Are we ready for the next big thing?

THE BIG IDEA Beware the Next Big Thing

The Next Big Thing: Position Statements

This panel is a celebration of artiicial intelligence (AI). Basing its claims to interest on the past accomplishments of AI, it highlights some of the new exciting concepts and technologies that compete for the title The Next Big Thing.

What is the Next Big Innovation Management Theme?

The next big innovation management theme, what could it possible be? Are we stuck with standardizing the End to End innovation process, using innovation ecosystems and lean forever or is there more to come? There is more to come, the next big thing may be an evolutionary innovation process sucking in all kinds of best practices, it may be white spot anaylsis, helping companies to look beyond th...

Adapting to Learn, Learning to Adapt

The Next Big Thing Adaptive, or personalized, learning is becoming the next big thing in online education. By providing each student with a custom, personalized path through courses and tracking both content covered and level of attained mastery, adaptive learning platforms hold great promise for enhancing student learning and success. Adaptive course content is organized as a set of nodes in a...

Predicting the Next Big Thing: Success as a Signal of Poor Judgment

Successfully predicting that something will become a big hit seems impressive. Managers and entrepreneurs who have made successful predictions and have invested money on this basis are promoted, become rich, and may end up on the cover of business magazines. In this paper, we show that an accurate prediction about such an extreme event, e.g., a big hit, may in fact be an indication of poor rath...