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What Does a Chief Innovation Officer Do?

IdeaScale

We continue to see more and more Chief Innovation Officers at the enterprise level. In this survey from 2015, researchers report that 43% of large companies have some sort of top innovation executive in place, which was up from 33% in 2011. But what does a Chief Innovation Officer do? Well, here are a few of their responsibilities.

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Crowdfunding Efforts in the Wake of Harvey, Irma, Maria and the Earthquake

IdeaScale

Obviously, you can collect ideas and collaborate on their development using a tool like IdeaScale, but crowdsourcing can also be used to gather funds from the public and when that happens, it’s called crowdfunding. Of course, many who donated were friends and relations, but some were total strangers.

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The Book that Took 9 Years to Publish

Stephen Shapiro

Hopefully this article will serve as inspiration (and education) to others who want to publish a book. March 2011: I submitted the final manuscript to Penguin for Best Practices are Stupid. April 2011: Almost immediately after submitting the manuscript, I conceived the concept of a “Challenge Toolkit.” The list grew over time.

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Covering Innovation My Way

Paul Hobcraft

Just trying to stay your own course is tough enough but with all the diversity of views it must be even more overwhelming for others who are asked to take on a role within innovation. Where and who do you turn too must be a real dilemma ? Everything we want to do is 100% focused on innovating! Its areas of focus: [link].

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Effective Non-Contact Innovation

100%Open

We had three excellent speakers, two rounds of breakout rooms, and one platform via which many parts of the world were represented and connected. They are spaces where fascinating and accomplished individuals in the innovation world can come together to make new friends as well as strike up partnerships or find collaborators.

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The Creativity Crisis: It’s Getting Worse

Idea to Value

In this very special guest post by Professor KH Kim, we find out the updated facts of what is happening to people’s creativity levels over the past decades, now with updated statistics for 2017. However, since the 1990s: Avoiding collaboration. Prior to the 1990s, many schools had high expectations and offered many challenges.

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Learning to be Innovative – Future Building’s Crucial Role in Driving Innovation Impact

Imaginatik

An obvious example is a clue from 2011 – the public launch of Uber’s ride-sharing program in San Francisco. Many innovation programs, and some R&D teams, benefit from full-time staff who work as designated innovation scouts. For example, “If only we didn’t have to spend time commuting to work.”. “ Ecosystem Scanning.

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