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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 1

Tim Kastelle

Adapted from: https://nbry.wordpress.com/2014/06/27/massive-platforms-for-cocreation-the-new-normal-22/. Unpredictable environments : Inherently dynamic and unpredictable industries (such as technology, software, fashion or internet retailing) require experimentation without predefined goals, embedded in the operations, to increase variance.

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Innovation Inspiration – Driving Sustainability at Ford, ESB, and Solvay

Qmarkets

Qmarkets works on an ongoing basis with hundreds of the world’s most innovative companies who use idea and innovation management software for a wide variety of use cases, from new product development to continuous improvement. ESB – Smarter Energy Solutions.

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7 Habits of Highly Innovative Companies

ITONICS

Large corporations have taken steps towards being more agile and adapting to the rapid pace of digitization by improving their oftentimes long innovation processes and giving more autonomy to employees. Often, it’s due to the speed at which they can innovate and this has a lot to do with their size. Adapt or die. Listen and say yes!

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A New Way of Thinking About the Automotive Industry

Qmarkets

While cars have become increasingly more computerized, they are still relatively unintelligent, inefficient, and rarely connected to the Internet with no unifying platform that allows third party software to be run. Key Challenge: Self-Disruption. Click here to register your interest in attending!

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The Innovation-Driven Disruption of the Automotive Value Chain (Part 2)

Corporate Innovation

Because of problems such as pollution, climate change and loss of productivity due to long commute times, consumer attitudes towards car ownership and use are changing. Figure 1 shows the top 20 R&D spenders in 2014, based on data compiled by PwC, where we see (in red) that six of the top 20 companies are incumbent automotive OEMs.

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The Innovation-Driven Disruption of the Automotive Value Chain (Part 2)

Corporate Innovation

Because of problems such as pollution, climate change and loss of productivity due to long commute times, consumer attitudes towards car ownership and use are changing. Figure 1 shows the top 20 R&D spenders in 2014, based on data compiled by PwC, where we see (in red) that six of the top 20 companies are incumbent automotive OEMs.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

Microsoft entered the 21st century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device. 16 years later it’s just another software company. In 2014, Microsoft finally announced that Ballmer would retire, and in early 2014, Satya Nadella took charge. Rarely does it regain its former glory.