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Innovation & Strategy Conference: Driving Home Disruption

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Karen Madden , VP Technology and Innovation of PerkinElmer, provided first-hand experience and advice on how big corporations can drive impact by cooperating with startups: “It’s not an option anymore, if you don’t team up with the disruptive, you’re going to get disrupted.”

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Why are innovation ecosystems important?

Paul Hobcraft

Recently, I presented my framework to the GIMI think tank GIMI was initiated by a worldwide group of chief innovation officers, innovation executives, academics and consultants in 2009. This expansion enhances the potential for breakthrough ideas and disruptive innovations.

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Innovative Businesses Prioritize Creativity

Daniel Burrus

Most notably, older organizations are the ones that place creativity in one column and positive disruptions via innovation in another. This can certainly be viewed as a positive feat: For a company like Citibank to withstand so many outside disruptions, they have to be doing something right!

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how to discover the secrets of great new products: do the least you can do, fake it before you make it, and don’t be afraid of embarrassment

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The definition of a Minimum Viable Product varies greatly – but in the purest sense, it should be “the least you can do” For example, I co-founded a startup in 2009 with two ex-Yahoo colleagues.

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The new ROI for digital innovation

Paul Hobcraft

The Monitor Institute wrote a report released in 2009 on impact investing and it provides an excellent overview of what needs to happen. The key is it does need to generate shared value for all and that is going to be a hard road to travel. Let’s look at some of the critical success factors for this to succeed.

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Mixed Reality For The Rest Of Us Is Finally Here

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Back in 2009, nestled in the heart of Silicon Valley, I was part of a vibrant innovation program at Yahoo, a company that once commanded a considerable footprint in the tech world. For five years, I steered this program, spearheading the development of an array of unique products that sprouted from the fertile minds of…

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Beyond Bitcoin: The Future of Blockchain Technology

Daniel Burrus

Bitcoins were introduced in 2009 to great fanfare. The rapidly evolving technology of blockchains holds enormous promise for game-changing disruption across any number of industries and fields. The rapidly evolving technology of blockchains holds enormous promise for game-changing #disruption.