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Open Innovation Solutions to Drought Problems

IdeaConnection

Congratulations to the EDDI team for taking the $100,000 first prize in Samsung’s ‘Makers against Drought Challenge’ The global contest received more than 500 ideas for open innovation projects involving IoT (internet of things) technology to solve such tricky challenges as water scarcity.

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Smart Service Canvas

ITONICS

The connection of physical objects and cyber things through a wireless network provides us with immediate access to information about the physical world and the objects in it. This information is the basis for new and innovative service offerings. We implement innovation workshops for our clients from various industries.

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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. IBM’s Watson, along with advanced AI and analytics from Google, Facebook, and others, will gain cognitive insights mined from the ever-growing mountains of data generated by the Internet of Things (IoT) to revolutionize every industry.

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

Innovation 360 Group

The term first surfaced at the Hannover Messe Industrial Fair in 2011, with the theme Industry 4.0. The concept is connected to the Internet of Things, and provides that any product in the production chain can carry information about where and how, with the result that the factory is be able to organise itself.

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

Innovation 360

The term first surfaced at the Hannover Messe Industrial Fair in 2011, with the theme Industry 4.0. The concept is connected to the Internet of Things, and provides that any product in the production chain can carry information about where and how, with the result that the factory is be able to organise itself.

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

Steve Blank

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Innovation at GE was on a roll. Things will not stay the same at GE.”.

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Remembering

Technology Created

Many great innovators of the past have trumpeted a disdain for the study of history. Question: what will be the killer app for the “Internet of Things?”. Do you hope to play a part, perhaps provide innovation and direction in some small (or big) way that influences the future? Newsweek (March 20, 2011), [link]. [2]