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Category: Innovation, Silicon Valley
First COVID, then Palantir, then Hewlett Packard Enterprise and now Oracle. The news of recent weeks and months gives the impression that the area around San Francisco and San Jose, better known as Silicon Valley, is past its prime. The Corona crisis led to local companies having to offer home offices to their employees, which …
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Category: Innovation, Organisation
It is sometimes only a short way from the shooting star to the loathed spy tool to the takeover target. The Chinese music and short video platform TikTok has experienced a steep rise in the last few years and especially since the COVID lockdown. The app has seen two billion downloads so far, of which …
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Like many other companies in the transport and travel industry, Germany’s flagship Lufthansa is fighting the COVID 19 pandemic and the imposed curfews and border closures. While the company was still in good shape at the beginning of the year, it has developed into a case of reorganisation in just a few months (through no …
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Category: Innovation, Portraits
Some innovation managers or lecturers who use the term “disruptive innovation” will not know it, but this term was coined by Harvard professor Clayton Christensen. In my books, which have dealt a lot with innovation, disruption and human behavior, I have repeatedly referred to Christensen’s works and results. Each of his books was required reading …
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Category: Behavioral Economics, Digital, Foresight Thinking, Innovation
About seven thousand pages tightly scribbled with notes and drawings of Leonardo da Vinci have survived into modern times. Experts estimate that they count for a quarter of his total work, covering all known disciplines in science and the arts. His thirst for knowledge was so big, that he repeatedly got lost into new questions that came …
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A German technology magazine recently asked tech celebrities about the devices that they carry on business trips. The digital evangelist of one German car company mentioned his iPhone 6. What? iPhone 6 in 2018? Since then the iPhone 7, 8, X and Xs came out, with the latter ones including facial recognition. That European tech …
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Category: Innovation
Apr 23
Where tender branches are growing, trees seem to be the most sensitive. Some trees that are coming too close in forests avoid contact with their own. The canopy forms gaps between the tree crowns that look like capillary. This phenomena is not equally common among tree types. Beech and ash trees seem more sensitive than …
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Category: Innovation
Incremental and disruptive innovation are two of the raw distinctions how we categorize innovation. Incremental innovation comes in steps. Examples are the improvement of a production process, or the step-by-step reduction of exhaust emissions in a Diesel engine. Disruptive innovation seems to come in big jumps. Horse carriages that were pushed aside by cars, film …
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Category: Innovation, Visit
Visitors of the innovation capital of the world have different reasons why they come. Most of them come to San Francisco to feel the city and dive into its atmosphere. Those are the tourists. But then there are those visitors, who come, because innovation is a hot topic. Not all of them have the same …
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Category: Design Thinking, Foresight Thinking, Innovation
Experts and futurists love telling what the future will bring. Often a lot of money is made with those predictions, but they rarely become reality. We still have no flying cars, but 140 character tweets, as the investor Peter Thiel once stated. Also the attention grabbing predictions of the Club of Rome about the limits …
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