Features such as location-based services, near field communications, augmented reality and an array of motion sensors deliver a platform ideal for business process innovation.

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Instead this can be handled by external specialists, as firms embrace business process innovation to create more efficient organisations that can retain and manage their knowledge effectively.

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Further, those IT capabilities can be applied to new questions, and new information that would be routinely transferred from the CITO to the business, which could then start a process of innovation.

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Whilst there are many arguments that hold true - one being that businesses suffer from the increasing burden of completing government paper work and tax returns - I personally think that significantly more should be done to bring business, entrepreneurship and innovation into the educational process.

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During the late 1980s into the 1990s, business innovation was often driven by top-down initiatives for the sake of business process re-engineering and enterprise resource planning software.

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MPs on the Commons Business, Innovation and Skills select committee voted against accepting the appointment of Prof Ebdon and called for the recruitment process to begin again but he was later confirmed in his post.

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