Innovaro’s Trend and Foresight group specializes in the integration of foresight, strategy, and innovation. We deliver timely and provocative technology and consumer foresight research to Fortune 500 and government organizations, helping them look 5, 10, or even 25 years into the future.
Simply put, we help our clients build the capacity to understand and influence the future.
Gain awareness of the future
Uncover new market opportunities
Identify global consumer trends
Learn about impactful emerging technologies
Understand driving forces shaping the future
Gain a long-range perspective for planning
The slides from my presentation on "Delivering the Future - how we identify the trends and translate them into actionable opportunities" at the Future Trends 2009 Conference in Miami, November 3 2009.
Entrepreneurship in South East Asia marketBernard Leong
The focus on this talk delivered for Penn-Olson's private investors and entrepreneurs' gathering. Focus on technology entrepreneurship, particularly in the consumer internet space, and both business & venture capital activity here.
This document discusses quality in foresight and forecasting for emerging markets. It begins by providing examples of past forecast failures and outlines several "levels" of future uncertainty. It then discusses various "limits" or challenges with different forecasting approaches, such as relying only on sector experts, overextrapolating trends, and the limitations of quantitative forecasting. It advocates using scenarios to explore multiple plausible futures rather than single point predictions. The document concludes by outlining implications for views of emerging markets like South Africa in 2030, emphasizing the need to plan for unpredictable change, practice high-quality foresight, respect consumer adoption patterns, and understand when we can influence versus must adapt to the future.
The document discusses several key ICT trends worldwide:
1. Open innovation and crowdsourcing, where companies collaborate with outside partners and the public to generate ideas. Examples given include a juice company collaborating on new flavors and an open smartphone platform.
2. Reality sensing, which analyzes existing data like mobile phone and sensor data to measure events in real-time. Examples include traffic monitoring and flu tracking.
3. Empowering energy efficiency, with consumers and businesses seeking more sustainable energy solutions. Examples include devices that generate power from human motion and smart homes that monitor energy usage.
4. Human interface trends like emotions in robots, brain-wave controlled devices, and new semantic search engines
Michael Reilly - Learning to rhyme: reflections on foresightSTEPS Centre
Presentation at the STEPS Conference 2010 - Pathways to Sustainability: Agendas for a new politics of environment, development and social justice
http://www.steps-centre.org/events/stepsconference2010.html
Industry foresight is an understanding of emerging trends, drivers, opportunities, and disruptions within a market or industry. It allows companies to establish strategies that leverage future trends to gain a competitive advantage. Strategic innovation is created at the intersection of industry foresight, customer insight, and strategic alignment across an organization. An effective process monitors triggers in the external environment, engages thought leaders, and brings together these three elements to identify new opportunities like products, services, business models, and markets.
The slides from my presentation on "Delivering the Future - how we identify the trends and translate them into actionable opportunities" at the Future Trends 2009 Conference in Miami, November 3 2009.
Entrepreneurship in South East Asia marketBernard Leong
The focus on this talk delivered for Penn-Olson's private investors and entrepreneurs' gathering. Focus on technology entrepreneurship, particularly in the consumer internet space, and both business & venture capital activity here.
This document discusses quality in foresight and forecasting for emerging markets. It begins by providing examples of past forecast failures and outlines several "levels" of future uncertainty. It then discusses various "limits" or challenges with different forecasting approaches, such as relying only on sector experts, overextrapolating trends, and the limitations of quantitative forecasting. It advocates using scenarios to explore multiple plausible futures rather than single point predictions. The document concludes by outlining implications for views of emerging markets like South Africa in 2030, emphasizing the need to plan for unpredictable change, practice high-quality foresight, respect consumer adoption patterns, and understand when we can influence versus must adapt to the future.
The document discusses several key ICT trends worldwide:
1. Open innovation and crowdsourcing, where companies collaborate with outside partners and the public to generate ideas. Examples given include a juice company collaborating on new flavors and an open smartphone platform.
2. Reality sensing, which analyzes existing data like mobile phone and sensor data to measure events in real-time. Examples include traffic monitoring and flu tracking.
3. Empowering energy efficiency, with consumers and businesses seeking more sustainable energy solutions. Examples include devices that generate power from human motion and smart homes that monitor energy usage.
