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Michael Brunner is Named Honoree in Pittsburgh’s 2020 Smart 50 Awards

Brunner

1991: Michael saw the value in big data before it was big and made Brunner’s first acquisition, a database marketing firm . 2011: Michael helped launch BHiveLab, an in-house technology incubator that has become a thought-leader throughout the industry .

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33 Routes to Open Innovation

Open Innovation EU

It has been a while since Henry Chesbrough coined the term Open Innovation and formulated it’s definition: “combining internal and external ideas as well as internal and external paths to market to advance the development of new technologies.” More info: Steen, Manschot & De Koning (2011). Route 3: Spin-off.

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Remembering

Technology Created

How relevant is a world where technology was so weak, so non-integrated? Would not the study of Mobility, Big Data, Cloud, Social Media and Clean Energy be a much wiser investment of our time? What about a student of technology? Winston Churchill. Remembering history. What good is it anyways? The past is the past.

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5 Ways FinTech Will Disrupt Your Company

Planview

A thoroughly modern, hybrid fusion of Wall Street and Silicon Valley, FinTech – or financial technology – has often been hailed as the next big thing. As the name suggests, FinTech represents a modern fusion of finance and technology. billion in 2011 to $20.3 Leveraging Big Data. billion in 2015.

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Will Big Data Kill All But the Biggest Retailers?

Harvard Business Review

Now, however, they are being augmented by demographic data, in-store video monitoring, mobile-based location data from inside and outside the store, real-time social media feeds, third-party data appends, weather, and more. Retail has entered the era of Big Data. BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER. More >>.

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Can Technology End Poverty?

Harvard Business Review

If you believe the hype, technology is going to help us end global poverty. Berkeley researcher Kentaro Toyama has a blog dedicated to calling out naïve or inappropriate uses of information and communication technologies (ICT). To do that, it's vital that technology be suitable and relevant to the lives of its users.

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Spotting Innovation Opportunities

ITONICS

Disruptive technologies or innovations boost new business models that change the game of existing industries like the space industry (SpaceX), the music industry (Spotify), the film industry (Netflix) or the banking sector (FinTechs), just to name a few. Having only one good idea won’t help companies to survive.