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Industry 4.0 – disruption or just a logic extension of WWW?

Innovation 360

Industry 4.0 is the name of the German government’s strategy for the fourth industrial revolution. The term first surfaced at the Hannover Messe Industrial Fair in 2011, with the theme Industry 4.0. The first three industrial revolutions were, in chronological order, the steam engine, electricity and electronics.

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Industry 4.0 – disruption or just a logic extension of WWW?

Innovation 360 Group

Industry 4.0 is the name of the German government’s strategy for the fourth industrial revolution. The term first surfaced at the Hannover Messe Industrial Fair in 2011, with the theme Industry 4.0. The first three industrial revolutions were, in chronological order, the steam engine, electricity and electronics.

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Artificial Intelligence: Disruption or Opportunity?

Daniel Burrus

IBM Watson first shot to fame back in 2011 by beating two of Jeopardy’s greatest champions on TV. The accounting industry can benefit from this technology, as well. Many believe the technology will lead directly to massive job cuts throughout multiple industries. Watson is a cognitive computer that learns over time.

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Smart Service Canvas

ITONICS

The rapid growth of smart devices pushes the development of smart services in various industries, such as healthcare, education, information and communication technology (ICT), mechanical engineering, automotive, and logistics. We implement innovation workshops for our clients from various industries. Allmendinger, G. Bandyopadhyay, D.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

He radically transformed the company from a classic conglomerate that did everything to one that focused on its core industrial businesses. GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment via the Internet of Things (IoT) and analytical software with a suite of products called the “ Predix Cloud ”.

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Technology Created

Or is it the popularization of funding platforms like KickStarter that is leading to a new industrialization? Question: what will be the killer app for the “Internet of Things?”. Newsweek (March 20, 2011), [link]. [2] Or is it something yet unforeseen on the horizon? It’s a huge challenge to predict the future.

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Me and Element AI!

Linda Bernardi

As Author: Regarding my new book, The Inversion Factor (TIF, Published by MIT Press, October 6, 2017): I have been fascinated by and engaged with enterprises and the HyperConnected World (Internet of Things and beyond) for the last 20 years. As you can see , this ties very closely to my role at Element AI.