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Using Design Thinking to make your employees ready for the Internet-of-Things

InnovationManagement

Recent advances in technology put Internet-of-things (IoT)-innovation on top of the management agenda across industries. trillion in 2025 (McKinsey 2015). It is predicted to increase economic value by $11.1

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Understanding the Innovation Landscape needed for Enabling Technologies in the World’s Energy Transition

Paul Hobcraft

Internet of Things. C temperature targets that are was fully agreed as the goals in the Paris Agreement in 2015. IRENA’s Innovation Landscape report highlights innovations in enabling technologies and explored explicitly in the following briefs, where you go automatically to the download: Utility-scale batteries. Blockchain.

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The enemy is already within. The flood gates are open. Can GE recover?

Paul Hobcraft

GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment via the Internet of Things (IoT) and analytical software with a suite of products called the “ Predix Cloud ”. Mr. Immelt decided to bet the other way by investing in 2015 on Buying the power business of Alstrom for $10bn, a company specifically strong in coal plant designs.

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The Sectors Where the Internet of Things Really Matters

Harvard Business Review

The Internet of Things is emerging as the third wave in the development of the internet. Samsung said at its 2014 investors forum it expects the global Smart Home Device market to reach $15 billion in 2015, almost doubling from 2013’s $7.8 Information & technology Internet' Australia and China.

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How the Internet of Things Changes Everything

Harvard Business Review

It''s all thanks to the Internet of Things. If you are not familiar with the term, the Internet of Things refers to a dramatic development in the internet''s function: the fact that, even more than among people, it now enables communication among physical objects.

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Will Xiaomi Stop the iPhone in China?

Outside Innovation

million smartphones in the first half of 2015, 33% more than for the same period last year. At the April 2015 Xiaomi festival, the company sold over 2 million smartphones and pulled in 2.08 million additional connected devices in Q1 2015. The company's goal is 100 million for the year. Is Xiaomi Enthusiasm a Passing Fad?

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Qmarkets Invited to Present at the Lufthansa Group Innovation Forum V, 2016

Qmarkets

In 2015 Lufthansa chose Qmarkets as a partner on their innovation journey, with the objective of implementing idea and innovation management platforms which would be configured to the exact requirements of the various business units and departments of the company as a whole.

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