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

Wazoku

Advances in mechanisation, mass production and, more recently, technology have shaped where and how we work, as well as what we produce. Most organisations today understand the importance of innovation but there was a time when it was a dirty word. We’ve seen the emergence of new job titles such as Head of Innovation.

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Getting to Yes Quickly: How Amazon Out-Innovates the Competition

Planview

How does tech titan Amazon out-innovate its competition time-after-time? It revolutionized cloud computing with the launch of Amazon Web Services in 2006. That’s a lot of innovation and disruption of an industry for one company. Most companies would feel lucky to have one innovative or disruptive idea.

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#1,342 – Week In Review

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

DARPA is looking to host an Olympics of sorts in order to push innovation in the field of robotics. In other words DARPA is trying to bring the technology behind Ant-Man to life. Amazon’s Part Finder. As if that would even be needed.

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Getting to Yes Quickly: How Amazon Out-Innovates the Competition

Planview

How does tech titan Amazon out-innovate its competition time-after-time? It revolutionized cloud computing with the launch of Amazon Web Services in 2006. That’s a lot of innovation and disruption of an industry for one company. Most companies would feel lucky to have one innovative or disruptive idea.

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In defense of industry-agnostic innovation management

David Marks

I recently had a chat with a senior director of a respected technology company making highly specialized products. He is in charge of the innovation and development in his company. I was telling him about the innovation assessments I conduct. “ There is clearly a need for industry specific innovation services.

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“Embrace Open Innovation or be Destroyed by it…” – A Case Study on Lego & Bagels

Qmarkets

Using the right innovation (tool) for the job. Arguably, the principle of Open Innovation was utilized for the first time by Professor James Murray in 19th Century Oxford, England. A History of Open Innovation. The Innovation Gamble. While Innovation is not innately positive, it is innately risky.

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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.