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Social Networks and Big Data: the best strategy for getting to know your customers

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This is because the volume of daily data produced in these virtual environments is a real gold mine for companies prepared to prospect for it. Keep reading to understand how you can benefit from the combination of Social Networks + Big Data. Social Networks: the gold mine of data. And Big Data is the tool for the job. ?

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Recognizing the Building Blocks of Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Many tools, techniques, frameworks, mechanics, and emerging methodologies have allowed different parts of the innovation process to be explored and exploited. These tools and techniques enable ideation, validation, design-build and scaling. The need today is not to dispense with this but to link it fully up.

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The future interplays between design thinking, technology and AI

Paul Hobcraft

This shift has prompted innovation to develop tools and design approaches that support these changes in several critical ways based on four global aspects: Learning from real-time data : Traditional analytics models and past performance data may not be entirely relevant in today’s ever-changing business landscape.

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From end to end: why the union of Design Thinking and Agile has been so successful

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Where DT can’t reach, Agile can compensate and vice versa. Agile: Make Tangible and build. Since you have a well-defined idea (through Design Thinking), Agile will clear a path towards your idea by removing obstacles that stand in your way. Agile: you do not make Agile; you become Agile.

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Beware conventional wisdom in innovation and digital transformation

Jeffrey Phillips

It advocates: Determine a Use Case for the new technology or approach Train people to be more proficient users of the new technology Start small - find small successes This advice was true for the following list of management concepts: ERP Lean Agile Six Sigma Doing business on the internet and I suspect many, many more.

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Parkinson’s Law and the Peter Principle – are they relevant to innovation?

Idea to Value

This is why “lean” and “agile” have become buzzwords today. Designers of performance management systems have many tools in their arsenal to make the judgement as “right” and as “fair” as possible. Their power structures and jobs are threatened and they mobilize to deny or resist the new developments.

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So Where Is Innovation Heading?

Paul Hobcraft

These are big data analytics, the fast adoption of new technologies, mobile products and capabilities and digital design.See the above for the complete list on where innovation is heading, it makes interesting viewing. This agility needs the tools of testing, feedback, and adaptation to accelerate the innovation process.