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How Does Technology Influence Innovation?

IdeaScale

In a recent round of research, I was reviewing adoption rates for new technologies. It reminded me of the staggering comparison: “It took about 75 years for the telephone to connect to 50 million people. So what emerging capabilities in the technology industry are influencing innovation in other sectors?

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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. Fast followers also need to be able to move at speed, get market feedback and iterate quickly.

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Building an Agile & Innovative Organization

Idea to Value

There are great many companies and leaders that obsess about their market share, competitors, or technological prowess. If your technology doesn’t create value for customers, they won’t buy it. Need a contract reviewed by your legal team? Customer obsession. If you don’t have customers, your market share is zero.

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What Apple Can Learn From Tires

Matthew May

I’m not sure why so many companies delight in listing the technical specs of their products, as if they relate to anything remotely useful to human beings trying to make a decision in the real world. I have absolutely no base of comparison, nothing to relate the numbers to. Take, for example, Apple.

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Blockchain: Distributed Shared Ledger Technology in Banking

hackerearth

Over 90% of the world’s leading banks are either exploring, experimenting (PoCs), or formulating a strategy for leveraging blockchain technology, says an Accenture survey. But when it comes to intra-organizational processes, challenges arise due to process design and lack of mutual trust. Areas of impact. Sample use cases.

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Why Millions Are Leaving Their Jobs to Realize the Benefits of Self-Employment

Business and Tech

Whether avoiding stepping into an unemployment line due to lay-offs or voluntarily deciding to start the small business many may have dreamed about for years, the growth in America’s small business community is transforming the American economy. How have businesses that started since 2020 fared in comparison to the norm?

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From Game Rooms to Boardrooms, Virtual and Augmented Reality at Work

Daniel Burrus

Now that Facebook has changed their name to Meta to stake their claim on the personal and business use of Virtual Reality (VR) environments — the Metaverse – will this finally establish VR and/or Augmented Reality (AR) as commonplace technologies? The Current State of Augmented Reality. An example of such was Google Glass.