4. Human interface trends like emotions in robots, brain-wave controlled devices, and new semantic search engines
Michael Reilly - Learning to rhyme: reflections on foresightSTEPS Centre
Presentation at the STEPS Conference 2010 - Pathways to Sustainability: Agendas for a new politics of environment, development and social justice
http://www.steps-centre.org/events/stepsconference2010.html
Industry foresight is an understanding of emerging trends, drivers, opportunities, and disruptions within a market or industry. It allows companies to establish strategies that leverage future trends to gain a competitive advantage. Strategic innovation is created at the intersection of industry foresight, customer insight, and strategic alignment across an organization. An effective process monitors triggers in the external environment, engages thought leaders, and brings together these three elements to identify new opportunities like products, services, business models, and markets.
This document provides a foresight study on ICT R&D trends in India conducted for the European Commission. It utilized the Delphi method with 30 Indian ICT experts over 3 rounds to identify priority technology areas for India in the next 2, 5, and 10 years. The study aims to enhance ongoing research collaboration between India and EU states and support the goals of the EU-India ICT Joint Working Group. The results identify core and sector-specific technology focus areas in healthcare, energy, and governance. Additionally, the study examines Indian societal trends influencing priorities and the visionaries' awareness and suggestions regarding EU collaboration opportunities.
1) The document discusses 10 trends in strategic foresight for defense and security planning.
2) It notes a shift towards more serious strategic analysis that balances short, medium, and long term planning horizons.
3) Foresight is moving towards a whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach, and using a more diverse set of foresight tools and methods.
4) There is a push to better link foresight to action, balance external and internal perspectives, and develop new foresight products beyond traditional planning documents.
What has happened to Foresight in the UK?Ian Miles
The UK Foresight Programme has been widely lauded. But how is it valued by the current government? This presentation examines trends in the Programme, which suggest that forebodings expressed in 2010 have proved accurate.
Insight to foresight - Marketing Research SectorAyesha Saeed Haq
The document discusses how the marketing research sector must transform to remain competitive in the modern information age. Historically, marketing research involved tapping into scarce information to derive insights. However, there is now an overabundance of available information from social media that provides real-time consumer analysis. The key transformation for the industry is to shift from insight discovery to suggesting impactful ideas and facilitating decisions based on analyzing insights. This will allow marketing research firms to own the entire data-to-decision value chain and position themselves as consultants who process multiple data streams for organization-wide decisions. The industry must build its value proposition on conventional strengths but with new techniques in order to compete against upcoming social media monitoring and management consulting.
Trends for strategic foresight - Cristina FerrazCristina Ferraz
Struggling to navigate disruption? Here's how trends can help you.
Trend analysis has been increasingly winning a space in current business strategy as a methodology to provide qualitative insights that help identify new horizons and changing values.
Trend analysis helps adapt to fast-changing times and reinforce a leadership position in the market by guiding innovation from vision to downstream. Adding trend knowledge to any business toolkit gives strategic advantage to your proposition and promotes disruptive innovation. Trend foresight helps us discover emerging consumer behaviours and needs, spot qualitative growth opportunities, create vision landscapes on a determined subject, define critical emerging drivers shaping the future of industry and enrich decision-making from a qualitative and intuitive perspective.
This document summarizes research on how corporate foresight and innovation management can help companies adapt to the transition to a knowledge-based economy. It first discusses how information and knowledge are becoming more important resources, and how this changes industry competition. It then reviews literature establishing corporate foresight and innovation management as key ways for companies to gain competitive advantages. Specifically, it looks at how futures research methods can contribute to the innovation process. Finally, it discusses how the concept of foresight has evolved and is now seen as a broader activity than just futures studies.
Foresight 2020 study has been made by utilizing the methodology of future studies complemented with over 100 interviews covering the spectrum of our customers’ industries. See here the industry trends and scenarios.
Cross industry innovation toolkit: 50 inspiring companies and industries you ...Marc Heleven
50 inspiring companies and industries you can learn from.
'cross-industry innovations' refers to innovations that come about by applying cross- industry analogies or by transferring approaches from one industry to another.
Since 2001, we’ve helped clients understand how consumer lifestyles and the technology landscape are evolving in key markets around the world –– and how to apply those insights today.
