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The Explosive Power of Trial, Error and Self-Play

Destination Innovation

It was developed over years and played many games against people. Each time it lost the experts would reprogram Deep Blue to overcome the weaknesses they found in its play. He captained the English junior chess team. In 2014 Google bought DeepMind for $500m; it is Google’s biggest European acquisition.

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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 2

Tim Kastelle

Research confirms: development of exploration in parallel to exploitation capabilities proves to be mandatory for established companies in order to compete successfully and sustainably. One way for established organizations to strengthen exploration is by developing internal capabilities in order to overcome their inherent inertia.

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Enterprise Teamwork: What It Is and How It Works

CMOE

Understanding the Team Environment. Like any dynamic system, a team operates within a broader and bigger system: the “environment.” Teams are an organic component of this system and play a role within it. Highly effective teams are able to support the environment and this system supports the team.

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The EU Sustainability Directive Is Setting a New Global Standard for Business Practices

Innovation 360 Group

US innovators and investor are closely watching the drama of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) (Regulation 2016/679/EU), covering corporate responsibility for protecting personal data, which is scheduled to go into force in May of 2018. Outreach to local communities for shared protection and development.

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Hackathons—HR’s best friend

hackerearth

The event held in San Francisco in 2014 drew over 100 professionals collaborated to come up with solutions to improve employee engagement. Tech companies benefit greatly from holding hackathons for its developers where they have to think outside the box and prove their mettle under time and problem constraints. "It

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The digital innovation era calls for new board leadership

Innovation 360 Group

Among others we use our own developed assessment tool InnoSurvey TM and our innovation database which today provide us with benchmark data from more than 1000 corporate measurements done over the last few years. Two concrete competence gaps of today’s boards.

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Key Innovation Issues for 2016 and Beyond

Integrative Innovation

But even participating in other firms’ ecosystems can be highly attractive, as demonstrated by e.g. several app developers. Adapted from: https://nbry.wordpress.com/2014/06/27/massive-platforms-for-cocreation-the-new-normal-22/. If it underperforms, there is no business case for adopting it unless there is improvement.