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The Innovation 'Function'

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In that vision of the “innovation funnel” the idea is at the end… the goal. Attempts to harness or direct that creative energy are not only futile, but actually impede the process. Illustrating that innovation “ecosystem” is really the first step towards developing a mature innovation function. Things happen.

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Strengthening the Organization and Accelerating Value – a fresh look at Capability Building

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Digital transformation – ‘everything’ is changing and will become automated to the greatest extent, driving new customer expectations and experiences. Changes in companies. With companies changing, what will be the impact to each of us as individuals? What are the people and processes to strengthen?

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Crossing the Chasm: Overcoming hurdles to scaling innovation

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In many product development processes, companies tend to create incremental improvements within the fairly well known scope of their current production and distribution scale. Why the ability to “scale up” promising bets is critical to transformative innovation. The best way to address climate and culture change over the long term.

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Three Flavours of Open Innovation: breaking down institutional boundaries through the X-Factor, Speed Dating, and iOT

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The open innovation process here self-organizes the proper fit for start-up-to-problem-solution pairing. On the other hand, if these functions were to focus on curating business problems and issues rather than passively gathering internally focused requirements, the prospects may change.