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Eight Companies that Switched What They Did

Destination Innovation

In 2022 it had a market capitalisation of over $700B. In the 1990s it focussed on telecommunications technology. From 1998 to 2008 it was the world’s largest supplier of mobile phones and smartphones but fell behind Apple and Samsung. The Wrigley Company is now the largest manufacturer and marketer of chewing gum in the world.

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How Facebook misses out on Talent

Destination Innovation

There are pervasive myths that older people are stuck in their ways, lack creativity and dynamism and cannot cope with new technology. Little wonder then that Bloomberg reported that 150 of the USA largest tech firms were sued 226 times for age discrimination from 2008 to 2015. This is reflected in ageism in hiring.

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Know Your Emerging Trends

IdeaScale

Last year IBM Marketing Cloud published a finding 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone (2.5 It’s changing our world: in 2008, more things were connected to the internet than there are people on the planet. quintillion bytes of data a day).

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The New Game Or Is It? Asset Orchestration

Paul Hobcraft

They might be operating at the two ends of the current internet trading spectrum and are coming from different market maturity positions but it is the asset management that is becoming critical for delivering the profit or dragging performance. I quote “I’d say Amazon are “ asset heavy ” whereas Alibaba remains “asset light”.

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Blockchain: A Real-World Example of the Power of Innovation

IdeaScale

The first white paper about blockchain technology was released in 2008. Digital marketing loses money to click fraud every year. Blockchain technology could put an end to click fraud, drastically reducing wasteful marketing spending. Blockchain is one of them. Industries and Blockchain.

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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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IDEA 2008: An Interview with Bill DeRouchey

Boxes and Arrows

As IDEA 2008 draws closer, the IA Institute is conducting a series of interviews with the speakers for the conference. Prior to that, I had experience in writing, coding, product marketing, web producing, and then all the way back to my early days doing layout of computer science textbooks. So I had many angles on "tech."