The book teaches readers how methods from mindfulness have made a huge difference in work, leadership, and life for those at Accenture, and can provide similar benefits for other readers.
An organization can be innovative by exploring new ideas, whether highly creative or simply unique applications. Innovation does not need to radically change the world, but small ideas with potential, if implemented widely, can drive organizational growth. True innovation differs from invention in that innovators champion ideas until change occurs and benefits are realized. Successful innovation management means finding and aligning more and better ideas than competitors to gain competitive advantage. Innovation thrives in cultures that encourage risk-taking and collaboration around continuous improvement.
Research and development involves both basic and applied research aimed at solving problems or creating new products and services. R&D is important for organizations as it enables businesses to generate wealth over time through good planning and use. Innovation drives economic growth and stability as new ideas can catalyze eras of new products and services that change economies by making them stronger and more vital. R&D can result in valuable inventions, ideas, and designs that maintain a business's competitive advantage.
HR Summit and Expo Africa 2015 - Seminar Presentation by Tasneem Mohamed, Chi...The HR Observer
Developing an innovation culture & creative competence for business unusual:
What is needed for organisations to take advantage of future success, is a complete re-education in thought process and decision making – a new mind-set for the creative age. This 30 minute thought provoking seminar will provide you with road map to help you start laying the foundation for an innovative today and tomorrow.
Paula Gildert, VP Development Strategic Sourcing at Novartis - Strategic valu...Global Business Events
This document discusses strategic sourcing and procurement at Novartis. It emphasizes delivering value beyond just cost savings through innovation and collaboration. The document outlines Novartis' focus on patients and purpose to care for and cure diseases. It presents a new strategy for procurement that aims to drive innovation, growth, and business excellence while ensuring quality and integrity. The strategy involves becoming trusted business partners who understand customer needs and bring insights to develop joint goals. It advocates transforming how Novartis works through a more intensive approach involving suppliers to deliver breakthroughs. The goal is to develop skills in business expertise, change management, facilitation, coaching and consulting to create trusted advisor presences.
Spire Strategy is a company founded by Gary Allen that aims to help business leaders succeed through collaboration, transparency, and prioritizing performance without compromising others. The company takes a direct approach to establish shared definitions of success across differing experience levels and personalities. It primarily works with digital and new media agencies, bringing efficient project management and quantifiable results through experience in marketing strategy, data analysis, and business modeling. The outcome of Spire's test and learn process is measurable results, confidence in investments, and repeatable ROI such that clients can solve challenges with Spire's help and repeat the process after Spire leaves.
This seminar teaches an approach called ThriveAbility that provides a framework for sustainable innovation and organizational transformation. Attendees will learn how to define and measure ThriveAbility, create implementable business transformations, and become leaders capable of aligning stakeholders. The seminar will introduce the concept of Factor 100 change and showcase pioneering organizations that have achieved breakthrough sustainable innovations. Participants will apply the ThriveAbility approach to their own organizations through strategic scanning, prototyping projects, and leadership exercises. The three-day event will take place in March 2013 in France.
5 Steps to a Profitable Service Business - Using our 5-step framework, we’re going to show you how to think strategically about how people drive performance and, as a result, profitability.
Rasmus Hougaard, Jacqueline Carter, and Gillian Coutts have authored a book called "One Second Ahead" that offers a proven formula for enhancing performance and wellbeing at work through mindfulness. The book is based on 10 years of work by Potential Project, a global leader in customized organizational mindfulness programs for over 200 large organizations worldwide including Accenture, Nike, and Google. The book teaches readers how methods from mindfulness have made a huge difference in work, leadership, and life for those at Accenture, and can provide similar benefits for other readers.
@LePelot #spiritofbalance - we're always on the lookout for new ways to help the world to reduce stress and increase impact, whether that's focused towards a personal, family, social, business or global mission. That's why I'm SUPER excited to be launching the Balanced Entrepreneur Programme, designed with good friend and clever lady Hema Bakhshi. Take a look at the outline - perfect for a team, to supplement existing learning programmes, for Founding partners preparing to scale, or Startup groups looking for new ways to ignite creativity.
