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Why you should work with an innovation consultant

Jeffrey Phillips

I'm an innovation consultant. I've been working in the innovation space for over 12 years. I have a somewhat (cough) vested interest in writing a blog post about why you should work with an innovation consultant. Something that any consultant can bring is a vital outside perspective. But I digress.

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Companies betting big on open innovation

hackerearth

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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The Challenges being Faced by Innovation Consultants

Paul Hobcraft

From my perspective I’ve been looking at a real challenge today, that many consultants offering innovation services are not providing real sustaining consulting value to clients, only ad-hoc services. In many ways, the consulting industry specializing in innovation is its own worst enemy.

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Creating Innovation Connections as the Customer Advocate

IdeaScale

The strong customer advocate knows the landscape, keeps customers top-of-mind, represents the “voice of the customer”, sets expectations around customer value, supports open innovation with customers, and keeps future customers in mind. Bring the “voice of the customer” into the decision making and idea generation.

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The Importance of Casting a Wide Net While Innovating

Qmarkets

Read on to discover innovation best practices from Robert's experience working at a range of renowned companies, including Citibank, Delta Airlines, and most recently Southwest Airlines. Open Innovation” is a term that is loosely used in business speak. Strong innovators attributed their success, in part, to using an open model.

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Leveraging the Crowd – Guide

Wazoku

In this post we are going to look at one of the first stages of a successful innovation programme – Leveraging the Crowd. Businesses and institutions have been using crowdsourcing for years through focus groups, surveys, consultations and interviews to gather feedback and suggestions.

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Everything you need to know about innovation management software

hackerearth

Although enterprise collaboration software market has been around for over 20 years, innovation management software is a specialized segment that helps companies guide and support their innovation process. What is innovation management software (IMS)? open innovation contests, co-creation). activity streams).