Thursday, October 21, 2010
Compensation committees: What HR needs to know
Canadian HR Reporter TV's Amanda Silliker sat down with Robert Lavasseur, senior consultant and principal with McDowall Associates in Toronto, to talk about the role of compensation committees, the challenges they face and what HR managers can do to have a successful relationship with compensation committees.
Future of Fund Management and Banks
Urgent ethical questions. Over the last decade I have lectured to thousands of fund managers from many different institutions including banks, responsible for hundreds of billions of actively managed investments, mainly entrusted to them by pension funds. The global economic crisis highlighted a number of fundamental problems within the industry, that had been there for many years, and remain unresolved. Issues such as over-charging, low performance, lack of confidence of fund managers in their own funds. Restoring trust has to be an urgent major priority. Without it, the industry as it is cannot survive. Wat ch keynote at Mercer client event.
Read more: Future of Fund Management and Banks
Supersize your PC. Play it all on your TV
Veebeam Overview from Veebeam on Vimeo.
Play Anything. Share Anything.
Veebeam is the easiest, most affordable way to wirelessly stream anything from your laptop to your TV.
It lets you combine the amazing video and audio performance of your current HDTV with the never-ending entertainment options available on your existing laptop.
It lets you share all your digital content with your family and friends.
Easy
When you’re ready to watch a movie, plug the USB antenna into your laptop and stream anything directly to your TV. It’s that simple.
Affordable
Starting at $99, Veebeam lets you make the most of your big HDTV and that new high capacity laptop…without breaking the bank.
Looks Great
Your digital media files will never look better than on your big HDTV. That’s because Veebeam outputs 1080p video.
Plays Anything
If your PC can play it, Veebeam can send it on your TV. From TV shows and movies from popular sites like Hulu, Netflix, YouTube to downloaded video and personal photos.
Secure wireless USB
Why use another wire to connect your TV and PC? Declutter your home, cut the cables, and simplify your life by going wireless.
Diminished Reality: Impressive Video Manipulation In Real-Time (Video)
Scary or cool? This technology developed by a team of researchers at Technische Universität Ilmenau in Germany is probably both. Their so-called “Diminished Reality” system makes it possible to manipulate video in real-time. As opposed to Augmented Reality, which adds virtual objects to real world images, Diminished Reality removes selected objects from video recordings.
The way it works is that first, the object to be eliminated from the footage has to be specified and detected. After that, the system analyzes the immediate surroundings of the object, for example the look of a table it was standing on, and fills out the empty space with that information.
According to the researchers behind this Diminished Reality application, this process just takes a few milliseconds and works both for video streams and static pictures.
This pretty impressive video provides more insight:
Change +: Tatyana Mamut, “Changing Daily Habits at Scale”
Change +: Tatyana Mamut, “Changing Daily Habits at Scale” from IDEO on Vimeo.
How can organizations spur system-wide changes in people’s daily habits? In the 1990s, Western businesses introduced new tools, rules, and norms to the Russian market to transform Russians’ hygiene habits, with great success. By examining this and other examples, a framework for changing behavior at the systemic or societal level emerges. While habits are indeed hard to break, seeing the challenge through the lens of an actionable framework can help organizations start successfully inspiring change in people’s daily choices.
http://vimeo.com/11517296
The Role of Design in Service Innovation
The Role of Design in Service Innovation from IDEO on Vimeo.
A talk by Axel Unger, Head of Health Practice, Europe, IDEO at the conference "Innovation in Healthcare Delivery", jointly hosted by the London Business School and the Cambridge Judge Business School on July 16th 2010 in London.
In his talk Axel argues how the role of design in innovation is not only about providing the right solutions and answers but is also about asking the right questions. He discusses how we need to be inspired, frame, evaluate iteratively and evolve innovative solutions, with strong user participation in the process.
The faces of tomorrow’s book
The Future of the Book. from IDEO on Vimeo.
Meet Nelson, Coupland, and Alice — the faces of tomorrow’s book. Watch IDEO’s vision for the future of the book. What new experiences might be created by linking diverse discussions, what additional value could be created by connected readers to one another, and what innovative ways we might use to tell our favorite stories and build community around books?
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