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How the Altice Group is leading innovation in Portugal

Exago

Between 2015 and 2017, the group devoted over 200 million euros to activities connected to innovation, almost twice as much as the second company featured in a study recently published by the national Directorate-General of Education and Science Statistics.

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Innovation 2015 or Five Lame Excuses?

Gregg Fraley

Here’s the thing, like the inept and psychologically damaged journalist Jimmy Olsen, even a dysfunctional company that heretofore hasn’t managed to get innovation going can start now. Now is the time to impact 2015. Jimmy Olsen has a pocketful of kryptonite to take on the man of steel.

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When Disruption Becomes Destructive: How Can Financial Services Companies Close the Innovation Gap?

Qmarkets

Source: PWC ) [/caption] The impacts can trigger permanent effects on consumers, companies and even countries, as the industry accounts for a generous percentage of the total world GDP. trillion (2016) according to a white paper by Oliver Wyman , a leading global management consulting firm. billion in 2015. million workers.

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Planbox Acquires Imaginatik Creating an Agile Innovation Powerhouse

Imaginatik

The new combined company will expand Imaginatik’s UK and US operations and continue to work with its network of partners and suppliers around the world. Since the acquisition and merger of BrainBank Software and Planbox in November 2015, Planbox has transformed the innovation management landscape. About Imaginatik.

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Ideate or Deteriorate – Why Companies Must Learn How To Be Innovative to Achieve Major Growth

Qmarkets

All this changed however, with the popularisation of the internet, and since then there have been hundreds of different companies which have sought to profit by facilitating communication using this network. One of the first companies to offer their own chat service was Yahoo, who launched Yahoo Pager in 1998. Picture Perfect?

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Wazoku raises £2.5M to expand global reach for idea management platform

Wazoku

London-based SaaS eyes global expansion and product enhancement, as demand for idea management set to reach £1.17bn by 2022. This latest investment, which brings the total amount raised by Wazoku to £6.1M, is both a recognition of that growth, and also the increasing size and potential of the global idea management market.

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3 Unexpected Benefits of employing an Innovation Management initiative

Qmarkets

Organisations are now choosing to adopt idea management systems for a number of reasons, from process improvement and incremental innovation to radical and open innovation. However many companies are still not doing enough to combat this. The second idea which is central to engagement is ‘gamification’.