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Innovation dies at the handover

Idea to Value

The classic example here is an idea developed by a team of “innovation specialists” based on Design Thinking, tested with potential customers to validate demand, and then given to a development team to code and ship. After all, the Design Thinking team can’t code, but they can come up with the concept.

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Why Software Won’t Eat The World

Innovation Excellence

In 2011, technology pioneer Marc Andreessen declared that software is eating the world. So taking a software centric view, while it has served Silicon Valley well in the past, may be its Achilles heel in the future. In other words, that software would eat the world. The Silicon Valley Myth. As the economist W.

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What the Cannabis Business Needs in Order to Thrive

Business and Tech

Whether it’s your customer relationship management tool, your menu and orders management tool, your point of sale, or your logistics software, being able to not have to worry about the software just working, or potentially running afoul of complex compliance requirements, is key. High state taxes and federal inaction on banking.

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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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Innovating Through Vertical Expert Networks

Imaginatik

The insurance industry vertical has long suffered from a reputation of being a stolid, boring industry, which struggled to compete for talent with its more vibrant financial services relatives, such as investment banking and hedge funds. Imaginatik’s graphic analytics provides this type of knowledge domain coverage maps.

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Today’s Truth in Marketing: Get Interactive or Get Out of the Way

Daniel Burrus

If we begin with a discussion about where content trends are heading this year and beyond, we have to consider where specific age groups spend most of their passive time. The favorability of this is due to the fact that buyers of all ages are becoming more independent, wanting to discover the products and services they purchase.