This document outlines the experience and approach of a strategic design consultant. They bring together creative and business teams to solve challenges through innovation and operational efficiency. With over 17 years of experience in brand management and corporate design, including 5 years as a creative director, their process focuses on using design thinking to change experiences and create new opportunities for organizations.
59 1⁄2 was founded to aggregate rare business leaders who want to continue contributing beyond their careers by assisting cash-constrained emerging companies through leveraged employment agreements that augment critical areas and executive roles. The rare leadership group is dedicated to providing rare strategies, processes, and principles to facilitate innovation, proper positioning, growth, productivity, and a collaborative culture. Contact is requested to learn more or set up a free consultation.
1. Cheryl, the new CEO of Fun-Toys, wants to implement a new strategy to grow the company and satisfy shareholders after experiencing economic issues and declining confidence.
2. Her initial strategy is to produce mid-market products at reduced costs and gain a new retailer partner, but analysts find the strategy is not well-defined and high risk.
3. They recommend Cheryl thoroughly analyze the company's strengths, customers, market opportunities, and develop a long-term strategic vision to ensure sustainable growth and buy-in from employees and stakeholders.
Catapult shaped up into a full fledged, well-equipped, state-of-the art institute as a result of more than 30 years of cumulative experience and the involvement of professionals from all vertical of HR fraternity.
We are an end to end human resource solution provider.
In order to maintain our cutting edge, we as a policy hire only certified professionals with strong academic bent and comprehensive domain expertise.
We are an independent think tank providing end to end “innovative & cost effective” solutions to all the aspects of human resource.
At Catapult it’s a blend of Knowledge, Practice and Research.
We have been providing services across pan India for last five years and have offices in Pune, Delhi and Bokaro.
The document discusses the strategic planning process, which attempts to answer questions about an organization's past, present, and future plans. It outlines the levels and nature of strategic planning, including setting goals and objectives, analyzing the internal and external environment, defining the business and mission, and formulating strategies. The purpose is to provide a roadmap for long-term decision making, optimize resource allocation, and gain a competitive advantage.
This document discusses how an organization called Sato+Partners can help companies better apply design and innovation strategies. It provides an overview of the types of services Sato+Partners offers, including design strategy, organization processes, management tools, and custom workshops. The document also outlines Sato+Partners' approach of using design thinking to transform how clients work while delivering business results. It notes that Sato+Partners consultants have experience in both design and large organizations.
Green Wind Solutions provides a wide range of services and solutions powered by the latest technologies and specialized professionals. They maintain high standards of ethical behavior and professional integrity. Their mission is to create added value and competitive advantage for clients by delivering excellence and building a mindset that can succeed in a complex, changing environment.
A few of the customers we have been working with during the period 1998Realize AB
We worked with several companies from 1998-2012 to help improve their innovation and sales processes. This included:
1) Training management and sales teams at DHL to integrate account management tools, which resulted in a 34% increase in sales and new accounts.
2) Certifying internal facilitators at AstraZeneca to run ideation workshops supporting new product development and factory initiatives.
3) Running over 20 workshops and training facilitators at SCA to link idea generation and management with their product development process.
The document discusses Quazar, a company that provides services to improve sales and profitability for car dealerships. It describes a 7-month program Quazar implemented at a sample of dealerships from a leading automotive brand. The program included auditing and researching each dealership to develop a customized strategy and implementation plan. After one year, the dealerships saw a 53% increase in annual service net profitability and improved customer satisfaction. The document outlines Quazar's approach which involves auditing, developing customized strategies with dealership management, training staff, and reviewing results. It describes Quazar's expertise in areas like branding, marketing, technology solutions, training, and developing business strategies.
Ini adalah slide yang berisikan bagaimana cara membangun brand yang memiliki visi besar dan bagaimana membangun brand dengan langkah-langkah yang detil
Mavencie is a young consultancy agency that offers a wide range of business solutions including strategy development, business optimization, creative services, and human capital management. They help clients grow their business in a sustainable way through research, analysis, and creative solutions. Their team of experts can assist with developing strategies, optimizing processes, designing branding and digital presence, and improving talent management.
