Provoke is focused on creating strategies for portfolio management and innovating new concepts.

ENGADGET: Provoke's 2012 concepts head to New York, Nokia hopes nobody notices

It wasn't so long ago that we were supposed to develop our workplace "EQ"--that's Emotional Intelligence--and before that, to remember our Myers-Briggs personality type. (Now was it "ExtrovertedIntuitive FeelingPerceiver" or "Introverted Sensing Thinking Judger"?) Corporate America, it seems, has an unappeasable hunger for the newest, hottest management concepts--all of which, on closer examination, appear eerily similar.

FORBES: I Feel Your Pain

ISARM2010 will bring together leading international transboundary aquifer management experts to discuss new concepts, approaches and technologies for dealing with transboundary aquifer problems within various contexts in both developed and developing countries.

UNESCO: THEMES

Originating from the video game industry, many of these pioneering concepts now play a key role in driving incentive and behavior management for both brands in the consumer world and internal scenarios in the workplace.

FORBES: Research Summary: Demystifying Enterprise Gamification For Business

Some hedge funds are creating portfolios of concepts across news sources like Twitter and other social media looking for early indications of personnel departures, management shakeups and changes in factory news to see if they can incorporate the information for an algorithmic perspective.

FORBES: Social Media Expands to New Roles in Finance