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Why Fintech Needs the Right Regulation to Help Drive Innovation

Business and Tech

Tom Quaadman Executive Vice President, Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness , U.S. Many point-of-sale systems rely on a wireless chip instead of a customer physically swiping their card. Contactless payment and digital currencies are promising technologies that are expanding both in the United States and internationally.

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5G Is Far Bigger Than Faster Smartphones

Daniel Burrus

The advantage of a Hard Trend is that you can identify disruptions before they disrupt and create a strategy to become a positive disruptor, creating the transformations that need to happen to increase your relevance and competitive advantage. 5G as a Hard Trend. In other words, they will miss one of the biggest opportunities of the decade.

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Five Technology Trends Driving Manufacturing (Are you on Board?)

Daniel Burrus

New manufacturing plants will utilize the latest technologies in an effort to increase productivity and competitive advantage. Professionals and anticipatory leaders in manufacturing should look for ways to implement these Hard Trends now, because if you don’t, your competition will!

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Why Your Cellphone Bill is Decreasing

Michael Roberto

In an article by Ryan Knutson, the Wall Street Journal reports this morning that, "The cost of U.S. cellular service is rapidly plunging, reversing years of increases that have squeezed consumers’ budgets and generated huge profits for wireless companies." in May from a year ago, according to the Labor Department.

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Understanding innovation's past leads to incredible insight

Jeffrey Phillips

Innovation in these days was often focused on communication - Marconi, the "wireless", radio and other devices reduced the distances and built common stories for the American public. This is because we haven't had a real flourishing of either new technologies, new infrastructure or a real competitive threat like the Soviet space race.

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The New Moore’s Law: Put your Chips on What’s Possible.

Daniel Burrus

We have recently seen major news reports of this kind. I am always reminded of a great quote: “The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”. This news usually comes from a tech conference where industry executives share their frustration in going to the next level. appeared first on Daniel Burrus.

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Titans of Transformation: 5 Outstanding Examples of Innovation in Business

Qmarkets

Most importantly, it enabled the company to retain the element of speed which, according to a notable report by BCG 4 , can lead to lower development costs, greater forecasting accuracy, and the chance to secure a greater market share. A report from BCG highlighting the critical importance of development times for securing innovation ROI.