Business performance measurements have evolved from simply tracking outcomes to also measuring activities, inputs, and supply chains. Recent decades have seen great improvements using methods like Six Sigma and TQM, though now most gains require cost cutting. Three effective measurements for ensuring steady improvement are: 1) Measuring improvement initiatives' effectiveness in achieving their objectives, rather than just headcount reductions or financial targets, 2) Distinguishing between performance and improvement measurements, with improvement focusing on rates of change rather than levels, and 3) Establishing measurements linked to a clear strategy of sustained profitable growth through benchmarking, scorecards, improvement initiatives, innovation, and process management.
Contact us now for a FREE Health Check; http://www.businessdoctors.co.uk/health-check
Our Break Through Success Program - Strategic Planning enabling increased growth, revenue and Freedom
COMPANY KICK-OFF EVENTS: ARE THEY EVEN WORTH IT?Josh King
The document discusses the value of company kick-off events for establishing goals and culture. It recommends using kick-offs to celebrate past successes, define organizational structure and responsibilities, establish clear and measurable goals for the coming year, and energize employees through team building activities and recognition of their contributions. Kick-offs can unite employees, promote creativity and innovation, help achieve goals, and attract top talent when done effectively.
2017 Solutions Catalog by CDEN
Visit our website at http://www.cden.com.mx and download the complete 2017 Solutions Catalog at http://www.cden.com.mx/solutions.html
GP Strategies™ is a global performance improvement company driven to help you and your organization
move beyond processes and technologies that may limit the difference you’re capable of making for your
customers, your competitors and the world around you.
La computadora es una máquina electrónica que recibe y procesa datos para convertirlos en información útil. Se han desarrollado cinco generaciones de computadoras desde 1951, reduciendo su tamaño y mejorando su velocidad y capacidad de almacenamiento. Las computadoras modernas incluyen hardware como procesadores, memoria y dispositivos de entrada/salida, así como software como sistemas operativos y aplicaciones. Las computadoras son importantes porque facilitan muchas actividades diarias y nos permiten acceder a información de todo el mundo.
This document is an advertisement for a commodity trading recruitment and coaching firm called Ampersand World. They recruit, build, and coach commodity traders to connect them with the best performers in the industry. Potential clients can contact them at their Geneva or Singapore offices or through their website.
@LePelot #spiritofbalance - we're always on the lookout for new ways to help the world to reduce stress and increase impact, whether that's focused towards a personal, family, social, business or global mission. That's why I'm SUPER excited to be launching the Balanced Entrepreneur Programme, designed with good friend and clever lady Hema Bakhshi. Take a look at the outline - perfect for a team, to supplement existing learning programmes, for Founding partners preparing to scale, or Startup groups looking for new ways to ignite creativity.
This document outlines the experience and approach of a strategic design consultant. They bring together creative and business teams to solve challenges through innovation and operational efficiency. With over 17 years of experience in brand management and corporate design, including 5 years as a creative director, their process focuses on using design thinking to change experiences and create new opportunities for organizations.
59 1⁄2 was founded to aggregate rare business leaders who want to continue contributing beyond their careers by assisting cash-constrained emerging companies through leveraged employment agreements that augment critical areas and executive roles. The rare leadership group is dedicated to providing rare strategies, processes, and principles to facilitate innovation, proper positioning, growth, productivity, and a collaborative culture. Contact is requested to learn more or set up a free consultation.
1. Cheryl, the new CEO of Fun-Toys, wants to implement a new strategy to grow the company and satisfy shareholders after experiencing economic issues and declining confidence.
2. Her initial strategy is to produce mid-market products at reduced costs and gain a new retailer partner, but analysts find the strategy is not well-defined and high risk.
3. They recommend Cheryl thoroughly analyze the company's strengths, customers, market opportunities, and develop a long-term strategic vision to ensure sustainable growth and buy-in from employees and stakeholders.
Catapult shaped up into a full fledged, well-equipped, state-of-the art institute as a result of more than 30 years of cumulative experience and the involvement of professionals from all vertical of HR fraternity.
We are an end to end human resource solution provider.
In order to maintain our cutting edge, we as a policy hire only certified professionals with strong academic bent and comprehensive domain expertise.
We are an independent think tank providing end to end “innovative & cost effective” solutions to all the aspects of human resource.
