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Electrification Software Energy

Amit Narayan: How Software Can Eat the Energy Industry and Help Save the World

Dr Amit Narayan Autogrid Inc
January 26, 2016

By embracing the 4th Industrial Revolution, we transform the electric grid and we can improve access to affordable, reliable power.

 
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Innovation

David Kidder: Taming Big To Bigger — Fostering New to Big

David S Kidder Author Of The Startup Playbook Co Founder Of Bionic
January 24, 2016

The Fortune 500’s success at “optimizing at will” has come at a cost. To survive in today’s fast-paced global economy, it’s time to focus the ability to “grow at will.” You need to install a Growth Operating System.

 

Ask a Fortune 500 CEO, “How many $50 million companies did you launch last year?” The answer should be: “many.” A great company should be teeming with growth. But more likely than not, the answer you’ll get is: “zero.”
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healthcare-delivery

Erin Will Morton: Global Health Innovation — A Shared Responsibility

Erin Will Morton Coalition Director At The Global Health Technologies Coalition
January 21, 2016

Innovation can help tackle some of our greatest global health challenges. But to attract the necessary investment and achieve our goals, we must work together as a global community.

 

New health technologies improve human health and unlock human potential. From the polio vaccine and antiretroviral drugs to a novel meningitis vaccine and appropriately dosed, child-friendly tuberculosis (TB) drugs, life gets better through innovation.
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Innovation Barometer

Preparing Youth for the Jobs of the Future — Interview With Jamie McAuliffe of Education For Employment

Jamie Mcauliffe President Ceo Of Education For Employment
January 21, 2016

Youth unemployment is a global priority — especially in areas like the MENA region. We need to prepare students for the 4th Industrial Revolution by giving them the skills they need to keep up with technologically advances.

 
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Innovation Barometer

The Animal Spirits Index: GE Chief Economist Marco Annunziata Explains The Innovation Barometer

Tomas Kellner
January 21, 2016
State leaders, powerful executives, prominent philanthropists and influential thinkers are getting together for their annual gathering in Davos this week. As usual, Marco Annunziata, GE’s chief economist, is also making the pilgrimage to the snowy Swiss valley. GE Reports caught up with him just as he was packing his bags. We talked about the importance of measuring innovation and GE’s Global Innovation Barometer, which the company released in Davos on Tuesday.
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Innovation Barometer

Njideka Harry: 4th Industrial Revolution Lies at the Intersection of Education and Entrepreneurship in Africa

Njideka Harry Youth For Technology Foundation
January 20, 2016

Africa’s young innovators can leapfrog into the digital revolution with the right tools and training.

 

The 4th Industrial Revolution is driven by newer technologies, such as 3D printing, that are changing industrial processes by accelerating them and making them more flexible. With the right tools and training, young innovators in Africa have the opportunity to skip the second industrial revolution — traditional mass production — and leapfrog straight to digital manufacturing. This, in turn, can provide them with a path out of poverty.
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Innovation Barometer

Mike Gregoire: 3 Keys To Building an Agile Society for the 4th Industrial Revolution

Mike Gregoire Ceo Of Ca Technologies
January 20, 2016
To reap the benefits of the digital revolution, we need to transform the pillars of society to focus on collaboration and connection and empowerment. Here’s how.
 

As the world’s top economical thinkers and leaders convene this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, all the focus will center on the 4th Industrial Revolution — how individual organizations and the world at large are transforming, willingly or not, at the hands of technology.
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Innovation Barometer

Disrupt or Disappear: New Innovation Barometer Finds Digital Technologies Grow Opportunities as Well as Pressure on Businesses

Tomas Kellner
January 19, 2016
Thomas Edison, one of the world’s most prolific inventors, said his main purpose in life was to make enough money to create ever more inventions. “I find out what the world needs,” Edison declared. “Then I go ahead and try to invent it.”
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Innovation Barometer

GE Global Innovation Barometer: Customize Your Results

January 19, 2016
The 2016 GE Global Innovation Barometer surveys business executives in 24 countries around the globe. Use the tools below to compare results in each country and create your own customized view of the survey findings for each topic.
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Innovation Barometer

4 Visions of Innovation

January 19, 2016
The 4th Industrial Revolution is study in contrasts, as the GE Global Innovation Barometer illustrates. Optimism about the power of innovation to address some of society’s greatest challenges, mixed with fear of “Digital Darwinism” and becoming obsolete. A growing recognition of collaboration as a competitive advantage, combined with the empowerment of individuals who have access to an increasing array of digital tools.
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