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Lateral Thinking in the Fight Against Crime. The Northern Bank Robbery Story.

Destination Innovation

Both men were officials of the Northern Bank, one of the largest banks in Northern Ireland. Ward and McMullan followed instructions and gave the robbers entry to bank the next evening. Most of it was in the Northern Bank banknotes. However, following the raid, officials at the bank did some lateral thinking.

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i3: A market-creating initiative for African healthcare innovators

Christensen Institute

In 2005 when Ibrahim decided to sell the company, he did so for a handsome $3.4 As the program develops, we hope additional African institutions such as Afrexim Bank will provide loans to further help the innovators scale. In just six years, Celtel was able to build operations in 13 African countries and gained 5.2 million customers.

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Disruptive Technology is ALWAYS Greeted with Doubt, Skepticism and Rejection

Linda Bernardi

In 2002-2005 when as the founder of my startup ConnecTerra Inc, by all accounts the world’s first official IoT company, I started talking to folks about how everything would get on the internet and the economy would be shifting. ‘Banking on the internet Linda? That is the normal trend. Not possible.’

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71 Innovation Methodologies

Open Innovation EU

Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2005 more…. Citizen-Drive Innovation (World Bank). Focus stage: Seed Published: 2005 more…. Focus stage: Growth Published: 1995 more…. New Product Development Funnel (Katz). Focus stage: Early-stage Published: 2011 more…. Open Innovation (Chesbrough). Focus stage: Growth Published: 2013 more….

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Why Software Won’t Eat The World

Innovation Excellence

Unlike back east, where businesses depended on stodgy banks for finance, on the west coast venture capitalists, many of whom were former engineers themselves, would decide which technology companies got funded. By 2005, productivity growth had disappeared once again and has remained diminished ever since.

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Wells Fargo’s CEO is Gone, But What About the Board, Compliance and the Other Execs?

Adam Hartung

For many years, possibly as far back as 2005, Wells Fargo leaders pushed employees to “cross-sell” products, like high profit credit cards, to customers. CEO Stumpf’s testified to Congress that he didn’t know the details of what was happening at the lower levels of his bank. ” Really? What did he report?

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Spotting Innovation Opportunities

ITONICS

Disruptive technologies or innovations boost new business models that change the game of existing industries like the space industry (SpaceX), the music industry (Spotify), the film industry (Netflix) or the banking sector (FinTechs), just to name a few. The role of big data and data mining.