**According to PriceWaterhouseCoopers’s 14th Annual Global CEO Survey 2011, “We assume that 50% of our revenue in 5 years’ time must come from sources that do not exist today. That is why we innovate.”
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L'énergie verte allemande va-t-elle faire sauter les plombs européens ? La priorité donnée au renouvelable outre-Rhin déstabilise le réseau électrique et tire les prix de gros vers le bas. Il faisait beau ce dimanche 16 juin 2013. Trop beau. Tellement beau que la consommation d'électricité en Europe a chuté, alors que la production d'énergie solaire et éolienne atteignait un pic.
Ce jour-là, le kilowattheure s'est échangé à prix négatif en France, à -20,29 euros. Une aberration économique, qui s'était déjà produite durant 70 heures de cotation en 2012 en Europe. Les producteurs seraient donc incapables de réguler le marché ? Si les exploitants de centrales peuvent supporter quelques heures de prix négatifs, la chute des prix sur le long terme pourrait, elle, avoir des conséquences beaucoup plus graves, car elle met en péril les investissements et l'existence même de certaines centrales.
Car l'Allemagne contamine tout le reste de l'Europe. En Allemagne, le taux d'utilisation des centrales à gaz est tombé à moins de 21% Ktc-preview. Extract from Kill the company. MOOC Info. SPOCs: Small private online classes may be better than MOOCs. Photo by Darren McCollester/Getty Images For a year or two there, free online classes seemed like they just might be the future of higher education. Why, some influential computer scientists wondered, should there be thousands of colleges and universities around the country all teaching the same classes to small groups of students, when you could get one brilliant professor to teach the material to the whole world at once via the Internet?
In a March 2012 Wired cover story about the phenomenon, Udacity founder and Stanford artificial-intelligence whiz Sebastian Thrun predicted that within 50 years there would be only 10 institutions of higher learning left in the world. Udacity, he reckoned, might be one of them. As of this month, that prediction is looking overblown. As much as everyone wants to see college costs reined in, replacing thousands of professors and classrooms with a handful of websites populated by remote talking heads cannot be the answer. The notion isn’t entirely novel. KPCB Internet Trends 2013. Being the Chief Innovation Officer. Amy Radin, one of America’s first Chief Innovation Officers, Shares the Lessons. Amy Radin became one of America's first Chief Innovation Officers when Citigroup appointed her to the role in 2005.
She is currently Chief Innovation officer at E*Trade Financial, the leading online discount stock brokerage. Amy talks to Innovation Management about what it takes to be a head up on innovation in a major corporation. IM: Something about innovation has changed – it used to be about developing new products and services but it seems now to be about so much more – the culture of an organization, the balance between execution and transformation, unprecedented challenges. Could you give me your take on what is different about innovation now compared to say 20 years ago? AR: Many things are different now. Technology has allowed so much more massive access to data, enabling almost limitless use, sharing and processing of information, knowledge and insight, at a relatively low cost of capital. I literally fell into it. You’re known for taking a VC-type approach to innovation. S 2013 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies Maps Out Evolving Relationship Between Humans and Machines.
STAMFORD, Conn., August 19, 2013 View All Press Releases 2013 Hype Cycle Special Report Evaluates the Maturity of More Than 1,900 Technologies Gartner to Host Complimentary Webinar "Emerging Technologies Hype Cycle for 2013: Redefining the Relationship," August 21 at 10 a.m. EDT and 1 p.m. EDT The evolving relationship between humans and machines is the key theme of Gartner, Inc.' Gartner's 2013 Hype Cycle Special Report provides strategists and planners with an assessment of the maturity, business benefit and future direction of more than 2,000 technologies, grouped into 98 areas. The Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies report is the longest-running annual Hype Cycle, providing a cross-industry perspective on the technologies and trends that senior executives, CIOs, strategists, innovators, business developers and technology planners should consider in developing emerging-technology portfolios.
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