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Friday July 03, 2020
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4Pandemic Spotlights AI’s Rising Role in Health Care
The recent COVID-19 pandemic provided a showcase for artificial intelligence (AI) technology’s uses in health care, from...
Friday July 03, 2020
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4“Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.”
––Karl Marx
There is one prediction among many that rings...
Friday July 03, 2020
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4Stefan Thomke is an expert on the management of innovation, an academic, and author of Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments.
Stefan Thomke has been...
Friday July 03, 2020
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4Blockchain combined with 3D printing offers businesses untapped opportunities. Blockchain can help businesses overcome intellectual property and data security barriers,...
Friday July 03, 2020
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4In this article we frame the concept of a hardware-rich open source ecosystem (H-ROSE) that generates software and hardware components. In an H-ROSE, the designs of some...
Friday July 03, 2020
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4Smart connected products are transforming existing markets and creating new ones. The smart homes market is one popular example. This transformation is particularly...
Friday July 03, 2020
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4Our study explores the nature of big data–embedded new product development (NPD) and to what extent big data influences NPD project success. Using data collected from 558...
Friday July 03, 2020
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4Futurists know from studying history that the most improbable things happen quite regularly. Already in the 21st century, we’ve had terrorist attacks, financial crashes, authoritarian...
Friday July 03, 2020
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4In this space, we offer a series of summaries on key topics, with pointers to important resources, to keep you informed of new developments and help you expand your repertoire of tools and ideas....
Friday July 03, 2020
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4Tech executive Judith Spitz has turned her energies toward increasing the representation of women in technology.
I got my PhD in speech and hearing sciences. My first job outside of...
Friday August 21, 2020 12:00pm
In these uncertain times, one thing we know is that we are not going back to “normal.” Leaders do their best work in times like these. Why? A leader’s job is to guide a team through uncertainty...
Friday May 04, 2018
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3Over the past decade, China has evolved from a provider of cheap labor to a significant player in the innovation arena. The commentaries in this issue, intended to provide updates on the best of...
Friday May 04, 2018
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3I’ve been with Goodyear almost 40 years now. I joined as a researcher, after graduating from IIT Chicago. Goodyear was just developing a deep understanding of the physics of tires. I was one of...
Sunday March 04, 2018
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2Suppliers pushing innovations to their buyers face the challenge of determining when and how these innovations should be offered. This study examines which factors affect...
Sunday March 04, 2018
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