Sat.Nov 16, 2019

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Groundbreaking Ideas From Hulu’s Open Innovation Hackathon

IdeaConnection

Syncing Hulu videos with IoT devices for immersive viewing experiences, an eye-operated TV remote control and other innovations coming out of Hulu’s annual hackathon.

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Hacking your DNA: Antibodies, Part 6 of 6

Innovation 360 Group

What about you? What business are you in? When you ask someone what business they are in, they nearly always answer with a list of products and services. Try it out and see for yourself. One exception you might find are executives at banks and financial services firms, who tend to say they are in the business of security and compliance. Very few people can take themselves outside the box they live in to see their business from the customer’s point of view.

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Welcome to the field, General: Antibodies, part 2 of 6.

Innovation 360 Group

Picture yourself on the edge of a cliff, looking down on a battlefield. That is the marketplace. You are an army general, surveying your troops below on a wide, empty plain. Your capabilities are your troops, arrayed on the foothills below next to the shore of a vast ocean. Your opponent’s troops are gathering on the horizon at the far edge of your vision.

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Harley-Davidson does not sell MCs: Antibodies, Part 4 of 6.

Innovation 360 Group

No matter where you are, you will probably agree that the world has changed quite a bit since 1903. That was the year when Americans William Harley and his friend Arthur Davidson joined forces to strap a massive automobile engine onto a bicycle and the Harley-Davidson company was born. Since then, they have manufactured big, loud, terrifying motorcycles, and the company has survived many ups and downs along with countless variations in society’s values.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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PayPal, Facebook, Shell Oil and Nokia: Antibodies, Part 5 of 6

Innovation 360 Group

Here is the success story of a company that had to go through many revisions before it discovered its own DNA is the digital payment service platform PayPal. This early leader in financial technology launched in 1998 as Field Link, a company that developed encryption software for palm pilots. The market wasn’t ready for that and palm pilots were not long for this world.

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Lessons from the master of war: Antibodies, Part 3 of 6.

Innovation 360 Group

Let’s go back to the battlefield, where we started at the beginning of part two in this blog series. Unlike chess, in a real battle you have no idea what capabilities the enemy has until you do a great deal of competitive intelligence. Even then, the information may be wrong, out-of-date, or may have changed as a result of your intelligence operation.