Leapfrogging

JANUARY 19, 2020

Mentoring transforms big ideas into high-impact innovations. Having worked with dozens of the Fortune 1000 companies , coached startups, and founded three companies, I can say there’s a universal truth when it comes to innovation: big ideas are just ideas until they deliver real value to the world. Nat Friedman, CEO of GitHub.

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Planview

JANUARY 15, 2025

What if the principles that transformed software development over the last decade could be the key to successfully implementing AI in your organization? Patrick Debois is credited with coining the term “DevOps” and has been instrumental in shaping how organizations approach software development and operations.

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TechEmpower Innovation

JULY 24, 2023

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. After all, that’s what tech innovation is all about. After all, that’s what tech innovation is all about. The innovator/developer relationship needs to be a conversation.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Cognyte, the global leading security analytics software provider, has launched an innovation management program with the Qmarkets Q-ideate tool. shared Amir Barel, Chief Technology Officer at Cognyte. “We Qmarkets helps us to do just that.” said Noam Danon, CEO of Qmarkets.

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Daniel Burrus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

(In this blog series on how elevating cognitive performance is a game changer for organizations, I’ve invited Neil Smith, CTO at Think Outcomes , to join me in writing on this important topic due to his expertise and the cognitive performance software his firm has created.). AI and cognitive computing have grabbed headlines.

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Acuvate

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Water Management & Treatment Optimizer An innovative solution leveraging IoT, AI, data integration, and predictive analytics to monitor and control water quality parameters, resolve quality issues faster, optimize chemical usage, improve operational processes, and reduce complaints and carbon footprint.

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Planview

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Welcome to Spigit’s weekly roundup of innovation links, where we feature a carefully curated selection of our favorite content on innovation, crowdsourcing, and more from around the web. Why Black Cabs Need to Innovate, Not Fight. This article argues that, to stay alive, black cabs need to innovate, not fight against Uber.

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Planview

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The State of Value Stream Management Report 2023 , in particular, stands out due to its inclusivity, drawing data from respondents across various organizational sizes, ranging from nimble startups with 1-99 employees to massive enterprises boasting 50,000+ personnel.

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hackerearth

MARCH 31, 2017

The talent management and performance review processes are certainly not what we’d refer to as all in a day’s work. For instance, HR innovation was the theme of the successful “Hack the Experience” hackathon sponsored by Brilliant Ink. 80% of Fortune 100 companies use hackathons to drive innovation. Apparently, this is possible.

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Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The most relevant Steering instrument is of course that he can set the financial targets for his reports, his board members like the CTO, CMO and the Commercial VPs. There are so many layers between the Board room and for example a software developer or an industrial designer. And still powerless?

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Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The most relevant Steering instrument is of course that he can set the financial targets for his reports, his board members like the CTO, CMO and the Commercial VPs. There are so many layers between the Board room and for example a software developer or an industrial designer. And still powerless?

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Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The most relevant Steering instrument is of course that he can set the financial targets for his reports, his board members like the CTO, CMO and the Commercial VPs. There are so many layers between the Board room and for example a software developer or an industrial designer. And still powerless?

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Taivara

AUGUST 23, 2018

And despite what many software sales reps may claim, there is no single, simple customer data platform that both integrates legacy data structures and allows for continued ongoing change. Next, you will need an enabling technology. This challenge cannot be solved simply with upgrades, coding or other patchwork ETL/interfaces.

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Corporate Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

In this post I review important lessons learned by CVCs that have been operating for many years and several economic cycles and best practices being used by newer CVCs. They invest in different sectors: such as software and services for USAA Ventures, and materials (and more) for BASF Venture Capital. More CVCs — but will they last?

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Corporate Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

In this post I review important lessons learned by CVCs that have been operating for many years and several economic cycles and best practices being used by newer CVCs. They invest in different sectors: such as software and services for USAA Ventures, and materials (and more) for BASF Venture Capital. More CVCs — but will they last?

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Corporate Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

In this post I review important lessons learned by CVCs that have been operating for many years and several economic cycles and best practices being used by newer CVCs. They invest in different sectors: such as software and services for USAA Ventures, and materials (and more) for BASF Venture Capital. More CVCs — but will they last?

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Who Are the World's Most Innovative Companies? Ask most folks to tick off their list of who they think are the world's most innovative companies, and you're likely to get something along these lines⃜ Apple, Google, Amazon, Nike, GE, and so on. Ask Thomson Innovation this exact same question, and you'll get this list.

