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

Innovation 360 Group

While they don’t have the same resources as large corporations, SMEs can potentially be quite innovative. The EU funded-development project was launched in 2016 with 8.2 The project ran for 30 months, with the first half focused on assessment and strategy, and the second on implementation and value creation.

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PESTLED360: Iron Out Key Driving Forces in Your Current Environment and Anticipate Future Ones

Innovation 360 Group

It can be especially effective to conduct a PESTLED analysis on both a global level and a regional level, and to identify the key legal, political, and demographic drivers of each. With the insight gained from a PESTLED analysis, scenario planning then helps to elaborate on different possibilities. Using PESTLED to Build Scenarios.

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The trough of innovation disillusionment

Paul Hobcraft

Over time our organizations are finding increasing reasons to put off the more radical innovation that is needed. Incremental innovation is safe and contains all the risks within acceptable levels, so it allows the organization to keep its fixation on the short-term as its only line of site (and executive pay-off).

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Official Launch of the PESTLED360

Innovation 360 Group

It can be especially efficient to conduct a PESTLED analysis on both a global level and a regional level, especially to identify the key legal, political, and demographic drivers. Step one is to identify possible issues linked to the driving force or forces the PESTLED analysis has brought forward?no The PESTLED Application.

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A Structured Cultural Approach Managing Uncertainty

Innovation 360 Group

Masterful innovators aren’t just throwing stuff at the wall to see what will stick (although there is a time and place for this kind of experimentation), they are structured, methodical and systematic in organizing their innovation projects. Building a culture of innovation. Why do we innovate? What do we innovate?

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Striking Gold: The $40m Idea Unearthed Through Crowdsourcing

Qmarkets

We recently caught up with Juan Fernando Correa, the Projects Analyst at Hochschild who is responsible for leading the company’s crowdsourcing initiatives. I am a Projects Analyst at Hochschild, but I trained as a mechanical engineer. ” They did multiple lab tests and they performed a very in-depth analysis. J: Of course.

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Managing Change Despite Uncertainty

Innovation 360 Group

The second recognizes all of the organization’s internal forces, including preparing and motivating stakeholders to handle the reality of radical innovation. The third is concerned with micro-level of developing stronger innovation skills within project teams. Introduction to UPACS.

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