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In Blockchain We Trust
Tech headlines today herald the potential impact of blockchain technology on industries such as crowdsourcing, transportation, and inter-company collaboration (supply chains). We’re inundated today with projects targeting these...
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“In order to have a breakthrough, you have to break something”
I wish I had come up with that line, but I must give credit to Joe Polish. It neatly sums up the times we’re living in, where the pace and scale of change are disrupting many established business models and social norms, and...
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Bold Open Innovation Sparking Both Business and Social Impact
Open innovation is a term coined by Henry Chesbrough in his 2003 book, “Open Innovation: The new imperative for creating and profiting from technology”. Open innovation assumes that valuable ideas can come from inside or out of...
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Global Corporation is BOLD Enough to Disrupt Itself
We’re getting increasingly used to witnessing the commercial disruption taking place due to mass digital connectivity giving rise to new business models. In many instances it’s where existing players in a market place come under...
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Open Innovation Success Through HeroX Challenges
More and more organizations, including some of the largest corporations, are increasingly moving their problem solution processes and product or service development ideation from an internal to an external environment. Through...
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What Is Your Personal Moonshot?
The LinkedIn profile of billionaire entrepreneur Naveen Jain lists 10 active roles. He is driven to solve the world’s biggest challenges through innovation, and is the founder of several successful companies including Moon...
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How HeroX Helps Solve Humanity’s Problems
All too often, the biggest challenges require the most radical solutions and innovations. Yet most companies don’t recruit on the basis of candidates being radical, they tend to prefer reliability and consistency. Add in the...
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How Crowdsourcing is Making Science Smarter
Major scientific discovery has traditionally been the playground of one group: the elite. It’s no coincidence that Darwin, Copernicus, and others legends came from well-off backgrounds as scientific breakthroughs often require...
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A Thousand Eyes Are Better Than Two
How do you scan an area of 305,000 sq km (118,000 sq mi)? This was the challenge for several countries in 2014, trying to solve the mystery of the lost Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Tremendous effort and resources were put into...
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How Crowdsourcing is Changing Innovation in Science and the Space Frontier
The abundant and ceaseless supply of scientific information causes overload. Scientists, no matter how intelligent and hardworking they are, and with the best computers at their disposal, are pushed past the point where they can...
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