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Continuous Improvement and Breakthrough Innovation: Why You Need Both

IdeaScale

The British cycling team used incremental improvements to go from also-rans to winning seven of ten gold medals in the 2008 Olympics. Yet even that breakthrough innovation was built upon decades of smaller innovations in telecommunications, internet technology, and computing technology. It doesn’t just work in business, either.

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The New Game Or Is It? Asset Orchestration

Paul Hobcraft

In this research they (Sirmon et al) suggest there are three primary stages of structuring, bundling and leveraging resources for the purpose of creating new value for customers and gaining competitive advantages, however temporary in today’s world. Again I think Alibaba is doing a really good job of that. They are deliberate orchestrators.

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IDEA 2008

Boxes and Arrows

Chris illustrates this with Deikto , the LUI system he created for his interactive storytelling technology. The Language of Interaction – Bill DeRouchey We are interacting with technology in an exploding number of forms. How do people learn new technology? Jason believes there’s real value and beauty in the basics.

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The Innovation Intensity needed in the Energy Transition

Paul Hobcraft

We need to accelerate innovation and technology adoption. The IEA assesses the status of 46 critical energy technologies and sectors and offers some general advice on how to get “on track” with this SDS approach. No one is going to stop investment in proven, tested technology, processes.

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Elon Musk – Serial Entrepreneur and founder of Tesla Motors and SpaceX

Destination Innovation

In the same year, Musk founded his third company, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or SpaceX to build commercial vehicles for space travel. In 2008 NASA chose SpaceX to transport cargo to the International Space Station (ISS). In 2008 he became CEO and product architect.

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The Travel & Hospitality Industry is Being Disrupted, Again.

Leapfrogging

Each month I’m tapping into the industry expertise and experience of one of Plug and Play’s 15 industry verticals to highlight the disruptive trends, technologies and companies shaping the future. The “travel-tech” sector has attracted over $19B+ since 2008. It recently raised $50 million to drive growth.

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When tough times are ahead, you should double down on innovation

Idea to Value

For example, during the 2008-09 financial crisis, most companies cut their technology budgets by 20-30%. That obviously meant quite a bit of trouble for most technology companies. Their effects will stick around for a long time and can even become a clear competitive advantage for the business going forward.