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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. Due to the fact that technology-driven exponential change affects everything, manufacturing businesses must always keep up. . Upgrading our employees’ skills is even more important than upgrading technology.

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6 Ways AI Could Disrupt Your Business

Harvard Business Review

How can boards better understand the potential impacts of AI? The authors suggest six scenarios that all boards must consider — and then act upon — ranging from predicting extreme operational changes, to anticipating new strategic ways to compete, to foreseeing existential threats that could obviate one’s business.

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5G Is Far Bigger Than Faster Smartphones

Daniel Burrus

The global pandemic has disrupted business, government, healthcare, and education on a global level. This extreme disruption is far more than institutional. It’s been personal, disrupting how we all live, work, and play. . There are several categories of Hard Trends, but the most powerful is technology. Let’s face it.

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Here Are Eight Innovation Awards to Watch and Follow for Inspiration

IdeaScale

They can offer valuable insight into the state of innovation and what trends, technologies, and concerns will drive broader innovation in the future. While you won’t be able to get them off the shelf in all cases, it’s an excellent way to get a sense of the direction of consumer technology. Innovation awards aren’t just fun to observe.

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The Future of Smart Cities

Leapfrogging

And it’s all about the future, disruption , and coming up with new ideas about how to transform our public utilities into powerhouses of innovation. In 1962, The Jetsons cartoon came on the scene and gave us an idyllic world enabled by technology. A big topic in the event is “smart cities.”

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Five Tech Trends Impacting the Healthcare Industry

Daniel Burrus

Technologies that were available but not widely used before the pandemic have been brought to the forefront, accelerating a transformation that will impact the entire health ecosystem. In some cases, as already demonstrated in Apple Watch commercials, these can be life-saving technologies.

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5G Entrepreneurs Creating Billion-Dollar Businesses

Daniel Burrus

New multibillion-dollar businesses will appear that didn’t exist before due to 5G wireless technology. The first generation (1G) of wireless came with the introduction of cell phones constrained to phone calls and high-level executives. This generation of wireless technology is already being deployed in major cities in the U.S.