What is Bimodal People Management?

It might be the next stage for your HR department. A new chapter that takes HR on an exciting journey of exploration into uncharted territory of business transformation. A new way of working that fosters creativity and connects more people than ever before. A new HR mindset that adds more value than ever before.

What does bimodal mean?

Bimodal is the practice of managing two separate but coherent styles of work. I heard the term first from Gartner. Their Bimodal IT model has CIO’s over the world rethinking their service to their organization. What are CHRO’s doing in the meantime? Is see great opportunity for Bi-Modal HR.

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MADISON – Whether it’s new companies raising money, established firms moving to the next stage or investors reporting strong returns, there have been some solid harbingers for Wisconsin’s early stage economy in the past month or so.

While it remains to be seen whether the trends continue, the collective news is encouraging — especially for people who recall leaner days for Wisconsin’s tech-based economy.

Remarkable breakthroughs happen at public research universities everyday, but bridging the gap between early innovation and widespread adoption is a challenge that these institutions know all too well. This is especially the case when it comes to education technology and curricular innovation.

In 2015 the University of Michigan established the Digital Innovation Greenhouse (DIG) as part of the Office Of Academic Innovation—a group charged with fostering a culture of innovation in learning in order to reimagine the 21st century public research university.

Mayo Clinic and Arizona State University have launched the Alliance for Health Care, a comprehensive new model for health care education and research that will start with the construction of a 150,000-square-foot Health Solutions Innovation Center that is expected to cost upwards of $200 million to develop.

The new facility will break ground in 2017 on a 25-acre campus ASU owns next to the Mayo Clinic Hospital campus in north Phoenix.

There used to be a reality television show hosted by a certain 2016 presidential candidate called "The Apprentice." The theme song for that show was "For the Love of Money" by Canton's own hit-making R&B group, The O'Jays.

Politics and reality TV aside, money is a necessary part of entrepreneurship. I've had many conversations with entrepreneurs about what they need to move their company forward, and the answer almost always includes financing of some sort. Cash money. Dollar bills. Papes.

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Engineers at Aerovelo have perfected the "Eta" speedbike to be awarded the title of fastest human-powered vehicle on earth, reaching 89 mph.

If you're not a media wonk, it can be hard to really care about things like the $80 billion deal between AT&T and Time Warner. But you should. You definitely should.

Time Warner has a lot that TV, movies and sports people love. Enjoy Game of Thrones? TW owns HBO. Like the NBA? TW has that on TNT. Into DC Comics movies? TW owns Warner Bros. movies.

AT&T, on the other hand, mostly operates wireless, telephone and cable networks touching millions of Americans.

Initially authorized by Ohio voters in 2002 with a $1.6 billion state investment and reauthorized in 2010 with an additional $700 million, the Ohio Third Frontier continues to foster an “innovation ecosystem” that allows companies to transition great ideas from the laboratory to the marketplace.

Ohio Third Frontier is an ambitious, innovative program, which supports applied research and commercialization, entrepreneurial assistance, early-stage capital formation and the development of a skilled talent pool to help drive technology-based economic growth. Funding for this innovative program has been a driving force in the effort to transform Ohio’s manufacturing based economy to one driven by technology and the spirit of innovation. The program enables entrepreneurs from all walks of life to bring their products to market, purchase equipment, create jobs and expand their companies.

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and Québec Premier Philippe Couillard today held a joint meeting of cabinet ministers in Toronto. Focused on innovation and the economy, the meeting generated seven agreements between the two governments.

A Historic Electricity Trade Agreement

To help make electricity more affordable and reliable, while continuing to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, Ontario and Québec have finalized an agreement for trading electricity, energy capacity and energy storage.

There are more resources available for entrepreneurs than ever before. You can find out what it takes to be an entrepreneur, do your market research, do your competitive research, get a federal tax ID, connect with investors, attract funders and even build a website all on your own -- and all for free --using the online resources available to you.

Disruptive, innovative and transformative = Uber, Facebook and Twitter (whoops… Tesla), right??

