Christensen Institute

APRIL 28, 2022

Relationship mapping can help schools tap into their students’ broader networks. Mapping students’ networks can be a promising strategy toward myriad ends. Positive relationships are a proven lever to boost troubling attendance rates, to mitigate the effects of trauma, and to motivate students in their coursework. Click To Tweet.

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Christensen Institute

AUGUST 10, 2023

A business model describes how an organization runs its operations. That seems simple enough, but when it comes to innovative business models there are many other questions that arise. This week’s Thursday Theory Tips blog will answer all of these questions so that you can determine if your business model is working for you.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 14, 2018

There I’ve said it, it is out in the open, “ I suffer from SMRD”. To be honest I am struggling with social media in innovation, struggling to get my head around it for my business, for me for a long time. What is the best social media to have as part of your communicating strategy, how much time do you network?

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ImagineNation

AUGUST 30, 2020

In our blog “Leading and Managing Transitional Change” we described how leaders could help their people to transition through the fears and challenges they are experiencing as a result of the disruptive COVID-19 pandemic , by cultivating their mental toughness. This was reinforced by Mc Kinsey & Co.

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Christensen Institute

OCTOBER 7, 2022

But that gateway is not equally open to students from different backgrounds. Any organization with an internship program should be asking itself: Are your company’s internships a cause of or a cure for workplace inequality? But there can still be barriers to building networks and connections. Click To Tweet.

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The BMI Lab Blog

MAY 26, 2021

Sometimes, companies approach us with requests like “I have developed a new technology but how do I build a business around it?” 5G refers to the 5th Generation of mobile networks, following the 4G or Long-Term Evolution (LTE) standard. According to analysts of markets&markets, the 5G enterprise market will grow from USD 2.1

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 16, 2021

I'm writing a series of blogs based on questions that I regularly receive about innovation. In my last post, I wrote about the staffing plan necessary to sustain growth and innovation , basing it in part on the Pareto rule. Therefore, you'll need to dedicate more of your staff to focusing on the next and the new.

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The BMI Lab Blog

MAY 2, 2022

The success of a platform depends on network effects: More users equal a higher value of the platform. Platforms will affect many traditional businesses and the leveraging network effects will be crucial for every company. Airbnb) Innovation Platforms These serve as a basis for others to innovate and develop applications on top (e.g.

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Daniel Burrus

MAY 25, 2022

What people want and need changes almost daily, and companies are always introducing new, innovative solutions to the average person’s everyday problems, but more importantly, are trying to stay ahead of those changes in what consumers want and need. But how, exactly, can a retailer or hospitality industry business accomplish that feat?

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hackerearth

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

“Open innovation is the use of purposive inflows and outflows of knowledge to accelerate internal innovation, and expand the markets for external use of innovation, respectively. The free flow, in and out, of ideas and IP promotes innovative ecosystems. Why does open innovation work?

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Daniel Burrus

JUNE 15, 2022

Determining each person’s individual health and wellness needs, or recommending lifestyle changes to each individual that specifically suits his or her needs might seem almost impossible, but thanks to some of the transformative Hard Trend technologies growing rapidly this year and beyond, that pipe dream is fast becoming reality.

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ImagineNation

MAY 2, 2021

In a recent article “Organizing for the future: Nine keys to becoming a future-ready company” McKinsey and Co, suggested that the Covid-19 pandemic has added to the pressure to change that has been growing for many years, which is now at a tipping point. Letting go to let come.

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ImagineNation

MARCH 10, 2021

In last month’s blog , we reinforced and validated the importance and role of collaboration, and described the range of emerging new, inspirational, and adaptive models that lean into complexity and catalyse and embed sustainable innovative workplace culture change. Innovation teams are teams that don’t innovate!

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2016

Crowdsourcing has been growing in interest for some time to change our thinking in innovation discovery. It can hold a key for us to help solve vexing questions, real challenges, and connect different voices, that builds into a community that can combine and open up the fields of opportunity for new solutions.

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ImagineNation

APRIL 5, 2021

In last month’s blog at ImagineNation we opened the door to a threshold for a new kind of co-creative, collaborative and cohesive team spirit to catalyse change through “innovation evangelism”. Innovation teams don’t innovate.

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ImagineNation

JANUARY 28, 2021

What makes Israel so innovative? One of the key discoveries, we made, almost ten years ago, when we relocated to Israel, was the power of its innovation eco-system – the result of a collaboration between the state, venture capital firms, successful entrepreneurs, educational system, business system, incubators, and accelerators.

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BrainZooming

JULY 19, 2017

“Do you see any returns from all the blogging and social media stuff you do ?”. If they follow the Brainzooming blog or our presences on Twitter and Facebook (where we are most active – so go follow us there, please!), Attracts audiences on social media networks. Demonstrates how and what we think.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

In the past week or so, I have been looking a little harder at the Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry relating to innovation, it left me a little frustrated. I felt that warm and fuzzy feeling, as I read all too often those comforting words or platitudes of how “innovation is vital to us” and one of the “highest areas of focus.”

