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Here Are Eight Innovation Awards to Watch and Follow for Inspiration

IdeaScale

Last year’s winners included IBM’s autonomous ship, Origin Wireless’ remote patient monitoring system, and the fifth-generation Waymo Driver. Beyond the new perspectives, these awards are always fun to see how innovation unfolds in different cultures and see what you can pick up from their innovation strategy and style.

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Omnichannel is the Future of Payments — Here’s How to Get Started

Business and Tech

If you’re considering making your customers’ experience more connected with an omnichannel strategy , accepting different types of payments is a good place to start. This also allows you to take payments without needing hardware or software. Here’s how to get started with each method. Accept payments on the go.

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Innovation Sighting: Task Unification in Cars That Advertise

Innovation in Practice

Perhaps the concept seems foreign, but software companies, such as Telenav Inc., are in the process of developing strategies to maximize wireless capabilities in vehicles for advertising purposes. As Bloomberg states , Automakers have been installing wireless connections in vehicles and collecting data for decades.

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2019 USPTO Patent Statistics: Breaking the Trend

Anaqua

According to a 2019 USPTO patent statistics analysis using Anaqua’s AcclaimIP analytics software, last year there were 392,616 granted patents–a 15% increase from 2018. Other technologies, such as wireless communications were also high on that list. Further, there were 394,879 US applications published in 2019–a 5% increase from 2018.

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Titans of Transformation: 5 Outstanding Examples of Innovation in Business

Qmarkets

Considering these sobering statistics, it’s little wonder that even the world’s largest companies are increasingly pursuing bold innovation strategies to withstand disruption, rather than resting on their laurels. By implementing Qmarkets innovation management software, PMI has engaged more than 65,000 employees worldwide.

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Five Digital Innovations To Help Elevate Your Retail In-Store and Online Experiences

Daniel Burrus

Because we are armed with greater comfort in using digital tools to shop and buy, physical stores need to embrace a digital-first strategy to elevate their in-store retail experiences. In shopping and retail, these Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications can help the smallest of businesses handle sudden upswings in customers.

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Digital transformation examples

Board of Innovation

Ingersoll develops operating strategies for its customers that balance the need to keep buildings lighted and cool with the need to meet increasingly rigorous goals for lowering energy consumption , including sometimes reducing usage on short notice to qualify for special utility payments. in the GE online store.