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How Municipalities and MRFs Can Collaborate on a Successful Contract

2021-09-09 19:08:00| Waste Age

In order to transform the U.S. recycling system for food, everyone in the industry needs to be engaged from the people and the municipalities to MRFs, says Keysha Burton, Community Program Manager, The Recycling Partnership. The Recycling Partnershi

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OTC 2021: Smart Policy Key to Successful Energy Transition

2021-08-17 10:05:00| OGI

Every form of energy has advantages and disadvantages, but the American energy industry has innovated and adapted throughout its history. This time will be no different.

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Anaerobic Digestion: Technologies, Feedstocks, Successful Case Studies (WasteExpo 2021)

2021-07-22 17:20:00| Waste Age

Moderator: Tracie Onstad Bills, Northern California Director, Sustainable Materials Management, SCS Engineers Speakers: John Hanselman, Chairman and CEO, Vanguard Renewables Peter Ettinger, Chief Development Officer, BioEnergy Devco Rolfe Philip, V

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The four pillars of a successful corporate innovation program

2021-07-13 19:08:12| The Webmail Blog

The four pillars of a successful corporate innovation program nellmarie.colman Tue, 07/13/2021 - 12:08   Innovation programs are a great way to accelerate change, increase visibility into new opportunities and engage the workforce. We recently wrote an article on what makes a successful innovation program, advising enterprises how to harness innovation to be better every day, enhance agility and stave off the risk of being disrupted themselves. In this article, we explore our own innovation program and some lessons learned since implementing this program (since were always looking to improve).   The structure of our innovation program can be broken down into four key areas:   #1: Education Education involves shaping relevant training as well as getting the word out promoting your innovation program and educating teams about it. Youll want to train employees in how to think innovatively and continually innovate. They need to realize that innovation doesnt necessarily have to be the next iPhone. Small process improvements identified from their unique viewpoint within the organization can have a tremendous impact. To help employees make this shift in thinking and hone their innovation skills, we collaborated with Rackspace University to create an innovation-related learning path training employees to continually look for problems in their day-to-day workflows and look for ways to improve how we operate. In terms of getting the word out, it's good to catch people when they've just joined the company and are most hungry to learn about the companys programs. So, if you have a company onboarding program, book a speaking slot so you can get new hires thinking about innovation straight away. You can also gain exposure in big company meetings. Try to get someone from leadership to talk about the innovation program and related training during a departmental town hall, for example. This is a powerful way to create awareness.   #2: Idea intake There needs to be a method for collecting ideas and tools that enables pitches to be submitted and tracked. At Rackspace Technology, we use a public message board on the company intranet where submissions are immediately visible to the whole company. The board also features voting and commenting capability to allow ideas to be up voted and built upon by others. While the voting function doesnt guarantee an ideas selection for further development, it does provide useful insight for leadership into whats important to staff members at any given moment. We've recently changed the way we market this program, so that we're receiving submissions for one month each quarter, instead of doing a continuous cycle. This allows time to drive approved submissions through the pipeline. In terms of tools for intake, the most effective one is the most familiar to the organization. There's no one single best innovation program tool for everyone. Its all about choosing something thats convenient and comfortable for your employees. Since Rackspace Technology uses JIRA extensively on the technical side, and the app is relatively easy and intuitive to use, it was the tool of choice for our organization. It allows all users to log in and see the process of each submission. In this way, the process can be transparent to everyone across the organization.   #3: Recognition Recognition is about acknowledging that somebody has made a contribution and thanking them. It's about closing the feedback loop and giving them a pat on the back, such as with public recognition or a monetary reward. At Rackspace Technology, we use a tool called Spotlight from Achievers to recognize our employees for good work. Posts in Spotlight can be tagged to give exposure to direct managers and senior leadership as well as be enhanced with points that can be used to buy real gifts in the Spotlight store. We have also started working on an employee Innovation of the Year award to give recognition to the employee who has submitted the best idea each year.   #4: Advocacy Advocacy involves gathering ideas and driving communication that can turn it into something real. This is done by getting both leadership backing and ownership from the team that executes on the advocacy initiative. For advocacy, our core team of program managers produces a shortlist of submitted ideas based on their alignment with our leadership teams direction. Their role is to work with innovators to ensure the right people see their ideas so that a call can be made on whether its something to consider bringing into the organization.   Principles for success and potential program killers In our experience, executive support, transparency, communication and velocity are essential drivers of success that, if neglected, can evolve into potential program killers. While were looking to harness bottom-up inspiration and energy with our innovation program, contributors must have confidence that leadership is engaged with and supportive of the program. The transparency of our public board and voting system is crucial to building trust in the program. Every idea is responded to by someone from the programs volunteer team. There is just as much emphasis on communicating why ideas are not selected as there is on celebrating those that have been successful. Without this openness, its hard to garner widespread engagement. As a result, programs risk becoming closed shops with a small group of voices driving most of the conversation. Other obstacles to a company-wide innovation programs success include slow progress and red tape. The advocacy approach is our way to accelerate routing of ideas to the people who are able to act on them. At the same time, it ensures the presence of an experienced hand to bring idea suggesters along on the journey. This provides individuals with valuable experience and networking opportunities beyond their daily duties and contacts.   Considerations for launching your enterprise innovation program What works for your organization will be different than what works for ours, and different from others in your industry. But, without exception, an innovation program needs strong and visible executive ownership to take flight and remain sustainable. Where leadership of the program resides depends on the outcomes youre looking to achieve. For example, if youre looking to drive efficiencies and outcomes for the business, then ownership within the operations group makes sense. Or, if you want to be more customer focused, then it makes sense to run the program through your product organization. Early on, we spoke with staff far and wide to see what they would expect from an innovation program. This helped us discover our most passionate people when it comes to improving the company, and set the tone for our emphasis on transparency. Since then, weve enjoyed success leveraging the companys internal communications channels for publicity, and we continue to benefit from simply talking to our fellow employees.   Some takeaways The final word must go to a key tenet of popular innovation theories: Start small, fail fast and dont wait for perfect. We would wholeheartedly agree with this approach and have found that rather than spend time going back and forth on how we think a program process should work, its better to get it launched in a controlled way and see how it goes. If you have the right intentions and are focused on the right goals or at least in the right ballpark you will get there. To reduce the risk associated with failures, we recommend a soft launch of your innovation program before steadily growing the programs scope as y

