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Why Software Won’t Eat The World

Innovation Excellence

In 2011, technology pioneer Marc Andreessen declared that software is eating the world. So taking a software centric view, while it has served Silicon Valley well in the past, may be its Achilles heel in the future. In other words, that software would eat the world. The Silicon Valley Myth. As the economist W.

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Innovation and digital transformation of the healthcare industry

hackerearth

The patients used monitoring devices at home to send medical data to the clinic, which used special software to identify patients who needed interventions. In 2011, it developed ECG on BlackBerry smartphones. However, due to the extremely sensitive nature of the data involved, there is an increased focus on data security.

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The Global StartUp Ecosystem

Paul Hobcraft

The 2017 report by Startup Genome recently came out (April 5, 2017) You can find it here “ Global StartUp Ecosystem Report 2017 ” which provides a 150-page review of the global state of startups. Silicon Valley happened due to a steady stream of investments since the end of the 2nd world war.

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Warm and Fuzzy at the Front End of Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

I wrote about “ hearing all the voices of ideas at the front end and the “ two distinct parts of the innovation funnel ” building from my original post “ the new extended innovation funnel “, written in 2011. The software solutions I allude too, well those clients interested or curious enough can contact me.

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Innovation by numbers: Lessons to learn from the CIA and Netflix

Innovation 360 Group

Back in 2011, we were wondering how to develop the first hypothesis in the large and very complex assignments we were undertaking. We decided to look at other trades and industries to see how they approached complex tasks. A number of scientists had developed a piece of open software, Cytoscape.

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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

This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. He radically transformed the company from a classic conglomerate that did everything to one that focused on its core industrial businesses. So far in 2017, GE is the worst performing stock on the Dow Jones Industrial average. Jeff Immelt ran GE for 16 years.