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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

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Soldiers & Hessians, Ronin & Ninja

Boxes and Arrows

Having worked as a consultant, at an agency and in-house, I’ve observed that the organizational location and economics of the user experience team can make or break them. When should you bring in an outside team, and when should you hire an individual employee? How to figure out the right team for a new project?

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Executives Meet to Discuss the ROI of Innovation

Moves the Needle

Currently, Kent is living the “funemployed” life playing poker 5 nights a week and pursuing other resurfacing hobbies after many years spent building a successful career as a software engineer and author. The business understands the market and has developed a proven, scalable blueprint to winning the market. Easier said than done.

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Don’t let your corporate hackathon fail before it starts

Your Ideas are Terrible

Poor attendance. Teams without the right skills. Irrelevant projects. Eric’s quote applies to any new project and hackathons are no exception. We suggest making the goal a team sport so everyone buys into it. These numbers allow for every team to demo their projects to the judges. Late starts.

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Charities – the sleeping giants of innovation

Wazoku

I’ve recently been exploring the charity sector, to gauge interest in crowdsourcing ideas from their employees, partners or customers, as I was aware of several “innovation teams” being setup or already existing within many of the major charities. 500 scientists – working on a range of R&D projects in universities across the UK.

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IA Summit 09 - Day 2

Boxes and Arrows

Boxes and Arrows captured many of the main conference sessions (“see schedule&# :[link] The remaining Summit sessions will be published in the next two weeks. | “Preview&# :[link] | “Keynote&# :[link] | “Day 1&# :[link] | Day 2 | Day 3 | “Closing Plenary&# :[link] | iTunes Del.icio.us And that’s a shame.

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Uncertainty is the Innovator’s Friend

The Inovo Group

In 2011, after more than 20 years of research, Harry Klee, a professor in the Horticulture Sciences Department at the University of Florida, developed the “perfect” tomato. As one commercial grower shared at a conference he and Klee attended, a flavorless tomato had yet to cost him a sale.

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