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Microsoft Reinvented the PC – Enter Surface Studio

Idea to Value

Since Microsoft commenced a more dynamic stage of innovative development, since Satya Nadella became their CEO in 2014 ( source ), it was clear that we should expect something big from their design team. It’s thanks to its slender design that you can’t actually see that this is a personal computer. million pixels.

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The Internet of Things brings fresh Innovation Opportunities

Destination Innovation

In 2014 Google bought home-automation company Nest for a massive $3.2 billion to give it a strong stake in IOT technology. ’ They become part of a living experience shaped by interactions among people, places, and objects, among product, nature, and life,’ said Olivier Ribet, VP of High Tech for Dassault Systemes.

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

It has been a while since Henry Mintzberg developed his influential work that made us aware of the importance of structures in organization design. Structures are no longer of primary focus in design organizations. Let me show you how the focus of organization design has changed over the years: Scholar. It enhances productivity.

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4 Tips for Designing Apple Watch Apps

Boxes and Arrows

The global wearable technology marketplace is growing at a staggering rate, estimated to increase from $7.1 million units in 2014 to nearly 25 million units in 2015. With those thoughts in mind, here are four tips for designing applications for the Apple Watch. billion in 2015 to $12.6 billion by 2018.

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How the current patent system actually hurts innovation (and how patent trolls are being fought)

Idea to Value

Originally, patents had a simple purpose: By filing a patent, an inventor or company showed how their new technology worked, in exchange for legal protection for the duration of the patent. billion , predominantly for the approximately $4 billion worth of patents it possessed around smartphone technology. Does this system still work?

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The Book that Took 9 Years to Publish

Stephen Shapiro

It covered a wide range of topics related to innovation: strategy, organization structures, measures, technology, and more. January 2014: I decided to take the work done to date and create a “product” to use with my clients. January 2019: I hired a developmental editor who reviewed what I had written. Off to the printers!

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The Case for Dual Innovation

Tim Kastelle

Let’s sum up some relevant findings of these studies, making the case for dual innovation management: BCG: Most Innovative Companies 2014 . This trend is even more pronounced among strong innovators, with those pursuing a centralized approach rising from 68 percent in 2013 to 71 percent in 2014. Source: Detecon. Conclusion.