At Catapult it’s a blend of Knowledge, Practice and Research.
We have been providing services across pan India for last five years and have offices in Pune, Delhi and Bokaro.
The document discusses the strategic planning process, which attempts to answer questions about an organization's past, present, and future plans. It outlines the levels and nature of strategic planning, including setting goals and objectives, analyzing the internal and external environment, defining the business and mission, and formulating strategies. The purpose is to provide a roadmap for long-term decision making, optimize resource allocation, and gain a competitive advantage.
This document discusses how an organization called Sato+Partners can help companies better apply design and innovation strategies. It provides an overview of the types of services Sato+Partners offers, including design strategy, organization processes, management tools, and custom workshops. The document also outlines Sato+Partners' approach of using design thinking to transform how clients work while delivering business results. It notes that Sato+Partners consultants have experience in both design and large organizations.
Green Wind Solutions provides a wide range of services and solutions powered by the latest technologies and specialized professionals. They maintain high standards of ethical behavior and professional integrity. Their mission is to create added value and competitive advantage for clients by delivering excellence and building a mindset that can succeed in a complex, changing environment.
A few of the customers we have been working with during the period 1998Realize AB
We worked with several companies from 1998-2012 to help improve their innovation and sales processes. This included:
1) Training management and sales teams at DHL to integrate account management tools, which resulted in a 34% increase in sales and new accounts.
2) Certifying internal facilitators at AstraZeneca to run ideation workshops supporting new product development and factory initiatives.
3) Running over 20 workshops and training facilitators at SCA to link idea generation and management with their product development process.
The document discusses Quazar, a company that provides services to improve sales and profitability for car dealerships. It describes a 7-month program Quazar implemented at a sample of dealerships from a leading automotive brand. The program included auditing and researching each dealership to develop a customized strategy and implementation plan. After one year, the dealerships saw a 53% increase in annual service net profitability and improved customer satisfaction. The document outlines Quazar's approach which involves auditing, developing customized strategies with dealership management, training staff, and reviewing results. It describes Quazar's expertise in areas like branding, marketing, technology solutions, training, and developing business strategies.
Ini adalah slide yang berisikan bagaimana cara membangun brand yang memiliki visi besar dan bagaimana membangun brand dengan langkah-langkah yang detil
Mavencie is a young consultancy agency that offers a wide range of business solutions including strategy development, business optimization, creative services, and human capital management. They help clients grow their business in a sustainable way through research, analysis, and creative solutions. Their team of experts can assist with developing strategies, optimizing processes, designing branding and digital presence, and improving talent management.
Business performance measurements have evolved from simply tracking outcomes to also measuring activities, inputs, and supply chains. Recent decades have seen great improvements using methods like Six Sigma and TQM, though now most gains require cost cutting. Three effective measurements for ensuring steady improvement are: 1) Measuring improvement initiatives' effectiveness in achieving their objectives, rather than just headcount reductions or financial targets, 2) Distinguishing between performance and improvement measurements, with improvement focusing on rates of change rather than levels, and 3) Establishing measurements linked to a clear strategy of sustained profitable growth through benchmarking, scorecards, improvement initiatives, innovation, and process management.
Contact us now for a FREE Health Check; http://www.businessdoctors.co.uk/health-check
Our Break Through Success Program - Strategic Planning enabling increased growth, revenue and Freedom
COMPANY KICK-OFF EVENTS: ARE THEY EVEN WORTH IT?Josh King
The document discusses the value of company kick-off events for establishing goals and culture. It recommends using kick-offs to celebrate past successes, define organizational structure and responsibilities, establish clear and measurable goals for the coming year, and energize employees through team building activities and recognition of their contributions. Kick-offs can unite employees, promote creativity and innovation, help achieve goals, and attract top talent when done effectively.
2017 Solutions Catalog by CDEN
Visit our website at http://www.cden.com.mx and download the complete 2017 Solutions Catalog at http://www.cden.com.mx/solutions.html
GP Strategies™ is a global performance improvement company driven to help you and your organization
move beyond processes and technologies that may limit the difference you’re capable of making for your
customers, your competitors and the world around you.
