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What Formula Made Steve Jobs as an Innovation Leader So Successful?

IdeaScale

And until 2001, that was it. When Apple did debut a new product in October 2001, it was completely outside those categories as well: It was the iPod, a personal music player that worked with Macs. Those four product categories were the only ones Apple sold in, with the iBook, iMac, G3 Mac, and MacBook. Clearly Held Ownership.

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How to Boost Innovation by Recycling Existing Ideas

IdeaScale

First launched in October 2001, Apple ‘s portable music device has revolutionised how we all listen to and download music. This lightweight, technologically proficient reinvention of existing MP3 players was an global phenomenon that has since sold more than 400 million units since 2001. Take the iPod for example.

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Hunting Innovation: Incorporating Tech Scouting & Corporate Venturing Into Your Internal Innovation Process

Qmarkets

HP bought Compaq in 2001 for a whopping $25 billion, and just a few weeks ago, Microsoft bought professional social network LinkedIn for a cool $26 billion. There are many different types of innovation. Boost Innovation Outreach by Adding Tech Scouting to your Internal Innovation Process.

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Hunting Innovation: Incorporating Tech Scouting & Corporate Venturing Into Your Internal Innovation Process

Qmarkets

HP bought Compaq in 2001 for a whopping $25 billion, and just a few weeks ago, Microsoft bought professional social network LinkedIn for a cool $26 billion. There are many different types of innovation. Boost Innovation Outreach by Adding Tech Scouting to your Internal Innovation Process.

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COVID-19: Business R&D Spending Will Fall by at Least 5-6%

Commodore Innovation

And it might be larger ways such as helping to drive or facilitate innovation processes that identify ways your organization can help our communities and our governments (e.g. Longer-term implications for innovation Innovation leaders will also need to turn their attention to longer-term questions.

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3 Takeaways from Spigit’s Innovation Forum

Planview

To not use this intelligence in the innovation process is an opportunity wasted. Listen to, engage, and enable employees to contribute to your company’s innovation efforts. The ideas behind four of Pixar’s greatest film (1998’s “A Bug’s Life,” 2001’s “Monsters, Inc.,”

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3 Takeaways from Spigit’s Innovation Forum

Planview

To not use this intelligence in the innovation process is an opportunity wasted. Listen to, engage, and enable employees to contribute to your company’s innovation efforts. The ideas behind four of Pixar’s greatest film (1998’s “A Bug’s Life,” 2001’s “Monsters, Inc.,”