Innovation

Innovation generally refers to changing processes or creating more effective processes, products and ideas. For businesses, this could mean implementing new ideas, creating dynamic products or improving your existing services.

(source: business.gov.au)

Innovation
A CFO’s Take On Growing Businesses In A World Full Of Unknowns
September 17, 2020

This will be the first holiday season in roughly 40 years when Black Friday isn’t quite happening on the day after Thanksgiving. That isn’t to say Black Friday isn’t happening at all — a fact that Karen Webster and Kount Chief Financial Officer Scott Klossner observed...

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Virtual Roar Of The Crowd Enough For ‘Virtual’ Fandom Amid Pandemic?
September 11, 2020

Now if only they could recreate the smell of the hotdogs, the taste of the flat overpriced beer — or pipe in the obnoxious play-by-play patter of the guy behind you. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...

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Mastercard Leads New Central Bank Digital Currency Test Platform
September 09, 2020

Mastercard has announced a new virtual testing platform for Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS...

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Labor Day Weekend 2020: Where The Kentucky Derby, Dragon Con And Burning Man Go Virtual
September 05, 2020

Every year, Americans cap off the summer with a collective mini-vacation called Labor Day — an event marked with barbecues, trips to the beach, catching a ballgame and pretty much doing as little labor as humanly possible. It’s something of a unique entity, insofar as it’s...

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Entrepreneurial Upscale Chefs Are Plating Recovery Plans
September 04, 2020

Quick-service restaurants (QSRs), fast casual eateries and fast-food drive-thrus keep dominating headlines throughout the pandemic as a nation is understandably obsessed with staying fed on lockdown and after, when breathing the open air still feels oddly risky. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

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 GM And Honda Explore Designing Cars Together
September 03, 2020

General Motors and Honda are teaming up in a budding alliance between two auto giants that were at one time bitter rivals. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional...

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The Robots Are Coming – And Some Are Already Here
August 29, 2020

Here at PYMNTS, we’ve long bemoaned our lack of a robot butler. “The Jetsons,” after all, promised us a bright future of flying cars and Rosey the Robot to make our meals, clean our messes, do our laundry and offer up snappy comebacks throughout the whole...

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Microsoft Word To Take Voice Commands, Transcribe Recordings
August 25, 2020

Microsoft said on Tuesday (Aug. 25) in a blog post that updates to Office 365 will allow users to record conversations “directly in Word for the web and transcribe them automatically.” Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...

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The Traditional Events That Are Getting Their Digital Debuts
August 22, 2020

In the era of COVID-19, as the world is awaiting a vaccine that will formally bring the pandemic to a close worldwide and consign it to the realm of the ill-remembered past, a lot of traditions are looking to make their virtual/digital debuts. Everything from...