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Balancing your innovation portfolio: Does the 70-20-10 rule still apply?

Idea to Value

One of industry standard answers comes from research by Deloitte Partners Bansi Nagji and Geoff Tuff, in their groundbreaking 2012 article in Harvard Business Review: Managing your innovation portfolio. Some companies, like technology companies which need to produce new offerings more quickly, might have a ratio that is more like 45-40-15.

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Building A Sustainable Future: Can Technology Help Save The Environment?

Acuvate

Besides regulatory pressure, companies know that sustainability can be a competitive advantage. Built on the Microsoft technology stack, Acuvate’s Inspection App combines Power B.I. Sustainable Water Management: In 2012, the US Director of National Intelligence warned that, by 2030, global water demand would exceed supply by 40%.

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First-Mover or Fast-Follower: Which is the right innovation strategy for you?

Idea to Value

This idea quickly became popular in technology companies and areas like Silicon Valley where it was used as evidence of a need to launch first (even if you didn’t have a working product), spend big on marketing and get customers at any cost. And competition has its advantages. It is a classic example of survivorship bias.

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The Top 5 Technology Trends That Will Drive Innovation in 2018

hackerearth

Innovation is never easy, and in today’s world where everything is becoming digital, innovation is technology first and quite complex. photo editing software), and technology push (e.g. Samsung Galaxy with touchscreen technology in 2012). Whatever your business model, emerging technologies will be a key driver.

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Keeping Up is a Fool’s Game

Daniel Burrus

Keeping up—with technology, with the competition, with anything in business or life—is what some would call a fool’s game. Asking these questions enables you to go beyond your competition and get off the treadmill of keeping up. These are trends in technology and innovation that show no signs of slowing down.

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The Detriments of a Command-and-Control Culture and the Power of Design Thinking

Tullio Siragusa

The Detriments of a Command-and-Control Culture and the Power of Design Thinking In the competitive landscape of modern business, the approach we take to leadership can make or break an organization. Result: Kodak’s failure to innovate and adapt to digital technology ultimately led to bankruptcy in 2012.

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Brands In Memoriam 2012

CorporateIntel

It’s ironic that an industry that flies you around in the sky at 500 mph and largely invented the modern loyalty program today can’t come up with more clever ways to achieve growth than eliminating its own competition—plus five extra inches of leg room, baggage checks, and those yummy inflight box lunches are now upsells.