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Innovation is an indispensable force that turns ideas into money. It is the lifeblood of any organization. In order to implement sustainable innovation in 2012, you need to define innovation in a manner that makes strategic sense for your organization, and have the know-how to properly construct and use a process, plus the will to keep the process on course.

The task may seem daunting at first, but it’s possible to develop a disciplined strategy that delivers Innovation time and time again for sustained long-term profitability. Make developing that strategy your 2012 New Year’s resolution.

“Robert’s Rules of Innovation” outlines specific steps to implement Innovation. Here are some tips:

1. Define your organization’s needs. What type of innovation are you trying to achieve? An incremental innovation that introduces a new process or feature? Or a transformative breakthrough that completely changes the marketplace? The latter is more difficult to achieve but holds the greatest potential. Choosing the path that makes the most sense for your organization will help in the Innovation process.

2. Formulate a new product development process. Each organization’s NPD process can have a different number of steps, so long as they form a structured plan. A three-stage plan may include: Stage 1 product definition, where a product is examined for its brand strategy, profit potential, and competitive analysis. If the product is a “go” then it moves to Stage 2: the qualification process where a first article product is made and tested for quality assurance. Finally, Stage 3 is Revenue where the product is launched.

3. Create a road map to success. The key elements are examining quality of projects, capability of managing them successfully, and capacity of the organization for maintaining a portfolio of well-managed projects. No matter what NPD process you decide to use, stick to the road map to ensure that each stage, and tasks within each stage, are clearly defined.

4. Some more guidelines for progress: remember to stick to your go/no-go criteria for moving forward with developments. All projects should undergo the same scrutiny, regardless of who suggested it! Also, many organizations are incorporating a “discovery phase” into the Innovation process to allow for more experimentation. This step is beneficial for making decisions based on long-term sustainable Innovation, and not on current budget restraints alone.

In a world of increasing business competition, Innovation is key to a company’s survival. Creating an Innovation strategy that makes sense for your organization is entirely feasible, and an absolute must for creating profit for your company.

Here’s to a New Year of innovation!

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Jan 17 (Reuters) – Wells Fargo & Co reported higher fourth-quarter earnings as the bank set aside less money to cover bad loans.

The fourth-largest U.S. bank by assets said net income applicable to common shareholders was $3.89 billion, or 73 cents per share, compared to $3.2 billion, or 61 cents per share, a year earlier. (Reporting By Rick Rothacker in Charlotte, North Carolina, editing by Dave Zimmerman)

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VMware, whose core products specialize in virtualizing Windows and Linux workloads, is making some interesting maneuvers in the Platform as a Service (PaaS) space with their Cloud Foundry offering.

a href=”http://www.cloudfoundry.com”>CloudFoundry.com is a hosted PaaS solution, in which people can deploy and run their web apps without ever mucking around with the underlying OS or application stack. There’s also the Micro Cloud Foundry, which is a virtual machine image you can deploy on your own hardware to set up your own Cloud Foundry PaaS. Going even further, the software that powers Cloud Foundry is open source and available on GitHub under an Apache Software License, so anyone interested in the nuts and bolts of PaaS can check it out.

It’s extremely interesting to me that VMware, a company that makes gobs of money by selling complex proprietary software, has so boldly embraced the free software development model for their PaaS offering. It’s also worth noting that the other major Linux PaaS offering, Red Hat’s OpenShift, is not yet open source.

While OpenShift is an all-Linux PaaS, and Microsoft’s Azure is an all-Windows PaaS, Cloud Foundry extends VMware’s overall OS agnosticism. The default offering is Linux, but recent additions to their product have added .NET support.

The long-term value of .NET in Cloud Foundry remains to be seen, since you still need to provide your own legal licenses for Microsoft Windows for each instance (in the parlance of Cloud Foundry: an execution agent or “DEA”) you might deploy; but I think it’s an impressive testament to VMware’s Cloud Foundry design. Because Cloud Foundry runs on Linux but manages Windows-based DEAs the same as any other DEA, developers will have a common model for deploying and scaling both Java and .NET applications, as well the newer frameworks supported by Cloud Foundry.

