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FORRESTER: Financial Services Innovation Requires Digital Tech, Matchmaking, and Discipline

Planview

In fact, researchers are saying that 2016 is set to be a year of massive disruption for this sector, as leaders search for new ways to approach business, serve customers, and defend their positions in the market. Disruption and innovation often go hand-in-hand, but staying competitive means being ready for it. The best way to do that?

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What is design thinking and how can it help you innovate?

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Simply put, design thinking is an action-oriented and solution-focused methodology used to solve complex problems, such as those faced by organizations in a highly competitive and rapidly changing environment. What is Design Thinking? The focus is not on the problem, but on the solution that will give rise to a preferred future.

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Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did

Harvard Business Review

The methodology is Continuous Development, which, like agile, began as a software development methodology. Rather than improving software in one large batch, updates are made continuously, piece-by-piece, enabling software code to be delivered to customers as soon as it is completed and tested.

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Here Are All the Reasons It’s a Bad Idea to Let a Few Tech Companies Monopolize Our Data

Harvard Business Review

political system, including the 2016 U.S. ” By that I mean companies that control a key platform which, like a coral reef, attracts to its ecosystem users, sellers, advertisers, software developers, apps, and accessory makers. But without competition, data-opolies face less pressure. Nor is it likely to be the last.

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How a Startup Accelerator at Boston Children’s Hospital Helps Doctors Launch Companies

Harvard Business Review

While it’s still early days (we launched this accelerator in early 2016), we believe the accelerator has scored enough successes to prove that the model can work. It begins with our grant application: While many of our innovators are accustomed to writing research grants, our application is more akin to a business-plan competition.

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6 Reasons Platforms Fail

Harvard Business Review

Failure to engage developers. The platform owner must also show software developers what’s in it for them if they contribute. In 2013, Johnson Controls invited developers to help them build Panoptix, an energy efficiency platform for buildings and office space.

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How to Transform a Traditional Giant into a Digital One

Harvard Business Review

For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. You have to conceive and build a new platform and reshape partners in the ecosystem in ways that would not be possible without digitization and algorithms. Make the tough calls on people.