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Innovation cannot expand without the 4th Industrial Revolution

Paul Hobcraft

To do this, technology adoption and diffusion across the ecosystem needs to improve dramatically. The WEF wants to create a neutral, learning platform, which provides the best technical and organizational insights with respect to 4IR technologies in manufacturing to accelerate the delivery of the benefits, to give a sort of safe harbor.

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The Case for Dual Innovation

Tim Kastelle

Two-thirds of all breakthrough innovators stated that all innovation and product development is controlled and driven by a centralized organization, at least in its initial stages. More than 70 percent have a different organizational entity for managing radical innovation. (…). Source: Accenture.

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Striking Gold: The $40m Idea Unearthed Through Crowdsourcing

Qmarkets

I am a Projects Analyst at Hochschild, but I trained as a mechanical engineer. What drives innovation investment? Although you try to map underground resources very diligently, there’s still a margin for error once you go underground. J: Of course. Q: Could you tell us about the challenges your company faces?

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PESTLED360: Iron Out Key Driving Forces in Your Current Environment and Anticipate Future Ones

Innovation 360 Group

PESTLED is short for the Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal, Environmental, and Demographic factors affecting you and defining your environment. Innovation 360 has used this framework in many assignments. Incremental and radical innovations can be anything from services and products to business models and processes.

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Official Launch of the PESTLED360

Innovation 360 Group

PESTLED is short for the Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal, Environmental, and Demographic factors affecting you and defining your environment. Innovation 360 has used this framework in many assignments and has often seen it misused as a framework for assessing a specific market or even the organization itself.

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PLAYING IT SAFE IS THE MOST DANGEROUS THING YOU CAN DO

Innovation 360 Group

Companies disappear all the time without a word, due to changing cultural values, changing technology, or changing audience demographics. It wasn’t the tech startups alone that brought them down. At the heart of it all was a lack of attention to how customers’ lives had changed into a faster, more tech-savvy world.

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Successfully Merging Theory and Practice in your Innovation Program

Qmarkets

Eric Gabas-Varini is the Partner and Co-Founder of Innovation Framework Technologies, a consulting firm which was founded in Paris, but has since established regional offices in the United States, South Korea & Japan, with a network of associate offices in Latin America and the Middle East. Merging Theory and Practice.