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The Power of the Right POS Platform

Business and Tech

small businesses are concerned about a looming recession, according to the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council. Djang is not alone — in a recent survey conducted by Lightspeed, 68% of retailers said that adopting new technologies, including inventory management tools, had resulted in a positive impact on their businesses.

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Checking for the global pulse of innovation

Paul Hobcraft

As a report, the 2019 Global Innovation Index (GII) is a whopper, at 450 pages, although 50% of this is detailed economic profiles and data tables for each country within the index. This GII report investigates and reports on 129 countries and then analyzes and ranks them accordingly.

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Envision Energy as a living, evolving community

Innovating4Energy

In this first post of a mini-series of three, I want to introduce a radical concept that envisions the energy transition as a living, evolving entity that bridges technology and nature, sparking profound shifts in how communities generate, consume, and perceive energy. It’s a fusion of advanced technology and natural systems.

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The needs of Innovation Coherence

Paul Hobcraft

I recall a report some time back written by PA Consulting report called “ Innovation as Unusual.” We have a real opportunity today to find new ways to combine the four emerging forces of knowledge, technology, entrepreneurship and innovation, which will drive the growth models of tomorrow.

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The Emerging Impact Entrepreneur

Innovators Alliance

The business paradigm is shifting with an increased focus on ‘impact’ entrepreneurship. Consider how businesses are seeking alternatives to plastic, adopting renewable energy, sharing technology designs for global benefit, and looking at circularity in supply chains. Impact entrepreneurship – why now? Have you noticed?

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The Global StartUp Ecosystem

Paul Hobcraft

The 2017 report by Startup Genome recently came out (April 5, 2017) You can find it here “ Global StartUp Ecosystem Report 2017 ” which provides a 150-page review of the global state of startups. The report goes into some depth of the top 20 places and then deep dives into others in America, Europe, Africa and Asia-Pacific.

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Mary Meeker’s 2018 internet trends report | Code 2018

Rmukesh Gupta

Mary is an American VC and a partner at the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. She focuses on Internet and new technologies. . You might have to watch it more than once, as she goes at an unbelievable pace and covers a lot of ground in 30 mins. . Enjoy the video.

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