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My 5 S for future Innovation: Smart, Stacks, Scale, Storage, and Software

Paul Hobcraft

Recently, I got caught up in some announcement by Siemens, where they announced the acquisition of Mendix, the Low-Code providers, for the explicit purpose to combine Mendix with Siemens MindSphere, claiming it has the potential to cover off all elements of the Smart App Stack. That got my attention.

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You Are Being Digitally Disrupted – Do Something About It

The Inovo Group

These are primarily B2C companies (e.g., P&G), software (e.g., become merely just more ‘software’ once they are commercialized. The ‘point-of-the-spear’ for many companies, especially those in B2C businesses, is the digitalization of marketing and customer relationships. Adobe), electronics (e.g.,

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Key Innovation Issues for 2016 and Beyond

Integrative Innovation

Accelerating dynamics and pace of disruption in most industries, in particular triggered by the pervasion of new technologies, lead to decreasing life times of existing business models. Recent research has confirmed successfully disrupting as well as outperforming companies to be significantly more engaged in business model innovation.