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Innovation Hero Worship: FTX, Theranos, and the Media
Journalists and the media need to take a skeptical and critical view of innovators and their innovations. Just because someone is considered an “expert” or an “innovator” doesn’t mean that they should automatically believe everything they say. They should ask questions and demand evidence. They should be willing to challenge the idea.
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Jan Ariesen of Technetix on Prioritizing Innovation
Engineers typically focus on solving today’s problems but don’t take time to think about tomorrow. Technetix has a reputation for solving tomorrow’s problems that others in the broadband industry don’t think of. Predicting the future is not simple, as you will almost always be wrong. Technetix empowers its employees by giving them the freedom…
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Social Media Gone Rogue
How does one change a social media site that has gone rogue? This is a very timely problem. I feel responsible a little to come up with solutions because I “discovered” the way that group-forming networks grow in “value” and “utility” as they scale (Reed’s Law), which leads to monopolization of the market. To me,…
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Are You an Innovator or an Imitator?
In an age where the latest and greatest technology is just a click away, it’s easy to become an imitator. We see something new and want it without considering whether we really need it. We buy into the hype without stopping to think about the implications of our purchase. Before we know it, our homes…
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What is Disruptive Innovation?
Disruptive innovation is a process whereby a smaller company or startup introduces a new product or service that is significantly cheaper, better, or faster than what is currently available in the market. This can be done in a number of ways, such as developing a new technology or business model that eliminates the need for…
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The Near Future Film — Enjoy The Ride
Using our Innovation Storytelling approach, the team produced the five (5) The Near Future films to inspire innovators to create technologies and experiences supported by the broadband network. This film, The Near Future—Enjoy The Ride, gives others the ability to answer their own personal “what if” with fast networks with multi-gigabit speeds in 3 to…
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What is Open Innovation and Why Should You Care?
In business, open innovation is the proactive process of leveraging ideas, resources, and capabilities from beyond an organization’s boundaries in order to create new value for shareholders. It is a paradigm that enables organizations to combine internal strengths with those of other organizations in order to develop and bring new products or services to market…

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