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Innovation Barometer

Dane Linn: Building the Workforce of Tomorrow — Business Leaders Stepping Up

Dane Linn Business Roundtable
January 19, 2016

By creating new ways of learning and working, we not only can close the skills gap — but unlock the economy’s growth potential.

 

Ask CEOs what their top challenge is and they will tell you: recruiting and retaining skilled talent across their enterprises.
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Innovation Barometer

Quiz: What’s Your Innovation Language?

January 19, 2016
What innovative talents do you bring to the job? Are you the creative type, a problem-solver, able to navigate uncertainty with ease? You might be in the wrong place — even the wrong country — to optimize your talents. In fact, different innovative skills are valued more in some countries than others, as the GE Global Innovation Barometer shows. Take this quiz to find out whether your innovative talents would thrive more in Paris, Tokyo or a different innovation hub:
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Jay Rogers: Why Collaboration Is Critical in Today’s Economy, But Not a Panacea

Jay Rogers Local Motors
January 19, 2016

Collaboration is becoming an increasingly powerful innovation tool, but it’s important to harness its power for good. Here’s how.

 

Never before in history has knowledge been able to have so much power.
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Klaus Schwab: The 4th Industrial Revolution: What It Means, How to Respond

Klaus Schwab Founder And Executive Chairman World Economic Forum
January 17, 2016

As the lines blur between the physical and digital, we need to ensure the technological revolution has a positive impact on society.

 
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Alan Marcus: Data and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Alan Marcus Senior Director Head Of Information Technology And Telecommunications Industries World Economic Forum
December 16, 2015

We are moving toward the fourth industrial revolution, in which mobile communications, social media and sensors are blurring the boundaries between people, the Internet and the physical world.

 

Data is increasingly building up on who we are, who we know, where we are, where we have been and where we plan to go. Mining and analysing this data lets us understand and predict how people behave at the individual, group and global level. These swathes of new digital data are as valuable for economies and societies as they are fraught with questions about privacy.
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Marco Annunziata: Innovation Barometer — Businesses Disruption-Ready, in Right Conditions

Marco Annunziata GE
January 20, 2015
Our world is changing faster than ever. The marriage of digital and physical technologies is accelerating change in industry; the rise of the Global Brain with crowdsourcing and open-source collaboration is enabling hyper-charged innovation; and global growth is rapidly reshaping the map of global economic power. The confluence of these three forces is bringing about an unprecedented degree of disruption.
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Zeroing in on the Big Picture

GE Look Ahead
December 31, 2014

Why, where and how companies will innovate in 2015

If patents are viable proxies for innovation, then “innovation is on the rise”, states the Thomson Reuter’s 2014 State of Innovation report. The computing sector alone logged in 300,000 unique inventions. Rounding out the report’s top five most innovative industries were telecommunications (126,000 patents), automotive (123,000), semiconductors (97,000) and medical devices (75,000). All five industries had more R&D activity in 2013 than in the year before.

 
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Marco Annunziata: Innovation Can Deliver Skills for MENAT Region’s Future

Marco Annunziata GE
September 29, 2014
One of the most striking results of the GE 2014 Global Innovation Barometer is the extent to which the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey region (MENAT) is ready to embrace innovation.
 
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What do Australian execs see as the key to business innovation?

September 16, 2014
What does it take to innovate? You need to be small, collaborative and globally connected according to the executives surveyed by the 2014 GE Innovation Barometer, a global study which asked business people in 26 countries what it takes to get their creative juices flowing.
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Does Your Innovation Plan Make You Disruption-Ready?

Ariel Avitan Signals Intelligence Group
June 26, 2014
Can you create a bulletproof plan for innovation in a rapidly changing world? Most executives recognize that “planned, structured and repeatable processes” have enabled sustained and successful innovations at companies like Apple, Google, Samsung, P&G, and Nike.
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