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2016: A Year of Inversion

Matthew May

LOTS of stuff has been happening: putting finishing touches on my new book , the cover of which I absolutely love; the holidays; a bit of overcommitting to new and exciting client projects; and, oh yeh, had a heart attack. Which brings me to why I’m thinking of 2016 as the year of inversion, especially with this blog.

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Eight Years of Blogging at Innovation in Practice

Innovation in Practice

When you start blogging, you're never quite sure who will read it and continue reading it. Blog it, and they will come," is what he said. My goal is to make this blog different from other innovation blogs and websites. I'm expecting 2016 to be another strong year in terms of keynotes, workshops, and training programs.

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Growkomp project yields a promising model for regional transformation projects

Innovation 360 Group

This ambitious development project was launched in 2016 with 8.2 million Swedish crowns funded by the European Social Fund , and ended on May of 2018, with a media conference to announce and celebrate the projects results, including: Average growth of orderbook by 25%. Average Growth 12%, higher than the national GDP of 5%.

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Thought Leader and Influencer Interview with Aruna Ravichandran, SVP & Chief Marketing and Customer Officer for Webex, Cisco

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She has authored two pioneering books on DevOps: DevOps for Digital Leaders and The Kitty Hawk Venture , and earned numerous awards including: Top 100 The Most Influential Women in Silicon Valley 2016 by the San Jose Business Journal, and Most Powerful and Influential Woman Award by the National Diversity Council in 2016.

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Organizing for Simultaneous Innovation Capability – key findings from +1,000 companies, republished from Drucker Forum 2016

Innovation 360

At the same time, large H1 projects are prioritized to the extent that they are causing internal traffic jams among projects sharing resources. This results in projects that are too numerous, too big, and often less value-creating. H3 projects cannot be measured by traditional methods such as ROI: it is more about exploring.

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Global Crowdsourcing Week 2016

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On Thursday, I presented together with one of our client partners Sarah Bowker from the NHS about a project called HealthWorks delivered in partnership with the design agency UsCreates. The talk was called 5 Ways to Unlock Your Open Innovation Ecosystem and was based on the content of this recent blog post , and you can find the slides below.

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Case Study: Regional SME Development Project Brings Innovation Lift to Manufacturing Hub

Innovation 360 Group

Acknowledging the need for pursuing deeper impact over a wider area, the Growkomp Regional Development Project was designed to develop the innovation capacities of 22 manufacturing companies in the Småland regionof Sweden over a two-year period. The EU funded-development project was launched in 2016 with 8.2 The Outcome.