2020’s upheaval of lifestyles and work practices has seen many business winners and losers. Social distancing, and in some countries curfews, have floored many leisure and hospitality companies. Travel clampdowns have grounded aircraft and caused hotel closures. On...
Welcome to an update of what proved to be a popular article looking at some great open innovation platforms. Innovation is crucial to survive in today’s disruptive and fast moving industrial and commercial landscape. It’s predicted that digital disruption will wipe...
We are at the beginning of a period of exponential growth through harnessing human intellect with intelligent technology. The pace of change is often said to get faster and faster, the increase in the world’s collective knowledge is certainly growing faster and...
In five years, Narek Vardanyan, CEO and co-founder of The Crowdfunding Formula, built the world’s largest agency that specialises in supporting entrepreneurs who want to launch new and innovative products, and generate high level pre-orders through crowdfunding. The...
This month, Airbnb and restaurant meal delivery service Door Dash floated on the US public stock market with resounding success, making immediate and spectacular gains. Then they fall back, and some commentators became alarmist, as if something was going wrong. Here...
Could you imagine a tiny country like Singapore aiming to lead the acceleration of Open Innovation in Asia? Its population of under six million belies its economic strength and vitality, and Enterprise Singapore is doing just that - working with a number of public and...
Reward crowdfunding has come a long way from its early days on Indiegogo and Kickstarter as a way of raising money to support creative ideas and projects. There have been projects that generated millions of dollars’ worth of pre-orders for exciting new products, and...
A wide range of industry sectors are using speech technology, helping people to save time, improve effectiveness and efficiency, and ultimately even save lives. Key sectors where advances are being made include consumer durables, automotive, healthcare, banking and...
Google is running closed beta testing for its own new app called “Task Mate.” It asks users to perform simple tasks in exchange for a payment that can be cashed out in local currency. The Task Mate app is currently available on an invitation-only basis in India and...
Crowdsourcing is increasingly acknowledged as an efficient way to pursue business objectives through harnessing the abilities, might, ideas, and creativity of groups of people who could be dispersed all around the globe. It certainly applies to marketing and branding...
Call centre users want to experience excellent customer service, and providing it is vital to the long-term success of any business. Callers want to be put through, ideally just once, to a skilful solutions provider who can address their issue quickly and accurately,...
The “work from home” revolution ignited stronger demand than ever before for mobile telecom services. Consumers are also more reliant on their mobile networks for education and entertainment during lockdowns and other periods of restricted travel. The introduction of...