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The American Cancer Society’s Futuring and Innovation (FI) Center is pleased to announced its third funded innovation–Team ACS. Submitted by Lisa Meyers Brown, vice president for marketing in the Eastern Division, Team ACS allows participants of non-Society events such as fun runs, marathons, triathlons, and bike races that are not produced or affiliated exclusively with other charities to raise money ...

Fast Company | The Liberator Article about organizational and personal change. Ultimately, says Yamashita, (who the article’s about) it’s all about getting unstuck as an individual or an organization. He believes that 85% of all companies and more than half of all people are stuck, a condition that isn’t defined by declining market share, falling productivity, or losses on an ...

Mobile users top 1.5 billion That’s right the amount of people using Mobile Phone’s worldwide has reached 1.5 billion people. Research firm EMC also predicts that the industry will pass the 2 billion mark as early as 2006. So….I call all ACS Spring board projects involving cell phones! No, really. In fact Smoking Cessation over SMS is already big in ...

Nano Killers Aim at Mini Tumors And you though nano-technology was the stuff of science fiction. A company called Kereos is developing a pair of nanotechnologies to identify tumors that measure just 1 mm in diameter, then kill them with a tiny but precise amount of a chemotherapy drug. Even our own Robert Smith, the director of cancer screening is ...