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Innovation and Technology Management in Tourism and Hospitality

Learn about information and communication technologies [ICTs] and innovations in the hotel and tourism industries.

Subjects:: Hotel, Travel and Tourism
Keywords:: Hospitality industry Tourism Technological innovations
Resource Type:: MOOC

MOOC

Industry 4.0: How to Revolutionize your Business

An introduction to the fourth industrial revolution, it's major systems and technologies and how new products and services will impact business and society.

Subjects:: Industrial and Systems Engineering and Business Information Technology
Keywords:: Business intelligence Technological innovations Artificial intelligence -- Industrial applications Industrial engineering
Resource Type:: MOOC

Courseware

MBA Study Tour: Innovation Islands - How New Zealand Became a Global Player in the Race to Innovate

This International Study Tour went to New Zealand during the first half of the 2016 Spring semester and travel during the Sloan Innovation Period. International Study Tours provide students with a course credit opportunity to identify and address issues about which they feel particularly passionate. After classroom sessions featuring faculty, industry, and cultural experts, students embark on site visits to their destination of choice, meeting with industry and government leaders, as well as local alumni. Through these visits, students are able to build on the preparatory course work with an in-depth exploration of industries, companies, and countries they have visited.

Subjects:: Management
Keywords:: Management Technological innovations New zeal
Resource Type:: Courseware

e-book

National Academies Press (Industry and Labor)

Covers over 5,000 reports published by the National Academies Press for the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council in the US.

Subjects:: Management
Keywords:: Industrial management Labor Technological innovations
Resource Type:: e-book

Presentation

The Innovation Economy: How Technology Is Transforming Existing Industries and Creating New Ones

This video was recorded at MIT World Series - 2002 TR100 Symposium. This session provides a preview of what's new since The Innovator's Dilemma. Most people are convinced that the process of innovation is inherently afflicted by random events. While this is undoubtedly true, Professor Christensen has come to believe that innovation is much less random than many have supposed. In his talk, he describes the variables that affect the probability of success, which management can capably understand and control.

Subjects:: Management and Business Information Technology
Keywords:: Technological innovations Technological innovations -- Management
Resource Type:: Presentation

Presentation

Publishing and Consuming Linked Sensor Data

This video was recorded at COIN / PlanetData Winter School on Knowledge Technologies for Complex Business Environments, Ljubljana 2011. Organized by COIN FP7 Integrated Project and PlanetData FP7 Network of Excellence, the school seeks to bring together students, scholars and researchers from industry in order to foster collaboration and interoperability with innovative services and project large-scale data management in business environments. The main topics of the winter school are: Interoperability and collaboration models and solutions, Enterprise interoperability and collaboration services, Innovative knowledge and semantically powered technologies, Knowledge process and context modelling, Pro-active knowledge tools, Large scale analytics and reasoning tools, Business cases and real case studies. Detailed information can be found here.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Crowd funding Technological innovations Industrial management
Resource Type:: Presentation

Video

Connecting engineering innovations and the real world

Over 20 student teams from national and international universities, including UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Michigan, presented their global health technologies at the Rice competition. In this video, it share the story of 2 team of HKUST students. SIGHT was the first team from HKUST to participate in the Rice competition and they won.

Subjects:: Statistics and Research Methods
Keywords:: Engineering -- Research Technological innovations Medical records -- Data processing Pharmacy management
Resource Type:: Video

Courseware

Technology Dynamics and Transition Management

This version of the subject Technology Dynamics and Transition Management was tought in co-operation with the Harbin Institute of Technology in China. At the heart of this module lies a model of technology development from a social perspective, which will be applied to water problems in present-day China.

Subjects:: Technology
Keywords:: Water resources development China Indonesia -- Java Technological innovations Technology -- Social aspects
Resource Type:: Courseware

Video

How Ancient Technology Inspired My Award-Winning Inventions

Macinley Butson has won multiple awards for her inventions, including a device that improves protection from radiation during breast cancer treatment and a project enhancing the effectiveness of solar panels. In this talk, she shares how these forward-thinking endeavors were inspired by centuries-old technology, and how scientists need to shed their preconceptions about each other and their predecessors in order to do good work.

Subjects:: Technology and History
Keywords:: Technological innovations
Resource Type:: Video

Video

Can Technology Solve Our Big Problems?

In 1969, Buzz Aldrin’s historical step onto the moon leapt mankind into an era of technological possibility. The awesome power of technology was to be used to solve all of our big problems. Fast forward to present day, and what's happened? Are mobile apps all we have to show for ourselves? Journalist Jason Pontin looks closely at the challenges we face to using technology effectively ... for problems that really matter.

Subjects:: Technology
Keywords:: Technological innovations Technology -- Political aspects Technology -- Social aspects
Resource Type:: Video

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