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2024: A Pivotal Year

Digital Tonto

The next year, Viktor Yanukovych, the corrupt thug whose attempt to steal a presidential election sparked the Orange Revolution in 2004, was voted into power in a legitimate election. I remember walking past the kiosks that traded currency everyday, tracking Ukraine’s Hryvnia fall heralding an even more uncertain future.

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Can creativity training really improve your creativity?

Idea to Value

A 2015 study of 180 participants over 9 weeks showed that creativity training not only significantly improved the participant’s view of their own creativity, it resulted in those participants producing more creative output A 2016 study showed one 1.5

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 1: What is a Business Model?

The BMI Lab Blog

Alex Osterwalder defines a business model as “a set of assumptions or hypotheses” and Michael Lewis claims that “all it really meant was how you planned to make money” (Ovans, 2015). It can be defined as a holistic view of a company's bundle of products and services that are of value to the customer (Osterwalder 2004). Christensen C.

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71 Innovation Methodologies

Open Innovation EU

Focus stage: Growth Published: 2004 more…. Focus stage: Early-stage Published: 2004 more…. Focus stage: Growth Published: 2015 more…. Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2015 more…. Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2015 more…. Focus stage: Early-stage Published: 2015 more…. Co-Creation (Prahalad).

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How Telltales Told You Not to Own Wal-Mart, and Continue To Do So

Adam Hartung

Since the beginning of 2015 Wal-Mart has lost 1/3 of its value. In January, 2015 I pointed out that retail sales were actually down 1% for December, 2014. By July, 2015 we learned that the market cap of Amazon now exceeded that of Wal-Mart. From October of 2010 through January, 2015 I looked dead wrong on Wal-Mart.

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Elon Musk – Serial Entrepreneur and founder of Tesla Motors and SpaceX

Destination Innovation

In 2004 Musk had helped fund the start-up Tesla Motors in order to produce mass market electric cars. He has funded development of the idea and in 2015 he announced a competition for designs for a Hyperloop pod prototype. In 2008 NASA chose SpaceX to transport cargo to the International Space Station (ISS).

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A brief history of work, innovation and skills in the UK

Wazoku

2002 – The social network By this time, social media was rapidly growing with the launch of LinkedIn and MySpace in 2003, and Facebook in 2004. 2015 – The rise of the gig economy The emergence of companies such as Uber and Deliveroo helped to create the gig economy. The digital revolution. 2020 – THE FUTURE OF WORK ?