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innovation

[in-uh-vey-shuhn] / ˌɪn əˈveɪ ʃən /


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When I sat down with ServiceNow’s longtime chief innovation officer, Dave Wright, he confirmed that.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

“The latter two have not been emphasized in the Tim Cook era but AI could require Apple to move with a higher rate of change when the speed of innovation is accelerating,” Mohan added.

From MarketWatch Aug. 20, 2026

In a Facebook post shortly after his dismissal, Fedorov listed his achievements and said he would "continue... to defeat the enemy through asymmetry, speed of innovation, and organisational strength".

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

Kate arrives, and we’re looking at a business that’s in rapid decline with no innovation, with enormous debt, $20 billion of debt, and $10 billion of it was due in 2027.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

Clockwork, of course, was not a seventeenth-century innovation.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

It’s late summer, just weeks before we get to our annual flood of new technologies and innovations that set the stage for the year ahead.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

Breakfast burritos in L.A. are canvases for individual creative expression, innovations that graft global cuisines or basic energy bombs to fuel the day.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

He added that the bill “will keep us ahead of China, keep us ahead of everyone else, will open the door to the next wave of innovations and innovators.”

From MarketWatch Aug. 19, 2026

“The Pop-Tart is one of the great American innovations in history,” Rubio responded.

From Salon Aug. 15, 2026

To get to this point took a lot of new software innovation piled on the shoulders of earlier innovations.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman




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