Purchase Solution

Breakthrough innovations

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

Research recent innovations on the Web. Find a recent innovation that you would consider a breakthrough innovation.

What breakthrough innovation did you select? Why? Describe the risk that was taken. What is the target audience for the innovation? Note the size of the company and any other details that you find are important.

519 words about Gmail

Purchase this Solution
Solution Summary

The expert examines breakthrough innovations.

Solution Preview

The discussion about the innovation is in the attached document.

Though email is not a recent technology, Gmail has created some new innovative features for its
email service that can be of great benefit to businesses and individuals. The first innovation is a new
beta inbox priority application, that sorts email according to importance. This allows users to read only
those messages that are of the most importance, getting back to other messages later. The assumption
is that many workers spend too much time sorting through emails and consider which ones need an
immediate reply and which messages can wait. It is designed to make workers more productive and
to help them with time management. The system determines the level of importance of inbox
messages, based on frequency of senders, the frequency and time frame in which emails are answered
for various ...

Solution provided by:
Beatrice Martino, MEd
Education
  • MEd, Jones International University
  • BSc, DeVry University
  • MPH, Walden University
Recent Feedback
  • "Thank you so much!"
  • "Great work"
  • "thanks for the information"
  • "Thanks for the information"
  • "Excellent Work, very well-written, clear and concise."
Purchase this Solution
Free BrainMass Quizzes
Understanding Management

This quiz will help you understand the dimensions of employee diversity as well as how to manage a culturally diverse workforce.

Transformational Leadership

This quiz covers the topic of transformational leadership. Specifically, this quiz covers the theories proposed by James MacGregor Burns and Bernard Bass. Students familiar with transformational leadership should easily be able to answer the questions detailed below.

Paradigms and Frameworks of Management Research

This quiz evaluates your understanding of the paradigm-based and epistimological frameworks of research. It is intended for advanced students.

Six Sigma for Process Improvement

A high level understanding of Six Sigma and what it is all about. This just gives you a glimpse of Six Sigma which entails more in-depth knowledge of processes and techniques.

Change and Resistance within Organizations

This quiz intended to help students understand change and resistance in organizations

View More Free Quizzes
Related BrainMass Solutions

  • Radical innovations

    536846 Fundamental Changes Produced by Radical Innovations Radical innovations produce fundamental changes by evoking major departures from existing practices. These breakthrough innovations seldom occur due to technological changes.

  • At 3M, a Struggle between Efficiency and Creativity

    He managed to get incremental innovations through the DMAIC process that is define, measure, analyze, improve, and control. This process is incremental in nature.

  • Building an Idea Factory

    Apple is best suited for breakthrough technology due to their innovations, whereas other companies are more suited for incremental innovation. It is really industry-based.

  • T-Mobile Strategy

    Moreover, consider both top-line innovations (ways to increase revenue) and bottom-line innovations (ways to improve efficiencies and profitability). The deliverable will be a minimum of 10 -pages.

  • Do companies necessarily need to come up with something new, unique, innovative and superior in order to be successful?

    These we call "discontinuous innovations," "breakthrough innovations," or "game changing innovations."

  • Legal Business Issues

    John makes a technical breakthrough and his product is impressive. He approaches a venture capital firm and with their offer to back him, he quits Mega Corporation to start and build his own company.

  • Inferiority Of Competing Products

    Joseph has obtained technological leadership because of direct breakthrough in technology. Further, even though his product can be obtained by his competitors they do not have full access to his trade secrets.

  • Characteristics of Innovation Opportunities

    This led to a breakthrough. That's reframing! Your discussion is 222 words plus a reference.

  • Compare and Define Innovation, Design, and Creativity

    Then it is considered innovating and can be released as a breakthrough product. In my organization we use creative brainstorming when we are thinking of new products to launch.

View More Related Solutions