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10 Technology Driven Hard Trends Shaping 2016

Daniel Burrus

This gives companies a competitive edge in a world where thriving on change has become necessity. Facebook raised a few eyebrows when it closed in on its $2 billion Oculus Rift acquisition, but it’s 2016 where heavyweights such as PlayStation VR, Facebook-owned Rift and HTC Vive are all expecting to dominate headlines.

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“Lean Startup, or Business Model Design, or Design Thinking?” is the Wrong Question

Leanstack

Frameworks by definition are loose scaffolding that provides structure, guidelines, and playbooks versus prescriptive processes found in methodologies. And companies that continuously outlearn their competition win. Frameworks vs Methodologies The Continuous Innovation Framework is very much a framework?—?not not a methodology.

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“Lean Startup, or Business Model Design, or Design Thinking?” is the Wrong Question

Leanstack

Frameworks by definition are loose scaffolding that provides structure, guidelines, and playbooks versus prescriptive processes found in methodologies. And companies that continuously outlearn their competition win. Frameworks vs Methodologies The Continuous Innovation Framework is very much a framework?—?not not a methodology.

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Innovation SOP: Using Hackathons to Advance Digital Transformation

Qmarkets

Qmarkets’ Innovation Standard Operating Procedures (SOP): In this series, we will present different guidelines on how to bring innovation theory to practice. Most companies already know that hackathons are a useful tool for gathering ideas, but companies need to know how to do this right. Sweeney, S., Bruce, F., & Baxter, S.

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Identifying Opportunities for Disruptive Innovation

Strategos

Dollar Shave managed to capture 8% of the market in only a few years before it was acquired by Unilever in 2016. These beliefs gradually take hold and are mostly implicit, i.e. they are not written down as company guidelines but widely shared and adopted nonetheless. “If Challenging your orthodoxies.

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Gartner Research Insights: 5 Innovation Hacks to Boost your Digital Return

Qmarkets

Can guidelines for innovation be created? By buying out the competition, they eliminate this threat. Gartner Research, 2016. 06 July 2016. Hackathons, internal innovation programs, open innovation, technology acquisitions…these days it seems like everyone is jumping onto the innovation bandwagon.

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Gartner Research Insights: 5 Innovation Hacks to Boost your Digital Return

Qmarkets

Can guidelines for innovation be created? By buying out the competition, they eliminate this threat. Gartner Research, 2016. 06 July 2016. Hackathons, internal innovation programs, open innovation, technology acquisitions…these days it seems like everyone is jumping onto the innovation bandwagon.

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