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Balancing your innovation portfolio: Does the 70-20-10 rule still apply?

Idea to Value

One of industry standard answers comes from research by Deloitte Partners Bansi Nagji and Geoff Tuff, in their groundbreaking 2012 article in Harvard Business Review: Managing your innovation portfolio. But what does a well-balanced innovation portfolio look like?

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Evidence that children are more creative than adults (and the opposite)

Idea to Value

A 2014 review, 2014 book and 2016 book indicate that higher levels of imaginative pretend play in childhood helps enhance creativity in adulthood. Another 2012 study showed that pretend play and creativity were also linked. music, coding), it does not mean you will also be creative in a different domain , such as cooking or sculpture.

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Creative Construction – Book review

The Inovo Group

Creative Construction , by Gary Pisano at Harvard Business School, is such a book, in part due to the preeminence and influence of Harvard in the conversations about innovation that have been taking place since Christenson’s ‘The Innovator’s Dilemma’ was published in 1997. Selection – focusing on a subset of opportunities.

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What is the ambition matrix and how does it work as part of an innovation portfolio?

Idea to Value

Originally developed by the strategy consultants at Monitor (now part of Deloitte) and made famous by a breakthrough article in Harvard Business Review by Geoff Tuff and Bansi Nagji, the Ambition Matrix is a tool which helps companies identify ways to execute their strategy around where to play and how to win.

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14 LGBTQ+ Innovators, Inventors and Scientists who changed the world

Idea to Value

Although she was married to a man until the mid-1980s, by the time of her death in 2012, Ride had been in a 27-year relationship with a female partner, Tam O’Shaughnessy. He is an advocate for using open source software and hardware available for any entrepreneur, no matter what their background is. Lana and Lilly Wachowski.

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The Book that Took 9 Years to Publish

Stephen Shapiro

January 2012: Although I planned to fully develop the Challenge Toolkit in 2012, it got sidetracked by other ideas that launched that year, including my 30-day Innovation Challenge , new branding, a new website, and a Personality Poker® revamp. January 2019: I hired a developmental editor who reviewed what I had written.

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Smart Service Canvas

ITONICS

Due to having an experience of running such workshops, we managed to develop the canvas and compiled extensive guidelines, use cases, and success stories that can serve as innovation initiatives in practice as a ready-to-use toolkit that is easy to adopt. . 2012), This Is Service Design Thinking: Basics, Tools, Cases , BIS Publishers.