I almost overlooked a telling fact when I read the recent Harvard Business Review article by Stelios Kavadias and colleagues that broke down “transformative business models” into six factors: older companies, including Rolls Royce and Canon, were high on the list.  More on that in a bit. 

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While Singapore's aging population increases demand for healthcare services, the country aims to mitigate the shortage of healthcare professionals by using innovative solutions. The previous track record on government policies indicate that Singapore is likely to become a world leader in healthcare innovation.

Singapore has been ranked in sixth place in the world for innovation and is top in the Asia Pacific region. The city is already one of the most dynamic healthcare innovation hubs in the world and the World Competitiveness Yearbook indicates that the country has established one of the world's best healthcare infrastructures.

Adult life is full of commitments: bills to pay, family to see and a job you probably have to show up for. But in a world where many of us complain of being overscheduled, there’s something uniquely depressing about having no control over the time once quaintly called “personal” and “free.”

Kansas City, Mo. (October 21, 2016) – Today the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation announced the KC Accelerator Challenge, a grant initiative that addresses a key ingredient in Kansas City’s entrepreneurial community – venture accelerators. The Foundation will issue a request for proposals on November 16 during this year’s Global Entrepreneurship Week celebration in Kansas City. Proposals will be due by February 15.

Kauffman Foundation’s research and conversations with business and civic leaders in Kansas City demonstrate the need to close the gap between the local startup community and established resources. Accelerators have a unique capacity to bridge that gap, for example, by enabling large companies searching for innovations to solve particular business problems and providing startups with the access, knowledge and mentorship to succeed.

Washington-area companies raised nearly $300 million in venture capital funding during the third quarter, putting the region on track to reach $1 billion in investments by the end of the year, according to recently released data from the National Venture Capital Association.

In all, 49 local companies raised $299.5 million during the third quarter, a 47 percent increase from the $204 million the region’s firms secured during the same period last year, according to PitchBook, a research company that provided the data for the association’s report.

Since Steve Jobs’s death, in 2011, Elon Musk has emerged as the leading celebrity of Silicon Valley. Musk is the CEO of Tesla Motors, which produces electric cars; the CEO of SpaceX, which makes rockets; and the chairman of SolarCity, which provides solar power systems. A self-made billionaire, programmer, and engineer—as well as an inspiration for Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark in the Iron Man movies—he has been on the cover of Fortune and Time. In 2013, he was first on the Atlantic’s list of “today’s greatest inventors,” nominated by leaders at Yahoo, Oracle, and Google. To believers, Musk is steering the history of technology. As one profile described his mystique, his “brilliance, his vision, and the breadth of his ambition make him the one-man embodiment of the future.”

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ANN ARBOR—The total volume of research at the University of Michigan reached $1.39 billion in the fiscal year that closed June 30, 2016, a 7.2 percent increase from the previous year and a new record high.

"As one of the largest and most diverse research universities in the world, U-M plays a significant role both in generating a steady stream of innovative ideas and in educating the people that together underlie the nation's economic success and quality of life," said S. Jack Hu, U-M vice president for research. "The growing investment in U-M research is a measure of the continuing confidence of our sponsors in the value that our faculty and students bring to society."

People often complain that their job is killing them, or that they’re working themselves to death, but new research suggests there may be more truth to those clichés than we realize.

A recent study conducted by Indiana University's Kelley School of Business found that those who work in high-stress jobs with little control are more likely to die sooner than those who have more control over and balance in their work.

For a while, Illumina—the 800-pound gorilla of genomics—could do no wrong. The DNA-sequencing company's market cap more than quadrupled from 2012, to peak at a whopping $34 billion, fueled in part by the growing hype around the potential of genomics to transform how we prevent, diagnose, and treat disease, as well as facilitate medical research discoveries.

Illumina is also the primary game in town when it comes to DNA-sequencing machines. It has a near-monopoly in the research market, where its instruments have sequenced an estimated 90% of all the human genomes ever sequenced.

The United States has a startup problem—one that encompasses the number of new firms being born, where those births take place and the demographics of who gets to participate in the startup economy.

First, the numbers. Recently released data from the Census Bureau show that startups remain hovering near all-time lows when it comes to their share of both the U.S. business community and total employment.

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