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Top 5 Women Innovators of All Time

IdeaScale

There has also been cultural reporting bias in favor of male inventors, despite the countless female innovators involved in some of the biggest technological advances in history. The device is now used internationally to prevent blindness due to cataracts, which affect around 25 million people in the U.S. Marie Curie.

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The critical interplay among innovation, business models and change

Paul Hobcraft

I wanted to extract part of this white paper” Critical Interplay Innovation Business Models Change 6-2 “(goes to PDF), in this post, as it offers all involved in innovation a structure to break down innovation into its different models of application. The dynamics of innovation and change.

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How to Run a Hackathon that Spurs Real Innovation

IdeaScale

Hackathons originally emerged as a way to quickly advance software technologies and identify new areas for technology innovation. Though the original plan was for the top three ideas to be pursued, all four were ultimately selected for funding due to the success of the hackathon.

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Blockchain For Dummies

Innovation Excellence

Whereas most technologies tend to automate workers on the periphery doing menial tasks, blockchains automate away the center. Interest in blockchain has grown significantly over the past five years as the technology has matured and large organizations, and even world governments, have started dabbling in it. Blockchain 101.

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Balancing Function, Design, Process and Structure for Creative Tension

Paul Hobcraft

Having rigid structure or processes and many good observations or concepts can be screened out far too quickly due to “imposed” metrics or a defined idea of how “anything” gets captured and evaluated. We need to remain “open” to what and how we process this. Equally, you can contact Jeffrey or me directly.

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From Strategy to Revenue, Your B2B Website Is Your Most Important Marketing Channel 

Brunner

Each of these goals drives its own set of requirements for the website platform and technology you choose, as well as the content and layout of your pages. Integrate your entire marketing technology stack. Setting up a seamless connection between your key technologies will give you a complete view of a customer’s digital footprint.

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Establishing a new mentality for innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Due to this has become a much longer post than I would like and I apologize for that but I wanted to get the mentality issue well ‘aired’ and I needed to cover off a number of bases to frame this. Many companies that are “going digital” fit in this category — they are using new technologies to solve old problems.