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Strategies for a successful IoT project

2021-07-06 22:22:56| The Webmail Blog

Strategies for a successful IoT project nellmarie.colman Tue, 07/06/2021 - 15:22   The Internet of Things (IoT) is revolutionizing the way people interact with technology from how we care for our pets and manage our own health to how farmers grow crops. By extending the power of the internet beyond our computers to a whole range of devices we can take advantage of IoT innovations to improve our safety and quality of life. For businesses, IoT provides valuable insight into how people are using their products, which can transform their design, production and sales strategies, to better serve their customers and increase revenue. And by applying IoT to their internal operations, they can improve efficiencies in areas like workforce optimization and preventative equipment maintenance, while also increasing the yields and quality from their existing processes. While the bottom-line benefits of IoT are clear, the path to IoT success is not. Skills gaps, scalability challenges and the inability to drive meaningful data insights can derail a project before it even gets off the ground. According to a 2020 report from Beecham Research, 58% of IoT adopters report that their IoT projects have been either not successful at all (18%) or mostly unsuccessful (40%). And half struggle to move beyond proof-of-concept stage. But with the right strategy and roadmap, you can get your IoT project on the road to success.   Step 1: Planning Before jumping into IoT, it is important to develop a viable IoT strategy and roadmap. When doing this, you will first want to start with understanding which business objectives you are trying to achieve. Are you looking to build connected products or increase efficiency within your business operations?   Step 2: Build or buy Based on your IoT priorities, you will next need to determine if you want to build a custom IoT solution, purchase an out-of-the box solution or create a combination of both. Is your use case revenue-generating or has the possibility to be revenue generating? Then consider building a custom solution. If youre looking to increase operational efficiencies in your manufacturing processes, a combination solution (build + buy) could be good. Do you want access to device data for real-time analytics, predictive workflows or monetization? Consider custom or a build + buy combination.   Step 3: Find the right partner Partner with a vendor that can work backwards from your desired outcome, with capabilities from strategic advisory and cloud architecture design to hardware and software development. Make sure their solutions are scalable, yet cost-effective since, as your solution scales, the entire system, network, and process requirements change as well. And be sure they take the necessary steps to ensure security, to minimize threats to your IoT devices. Just as you need to do a cost-benefit analysis to determine if IoT is right for your organization, you need to also weigh the benefits of using a partner to help you implement an IoT solution versus doing it on your own.   Solutions for every step in your IoT journey Rackspace Technology offers full-lifecycle capabilities to envision, develop, launch and optimize your IoT solution. Whether its an end-user-facing product or a solution to improve operational efficiencies, weve worked with customers to build custom hardware, cloud platform and applications across use cases from predictive maintenance, asset and fleet tracking, remote monitoring, and connected consumer and commercial products, to agriculture and farming. Let the IoT experts at Rackspace Technology evaluate your IoT use cases and provide recommendations for an IoT pilot solution along with backlog, roadmap and cost estimates for hardware, firmware and cloud architecture.   Strategies for a successful IoT projectWhile the bottom-line benefits of IoT are clear, the path to IoT success is not. Discover the three steps to IoT success. Fast-track your IoT initiatives. /applications/iot-edgeStart here Cloud InsightsConnie ChenStrategies for a successful IoT projectJuly 6, 2021 Teaser FlagBlogSolutions TaxonomyInternet of Things & Edge

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