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Innovation cannot expand without the 4th Industrial Revolution

Paul Hobcraft

To do this, technology adoption and diffusion across the ecosystem needs to improve dramatically. The WEF wants to create a neutral, learning platform, which provides the best technical and organizational insights with respect to 4IR technologies in manufacturing to accelerate the delivery of the benefits, to give a sort of safe harbor.

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PESTLED360: Iron Out Key Driving Forces in Your Current Environment and Anticipate Future Ones

Innovation 360 Group

PESTLED is short for the Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal, Environmental, and Demographic factors affecting you and defining your environment. Innovation 360 has used this framework in many assignments. Incremental and radical innovations can be anything from services and products to business models and processes.

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Official Launch of the PESTLED360

Innovation 360 Group

PESTLED is short for the Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal, Environmental, and Demographic factors affecting you and defining your environment. Innovation 360 has used this framework in many assignments and has often seen it misused as a framework for assessing a specific market or even the organization itself.

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Striking Gold: The $40m Idea Unearthed Through Crowdsourcing

Qmarkets

I am a Projects Analyst at Hochschild, but I trained as a mechanical engineer. What drives innovation investment? Although you try to map underground resources very diligently, there’s still a margin for error once you go underground. Qmarkets: Hi Juan, thanks for taking the time to sit down with us today. J: Of course.

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DON’T LISTEN TO YOUR CUSTOMERS!

Innovation 360 Group

You may remember the three innovation horizons from the last episode, but it’s worth reviewing them again for clarity. The First Innovation Horizon is where you improve your existing core business and incrementally maximize revenues through greater efficiency and productivity. The post DON’T LISTEN TO YOUR CUSTOMERS!

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PLAYING IT SAFE IS THE MOST DANGEROUS THING YOU CAN DO

Innovation 360 Group

Companies disappear all the time without a word, due to changing cultural values, changing technology, or changing audience demographics. Those who don’t will be left behind, watching a train full of customers disappear into the far horizon. It wasn’t the tech startups alone that brought them down. Are you safe?

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Digital Innovation Units: Recommendations, Trends and Conclusions

Integrative Innovation

Corporations should be even more courageous in order to make room for deep tech issues such as quantum computing in addition to corporate-related product and service improvements. Topics and technologies that drive digitization are constantly evolving.

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