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When Pundits Say That Robots Will Take Our Jobs, Remember These 4 Things

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trillion dollars in wages are highly susceptible to automation and a 2013 Oxford study that found 47% of jobs will be replaced. The number of bank tellers has doubled since ATMs were introduced. In a similar way we don’t expect bank tellers to process transactions any more, but to help us with things that we can’t do at an ATM.

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Wazoku Secures New Funding from Barclays

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Wazoku a UK crowdsourcing company and leading provider of collaborative innovation software, has received new venture debt finance from Barclays of £680,000. Wazoku’s solutions help to foster an embedded culture of innovation through easy collaboration. A total of £2.3m

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How hackathons can help you get started with blockchain

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All members with access to the network can view and validate the transactions using cryptographic keys, without a third party, such as a bank. Collaboration (test and refine ideas with leading industry people). Many banks and other financial institutions are using hackathons to explore this emerging technology.

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How Chief Innovation Officer (CINO) may replace the traditional Chief Information Officer (CIO)

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bank spent $9.5 To do this, an approach that includes everyone and everything in the firm—people, collaboration, and technology—is required. Up to 49% companies fail in their innovation efforts according to a study published in 2013. trillion in the United States. billion on technology in 2016.

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How hackathons can help you get started with blockchain

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All members with access to the network can view and validate the transactions using cryptographic keys, without a third party, such as a bank. Collaboration (test and refine ideas with leading industry people). Many banks and other financial institutions are using hackathons to explore this emerging technology.

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Disruptive Energy.

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According to the World Bank, Costa Rica used 1370 watts per capita in 2013. In March 2018, Portugal created all of its energy requirements from renewables and had some spare. Both countries are beautiful, in their own respective ways. Neither is a massive consumer of energy. Portugal used about double that, with China at 964 watts.

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Axel Springer & External Innovation. How to turn “Spray and Pray” into “Spray and Succeed”?

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However, the ways in which they focus and collaborate with the innovation ecosystem can be very different. In 2013, Axel Springer made a minority investment in AirBnB upon the company’s leadership visit to the Silicon Valley. “We Today’s competitive market has made it both trendy?—?and and necessary?—?for We never made a bet.

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