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Industry 4.0 – disruption or just a logic extension of WWW?

Innovation 360 Group

The term first surfaced at the Hannover Messe Industrial Fair in 2011, with the theme Industry 4.0. The concept is connected to the Internet of Things, and provides that any product in the production chain can carry information about where and how, with the result that the factory is be able to organise itself.

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Industry 4.0 – disruption or just a logic extension of WWW?

Innovation 360

The term first surfaced at the Hannover Messe Industrial Fair in 2011, with the theme Industry 4.0. The concept is connected to the Internet of Things, and provides that any product in the production chain can carry information about where and how, with the result that the factory is be able to organise itself.

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Remembering

Technology Created

Why would it be important to dig into events such as the introduction of the Model A by Henry Ford in 1927 or the failure of IBM to react to Microsoft’s entry into the PC market in the early 1980’s? Why would they simply not be able to more effectively and easily move to a new market and opportunity as they occur? 2] “Timeline.”

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. During Jeff Immelt’s tenure GE’s stock-market value fell by about half.

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A Futurist Looks at the Future of Marketing

Harvard Business Review

Digital marketing is evolving as fast as any other medium on our tablets, smartphones, Google Glass and beyond. By 2020, most interruptive marketing will be gone. I''m going to like things, or I won''t like them, and you will have to earn that from me. The idea of having a separate marketing department is going to vanish.

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Insurance Isn’t Safe from Digital Upheaval

Harvard Business Review

In Big Bang disruption, rule-changing innovation leads to the creation of entire product lines (or the destruction of whole markets) essentially overnight, with disrupters coming from outside the industry that they are disrupting. insurance aggregator beatthatquote.com in 2011 and has since launched price comparison sites in the U.K.,

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Hybrid Jobs Call for Hybrid Education

Harvard Business Review

But in addition to such familiar jobs such as engineer, consultant, or financial analyst, we’re increasingly seeing new job titles emerge: forensic technologist, digital storyteller, and marketing automation manager. Labor market data tell us that these “hybrid” jobs are rapidly on the rise.