To understand how the world is changing and what changes we'll see over the next decade, contact us: http://innovaro.com/contact-us
An innovation leaders fund modeling the link to growth - feb 2013Tim Jones
The document details an analysis of over 1,500 companies over 10 years to identify innovation leaders. It found a clear link between effective innovation capabilities and sustained stock growth. The analysis models how an innovation leaders portfolio would have outperformed major indices as an investment fund. If created, the fund would provide compelling outperformance, liquidity and low risk.
Innovation Today and Tomorrow 21 May 2014Tim Jones
A keynote speech for a technology focused audience exploring lessons from today and some thoughts for tomorrow. With a red thread of the changing nature and role of intellectual property weaved throughout, this draws on examples from both the Innovation Leaders and Future Agenda programmes
"InShorts: A Game-Changer in the Digital News Age"Adharsh45
- Inshorts is a mobile app that delivers summaries of trending news stories within 60 words, allowing busy users to stay updated with digestible snippets of information.
- Founded in 2013 by Azhar Iqubal and classmates, Inshorts grew rapidly and is now valued at Rs. 3,700 crores with over 10 million active users.
- Iqubal's determination in creating a simple yet effective format for consuming news led to the success of Inshorts and established him as a leading innovator in the digital media landscape with a current net worth of Rs. 500 crore.
The main findings of the 2013 Global Innovation Index (GII) were presented by Daniela Benavente, Lead Researcher of the 2013 GII,to an audience of international trade experts and business representatives at the Bali Trade and Development Symposium (TDS) held in conjunction with the Ninth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Bali, Indonesia, from 3 to 5 December 2013 Read more: http://owl.li/uJxg1
The document is about the Global Innovation Index 2013 report published by Cornell University, INSEAD, and the World Intellectual Property Organization. The theme of the 2013 report is "The Local Dynamics of Innovation" and it examines how local innovation hubs and clusters foster innovation through pooling of talent, knowledge, and resources. Examples of successful innovation hubs mentioned include Silicon Valley in the US, regions in Germany and South Korea, and cities in China, India, Israel, and Brazil. The report also analyzes factors that contribute to the success of innovation hubs such as the role of large local companies, availability of funding, and linkages between different stakeholders in the innovation ecosystem.
A downfall of the Indian Economy & the increasing number of daily positive cases, COVID-19 or a coronavirus has impacted India in many ways, companies are losing their productivity, and are also facing problems in terms of finance and other resources.
As we know that “necessity is the mother of invention” and our, Entrepreneurial & Innovation environment leads us to hope. Entrepreneurs are known to be problem solver, they are looking at the different sides of the problem and finding out the niche market by segmenting the customer base. By applying and adopting the digital transformation they are finding out various opportunities that are available and will be available post-COVID-19.
Collaboration, convergence, and co-creation, keeping this in mind, entrepreneurs are facing this challenging virus.
This document provides an overview of Infor and its products and services. It discusses Infor's software solutions for various industries, technologies including cloud, mobility, analytics and social business. It describes Infor's strategy of developing cohesive industry-specific applications on its Infor 10x platform. The document also covers Infor's focus on compelling user interfaces and consumer-grade experiences through its design team. In summary, the document outlines Infor's portfolio and strategic approach to address customer needs through specialized industry software, flexible technology and improved user experience.
For nine years in a row, Apple has been the most innovative company on the planet.
That designation comes care of Boston Consulting Group, the elite consultancy.
Since last year’s list, Google climbed over Samsung to take the second spot, sliding the South Korean manufacturer into third.
Three companies vaulted into the top 50: The Japanese conglomerate Hitachi landed at No. 37, Marc Benioff‘s SalesForce.com landed at No. 40, and the Chinese phone maker Xiaomi made it all the way to No. 35.
The 10 Transformational CEOs Making A Mark in Business, 2023 By Fortune's Tim...Fortunes Time Magazine
Dr. Andy Khawaja, Founder and CEO of Artificial Intelligence Defense Platform, featured by Fortunes Time Magazine on cover of The 10 Transformational CEOs Making A Mark in Business, 2023
The document provides an overview of the growing digital consumer industry in India. It notes that after online travel and classifieds saw success in the past decade, e-tailing is now experiencing high growth. Various sectors within the digital consumer market are analyzed. The report aims to construct a factual perspective on the industry by examining growth drivers, challenges, and lessons from global markets to help readers understand the potential and opportunities in India's digital consumer industry.
