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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 2

Tim Kastelle

In part 1 of this post , Ralph revisited key innovation issues that were already addressed by us three years ago. Research confirms: development of exploration in parallel to exploitation capabilities proves to be mandatory for established companies in order to compete successfully and sustainably. Co-Innovation and startup engagement.

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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

Another study has indeed proven that specifically within SMEs, entrepreneurs use both causation and effectuation at the same time (Berends, Jelinek, Reymen, & Stultiëns, 2014). Are managers prepared to allow experimentation? Is it easy to create autonomous team and projects? Entrepreneurial thinking. Neck et al.

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Innovation and Organizational Culture

Tim Kastelle

Recently, the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has published key findings of their latest “ Most Innovative Companies 2014 ” survey. According to BCG’s research, successfully innovating companies approach innovation as a system. Open doors and listen vs. Be loyal to your team.

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The EU Sustainability Directive Is Setting a New Global Standard for Business Practices

Innovation 360 Group

It’s the EU Sustainability Reporting Directive (Directive 2014/95/EU, an amendment to Directive 2013/34/EU). That’s why now is the right time for US innovators to start producing their own versions of these reports and for US investors to ask for them. More about ISO Standard on Innovation Management Systems read here!

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Key Innovation Issues for 2016 and Beyond

Integrative Innovation

Hence, I gave it some thought, starting by revisting an earlier reflection: Beginning of 2013, Tim Kastelle and I identified four key issues in innovation management for the time to come. But even participating in other firms’ ecosystems can be highly attractive, as demonstrated by e.g. several app developers.

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The digital innovation era calls for new board leadership

Innovation 360 Group

At Innovation 360 Group, we help client companies all over the world to improve their innovation capability through innovation assessment, analysis and recommendations. Figure 1, The Success of Need Seekers. ( Strategy + Business, Global Innovation1000, 2014, Proven paths to innovation success: Exhibit 2. ).

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Why you need extreme constraints to fuel innovation

hackerearth

The team calls itself a curiosity driven research group at Stanford, trying to invent novel technologies with clinical applications with a current focus on resource-poor settings. Amazing, cost-effective and extremely useful innovations come out from this frugal science advocate’s lab. Have you heard of the “Prakash Lab”?