Categoria: innovation
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What It Takes To Build An Innovative Business Model
Apart from having a strong foundation, there are certain traits that an entrepreneur should try to develop, like applying creativity and out-ofthe-box thinking. Why is the US or Israel so innovative? Why a state like California is really making the difference? Innovation is a combination of five different aspects – regulation, training, ecosystem, culture and…
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Sky to build new innovation centre in London
UK-based pay TV operator Sky is to build a new dedicated innovation centre on its Osterley campus in West London. The new space will house technology engineers and software developers focusing on innovation across Sky’s broadcast and streaming platforms, consumer products and new areas such as virtual reality. The innovation centre will cover about 6,500…
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Trudeau touts technological innovation during MIT campus visit
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau remembers asking his father why the stereo and other gadgets he had as a boy were made in Japan — not in Canada. The answer he eventually got from other people over the years was that Japan is a small country without a lot of natural resources, one…
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Bootstrap Your Corporate Innovation
How do you set up your innovation program? If you are reading this article, you have probably already struggled with this question. Should you set an idea funnel first or hire a cloud/blockchain/artificial intelligence (AI) expert? Should you try to change the culture or develop an innovation strategy with financial goals? You also know the…
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The $100bn betThe meaning of the Vision Fund
Succeed or fail, Masayoshi Son is changing the world of technology investing TWO years ago, if you had asked experts to identify the most influential person in technology, you would have heard some familiar names: Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Alibaba’s Jack Ma or Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. Today there is a new contender: Masayoshi Son. The…
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Three Paths To Innovation
By Girish Rishi is the CEO of JDA Software, the leading supply chain provider powering today’s digital transformation. The toy store on Golf Road in Schaumburg, Illinois, was easy to get to. We eventually stopped going there, however, even though we raised our two boys nearby. It wasn’t because we started buying toys online but because of…
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Why innovation in finance starts in the back office
It’s time for CFOs to grasp innovation by the horns and to understand how to best streamline processes and use technology to boost efficiency in the back office, Even in the world’s largest businesses, it’s not unusual for the finance department to still lean on spreadsheets and manual technology. Finance departments have long since relied…
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Everything you know about innovation is wrong
When it comes to redesigning how government functions, most of the common assumptions about innovation don’t hold up, write Sara Hudson and Hana Schank in “The Government Fix,” a new essay series published in partnership with New America. We know what happened the last time you had to interact with the government. Most likely you…
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Insight Robotics receives funding for forestry management innovations
Hong Kong venture capital fund Beyond Ventures has joined with Linear Capital of Shanghai to lead a US$9 million investment that will benefit forestry in national parks and other natural resources all over the world. They are funding Insight Robotics, which pursues a mission to facilitate risk management of the world’s assets by generating…
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