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#2,051 – 2021 Breakthrough Nominee: vTubers

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

The use of a virtual avatar was at one point prohibitively expensive, requiring industrial motion-capture setups, and professional teams of cinematographers and software engineers. vlogger Ami Yamato, who launched her YouTube channel in late 2011. The first known instance of this phenomenon is largely credited to U.K.

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33 Routes to Open Innovation

Open Innovation EU

More info: Steen, Manschot & De Koning (2011). Lee et al (2011) argue that communities in the example of Lego, have an automatic filtering, for instance through fora, of ideas and these ideas are as such much more worth looking at than for instance ideas generated by crowdsourcing. Route 11: Open Business Models. Weiblen, 2014 ).

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Technological Know-How Is a Job Requirement

Harvard Business Review

A 2011 IBM study of over 3,000 CIOs revealed that CIO-CEO alignment is stronger than ever, with traditional companies aggressively investing in technology innovation. Universities are rapidly growing their engineering courses. Venture capitalists are creating software engineering academies in their own cities.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. GE is now approaching $1 billion in new revenue annually from their expanded software and data activities.

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How to Transform a Traditional Giant into a Digital One

Harvard Business Review

In 2011 GE, the company famous for exporting great leaders, imported one when it recruited Bill Ruh from Cisco to lead GE’s push into software and analytics. Three years later, GE hired veteran software engineer Ganesh Bell to be chief digital officer of GE Power and Water.

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New York City's Culture Will Shape the Next Tech Sector

Harvard Business Review

We believe that when this incredible professional diversity collides with software engineering talent, you have the recipe for breakthrough innovation. And what''s even more interesting, between 2007 and 2011, a time when venture capitalism was down 11% nationally, New York saw growth of 32%.

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A Story from Google Shows You Don’t Need Power to Drive Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. Brian specialized in open-source software development and he quickly became a champion within the company for various initiatives focused on end users.