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3Clay Christensen (1952–2020) was a giant in the field of innovation. The Innovator’s Dilemma remains one of the best books on innovation that I have ever read. It is both theoretically...
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3More and more firms are looking to megatrends to try to ascertain an unfolding future and plan strategy for the long term. The idea seems to be to take a megatrend, find a subtrend within it, and...
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3Historians suggest crowdsourcing dates as far back as 1714 when the British government offered £20,000 to solve “The Longitude Problem,” which made sailing dangerous and caused thousands of seamen...
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3When I graduated high school in 1960, I wanted to be an illustrator. But I was hired at an IBM manufacturing plant in my hometown, pushing out the 5081 cards. In time I transitioned into the copy...
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3Project managers want to make better decisions, especially regarding impactful projects like new product development projects that require significant resource commitments to resolve technical...
Wednesday September 09, 2020 2:00pm
Manufacturers and ecosystem providers are trying to unlock the ever-evolving business potential of AI and IoT. Often the pace of technology change and vendor upgrades exceeds manufacturers’’ ability...
Wednesday September 02, 2020 2:00pm
Successful AI + IoT initiatives require careful coordination of people, processes, culture and technologies that all must be managed over time. This presentation will explore aspects of...
Wednesday August 26, 2020 2:00pm
Manufacturers and providers often find that what seems manageable in the small when it comes to AI + IoT may not be the case at enterprise-scale. This presentation focuses on lessons learned from...
Wednesday August 19, 2020 2:00pm
Manufacturers and their ecosystem providers wonder how to start and then drive the momentum needed to move their smart ideas forward. They have learned that success is less about the technology and...
August 10, 2020
Digital Futures 2020: Strategy, culture, and technology at work -- Now all virtual! Learn how other legacy companies are implementing digital strategies, navigating challenges around talent and...
August 06, 2020
Logged in users click here for credential verification (only needed once per logged in session) PERSPECTIVES: NEWS & ANALYSIS FROM THE GLOBAL INNOVATION SCENE Chemical Recycling Could End Plastic...
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...
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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...