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Optimizing R&D Resources: Strategies for CTOs and Innovation Leaders

ITONICS

Between 2007 and 2022, corporate R&D spending grew with a CAGR of 5.2%, underscoring the importance of R&D in driving future growth and market differentiation ( Global Innovation Tracker, 2023 ). In the past decades, research and development (R&D) expenses have surged across various industries.

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How Technology is Shaping Marketing in the Next Decade

Innovation Excellence

Nobody even heard of mobile marketing, content marketing or big data. If you took a reasonably competent marketer from 2007 and transported her to today, much of what she knew about her job would be irrelevant. Ten years ago, social media was in its infancy. The iPhone hadn’t even been launched yet. We’re at a.

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Congressional testimony on higher ed: Allow for innovation, incentivize student outcomes

Christensen Institute

There’s a saying in efficient markets for goods and services. What would a better market look like? Taxpayers are as well. The customer is always right. What they demand is ultimately met. If Apple doesn’t offer an iPhone that delivers value, customers look elsewhere, and Apple has a choice: improve or wither.

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How Should Your Business Find the Next Big Thing?

IdeaScale

If you take every product even companies most celebrated for innovation have ever taken to market, you won’t find a very high batting average of success. Netflix’s streaming video model seems blindingly obvious now, but stop and consider the state of television in 2007.

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Your Business Responsibility When Disposing Of Electronics

The Human Factor

The Waste Electrical and Electronic (WEEE) Regulations were first launched in January 2007. The changes relate to a huge assortment of different electrical and electronic equipment that is available on the market, this could be anything from an automatic battery charger for your business vehicles to your computer equipment in the office.

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The New Game Or Is It? Asset Orchestration

Paul Hobcraft

They might be operating at the two ends of the current internet trading spectrum and are coming from different market maturity positions but it is the asset management that is becoming critical for delivering the profit or dragging performance. I quote “I’d say Amazon are “ asset heavy ” whereas Alibaba remains “asset light”.

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Innovation Insights from Jeff Bezos and Amazon

Destination Innovation

After the dot.com crash in 2000 Amazon found itself with excess IT capacity in its data centres. Yet that is what they did in 2007 with the launch of the Kindle. In 2014 Amazon entered the smartphone market with the release of the Fire Phone. It was attractively priced and scooped the market.