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This Macbook charger shows how technology has grown exponentially

Idea to Value

In a brilliant component teardown article from 2015 by Ken Shirriff , he opened up the Magsafe charger which powered Apple’s laptop at the time. As a comparison, the 68000 microprocessor in the original 1984 Apple Macintosh worked at a frequency of about 7.6 This is a 16bit chip working at about 16 MHz.

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The State of Innovation Management in 2015 Just Released

Paul Hobcraft

In a just released “State of Innovation Management” that I have authored and kindly provided by HYPE for free, I believe you will find something of interest that you missed during a busy year, coming to a close. The Surge of innovation reports in 2015. I certainly hope you will find time to go through it.

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Virgin just invested in new supersonic jets which travel faster than Concorde

Idea to Value

These innovative planes would be faster than the decommissioned Concorde service, able to fly from London to New York in about 3.4 In comparison, Concorde’s top speed was around 1,350mph. Do you like insights into new innovations like this? It will travel 2.6

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InnovationIQ – Score your Innovation readiness

Innovation 360 Group

Innovation IQ. 0 2015 0 2016. Prepare to regularly revitalise your core value proposition through internal and external innovation. How innovative is your organisation in comparison with the rest of your industry? They can begin developing a long-term Innovation Culture that is conducive to practical creativity.

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

Qmarkets

"Innovate (verb): To Make changes in something established, especially by introducing new methods, ideas, or products.” . To many people, it might seem as though the business world has become over-saturated with innovation. However in comparison to what it could have achieved, Yahoo serves as an important business failure case study.

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Will Xiaomi Stop the iPhone in China?

Outside Innovation

million smartphones in the first half of 2015, 33% more than for the same period last year. By comparison, Huawei’s sales surged 48% over the prior quarter.". At the April 2015 Xiaomi festival, the company sold over 2 million smartphones and pulled in 2.08 million additional connected devices in Q1 2015. Tony Sagami.

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Innovate or Deteriorate – How Can Corporations Ensure That Billion $ Opportunities Don’t Slip Away?

Qmarkets

To many people, it might seem as though the business world has become over-saturated with innovation. The overuse of this term has had a polarising effect, while many people have been converted to ‘innovation’ through this incessant rhetoric, many more see it as meaningless business jargon which should be avoided like the plague.