DREAMERS are ACHEIVERS…
With a never-ending quest for learning, an entrepreneurial mindset, and a dream to achieve big - Subodh Narain Agrawal has tried his hands in many areas and has always come up with new ventures with unique innovations. Emerging technology, renewable energy, investment banking, trading, natural resources - Subodh has his footprints over a long stint of 40 years. His passion for work & persistence toward accomplishing the impossible makes him a Real Achiever…
Biocube Technologies is also one such endeavor that Subodh started almost half a decade back – to solve the genuine problems of the Identity domain. As a founder, his vision & guidance has made Biocube a unique, patented identity technology platform today and solve the problems of society in an innovative way.
The Society Achievers features his views on leadership thoughts, vast industry experience, and bigger goals in life, shared over a candid interview.
The document discusses Nokia's failure to understand the future direction of mobile devices towards smartphones. Researchers at Nokia had presented a touchscreen smartphone prototype in 2004, but senior management rejected it, allowing other companies like Apple to become leaders in the smartphone market. Despite losing market share, Nokia tried to innovate by focusing on its telecommunications network infrastructure business, which generates most of its revenue. This strategy shift may allow Nokia to compete against other manufacturers and win by redefining its market orientation.
The Amazing Ways John Deere Uses Artificial Intelligence And Machine Vision T...Bernard Marr
Agricultural businesses are faced with the challenge of feeding a growing world population while reducing the environmental impact and improving efficiencies. In this case example, we look at how John Deer is bringing AI (Artificial Intelligence) and machine vision to the challenge.
This document provides a foresight study on ICT R&D trends in India conducted for the European Commission. It utilized the Delphi method with 30 Indian ICT experts over 3 rounds to identify priority technology areas for India in the next 2, 5, and 10 years. The study aims to enhance ongoing research collaboration between India and EU states and support the goals of the EU-India ICT Joint Working Group. The results identify core and sector-specific technology focus areas in healthcare, energy, and governance. Additionally, the study examines Indian societal trends influencing priorities and the visionaries' awareness and suggestions regarding EU collaboration opportunities.
1) The document discusses 10 trends in strategic foresight for defense and security planning.
2) It notes a shift towards more serious strategic analysis that balances short, medium, and long term planning horizons.
3) Foresight is moving towards a whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach, and using a more diverse set of foresight tools and methods.
4) There is a push to better link foresight to action, balance external and internal perspectives, and develop new foresight products beyond traditional planning documents.
What has happened to Foresight in the UK?Ian Miles
The UK Foresight Programme has been widely lauded. But how is it valued by the current government? This presentation examines trends in the Programme, which suggest that forebodings expressed in 2010 have proved accurate.
Insight to foresight - Marketing Research SectorAyesha Saeed Haq
The document discusses how the marketing research sector must transform to remain competitive in the modern information age. Historically, marketing research involved tapping into scarce information to derive insights. However, there is now an overabundance of available information from social media that provides real-time consumer analysis. The key transformation for the industry is to shift from insight discovery to suggesting impactful ideas and facilitating decisions based on analyzing insights. This will allow marketing research firms to own the entire data-to-decision value chain and position themselves as consultants who process multiple data streams for organization-wide decisions. The industry must build its value proposition on conventional strengths but with new techniques in order to compete against upcoming social media monitoring and management consulting.
Trends for strategic foresight - Cristina FerrazCristina Ferraz
Struggling to navigate disruption? Here's how trends can help you.
Trend analysis has been increasingly winning a space in current business strategy as a methodology to provide qualitative insights that help identify new horizons and changing values.
Trend analysis helps adapt to fast-changing times and reinforce a leadership position in the market by guiding innovation from vision to downstream. Adding trend knowledge to any business toolkit gives strategic advantage to your proposition and promotes disruptive innovation. Trend foresight helps us discover emerging consumer behaviours and needs, spot qualitative growth opportunities, create vision landscapes on a determined subject, define critical emerging drivers shaping the future of industry and enrich decision-making from a qualitative and intuitive perspective.