La computadora es una máquina electrónica que recibe y procesa datos para convertirlos en información útil. Se han desarrollado cinco generaciones de computadoras desde 1951, reduciendo su tamaño y mejorando su velocidad y capacidad de almacenamiento. Las computadoras modernas incluyen hardware como procesadores, memoria y dispositivos de entrada/salida, así como software como sistemas operativos y aplicaciones. Las computadoras son importantes porque facilitan muchas actividades diarias y nos permiten acceder a información de todo el mundo.
This document is an advertisement for a commodity trading recruitment and coaching firm called Ampersand World. They recruit, build, and coach commodity traders to connect them with the best performers in the industry. Potential clients can contact them at their Geneva or Singapore offices or through their website.
Elango Umarani provides a resume summarizing her clinical research experience in pharmacovigilance and drug safety over 7 years. She has a Bachelor's degree in Microbiology from Bharathidasan University in India and is currently a Drug Safety Associate at PRA Health Sciences in Singapore, where she performs tasks like processing adverse event reports and generating safety reports.
The document discusses GROOLS (Reactive Graph Reasoning for Genome Annotation), a system for genome annotation that uses graph-based reasoning. It presents GROOLS' object model and prior knowledge directed acyclic graph (DAG) for representing biological knowledge. GROOLS performs DAG reasoning to predict bio-facts and annotate genomes based on asserted facts and prior knowledge. Truth tables are provided to illustrate GROOLS' use of four-valued and sixteen-valued logic. The document concludes by discussing applying GROOLS to real genomic data and mining that data.
The document discusses challenges with implementing a visual diary strategy for art students due to the short duration of the program. It proposes taking photos of student projects and compiling them into a Word document to give to students as a visual record. It also discusses arranging a second facilitator to help with an outdoor stone carving project since the instructor cannot be in two places at once. Overall, the instructor feels the art class project-based design works well given the program's uncertain dynamics and limited time frame.
Ampersand World is a recruitment partner that helps companies recruit and manage young graduate talent. They offer services such as pre-selection, interviews, assessments, and tailored career days. Their talent hub connects companies to the best graduates from programs related to their industries, including oil/energy, shipping, trade finance, metals, soft commodities, and more. Companies can contact Ampersand World for assistance with graduate recruitment for their core business fields.
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The document discusses least square regression with L0, L1, and L2 constraints. It presents the cost functions for each constraint and derives the solutions. For L0 constraint, the solution is a hard threshold determined by comparing the squared value to the regularization parameter. For L1 constraint, the solution is a soft threshold. For L2 constraint, the solution is obtained by setting the derivative of the cost function to zero. It also formulates L0 and L1 constraints as proximal operators.
Pseudo Four-Channel Image Denoising for Noisy CFA Raw Data (ICIP2015)Masayuki Tanaka
The document proposes a method for jointly denoising and demosaicking noisy color filter array (CFA) raw image data from a single image sensor. It introduces a "pseudo four-channel image" representation of the CFA data and performs principal component analysis-based color transformation and channel-by-channel denoising. This reduces block artifacts compared to existing joint/separate denoising and demosaicking approaches. Experimental results show the proposed method achieves better denoising of CFA raw data and reconstruction of noise-free full-color images compared to previous methods. Code is available online for others to test the approach.
Este documento describe el uso de las TIC (tecnologías de la información y comunicación) para la comunicación con estudiantes. Explica las competencias digitales que los profesores necesitan desarrollar, como ser colaborativos y aceptar que ya no son la única fuente de conocimiento. También analiza plataformas virtuales, redes sociales y aplicaciones como WhatsApp que pueden usarse para comunicarse con estudiantes y compartir recursos educativos de forma más efectiva.
The document is written from the perspective of a leaf describing why plants are important. It states that plants convert sunlight into food, convert CO2 into oxygen for people and animals to breathe, prevent soil erosion, and provide timber, paper, rubber, shade, food, shelter, and absorb air pollutants. It concludes by saying plants are essential to life on the planet and calls for saving plants to save the planet.
