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So Where Is Innovation Heading?

Paul Hobcraft

They point out that since 2014, only four types of innovation and that are all related to digital, have grown increasingly in importance in their pursuit by companies. So the need to innovate comes from digital as the source. It will fundamentally change the type of resources innovation requires.

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Nine Questions CEO’s Should Ask About Innovation

Gregg Fraley

Nine essential questions CEO’s should be asking about innovation. Are people empowered to innovate? Does your culture support innovation? Are your people trained in innovation process? Do you have the skills, the specific people, you need to innovate? Is your culture supporting innovation?

Project 74
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Industry 4.0

eZassi

It’s all about embracing automation, artificial intelligence, big data, and the Internet of Things to optimize productivity, efficiency, and innovation across the supply chain. We then help evaluate, facilitate, and incentivize the key ideas formed by your solver ecosystem as part of the overall innovation process.

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Projects Are How Innovation Happens

Gregg Fraley

Crowd sourcing or Open innovation are not innovation. TQM and Six Sigma are not innovation. Defining an innovation process is not innovation. Training is not innovation. Measuring your organizational culture is not innovation. Hiring a new Innovation Director is not innovation.

Project 50
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Choosing your direction of travel

Paul Hobcraft

They are not yet at the point of being digitally effective to turn what they have into real competitive advantage as they lack the capabilities in big data analysis and those algorithms that reveal ground-breaking innovations, Are they hanging on in the belief they will become digitally transformed eventually or just deluding themselves?

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Capabilities and Leadership Close the Skills Gap in Manufacturing

Innovation 360 Group

In order to prepare for the coming skills shortage in manufacturing, business leaders must assess their current capabilities, refine their market strategy, build a culture of innovation, and ensure that they have the most effective leadership styles in place. . This makes the other parts of innovation process inefficient.

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Innovation SOP: Using Hackathons to Advance Digital Transformation

Qmarkets

This week, we look at how companies can use hackathons not as a standalone idea-gathering tool, but as part of an overall comprehensive innovation process. Training and/or replacing employees and equipment will cost an obscene fortune. 5) The Big Boss: Have the “big guns” stick around, for as much as possible.