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The Internet of Things brings fresh Innovation Opportunities

Destination Innovation

When Tesla discovered that its cars had a problem with uphill starts it released a software patch to fix the problem. Similarly when they wanted to add a “crawl” feature which lets drivers use slow cruise control in heavy traffic, the company broadcast a software release that delivered the new feature to all existing Tesla cars.

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When Information Design is a Matter of Life or Death

Boxes and Arrows

Additionally, medicine information leaflets are required to be reviewed and approved by a competent authority, which varies from country to country, before being included in the packaging with the medicine. The example shown in figure 1.5 Accessed January 2014, [link] LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2004:136:0034:0057:EN:PDF.

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The Book that Took 9 Years to Publish

Stephen Shapiro

January 2014: I decided to take the work done to date and create a “product” to use with my clients. I started by pulling together writings from everything I’d done in the past, including the lenses cheat sheet, articles, blog entries, and my “database” with examples of each lens. This 2-page pdf that summarized 20 of the lenses.

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What Does a Healthy Innovation Portfolio Look Like?

eZassi

In 2014 Harvard Business Review (HBR) published the article, Managing Your Innovation Portfolio. Before we dive deeper into different rules and how your industry and innovation initiatives will impact your strategy, let’s review the types of innovation initiatives and the short/long-term return potential.

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Hackathons—HR’s best friend

hackerearth

Trying to find an example of the “walking a thin line” idiom is easy. The talent management and performance review processes are certainly not what we’d refer to as all in a day’s work. The event held in San Francisco in 2014 drew over 100 professionals collaborated to come up with solutions to improve employee engagement.

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The characteristics of data-driven business model development and how to succeed

The BMI Lab Blog

Facebook , the social network platform, offers a wide variety of user data anonymously to third-party providers and software development companies. Google Maps is an example of an IaaS solution, since it offers a combination of real-time data and existing data, and charges customers per call or per order received via Google Maps.

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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 1

Tim Kastelle

Another example is the recently introduced strategy framework by Martin Reeves, Knut Haanæs, and Janmejaya Sinha from BCG. Popular examples are: Apple’s App Store, Google Play, GE, Amazon, Alibaba, Kickstarter, AirBnB, 3M or Ebay. Uber is a current prime example: they are attempting to expand into healthcare and travel.