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ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

At ImagineNation we are celebrating 10 years as a global innovation consultancy, learning, and coaching company. During this time, we’ve identified some of the common patterns that people demonstrate as a result of feeling uncomfortable, frozen, inert, stubborn, and resistant to innovation. Strategically deciding to innovate.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 4, 2021

As all of us working on innovation know, it’s quite an opaque topic that many innovators and organizations don’t talk about openly. As a result, innovation is an area that’s fraught with many common myths and misconceptions. But, without further ado, let’s get to these myths and misconceptions on innovation. The Reality.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2016

Crowdsourcing has been growing in interest for some time to change our thinking in innovation discovery. It can hold a key for us to help solve vexing questions, real challenges, and connect different voices, that builds into a community that can combine and open up the fields of opportunity for new solutions.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Every company says that innovation is important, and that they value the ideas of their people. Yet the problem lies in the fact that so few established companies actually know how to go about getting value out of their innovation ambitions, let alone turning it into profit. So what can you do about it? 40 principles of TRIZ.

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Innovation 360 Group

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Recapture your innovation investments. Three actions you can take to improve your innovation ROI. Too many companies see ‘innovation’ as something abstract from solving real problems and creating real value. Below are three key actions most organizations can take right away to improve their innovation ROI.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Innovation is essential throughout the entire new product development (NPD) process, but nowhere is it more key than it is in the Fuzzy Front End (FFE) stage. Developing a strategy here is key in creating an efficient and cost-effective idea generation process, but how should you approach this?

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 2, 2016

So if there was ever a time to clear the existing innovation agenda and rework the entire space for innovating, it is about to become the pressing reality as we enter into 2017. Any renewing needs innovation to become more central but it will be different. There is a lot of change occurring around our innovation abilities.

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Cris Beswick

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Who sits at your innovation table? OK, I acknowledge that the answer may vary according to your business sector and size. Hopefully, at least some of the executive team are there, helping to set strategy and vision and sponsor innovation-led transformation. Suppose you are looking for open-minded free thinkers.

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Yet2

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

From smart thermostats and home assistants to cars that interact with your phone, this rapidly expanding collection of networked devices is giving unforeseeable insights into human behavior, as well as unexpected threats. As technology scouts, yet2 are on the forefront of sourcing the latest IoT innovations for our clients.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 3, 2020

When it comes to innovation, there are countless ways things might go wrong. If you manage to get the timing just right, your innovations will obviously benefit from huge tailwinds when entire industries are transitioning from the old to the new with you riding at the top of the wave. The importance of timing in innovation.

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The BMI Lab Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2020

As political and societal discussions about the necessity to open book stores or ban Amazon’s “Black Friday” are heating up, it raises a question: How can traditional retailers (e.g. How can companies developing and producing hardware survive in a world where their product could, or will, be replaced by software?

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hackerearth

AUGUST 11, 2017

Grow into a major player in the global blockchain space with an innovative mindset. Over 90 percent of organizations want a digital transformation strategy, anticipating cost reduction, increased innovation, and business growth in the future. The computers in the network are called nodes. What is blockchain technology?

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Below is a summary of the six imperatives that business leaders need to focus on; Resilience to cope (flow, adapt & grow) within a VUCA global economy. Innovation and vitality (agility) to create differential growth against a backdrop of declining aggregate growth. What does this mean for business? What does this mean for business?

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 17, 2015

Our whole understanding of innovation is changing; there are numerous shifts occurring. We are moving towards a new management of innovation where ‘greater’ collaboration is fueling new business models built on platforms, formed around ecosystems of communities with vested interest, contributing and extracting value.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

The power tools giant runs quick one-to-four week challenges to solicit ideas on how to improve their product lines. It has spawned more than 8,000 ideas and become the de facto office social network. The Home Depot invited him to a store in Atlanta to discuss how to reinvigorate the plumbing department. And that’s growing.

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The BMI Lab Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

This is the most frequently asked question since we started implementing innovative business model ideas with our clients. There is no perfect tool for your test. There are a lot out there and the key is to select the one that best suits your needs. The higher the uncertainties are, the lower your validation budget should be.

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ImagineNation

MAY 2, 2018

It is transforming everything we do, from how we do business and especially in putting leading people in the Digital Age at the top of the corporate agenda. Digital devices that are fast, powerful, cheap, networked, and prevalent are in common use globally, hence the radical changes in medical, biotech and fin-tech.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

Business digital transformation, it can certainly get your pulse racing as you start looking for the nearest exit. Add in the magic ‘need’ so innovation can benefit from this business digital transformation and we begin to shift around in our chairs even more. So what is a digital transformation?

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

Business digital transformation, it can certainly get your pulse racing as you start looking for the nearest exit. Add in the magic ‘need’ so innovation can benefit from this business digital transformation and we begin to shift around in our chairs even more. So what is a digital transformation?

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