This document summarizes research on how corporate foresight and innovation management can help companies adapt to the transition to a knowledge-based economy. It first discusses how information and knowledge are becoming more important resources, and how this changes industry competition. It then reviews literature establishing corporate foresight and innovation management as key ways for companies to gain competitive advantages. Specifically, it looks at how futures research methods can contribute to the innovation process. Finally, it discusses how the concept of foresight has evolved and is now seen as a broader activity than just futures studies.
Foresight 2020 study has been made by utilizing the methodology of future studies complemented with over 100 interviews covering the spectrum of our customers’ industries. See here the industry trends and scenarios.
Cross industry innovation toolkit: 50 inspiring companies and industries you ...Marc Heleven
50 inspiring companies and industries you can learn from.
'cross-industry innovations' refers to innovations that come about by applying cross- industry analogies or by transferring approaches from one industry to another.
Since 2001, we’ve helped clients understand how consumer lifestyles and the technology landscape are evolving in key markets around the world –– and how to apply those insights today.
To understand how the world is changing and what changes we'll see over the next decade, contact us: http://innovaro.com/contact-us
An innovation leaders fund modeling the link to growth - feb 2013Tim Jones
The document details an analysis of over 1,500 companies over 10 years to identify innovation leaders. It found a clear link between effective innovation capabilities and sustained stock growth. The analysis models how an innovation leaders portfolio would have outperformed major indices as an investment fund. If created, the fund would provide compelling outperformance, liquidity and low risk.
Innovation Today and Tomorrow 21 May 2014Tim Jones
A keynote speech for a technology focused audience exploring lessons from today and some thoughts for tomorrow. With a red thread of the changing nature and role of intellectual property weaved throughout, this draws on examples from both the Innovation Leaders and Future Agenda programmes
"InShorts: A Game-Changer in the Digital News Age"Adharsh45
- Inshorts is a mobile app that delivers summaries of trending news stories within 60 words, allowing busy users to stay updated with digestible snippets of information.
- Founded in 2013 by Azhar Iqubal and classmates, Inshorts grew rapidly and is now valued at Rs. 3,700 crores with over 10 million active users.
- Iqubal's determination in creating a simple yet effective format for consuming news led to the success of Inshorts and established him as a leading innovator in the digital media landscape with a current net worth of Rs. 500 crore.
The main findings of the 2013 Global Innovation Index (GII) were presented by Daniela Benavente, Lead Researcher of the 2013 GII,to an audience of international trade experts and business representatives at the Bali Trade and Development Symposium (TDS) held in conjunction with the Ninth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Bali, Indonesia, from 3 to 5 December 2013 Read more: http://owl.li/uJxg1
The document is about the Global Innovation Index 2013 report published by Cornell University, INSEAD, and the World Intellectual Property Organization. The theme of the 2013 report is "The Local Dynamics of Innovation" and it examines how local innovation hubs and clusters foster innovation through pooling of talent, knowledge, and resources. Examples of successful innovation hubs mentioned include Silicon Valley in the US, regions in Germany and South Korea, and cities in China, India, Israel, and Brazil. The report also analyzes factors that contribute to the success of innovation hubs such as the role of large local companies, availability of funding, and linkages between different stakeholders in the innovation ecosystem.
A downfall of the Indian Economy & the increasing number of daily positive cases, COVID-19 or a coronavirus has impacted India in many ways, companies are losing their productivity, and are also facing problems in terms of finance and other resources.
As we know that “necessity is the mother of invention” and our, Entrepreneurial & Innovation environment leads us to hope. Entrepreneurs are known to be problem solver, they are looking at the different sides of the problem and finding out the niche market by segmenting the customer base. By applying and adopting the digital transformation they are finding out various opportunities that are available and will be available post-COVID-19.
Collaboration, convergence, and co-creation, keeping this in mind, entrepreneurs are facing this challenging virus.
This document provides an overview of Infor and its products and services. It discusses Infor's software solutions for various industries, technologies including cloud, mobility, analytics and social business. It describes Infor's strategy of developing cohesive industry-specific applications on its Infor 10x platform. The document also covers Infor's focus on compelling user interfaces and consumer-grade experiences through its design team. In summary, the document outlines Infor's portfolio and strategic approach to address customer needs through specialized industry software, flexible technology and improved user experience.
For nine years in a row, Apple has been the most innovative company on the planet.