If you’re a heterogeneous environment, Cloud Foundry offers a one-stop shop for handling diverse workloads.

As the euro teeters on the brink of collapse, and the global economy faces unprecedented severe weather warnings, recovering unpaid tax is a higher priority than ever for countries feeling the financial pain.

Here in the UK, the government has earmarked additional funding to ensure that no stone is left unturned in its determination to stamp out tax evasion and avoidance. Recent estimates from HMRC (Sept 2011) suggest that the Tax Gap – that is, the difference between tax collected compared with that owed – could be around £35 billion: a serious figure at the best of times, let alone in a period of severe financial austerity.

The USA is also closing the net on the billions of dollars that the IRS believes to be held in offshore accounts, as shown in recent talks between the US and Switzerland over a possible tax treaty.

One of the most valuable assets sought by the tax authorities, however, is data. International agreements are increasingly focused on disclosure of information as a means of recovering past unpaid taxes, encouraging future compliance and deterring would-be evaders from hiding their money in the first place on the basis “be sure your sins will find you out.”

Resistance has been strong – the recent deals agreed between the UK and Switzerland, as well as between Germany and Switzerland, enable individuals to retain anonymity, but at the cost of a large one-off payment to cover past tax liabilities and a high annual withholding tax to settle on-going tax due. Clients who opt out of this withholding will, generally, have their details revealed to HMRC.

This has raised more than a few hackles within the European Commission, which regards such deals as going against its rules on data disclosure

However, in a bid to get the information they need, the authorities are increasingly targeting individual banks directly, rather than relying on blanket international agreements. The USA in particular is bringing criminal charges against banks which assist US citizens with tax evasion levying large fines and requiring the banks to reveal details of their clients.

Now that major banks have agreed to hand over client details, we are likely to see an acceleration in information sharing. The Swiss/UK Agreement imposes obligations on institutions to ensure their clients are tax compliant and in some circumstances enables information to be passed to the authorities.

Tax amnesties have also proved a valuable tool for tax authorities in the past, with measures such as Lichtenstein Disclosure Facility (LDF) encouraging non-compliant individuals to confess their sins – and pay back taxes and interest, but with reduced penalties.

Many countries are introducing legislation with extraterritorial effect which seeks to impose reporting requirements on individuals and institutions so the authorities can make sure that account holders are paying the tax they owe – on pain of severe financial penalties for non-compliance. The most high profile example is the USA’s Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).

Other countries like Israel and France are imposing onerous reporting requirements on individuals with offshore funds, and the UK is also issuing tax returns to offshore trustees.

The effect of these measures is that people who fail to pay the taxes they owe are increasingly left with nowhere to hide. Even if the governments of tax havens are prepared to protect individuals, the banks themselves may be unable to escape investigation – or prevent information being stolen and leaked by an employee, as has happened recently.

Tension between the authorities and tax evaders is an age-old feud, but the storm currently brewing in the global financial markets is set to intensify the situation, with the stakes much higher on both sides.

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In what Kia claims is a worldwide first for an EV manufacturer, the Ray EV’s sharing of dimensions with the Ray CUV allows it to share a production line with conventional combustion engine vehicles. Although the front-wheel drive Ray EV is some 187 kg (412 lb) heavier than its gas-powered cousin, the Ray EV boasts faster acceleration (0 – 100 km/h/62 mph in 15.9 seconds) thanks to 77 percent greater torque (167 Nm). Kia says the vehicle has a top speed of 130 km/h (81 mph).

Kia says the Ray EV can be recharged in six hours from a 220 V household outlet or in just 25 minutes in fast-charge mode. The inlet for the 220 V supply is located under a flap in the front grille, while the fast-charge inlet can be found where the fuel intake is usually located on regular models. The 330 V lithium ion polymer battery pack is located under the rear seat and cabin floor.

