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Designing for Social Interaction

Boxes and Arrows

Let’s look at each type of tie, and how we might design for them. 8 In both 2002 and 2007, a study of 1,178 adults found that on average, people had about 10 friends they meet or speak with at least weekly (10 strong ties). 9 So, when we’re designing for strong ties, we’re designing for small groups of people.

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Innovation Insights from Jeff Bezos and Amazon

Destination Innovation

Although its sales of new books were growing very healthily, in 2002 Amazon introduced a service whereby people could sell second-hand books through the company’s website. After the dot.com crash in 2000 Amazon found itself with excess IT capacity in its data centres. It was a giant in B to C (Business to Consumer) products.

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Digital Twins: what it is, how it works, and the advantages of this technology

mjvinnovation

Originally, this term was coined by Dr. Michael Grieves in 2002. The situation changed in the 2010s, with the development of IoT, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and Cloud Computing. First, smart components that use sensors to collect real-time data on status, working conditions, and position are integrated into a physical item.

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Spotting Innovation Opportunities

ITONICS

Those findings create the basis for innovation theories, e.g. radical innovation within niches as part of the evolutionary economics theory (Geels, 2002), a blue ocean as described in the “Blue Ocean Strategy” (Kim & Mauborgne, 2005) or a “White Space” (Jackson, 2011) within the company. The role of big data and data mining.

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Innovation Networks – Needed Now More Than Ever

The Inovo Group

It is a common phrase in large companies and refers to the activities needed to provide the corporate hierarchy with the data and information that is demanded – by the ERP system, by executives, and by Wall Street. Cultivating Communities of Practice ; Harvard Business Review Press; January 8, 2002. Norton & Company; May 2002.

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How China Creates the Strongest Innovation System

The BMI Lab Blog

It also gave the Internet giants of China, Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent (also known as BAT) a free hand to experiment before setting up regulation, especially in the privacy, data management and property rights fields. BYD became the second largest battery company in 2002.

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How to Nail Your Most Valuable Metrics Using the Customer Journey

Moves the Needle

You apply the 3 E’s of lean innovation , develop empathy, run rapid experiments, analyze evidence -- data + insights -- to find the right actions the business must do to illicit the behavior. You don't segment around demographics and you don't create personas based an amalgamation of data. Designer/UX. Is it customer service?

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