The Gram stain technique classifies bacteria as Gram positive or Gram negative based on differences in cell wall structure. Gram positive bacteria have a thick peptidoglycan layer and retain crystal violet dye after ethanol washing. Gram negative bacteria have a thin peptidoglycan layer between inner and outer membranes and lose the crystal violet dye after ethanol washing, taking up the counterstain safranin and appearing pink. The Gram stain procedure involves applying and washing crystal violet, adding an iodine mordant, washing with ethanol, and counterstaining with safranin.
The lack of an agreed upon definition hasn’t slowed down the growth of the clean label platform. In fact, the clean label trend took center stage at IFT Food Expo 2015 and it continues to demand the spotlight well into the new year. Read more on our website http://www.ticgums.com/news-a-events/gum-guru-blog/1436-trends-in-clean-label-claims-in-foods.html
Production of Monoclonal Antibodies and its application : RituximabSakshi Saxena
The document describes the process for producing monoclonal antibodies. Mice are immunized with an antigen to elicit an immune response. Spleen cells from mice with high antibody titers are then fused with myeloma cells to generate immortal hybridoma cells. These hybridoma cells are screened and those that secrete the desired antibodies are isolated and mass cultured to produce monoclonal antibodies specific to the target antigen.
Your body's immune system protects you from disease and infection. But if you have an autoimmune disease, your immune system attacks healthy cells in your body by mistake. Autoimmune diseases can affect many parts of the body.
No one is sure what causes autoimmune diseases. They do tend to run in families. Women - particularly African-American, Hispanic-American, and Native-American women - have a higher risk for some autoimmune diseases.
There are more than 80 types of autoimmune diseases, and some have similar symptoms. This makes it hard for your health care provider to know if you really have one of these diseases, and if so, which one. Getting a diagnosis can be frustrating and stressful. Often, the first symptoms are fatigue, muscle aches and a low fever. The classic sign of an autoimmune disease is inflammation, which can cause redness, heat, pain and swelling.
The diseases may also have flare-ups, when they get worse, and remissions, when symptoms get better or disappear. Treatment depends on the disease, but in most cases one important goal is to reduce inflammation. Sometimes doctors prescribe corticosteroids or other drugs that reduce your immune response.
Defective tolerance or regulation of self-reactive lymphocytes is the underlying cause of all autoimmune diseases. There are four known mechanisms that can lead to this regulatory failure: negative selection of autoreactive cells in the thymus, insufficient numbers or function of regulatory T cells, defective apoptosis of mature autoreactive lymphocytes, and inadequate inhibitory signaling through receptors on lymphocytes. Genetic factors like polymorphisms in MHC and non-MHC genes interact with environmental triggers like infections and tissue damage to induce the immunological abnormalities that result in autoimmunity. Molecular mimicry and bystander activation during infections can cause cross-reactivity between foreign and self-antigens.
monoclonal antibodies and engineered antibodiesMunawar Ali
This document provides an overview of monoclonal antibodies and engineered antibodies. It discusses the advantages and disadvantages of monoclonal versus polyclonal antibodies. Production methods like hybridoma technology and fermentation are described. Problems associated with monoclonal antibody therapy like HAMA response are covered. Applications in diagnosis, therapy and analytical uses are mentioned. Finally, the document discusses engineering antibodies by modifying regions to reduce immunogenicity and enhance functions.
Monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies are two types of antibodies that differ in their origin and specificity. Monoclonal antibodies arise from a single clone of cells and are highly specific, arising through hybridoma technology. Polyclonal antibodies are produced by several different clones of plasma cells in response to an antigen, which usually has multiple epitopes, so polyclonal antibodies are heterogeneous and less specific. Both monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies have important applications, with monoclonal antibodies being useful in research and diagnostic tests due to their specificity.
The document discusses various functions and protocols of the data link layer, including framing, error control, flow control, and elementary protocols like stop-and-wait and sliding window protocols. It also covers topics like error detection codes, finite state machines, Petri nets, and example data link layer protocols including HDLC, PPP, and protocols used in the Internet.
Monoclonal antibodies are identical antibodies produced by one type of immune cell that are clones of a single parent cell. They are produced using hybridoma technology which involves fusing antibody producing B cells from an immunized animal with myeloma tumor cells to create a hybridoma cell line. This hybridoma cell line is capable of indefinite division in culture while producing the same monoclonal antibody. The monoclonal antibodies are then purified from the culture supernatant and have various diagnostic and therapeutic applications such as cancer treatment.