The Ray EV has been fitted with a new type of regenerative braking system featuring an “Active Hydraulic Booster” that uses the electric motor to create hydraulic pressure for the brake system. Kia says in addition to harvesting excess braking energy to recharge the vehicle’s battery, it also provides consistent brake pedal force under a wide variety of driving conditions.

Like audio alert systems already available in a number of hybrid vehicles from manufacturers such as Toyota and Nissan, the Ray EV is fitted with a Virtual Engine Sound System (VESS) that emits a mixture of recorded gasoline engine noises when the car is traveling at speeds below 20 km/h (12 mph), or when reversing.

The instrument cluster displays electric motor operation, battery status and the distance before a recharge is required. An EV-specific navigation system features a 7-inch display that provides information such as the location of the nearest recharging stations – of which there are 500 in Korea with plans from the government to increase that number to 3,100 by the end of 2012. The navigation system also displays a circular shaped area over a map that shows how far the vehicle can travel with its current level of battery power.

The Ray EV won’t be available to ordinary customers with Kia currently planning to produce just 2,500 of the cars. These will be provided to government departments and public offices as part of the company’s research and development program to gather real-world usage and performance data to aid in the development of future electric vehicles.

The Kia Ray may well be the ugliest EV I have seen in a long time. It’s boxy and square and makes the Prius look good if you ask me. Aside from the questionable looks of the car, it has some interesting features that make it stand out among the EV crowd. The coolest feature is the optional fast charge system that would charge the battery cells in only 25 minutes.

The boxy EV has a range of 84 miles, which will obviously depend on the driving conditions. Without that fast charge option, you will need six hours to charge the battery using 220V. The electric motor is a 50kW unit powering the front wheels. The beast will rocket from 0-62mph in 15.9 seconds.

The EV Ray has 123 lb-ft of torque, which as is common with electric cars is more torque than the 1.0L combustion engine powered flavor offers. Kia plans to build 2,500 of these little EVs. The catch is that they are all slated for government use in Korea so you won’t be able to get one.

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WASHINGTON — In a tangible victory by the Occupy movement, Occupy Atlanta has successfully helped save an Iraq War veteran from foreclosure.

Activists began occupying Brigitte Walker’s home on Dec. 6. By the end of that first week, JPMorgan Chase, which owns her mortgage, began discussing with the activists and Walker the possibility of a loan modification. Chase’s modification offer became official Monday morning. The offer will result, Walker tells The Huffington Post, in hundreds per month in savings.

Before Occupy Atlanta set up its tents on her lawn, Chase had set an eviction date for Jan. 3. Now, Walker, who lives with her girlfriend and her two children, will get to stay in her Riverdale, Ga. home.

“I strongly believe Occupy Atlanta accelerated the process and helped save my home,” Walker says. “If it had not been for them standing up, I probably wouldn’t be having this happy ending.”

Chase did not return a request seeking comment.

Tim Franzen, an organizer with Occupy Atlanta, credits Walker and her story with bringing Chase to the bargaining table.

“Her story is compelling,” he tells HuffPost. “I think that’s one of the things that drew us to her home — just very clear injustice on a woman who had literally been injured in one of our wars and suffered legitimate hardship. When Chase suffered their hardship, they were just given all this money.”

Walker, 44, joined the Army in 1985 and had been among the first U.S. personnel to enter Iraq in February 2003. She witnessed fellow soldiers die and get maimed. She saw a civilian embedded with them get killed. “It was very nerve-wracking,” she says. “It makes you wonder if you’re going to survive.”

Walker’s tour in Iraq ended in May 2004 when the shock from mortar rounds crushed her spine.

Doctors had to put in titanium plates to reinforce her spine, which had nerve damage. Today her range of motion is limited, and she still experiences a lot of pain. She struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder. Loud noises and big crowds are difficult for her to face. Even the Fourth of July is a challenge.

