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The future interplays between design thinking, technology and AI

Paul Hobcraft

Our innovation tools and design approaches must evolve due to the potential of bringing humans, technology and AI into this interplay thinking. Design Thinking Software Ecosystems : An ecosystem of software tools tailored explicitly for Design Thinking is emerging.

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Industry 4.0

eZassi

It’s all about embracing automation, artificial intelligence, big data, and the Internet of Things to optimize productivity, efficiency, and innovation across the supply chain. His or her idea must be recorded, reviewed, and promoted in a systemized process of non-siloed corporate ideation. Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0

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Platform models are the new order of our innovating business need

Paul Hobcraft

I’m presently looking to read more on Professor Iyer’s work, and we have been exchanging around the rapid number of platforms that are being created at present.

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Smart Service Canvas

ITONICS

Based on prior research covering frameworks for the technical design of smart services and the value proposition canvas, we present the Smart Service Canvas that offers a holistic instrument to describe, discuss, and develop smart services. 2005), “Four strategies for the age of smart services”, Harvard Business Review , Vol.

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The enemy is already within. The flood gates are open. Can GE recover?

Paul Hobcraft

It is then through managing your future development, mostly through research and development, that when combined with a sound acquisition strategy, that you believe will then augment your present internal growth and look to sustain the business. Well not anymore, GE recently in its 3 rd quarter review revealed its chronic cash position.

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11 Artificial Intelligence Eureka!s for Organizations: my recap of World Summit AI 2017

Open Innovation EU

In his 2016 book the Fourth Industrial Revolution Klaus Schwab mentions 6 basic technologies that are based on AI and currently impacting business: 1) the Internet of Things (IoT), 2) Autonomous Vehicles, 3) Advanced Robotics, 4) 3D-printing, 5) new materials and 6) the biological revolution. We are wrong about the objective of AI.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup.