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How strategic partnerships are the key to AI-driven innovation

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Innovate or die,” Peter Drucker’s 1985 exhortation on the importance of constant reinvention, was great business advice for the last 40 or so years. Budgets to build new innovations It’s always a challenge to find the budget to build new innovations and platforms when the primary focus of the CIO is to keep the business running.

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SAP Innovation Awards: Celebrating 10 Years of Innovation

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Rather, we see these as opportunities to innovate and make positive changes. This is why I hold the annual SAP Innovation Awards very dear to my heart. This program celebrates and honors the world’s best innovators and disruptors that utilize SAP solutions to help the world run better. But are these problems insurmountable?

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7 ways to foster IT innovation

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As an IT leader, being able to foster innovation not only benefits the IT itself, with greater efficiency, effectiveness and value, but the organization it serves and you personally, as it illustrates your ability to be an internal agent of change, a true business partner, and an asset at the strategy table. Build an innovation pipeline.

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How to incubate a winning innovation program

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Tesla, Uber, and many other stories of business innovation have this in common: Their business models have technology at their cores. They recognize that innovative use of technology is enabling new business models with competition-crushing advantages built right in. Does it sound like a lot could go wrong with this service?

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks.

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Accelerating innovation with cloud-native apps on Microsoft Cloud

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We spoke with Siddhartha Gupta, Global Head of Application Modernization on Azure at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) , about this trend and what financial services organizations need to do to improve their capacity for agility and innovation. They must adopt innovations as soon as they become available.

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Banking on customer experience and security via technology-based innovation

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Quick loan approvals, online applications, personalized lending options, and massive data breaches create pressure for banks to focus on customer experience and security to compete with more technically mature and agile competition. Source: “Innovation Digital Listening Research.” Conducted by Quadrant Strategies for Iron Mountain.

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