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Recognizing the Building Blocks of Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

So this post reviews many great contributors to advancing innovation over the years. Lean Startup: This approach was about creating a minimum viable product (MVP) and testing it in the market to get customer feedback. The need today is not to dispense with this but to link it fully up.

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Industry 4.0: what it is and what are its current impacts

mjvinnovation

is also called the “fourth industrial revolution” – the process initiated by England in 1760 was followed by major modernization movements: the “lean revolution” that occurred around 1970, the intensive globalization process in the 1990s and, more recently, the extreme automation started in the 2000s. Industry 4.0

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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. The term comes from the English and is based on the Lean Startup Model by Eric Ries.

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Key Innovation Issues for 2016 and Beyond

Integrative Innovation

It requires a more deliberated approach, such as the lean startup process, design thinking or a combination thereof. Tip: Tim Kastelle has posted a worthwile series on how to implement lean startup for innovation initiatives. Even fewer are actually investing in them. (…).

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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. Some of the biggest automotive companies are now taking notice and beginning to utilize this methodology.

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The Perfect Conditions for Entering A New Innovation Era in 2017

Paul Hobcraft

The usurper is in the ascendency and will be even more encouraged by the political need to renew, due to the increased funding to undertake this. The communication means, the choice of apps and software, the growing use of the cloud are allowing us to change. There is a magnitude of the speed of change required.