That designation comes care of Boston Consulting Group, the elite consultancy.
Since last year’s list, Google climbed over Samsung to take the second spot, sliding the South Korean manufacturer into third.
Three companies vaulted into the top 50: The Japanese conglomerate Hitachi landed at No. 37, Marc Benioff‘s SalesForce.com landed at No. 40, and the Chinese phone maker Xiaomi made it all the way to No. 35.
The 10 Transformational CEOs Making A Mark in Business, 2023 By Fortune's Tim...Fortunes Time Magazine
Dr. Andy Khawaja, Founder and CEO of Artificial Intelligence Defense Platform, featured by Fortunes Time Magazine on cover of The 10 Transformational CEOs Making A Mark in Business, 2023
The document provides an overview of the growing digital consumer industry in India. It notes that after online travel and classifieds saw success in the past decade, e-tailing is now experiencing high growth. Various sectors within the digital consumer market are analyzed. The report aims to construct a factual perspective on the industry by examining growth drivers, challenges, and lessons from global markets to help readers understand the potential and opportunities in India's digital consumer industry.
DREAMERS are ACHEIVERS…
With a never-ending quest for learning, an entrepreneurial mindset, and a dream to achieve big - Subodh Narain Agrawal has tried his hands in many areas and has always come up with new ventures with unique innovations. Emerging technology, renewable energy, investment banking, trading, natural resources - Subodh has his footprints over a long stint of 40 years. His passion for work & persistence toward accomplishing the impossible makes him a Real Achiever…
Biocube Technologies is also one such endeavor that Subodh started almost half a decade back – to solve the genuine problems of the Identity domain. As a founder, his vision & guidance has made Biocube a unique, patented identity technology platform today and solve the problems of society in an innovative way.
The Society Achievers features his views on leadership thoughts, vast industry experience, and bigger goals in life, shared over a candid interview.
The document discusses Nokia's failure to understand the future direction of mobile devices towards smartphones. Researchers at Nokia had presented a touchscreen smartphone prototype in 2004, but senior management rejected it, allowing other companies like Apple to become leaders in the smartphone market. Despite losing market share, Nokia tried to innovate by focusing on its telecommunications network infrastructure business, which generates most of its revenue. This strategy shift may allow Nokia to compete against other manufacturers and win by redefining its market orientation.
The Amazing Ways John Deere Uses Artificial Intelligence And Machine Vision T...Bernard Marr
Agricultural businesses are faced with the challenge of feeding a growing world population while reducing the environmental impact and improving efficiencies. In this case example, we look at how John Deer is bringing AI (Artificial Intelligence) and machine vision to the challenge.
This document discusses challenge driven innovation and how it compares to conventional innovation. It describes how challenge driven innovation engages a global network of solvers to help companies solve problems, offering financial awards as incentives. This approach provides opportunities to access a wide diversity of solvers from different backgrounds and regions around the world at lower variable costs compared to internal innovation teams. Specific examples are provided of challenges hosted on the InnoCentive platform that have successfully found solutions to problems in various domains like healthcare, aerospace, and government.
- Danaher Corporation is a global science and technology company that was founded in the 1980s by brothers Steven and Mitchell Rales.
- It has grown organically through R&D investments and inorganically through over 400 acquisitions globally, including industry leaders in various fields.
- In India, Danaher has 28 operating companies with over 1,700 employees and $2 billion in annual revenues, growing at 30% annually over the past 5 years.
- The Indian market represents a significant opportunity but also challenges in areas like establishing operations and reaching customers across the country.
Although Innovation is considered to a very positive thing for a company but it can also be a threat for a company. In this paper, we'll try to see how.
International Institute for Learning strategic adviser on sustainability Greg Balestrero takes us through the challenges of businesses in the future and the methods and strategies to overcome them.
Design for Freedom - Who changes the worldDIBIConf
This document summarizes a presentation about designing financial technology products for underserved communities in developing countries. It discusses how the presenter's team used human-centered design principles like empathy, optimism, and creative confidence to develop an application that provides basic banking services. The application was designed to be accessible through feature phones for microenterprise owners in Senegal who lack access to traditional financial institutions. The team took an iterative approach, testing early prototypes with users to refine the design into a secure and usable application that could empower users with more financial freedom and opportunity.
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