She settled in Riverdale, a town outside of Atlanta, after purchasing a house in 2004 for $139,000. She has a brother who lives in the area and enjoyed it when she would visit him. “It seemed peaceful and quiet,” she says. “That’s what I needed.” Her active duty salary covered the mortgage.

The house, she says, means a lot to her. It was her last big purchase while she was still on active duty.

In 2007, the Army medically retired Walker against her wishes. “I thought I was going to rehab and come back,” she said. “But they told me I couldn’t stay in.” Walker now has to rely on a disability check.

After retiring from the Army, Walker used up her savings. She got rid of a car to help pay her monthly mortgage payment. “I didn’t have problems until they put me out of the military,” she said. “It was just overwhelming.”

By April of last year, she was starting to fall behind on her mortgage. Chase began foreclosure proceedings.

Occupy Atlanta did not crowd Walker’s lawn when they moved in. On the same day that Occupy Atlanta moved into Walker’s property, the activists had also begun occupying another family’s home in downtown Atlanta. Occupiers had deemed the Atlanta property in more imminent jeopardy and devoted more resources there. Walker had only a skeletal crew defending her turf. They never had more than eight people sleeping at the Walker home; on some nights, they had as few as three sleeping on site. At the peak, they had 15 working in Riverdale.

The handful of activists proved more than enough. Within the past two weeks, activists repeatedly canvased the neighborhood’s more than 240 homes, helped identify 15 abandoned properties, conducted graffiti removal, and helped spur a neighborhood watch program. In one instance, the activists said they recovered stolen goods stored in one abandoned home. “We knew where to look,” Franzen says. “It was one of the homes we had cleaned up already.” They started an Occupy Riverdale and began holding general assembly meetings in Walker’s garage.

A recent meeting in Walker’s backyard this past Saturday brought out about a dozen neighbors who addressed local issues like juvenile crime and those abandoned properties. Occupy Atlanta is hoping to convert one of the properties into a community center.

The vacancies have become Topic A. “Neighborhoods have all these empty shells,” Franzen says. “It holds the neighborhood hostage. Many had windows boarded up. Many have been havens for crime. Many have been empty for five years. They are empty because the banks make a little bit more on the insurance.”

The canvasing and birth of a suburban Occupy group replicated Occupy Atlanta’s efforts in Gwinnett County. In early November, Franzen and Co. had taken up residence with the Rorey family in an attempt to save their home from foreclosure. The effort proved unsuccessful but helped them identify other families in need.

The lessons learned from Gwinnett paid off in Riverdale, Franzen says. “This brings our protest out of the symbolic and into an actual, practical, tangible win,” he explains. “Wins like these are going to be so important. We don’t just want people to root for the symbolism of what we stand for. We want people to be empowered to save their own homes.”

Franzen says Occupy Atlanta would be looking to takeover another home at the beginning of the new year.

Walker, who hadn’t decorated the house for Christmas because of the foreclosure proceedings, now is looking for a tree. She has one in mind: “A live tree — one of them nice big fluffy ones that smell like pine. I don’t want no fake trees. I want it to be real.”

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Want to make the app-addict in your life deliriously happy this holiday season? Take a look at our favorite giftable and productive apps for Android or iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. We’ve even got pretty, print-friendly cards you can hand out so you’ve still got something physical to give.

Whether you’ve got a family member or loved one getting a new iDevice or they’re already an addict, a few great apps can make their experience a whole lot better. Here are a handful of some of our favorite paid apps you can procure for a gift for this holiday season.

Note: Giving a digital download isn’t exactly the most extravagant gift, so we put together nice images for each app on this list that you can provide along with the download/serial number/whatever. Just right-click on any image to save a larger version.

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Panamp

If you’re looking to buy an app for both an iOS- and music-addict, Panamp is worth a look. While the built-in music player in iOS is serviceable, it’s not great for actually managing your library and playlists. If the recipient of your generous gift of apps likes to create playlists on the go, Panamp makes that process ridiculous simple. Instead of tapping and selecting all the songs you want to add to your new playlist, Panamp lets you just swipe a song to quickly add it to your current queue. It also provides a number of excellent gestures to make navigating your music library faster and easier. It’s a favorite of our own Whitson Gordon, and as he puts it, “the gestures are win.” If you know someone who spends more time with their earbuds in rather than out, put Panamp on their gift list.

