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Ideate or Deteriorate – Why Companies Must Learn How To Be Innovative to Achieve Major Growth

Qmarkets

In 2014 Facebook purchased WhatsApp for $19 billion, and it is now on target to hit one billion active users by the end of 2015. These two yahoo software engineers would go on to become the founders of Whatsapp. Qmarkets software will help you ensure that billion dollar opportunities don't slip away!

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Innovation by numbers: Lessons to learn from the CIA and Netflix

Innovation 360 Group

A number of scientists had developed a piece of open software, Cytoscape. This caught our attention, and we started to experiment with this software and grounded theory, in order to analyze the huge amount of data that we were collecting as part of a highly complex assignment. Netflix , featured in today´s issue of the The Economist.

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Hackathons—HR’s best friend

hackerearth

The talent management and performance review processes are certainly not what we’d refer to as all in a day’s work. The event held in San Francisco in 2014 drew over 100 professionals collaborated to come up with solutions to improve employee engagement. Wipro held an internal hackathon for its employees in June 2014.

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What is idea management and why is it important for any business

hackerearth

To learn how you can introduce idea management software in your business, Click here. According to Malik (2014), the idea management process has the following steps: Phase. Idea management is supporting the diverging ideation phase of the “fuzzy middle” – after insighting and before implementation – of the innovation reactor.”

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7 Habits of Highly Innovative Companies

ITONICS

Even though it took 7 months for the founders to persuade Bosch leadership that their vision is doable, the startup developed a software with machine learning and analytics integrated within the networks of the retailer and the IoT application. Often, it’s due to the speed at which they can innovate and this has a lot to do with their size.

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Six Internal Innovation Sources You should know

ITONICS

According to the 2014 ‘’Proven Paths to Innovation Success’’ study conducted by PwC’s strategy team, companies are intended to raise the portion of their R&D budget for innovation from around 40 percent up to 60 percent for the outlook of the next 10 years. A central R&D body is an effective source for transformational innovation.

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How Apple created two giants

Matthew Griffin

Their choices included fighting Samsung for market share with all of the downstream implications that that would undoubtedly have on their revenues, margins and share price, alternatively they could work diligently to innovate new products for the mass market or they could choose to do both. __. Click & Connect with Matthew: LinkedIn .