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Daniel Burrus’ Top 20 Tech-Driven Hard Trends Shaping 2017

Daniel Burrus

These trends for 2017 highlight enormous game-changing opportunities. This represents a major shift in how organizations obtain and maintain software, hardware and computing capacity to cut costs in IT, human resources and sales management. Mobile Banking and Payments. Not all clouds are created equal.

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How to turn a Multinational Automotive-Finance Company into an Innovation Powerhouse

Qmarkets

With over 3,100 employees across 36 companies, RCI Bank and Services is a multinational finance company which is focused on delivering innovative services to customers of the Renault and Nissan automotive groups. Qmarkets: And what were some of the challenges faces specifically by RCI Bank?

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How to turn a Multinational Automotive-Finance Company into an Innovation Powerhouse

Qmarkets

With over 3,100 employees across 36 companies, RCI Bank and Services is a multinational finance company which is focused on delivering innovative services to customers of the Renault and Nissan automotive groups. Qmarkets: And what were some of the challenges faces specifically by RCI Bank?

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The enemy is already within. The flood gates are open. Can GE recover?

Paul Hobcraft

For a company reputed to have a good management discipline and focus, yet this year, 2017, it seems all of these are lying in tatters, or some parts will lose out as a consequence, into the future. Then came 2017 and the roof caved in on GE. Well not anymore, GE recently in its 3 rd quarter review revealed its chronic cash position.

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8 External Innovation Sources You should know

ITONICS

As of 2017, more than 200 colleges and universities have started dedicated innovation or entrepreneurship centers as members of the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers. Software and consulting companies. Software and consulting companies that provide solutions and services for innovation management.

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5 Innovation Trends of 2018 that will Disrupt the Corporate Landscape in 2019

Qmarkets

Back in 2017, the PWC Global Fintech report found that 88% of legacy banking organizations feared that the emergence of new financial technology companies would lead to a significant loss in revenue in areas such personal loans, money transfers and payments. This trend is particularly evident in the financial sector.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup.