Idea to Value

MARCH 25, 2019

The word ‘corporate innovation’ is becoming an increasingly popular buzzword, but for the most forward-thinking companies, it represents the future of the business and a significant spend on research and development. Corporate innovation nurtures unique thinking within corporate settings.

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Innov8rs

APRIL 17, 2024

Innov8rs | How Zurich Insurance Group uses its annual Innovation Championship to harness the innovative potential of startups for long term success. Innovation at Zurich Insurance Group is characterized by a mindset that embraces challenge head-on. The Zurich Innovation Championship is an important link in this chain.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Open innovation is a core strategy for transformative growth amongst a growing number of enterprise companies around the world. The days of boardrooms and R&D departments keeping innovation under lock and key are waning, as companies are increasingly preferring a more collaborative approach with startups and other external parties.

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Innov8rs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Innov8rs | Engaging with startup communities has become a must for corporations pursuing innovation. But when you set up an accelerator, incubator, hackathon series, or any other kind of startup program, copy-paste doesn't work. Corporates have three major options when it comes to driving innovation: build, buy, or partner.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Open-source innovation (or simply ‘open innovation’) is developing into a core strategy for transformative growth amongst enterprise companies around the world. We caught up with the founder and CEO of AccelIQ Digital, Ariana Smetana, to find out more about the business and its approach to open-source innovation.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Unleashing Innovation with the Best Keynote Speakers Importance of Keynote Speakers in Corporate Events Keynote speakers play a pivotal role in corporate events, as they have the power to set the tone and energize the audience. Highlighting the importance of collaboration and diversity in driving innovation.

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ImagineNation

APRIL 7, 2024

My client enrolled in an online innovation learning program to learn to innovate by acquiring the fundamentals of mindset and behaviour changes to shift their thinking and act differently. Productivity growth means getting more from our work and our investments. Again, according to McKinsey and Co.,

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 4, 2022

Making Sustainability central to our future innovation capability building will be through the adoption of taking on a new open ecosystem approach. The reward by customers comes from the value of resolving growing complex problems, which is increasingly coming through this understanding of ecosystem design and collaborative endeavours.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 17, 2024

Innov8rs | Corporates often grapple with the "Innovator's Dilemma," where the gravitational pull of the core business's existing processes, incentive structures, and risk models stifles the pursuit of groundbreaking innovation. Let’s explore how that works in practice.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Could you tell us about your career journey and how you became involved in innovation? My career journey is rather unconventional, as I built my career by reinventing myself and transforming instead of remaining in the steady career climb in a corporate fold. How does Accel IQ work with its clients?

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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Innov8rs | Innovation departments are continuing to fail. Of course, innovation projects are supposed to fail in great numbers, but the idea of a corporate innovation department itself is under tremendous pressure. You can’t create winning innovations without people, money and time.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 3, 2021

The accelerating need to build a sustainability pathway. The growing concerns of several intertwined issues need addressing as they will initiate a significant change to the Business and how it operates and presents itself to the world. Sustainability is becoming hugely critical for a business to build out its pathway.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

As a follow up to my previous post about the intersection of digital transformation and innovation , I wanted to conduct a thought experiment to illustrate why the real impact of all the impending change from digital transformation and innovation will be business model related. You be the judge. Shifts in branding?

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

For corporates, open innovation is all about being transparent and public about the challenges and themes they're looking to go after and solve, and then finding the best-fit partners for that. Together we discussed what's next for open innovation and partnerships, as summarized below. What can’t be missing?

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PlanBox Innovation

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Creating an innovation approach that is as effective as it is exciting should be the focus of every innovator. As we embark on the “ corporate innovation odyssey ” that is 2024 (as Planbox CEO Ludwig Melik calls it), equipping ourselves with the right features in our innovation toolkit cannot be overstated.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

It’s no secret that in today’s dynamic business landscape, for some, innovation is still just a buzzword – but for others, it’s the lifeblood of their organisation and an antidote to remaining relevant. Undoubtedly, transformation in pursuit of innovation within established corporations is a significant challenge.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 22, 2017

As many of our business organizations seek to optimize their processes across the company, they are constantly reaching more outside to gain growing partnerships and greater innovation interactions. They are looking to complement and reinforce existing capabilities through more open innovation thinking and approaches.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The Whitepaper called “ Product Complexity, Digital Transformation, and the Innovation Imperative- The race to reinvent how complex products are developed is here “ This made me a little jealous and a little wishing that ‘we’, across the whole of innovation management , could not have one of these platforms available today.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 26, 2023

Innov8rs | AI will not replace innovators. But innovators who use AI will replace those who don't. The potential of AI in the corporate world is immense, from strategy mapping and competitive landscaping to opportunity seizing, brief generation, and startup identification. How Can AI Help Corporate Innovators?

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Innovating4Energy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

I feel it is essential to bridge the gap between the natural world and the business world in a more closely aligned way, going beyond existing frameworks or thinking but still grounding this into business-orientated understanding to relate more. Ecosystem-Inspired Innovation Hubs: Set up innovation hubs that mimic natural ecosystems.

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Leapfrogging

JUNE 3, 2020

Now the disruption is accelerating. I’ve already written about how the management-consulting industry is being disrupted by various trends like emerging technologies, the commodification of knowledge, and outdated business models. The Covid-19 discontinuity is accelerating it. percent in the U.S.,

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Imaginatik

DECEMBER 18, 2017

What’s New in Corporate Innovation – Dec 18, 2017. Hello folks, and welcome to our first edition of “What’s New in Corporate Innovation.” In this piece, McKinsey consultants summarize the findings from a research study into corporate adoption of IoT technologies. Building an ecosystem for innovation.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Wise Ocean specializes in analyzing emerging market and technology trends to identify the latest innovations, with a connectivity network of resources that includes industry experts, corporate partners, and business services. Wise Ocean are strengthening key partnerships to support open innovation with digital technology.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Wise Ocean specializes in analyzing emerging market and technology trends to identify the latest innovations, with a connectivity network of resources that includes industry experts, corporate partners, and business services. Wise Ocean are strengthening key partnerships to support open innovation with digital technology.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 18, 2020

Business is moving virtual fast. We designed team-building processes that we ran using technology like teleconferences and screen sharing. Since that time, I’ve led startup teams of my own and designed collaborative processes involving distributed teams for about 30 of the Fortune 1000 as part of my consulting work.

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Innovating4Energy

APRIL 28, 2024

Powering the Future with Advanced Energy Solutions The World Economic Forum Advanced Energy Solutions Group is the catalyst for bringing together outstanding change makers, entrepreneurs, financiers and innovators from across the world and recently had one of its meetings to stimulate and encourage this initiative further.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

Innov8rs | Without a well-established innovation capability, continuous innovation is nearly impossible. Most corporates can innovate occasionally and be successful in doing so. Yet sporadic innovation is not enough to keep up with changing markets and evolving demanding customer needs. It's easier said than done.

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ImagineNation

JULY 26, 2023

How does imagination link to catalysing collective innovation and unleashing corporate vitality? This enables you to generate new lines of feeling and thinking, to connect fields, problems, and ideas that others find unrelated, and to ultimately inspire and result in collective innovation. How does this relate to innovation?

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Digital transformation - a "third wave" of information technology that creates an entirely new way to capture real time data and perhaps make sense of that data on the fly, could radically change how businesses operate, how they make money and how they interact with customers, consumers and suppliers. What's next?

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 24, 2024

In the modern business world, where disruption is the norm and change is relentless, the ability to continuously drive innovation-led growth has become the ultimate competitive advantage. In this climate, innovation is no longer an optional pursuit but a strategic imperative for survival and sustained growth.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 18, 2020

Business is moving virtual fast. We designed team-building processes that we ran using technology like teleconferences and screen sharing. Since that time, I’ve led startup teams of my own and designed collaborative processes involving distributed teams for about 30 of the Fortune 1000 as part of my consulting work.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2019

As part of my work helping companies identify, develop and launch breakthrough new products, services, and business models, I get a glimpse of a lot of “ weak signals ” that will one day become future disruptors. Another source of innovation is packaging based on concentrated products and lighter weight materials like Tide’s new Eco-Box.

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Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

With the rise of entrepreneurial activity after The Great Recession, Innovation Labs became all the rage in corporate environments. Corporates wanted in on the energy, if not the spirit. The word “innovation” became a popular buzzword that meant so many different things to different people, that it almost lost all meaning.

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IM Insights

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Elijah Eilert speaks to Tristan Kromer about the fundamentals of a VC-like funding approach for corporate innovation that releases resources over time in exchange for specific evidence. Funding a startup or corporate venture from idea to scale is becoming increasingly outdated. Topics and Insights . (02:00)

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Corporate philanthropy. Benefit corporations. Mission-driven organizations have an equal opportunity to apply the principles and practices of innovation to maximize their impact–but few take it. The obvious place to turn is innovation approaches such as design thinking , rapid prototyping , and open innovation.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 20, 2021

Accelerate the Momentum of Work and Life Projects With Focused Creativity. Three Oaks, Michigan, Wednesday April 21st, an announcement on International Creativity and Innovation Day. For organizations, MCPS is a foundational framework for building a culture of constant creative improvisation in order to innovate.

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IM Insights

APRIL 25, 2022

Elijah Eilert is talking to Esther Gons , author of the Innovation Accounting Book , about the importance of having innovation accounting established as a second system within large organisations. If you want to change the world you need that second system and I want that to have a place in corporate business intelligence.

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