The document discusses supporting innovation in organizations. It states that innovation requires an organizational culture that promotes collaboration, participatory leadership, emotional skills, autonomy, and a focus on results over tasks. It also emphasizes the need for innovation processes to align with corporate strategy and market trends. Finally, it provides tools and models an organization can use to implement innovation, including defining objectives, planning activities, managing projects, categorizing projects, and selecting appropriate creative processes.
The document discusses strategies for organizations to adapt to changing market conditions. It recommends:
1) Modifying organizational mentality and processes to become more flexible and adaptable.
2) Revising competitive advantages through innovative redesign.
3) Requiring greater commitment from leadership to implement necessary changes with agility, effectiveness and efficiency.
Infinity is an unconventional consulting firm that provides organizational development, leadership training, and creativity programs. It aims to unleash creativity and transform how people think through enlightening learning solutions. Infinity emphasizes strong ethics, customer satisfaction, and ensuring organizations maximize benefits from its services. It offers a wide range of products including assessments, training programs, coaching, and events to help organizations develop their employees and teams.
- The document discusses talent management and aligning an organization's people strategy with its business growth strategy. It emphasizes that an organization's biggest competitive advantage is its employees and linking their growth and competencies to the organization's growth.
- It then discusses customized employee engagement solutions tailored to a company's industry, business, culture and employees. The challenges of keeping a diverse, multi-generational workforce engaged are also addressed.
- Finally, it discusses how the company can support organizations through innovative talent solutions, technologies, and by implementing contemporary employee engagement strategies.
- The document discusses talent management and aligning an organization's people strategy with its business growth strategy. It emphasizes that an organization's biggest competitive advantage is its employees and linking their growth and competencies to the organization's growth.
- It then discusses customized solutions for employee engagement that are tailored to a company's industry, business, culture and employees. The organization claims it can help implement contemporary engagement solutions.
- Finally, it discusses keeping employees engaged as a challenge due to multiple generations, individual preferences, work-life balance and diversity, and implementing engagement solutions that address these complex dimensions.
Core Strategy is a consulting firm that specializes in supporting leading companies to develop innovative new business lines while accelerating innovation by improving collaboration between startups and corporates.
Innovation 360 Institute helps companies and governments implement innovative strategies and develop leadership capabilities. They employ a 5-step innovation framework to [1] cultivate a culture of innovation, develop goals and identify leaders; [2] anticipate trends to identify opportunities; [3] generate and select ideas; [4] innovate by transforming ideas and prototyping; and [5] commercialize innovations. Innovation 360 works with clients worldwide through strategy development, workshops, and benchmarking services to improve innovation success.
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LeadershipHQ provides tailored solutions to help your organisation achieve business results through improving the effectiveness of your leaders
This document summarizes the services provided by Letsmake to help organizations with change management, digital transformation, agile leadership, and unleashing intrapreneurs. Letsmake helps clients create high performing organizations through leading practices for agility, empowerment, and creativity. They assist companies during times of slowed growth, non-functional teams, or overwhelming complexity by guiding decision making and planning a new path forward.
ECapital Strategos is an independent strategic capital advisory company that helps clients unlock corporate value and liquidity through transaction and capital strategies advisory, management consulting, and other specialized services including private equity, debt restructuring, and wealth management. They pursue growth, value, and sustainability for clients across industries and continents by delivering customized, innovative capital solutions through a team of experts and global partners. The company is led by Datuk Dr. Elamaran Sabapathy and focuses on building long-term relationships and trust with clients.
Business Growth is Humanly Possible with ExperisAndrew Wheeler
At Experis we provide professional resourcing and project solutions in information technology, engineering and finance to accelerate your organization’s growth.
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2. At Googol, we specialize in
assisting companies to create long
lasting growth by increasing their
innovation capabilities and in
developing their opportunities.
3. ENHANCE YOUR
INNOVATION
CAPABILITIES FOR
SUSTAINABLE GROWTH
Growth and strength demands exceptional
creativity and execution. We offer returns
focused, tailor-made solutions to assist you in
developing your capability to innovate across
your organization.