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Just as Google affirmed with their announcement yesterday, their music service is “opening up to a broader audience and that it will integrate with the music store on Android Market to make music discovery, purchase, and sharing easy and fast.” Well, the Google Music App has just launched right now for the Google TV, as well as the Android Market now opening up to music purchases to select Android smartphones. So for all you Android and Google TV users out there, feel free to start downloading and listening to your favorite tunes.

The Google Music for Google TV app syncs in the cloud with your Google Music account, removing the need to stream from a computer or download tunes to the TV. In a few easy steps, simply download the Google Music app for Google TV from the Android Market, log in to your Google account, and start enjoying your entire music collection through the system of your choice. These are the instructions: go to music.google.com on your computer, sign up for the free service, upload your music to the cloud or buy music on the Android Market. Once done, you can play all of your songs on Google TV as easily as you can do on your computer, smartphone or tablet.

Google also promises that they’ll continue to improve your Google TV experience by way of future updates to the Google Music app along with other new apps coming to Google TV. With this move. Google seems like they’re finally trying to step up to the music game, which they’ve really kind of late to, with all the popular music services that are out at the moment. And for all you musicians out there, don’t forget that you can get in on the action from the other end with Google’s new Music Artist Hub.

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In order to use Google Music, you don’t pay anything. There is no limit to the number of devices you can listen on. If you want to listen on your mobile device, you can download the free Google Music app, available now for Android and probably soon for iOS (if Apple approves it). Until then, if you want to listen to Google Music on a mobile browser, all you need is a web browser. Most mobile devices nowadays have web browsers.

So why would anyone use iTunes Match over Google Music — aside from loyalty to Apple or pure ignorance about the existence of Google Music? The key differences between the two services don’t swing the needle toward iTunes Match; they’re inconveniences, trifles and petty critiques.

Argument one: Google Music takes days to upload a music library; iTunes Match takes minutes. This is Apple’s knockout punch? Once everything is uploaded, who cares? Unless you need your entire music collection ready for that party across town IN TWO HOURS (note to self: pitch idea to Disney), this is a silly point of contention. Save yourself some money (or donate it to charity!), and wait a few days for your library to upload.

Argument two: iTunes Match plays all of your songs in high-quality 256 kbps AAC; Google Music plays them in whatever format they were downloaded. Most non-audiophiles don’t care about the specific format of their music; most non-audiophiles can’t tell the difference between MP3 and AAC and are quite happy with the quality of the music they own. Moving on.

Argument three: iTunes Match can hold 25,000 songs, while Google Music can hold only 20,000. So if you have between 20,001 and 25,000 songs — if your music library falls within that golden range of tracks — perhaps it is worth ponying up $25 to use iTunes Match. Or perhaps you can be realistic about your needs and choose a few thousand songs that you don’t have to have available at all times.

What else is there? iTunes Match has a nicer interface than the admittedly oddly spaced Google Music homepage, but that doesn’t seem worth $25. iTunes is also a more familiar interface to most; some people will find it inconvenient to learn how to operate a new set of functions. Understandable but unsustainable in the long run, especially as all data and storage moves to the cloud.

What seemed like a bargain a week ago, iTunes Match at $24.99, now seems like an outrage. Such is the fast-moving world of competitive tech. Simply put, iTunes Match either has to drop its price to free or offer an all-you-can-eat option like Spotify to justify its price and make it seem attractive next to Google.

The event at which Google Music was officially unveiled was advertised with the catchphrase “These Go To Eleven.” While Spinal Tap did not make an appearance, Google really did give itself that little push over the cliff with its new cloud-storage service. iTunes Match got matched and surpassed. Now Apple needs one more thing to compete.

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