The portfolio summary shows details of investments made between 2002-2005 for 10 stocks, including the initial and current price per share and value. Overall the total current value is $725,992.60, a gain of $103,327.55 or 16.59% over the initial cost of $622,665.05, with the largest percent gain of 28.49% for Apple and the largest loss of -9.67% for Citigroup.
What can organizations and companies do to harness tacit knowledge and the curiosity of staff to enable innovation. The presentation includes a workshop session where participants can reflect on how their organization can improve how knowledge is used and gained to enable innovation
The need of innovation and knowledge as the most valuable asset in the processKoenraad Seys
The pressure is on innovative capacity. Everybody agrees. Trends indicate shorter product or service life cycles. Customer satisfaction is short lived. Earlier than ever they want something new. Building on experience or a long lasting competitive advantage is less an option. However innovation can only be realised and delivered with a motivated team of knowledgeable people having sufficient entrepreneurial blood so they want to go and explore. They will explore the fundamental needs of existing and potential customers, but also their capacity to be creative and learn new skills and techniques and optimise team interaction. Younger employees tend to have higher education than previous generations. They are skilled in new technology however lack experience.
Learning and knowledge exchange or sharing patterns will need an upgrade. Not only is experience still an asset, existing workforce will need to work longer careers than previous generations. Increasing age and life expectance, decreasing numbers of younger people will require all of us to make longer careers. Understanding added value of all team members will become key differentiator for teams, groups and companies to maintain their market postion. We summarised the reasons for investing in innovation, knowledge creation sharing and new approaches to come to products and services in a slide doc stuffed with facts and figures about the need for investing in what is most probably the strongest sustainable asset you will ever have.