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CorporateIntel

MAY 15, 2014

He already did consumer software engineering as his opening act as a cofounder of PayPal. He is also the CTO of SpaceX and the chief product architect of Tesla. Here are some perhaps not so obvious reasons why: A real track record of repeat innovation. If there is a possible next Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, it could be him.

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Information Playground

OCTOBER 8, 2015

During the meeting the CTO of EMC shared his thoughts on the technology direction of the company. At dinner after the first day we had some discussions on employee innovation, inspiration, and motivation. The CTO of EMC talked for 3.5 I spent the first 25 years of my career sitting in a cubicle working on software.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

In the HBR article, " A Reverse Innovation Playbook " (April 2012) and our forthcoming book, Reverse Innovation , my co-author, Chris Trimble, and I elaborate on how western multinationals can overcome their dominant logic. Rich countries are the most technologically advanced.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. The issue arose as a result of changes to IBM’s business model for software. In the past, IBM mostly provided enterprise software to customers who installed it on their own computers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. The methodology is Continuous Development, which, like agile, began as a software development methodology. Because software code is released in smaller batches, it is easier to identify the source of any problems.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

Both have signed on with Prism Skylabs , a software company, to map in-store customer behavior. The redder the location, the more frequently it was trafficked: For chief technology officer Joe Lezon, the results were both helpful and surprising. .” This is changing with the emergence of location analytics.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

While both measures are less than perfect, and we recognize that many companies use Eastern Europe and South American engineering sites, the GEI works well to demonstrate the diversity of industries—it isn’t just software and IT—with a significant portion of their R&D overseas. The top thirty companies are shown below.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2017

But somewhere along the way, we recognized that they were based on definable pipelines and applied technology to manage those pipelines. What if we applied the same thinking to innovation? After all, innovation, like marketing and sales, is a pipeline. Once you put innovation into a system like this, you can track everything.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

By Paul Clarke, Chief Technology Officer, Ocado. Data science and AI lie at the most overheated end of the software engineering spectrum, and there is a massive shortage of graduates and postgraduates emerging with the necessary skills. Code for Life now has over 135,000 users spread across nearly 100 countries.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

In search of a faster, cheaper way, Sears Holdings turned to the technologies and practices of big data. This is simply a group of inexpensive commodity servers whose activities are coordinated by an emerging software framework called Hadoop (named after a toy elephant in the household of Doug Cutting, one of its developers).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

As many companies move from exclusively internal focused R&D to distributed-innovation systems (e.g., A new component of the IT function must be developed to support this category of work: the Distributed Innovation Group (DIG). DIG is responsible for emerging technology, collaboration methods and technology (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

As a result, in recent years, innovative ideas have been stifled and entire industries have fallen into the death spiral of cost/price cutting commoditization. Instead of risk = bad, leaders need to understand that today, calculated risk = innovation, meeting marketplace demands, leapfrogging competition and creating true profit.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

Industrial age measures can''t evaluate Serendipity Economy results, leaving its outcomes like invention and innovation, process improvements, and new businesses relegated to the evidence of anecdote. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. Reinventing Corporate IT An HBR Insight Center. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Pro: Engineering can focus on coding without a lot of distraction; this tends to work well for Waterfall development shops with long lifecycles. PMs understand what’s being coded, but don’t tell engineers how to code, and engineers have empathy for customers’ needs, but leave the prioritization to the PMs.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

With a tsunami of new digital technologies all converging simultaneously — social, mobile, cloud, analytics and embedded devices — there has been, once again, a cry for corporate IT to radically change to enable the digital transformation of businesses. New, more agile , software development tools and testing methods are utilized.

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Acuvate

APRIL 5, 2022

Now, insurers can save two to five minutes per document for a million documents, which translates to hundreds of days of time savings,” said Fabien Vauchelles, CTO at Zelros. “We The JSON reports consist of confidence levels, allowing direct data processing into back-end systems when the minimum number (confidence levels) is met.

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hackerearth

JULY 14, 2021

In a world of constant innovation, hackathons are a breath of fresh air for those who dare to create what hasn’t been created, to try something new and different, and to break out of one’s shell and push the envelope of one’s skills. GitHub will be your best friend, linking your teammates together as if you were in the same room.

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Planview

OCTOBER 21, 2024

In the latest Mik + One podcast, Dr. Mik Kersten, Chief Technology Officer at Planview, sat down with Dr. Suzette Johnson and Robin Yeman to discuss their groundbreaking work on Industrial DevOps and its potential to revolutionize the development of cyber-physical systems.

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