{"id":55552,"date":"2014-05-14T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=55552"},"modified":"2014-05-15T07:05:42","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T03:05:42","slug":"innovation-defined","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/innovation-defined","title":{"rendered":"Innovation No Longer Defined by Big Investments, but Rather Everyday Things Done Differently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; margin: 11px 33px;\" src=\"http:\/\/abstractnonsense.com\/life-at-a-startup\/office.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"201\" \/>Canadian startups <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techvibes.com\/blog\/canada-risk-aversion-cultural-shift-propel-forward-2014-04-23\" target=\"_blank\">are infamous for their relative risk-aversion<\/a> but that doesn&#8217;t necessarily make them any less innovative than their peers elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><\/p>\n<p>A recent IDC survey commissioned by Salesforce suggests that 80% of Canadian small businesses believe innovation is a priority. Further, the survey found that innovation &#8220;is no longer defined by big investments in R&amp;D centres, but rather everyday use of technology to do things differently.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s innovative Canadian companies are open-minded when it comes to technology and adopt it more quickly than their peers; they&#8217;re deeply invested in mobile technology; and will fairly consider any technology that may help them serve customers better or operate more efficiently, even if it&#8217;s brand new and unproven, according to the survey.<\/p>\n<p>On the mobile front, 64% of innovative Canadian companies are making their business processes and resources more mobile friendly, while 79% of innovative Canadian companies say mobile workers use tablets in addition to mobile phones.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While mobile is magnetizing, innovative companies in Canada are shifting away from email, the survey suggests&mdash;29% of innovative companies are moving away from email in favour of more cutting-edge alternatives, while 47% use technology to reduce the amount of internal email communication amongst employees by using \u200binternal \u200bsocial technology, which they believe enhances virtual collaboration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian startups are infamous for their relative risk-aversion but that doesn&#8217;t necessarily make them any less innovative than their peers elsewhere. A recent IDC survey commissioned by Salesforce suggests that 80% of Canadian small businesses believe innovation is a priority. Further, the survey found that innovation &#8220;is no longer defined by big investments in R&amp;D [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54503,"featured_media":55554,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-55552","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/55552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/54503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/55552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/55554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55552"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=55552"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=55552"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=55552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}