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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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Artificial Intelligence: Disruption or Opportunity?

Daniel Burrus

Artificial intelligence (AI), one of twenty core technologies I identified back in 1983 as the drivers of exponential economic value creation, has worked its way into our lives. This cognitive AI technology can process information much more like a smart human than a smart computer. 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. They support the customers’ daily routines by providing context-aware and automated functionalities. and Sen, J.

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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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Remembering

Technology Created

How relevant is a world where technology was so weak, so non-integrated? What about a student of technology? For example, why does it consistently seem to be true that “Dominant incumbent firms, long successful in an existing technology, are often much less successful in new technological eras.”[4] Winston Churchill.

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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. Andreessen’s article helped accelerate the company’s digital transformation.