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Internet of Things

The internet of things is a network where everyday devices, appliances, and other objects equipped with computer chips and sensors collect and transmit data through the internet. This empowers the ‚smart’ objects to be active participants in selfsteering, event driven processes. In smart factories, machines consistently capturing data, to provide business intelligence opportunities.

Digital Twin

​​​​​​​A Digital Twin is a digital replica of a physical asset: a piece of equipment, a production line, anything that can produce a stream of data in real-time. It is a powerful tool to improve operations, increase efficiency, or troubleshoot its physical counterpart. With a Digital Twin, it is possible to simulate plans or build what-if scenarios for products and processes at an early stage.

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Cyber Warfare

A cyberattack is an offensive attack with the aim of getting into computer information systems, infrastructures, computer networks and/or personal computer devices of individuals or organizations and stealing, modifying, or destroying data. The number of these cyberattacks has increased continuously in recent years, causing immense damage and being very lucrative for hackers.

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New Work

Future work will be refreshing, fulfilling, innovative. Digital, flexible working, agile project organization, and personal responsibility are the core attributes of Next Generation Work. The number of jobs created by the Fourth Industrial Revolution will exceed those that will be eliminated. Employees will have learned to be in work-life-balance and focus on optimal work-life-blending.  

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Agile Business Models

Dynamic business models can be quickly adapted to emerging trends in a VUCA-world. Based on market-driven data, emerging customer needs can be implemented promptly, and sufficient change management supports a sustainable competitive advantage. Related to the dynamic and agile world, a culture of failing fast furthermore supports the agile endeavors of via this form of business models.

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Green Business Models

Green business models incorporate a new approach in the economic and environmental dimensions, with a focus on overall sustainability. These innovations are driven by a change in customer needs, social values, and technological advancement. With opportunities such as servitization and new markets, companies emphasize transforming to greener business models and reducing the overall impact.

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Digital Health

Robots like Baymax and tricorder scanners are not sciencefiction. AI and robots that support, diagnose, and treat people are already in homes, workplaces, and clinical environments. These transformations take place there, for instance, when physicists in collaboration with data scientist and robotics experts, develop smart prostheses or robots that will perform the most complicated surgeries.

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Last Mile Delivery

Companies are trying to develop new technologies and experimental supply chain models to increase current packaging volumes, speed up delivery, and satisfy customers – all while trying to reduce costs. One of the biggest challenges is same-day, last-mile shipping. When a product is shipped from the warehouse to the customer, the “last mile” of delivery is the final step in the process.

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Product as a Service

Product as a service is the concept of selling the services and outcomes a product can provide rather than the product itself. The term is a variant of the “as-a-service” phrasing that has grown along with the popularity
of cloud computing in, for example, software as a service (SaaS) and employs similar subscription-based pricing.

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Customer Integration

The integration of customers at the front end of innovation, has the goal of gaining rich insights on customers behavior, opinions and preferences. This fundamental information is then used in the next phases of the
innovation process as means to reduce technical and market uncertainties. The outcomes of this integration are products that effectively address customer’s needs.

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Machine Innovation

Companies are trying to develop new technologies and experimental supply chain models to increase current packaging volumes, speed up delivery, and satisfy customers – all while trying to reduce costs. One of the biggest challenges is same-day, last-mile shipping. When a product is shipped from the warehouse to the customer, the “last mile” of delivery is the final step in the process.

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Blockchain & Distributed Ledgers

Blockchain combines existing technologies to create a network of digital trust. The principals of transparency, data security, and efficiency are the cornerstones of a blockchain. Decentralized systems and autonomous organizations have the potential to transform existing industries via new value propositions. Based on the principals of the token economy, traditional economic systems are challenged.

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Virtual Assistant

A Virtual Assistant (VA) is a software agent that performs tasks or services based on natural language commands to assist people or automate tasks. VAs listen to and observe behaviors, build and maintain data
models, and predict and recommend actions. VAs can be deployed in several use cases, including virtual personal, virtual customer, and virtual employee assistants.

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Mirror World

Soon everything in the real world – every building, every street, and every room – will have its full-size digital twin in the mirror world. Only tiny parts of the mirror world are currently visible through AR devices. Put together; the numerous virtual elements build places that exist parallel to the real world. Google Earth has long offered an idea of what this mirror world will look like.

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Biohacking

With every new technology, there are pioneers, and there are renegades. What started as a body-tinkering, mind-hacking, supplement-taking productivity craze, is now spreading around the world. On the one hand,
Biohackers cover the unmet human need to know what goes on inside our bodies when we are eating, drinking, thinking, and moving. On the other hand, biohackers use their garages to work half legally to hack
genomes of animals and plants. Results are reproducing prohibitively expensive medical treatments or shining firefly trees that are supposed to replace urban light systems.

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Human Robot Symbiosis

Human-robot symbiosis aims to realize a culture in which humans and robots learn from each other. Symbiosis robots have the potential to mediate humans’ information exchange actively. The robot is a partner for promoting peoples’ collaborative creation of new knowledge. For this future society, a new research area will be necessary where robotics, cognitive science and learning science collaborate.

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Quantum Computing

With the help of quantum computing, current implicit knowledge could be made explicit. Not only would it affect complex calculations, which are impossible with classical computers, it would also revolutionize processes. It could also radically change the workforces of various industries, such as in materials and drug research, the optimization of complex systems, and artificial intelligence.

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Youth Bulge & Aging Pop

Over the next two to three decades, as the fertility decline becomes stronger and population momentum slows, the number of young people will peak and begin to drop. What started in Europe in the mid-18th century and took over 200 years to complete, began in Asia and Latin America during the 20th century and will be completed in less than 100 years. It is now starting in Africa.