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Smarter Homes - Opportunities in the Growing Home Automation Market

Wellspring

The burgeoning interest in this technology provides an opportunity that businesses can’t ignore - the smart home market is projected to be worth $292.43B by 2024 and the output of relevant intellectual property continues to grow year over year (Figure 1). Source: Wellspring for Tech Scouting Data.

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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

Would you like to have read the best 50 books on sales, marketing, leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship and self-improvement? Just imagine all the insights and lessons you would have learned and how that would have helped you in your business career. But how much time would it have taken?

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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. 10% of their innovation resources on transformational innovations, to explore completely new offerings and markets.

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2024: A Pivotal Year

Digital Tonto

GDP would fall by 14% and the ad market, which fueled the media business I ran, fell by 85%. Related posts: Why 2020 Is Shaping Up To Be A Pivotal Year 2012 – The Year of the Interface 2010 – The Year Everything Was Supposedly Dead; 2011 – The Year of Scale and Synergy Top Posts of 2009 2015: The Year The Cloud Bursts

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

Idea to Value

What makes more sense: To be the first player in a brand new market, able to be the first (or only) company which customers buy from? To wait until other companies have proven there is a market for a new offering, and then quickly develop and scale your own? This can require significant marketing and sales effort to change.

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How four market-creating innovations are improving education and employment in Brazil

Christensen Institute

In our recently published paper titled Leveraging Market-Creating Innovations to Solve Brazil’s Education Paradox , we describe how Brazil currently spends more money on education than its Latin American peers, however much of the outcome of its education system is subpar to theirs in comparison.

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Trust the Customers, Not the Experts

Destination Innovation

Fellow dragon Deborah Meadon, chief of a holiday business, firmly stated that there was no market for the ride-on suitcase. Originally Trunkis were made in China but in 2012 Rob Law set up a factory in Plymouth. Theo Paphitis, chairman of the Ryman chain of stationers, pulled off one of the straps and made fun of the product.

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