INNOVATION CAPABILITIES
4. OUR INNOVATION CAPABILITIES FRAMEWORK
We take a holistic approach towards enhancing your organization’s
innovation capabilities. With it, we build and implement strategies,
define processes and deploy tools, cultivate high-performing cultures
and rewarding ecosystems.
Why
Strategy
Unite
Ecosystem
Listen & tell
Communication
How
Methods,
Processes and
tools
Where
Structure
Who
Roles &
Culture
5. INNOVATION
PORTFOLIO
MANAGEMENT
A central topic to drive
Innovation is to focus
on WHAT to Innovate.
With our Innovation
Portfolio Management
methodology we help you
select and prioritize which
offerings, projects and
opportunities to focus on.
We help you balance core,
adjacent and disruptive
innovations and how to
tie this to all various types
of Innovation that are
relevant.
What
6. DRIVE YOUR IDEAS
TO MARKET FASTER
AND BETTER
Generate higher returns on your innovation
efforts. We assist you to identify signal
within a sea of noise, and create drive to
be more successful with your innovation
efforts.
OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT
7. OUR OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK
Opportunity
Scouting
Concept
Creation
Scope
Business
Model
Development
Launch
We employ a highly focused, results-driven process that
systematically discovers, prioritizes, evaluates, and execute on your
organization’s opportunities.
8. A PEEK INTO OUR TOOLBOX
We employ and select the best-suited tools to
tackle your challenges and create value.
Metrics
Great metrics enhance
long-term innovativeness
and create a common vision
and purpose across your
organization. We help you to
choose and define innovation
metrics aligned with your
business strategy and goals.
Ideation
We increase the quality
and relevancy of your ideas
from both creatively and
strategically. We bring to the
table a systematic process
of capturing, developing,
selecting and evaluating
ideas that creates business
value.
Opportunity
Scouting
Capitalize on hidden
opportunities through
existing assets. Googol
Opportunity Scouting™ is a
structured process in which
we scan your organization
for current and future
opportunities that align with
your strategic focus.
Innovation Portfolio
Management
Improve your project and
risk management capabilities
by purposefully deciding how
to allocate your resources.
We remove the complexity
of portfolio management
and create synergy among
stakeholders to realize your
organization’s vision.
Opportunity
Management
We create tangible value
for your organization
and stakeholders by
assisting you in identifying
needs, developing and
implementing solutions,
and by commercializing your
opportunities and bringing
traction to them.
9. A PEEK INTO OUR TOOLBOX
We employ and select the best-suited tools to
tackle your challenges and create value.
Metrics Periscope
Investment
Ideation
Business Modeling
Opportunity
Scouting
Inspirational
Talks
Innovation Portfolio
Management
Decision Tools
Opportunity
Management
Technology
Transfer
Venture
Management
10. FOR WHOM
Whether you’re a board member seeking to transform
your organization or a business manager trying to
discover new opportunities, we dedicate our minds, souls
and hearts to solve your challenges.
GOOGOL IS FOR YOU WHEN…
You want to increase your
innovation capabilities
You want to discover growth
opportunities & differentiate
your business and brand
You want higher returns on
your innovation efforts
HOW OUR EXPERTISE CAN ASSIST YOU
We are experts at integrating bold new
models and disruptive technologies
We sharpen your innovation lens by
identifying signals within noise
We create drive to take your ideas to
market with less risk and waste
11. OUR GUIDANCE
Be Curious. Be Courageous.
We are driven by curiosity and courage, and
this we bring to the table. Our core values
are defined as ‘Wow’ and ‘Crisp’.
WOW is the thinking —
we invest ourselves in
understanding the core
needs of businesses,
customers and stakeholders
to meaningfully grasp the
problem we’re trying to
solve and the opportunities
around it.
CRISP is the solution —
we deliver high quality,
impactful innovative
solutions distilled to its
essence, whether it’s a
precise analysis report or
finessing the finer details of
a product design.
13. CURIOUS FOR MORE?
Joachim Cronquist, Senior Partner
joachim.cronquist@googol.se
+46 (0)76-165 74 00
Get in touch with our partner today to find
out how Googol can improve your project and
risk management capabilities.