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What’s New in Corporate Innovation – Dec 18, 2017

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What’s new with the Internet of Things? Imaginatik’s take: IoT is an ongoing trend to connect physical objects to the internet – along with the data they generate. Corporate innovators need to understand how this mega-trend will affect their industry – because it will. Ralph Welborn Imaginatik CEO ). “75%

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Leveraging Innovation Methods to Drive Strategic Initiatives

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Identify the trends, the start-ups and the leaders in your space. For example, is a lot of new value coming into your market through start-ups who leverage the Internet of Things trend? As we talked about driving horizon 3 innovations (big, bold, transformational concepts), we outlined some concrete steps to get started.

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Three Flavours of Open Innovation: breaking down institutional boundaries through the X-Factor, Speed Dating, and iOT

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The ambitions for these problem-solving networks may differ as well: pre-empting disruptive trends; discovering disruptive trends; identifying capital investment; and short-circuiting entrenched processes. Aside from x-Factor and Speed-Dating flavours, there is an IOT (internet of things) flavour.