Rapid Innovation in digital time

JANUARY 2, 2017

While 2016 saw innovation centers, intrapreneurship programs, corporate startups accelerators, and corporate FabLabs blossom, I expect 2017 to see the rise of a new kind of open-innovation centers: they will be multifaceted, and oriented toward the shape of new business … Continue reading →

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Open Innovation Innovation 66

Innovation in Practice

JANUARY 2, 2017

Many people believe they’re not creative. So a natural question may be: why bother trying to be more creative? Well, there are lots of reasons - good reasons - to increase your creative skills. And it doesn’t matter where you are on the creativity scale. Just a small improvement in your creative ability will have a big impact on your day-to-day life.

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Norbert Bol

JANUARY 2, 2017

Dear readers, Best wishes for you in the new year 2017! Last year the number of rearders of Strategy Blogs increased enourmously to 22,634 followers today. The three blogs that were read most last year, were: 1) Knowledge sharing in project teams is important to go beyond your limitations. 2) Are you too busy to improve? 3) The future of sustainability.

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Rmukesh Gupta

JANUARY 2, 2017

This is a collection of posts that I loved reading today and I hope that you will like as well. How Starbucks’s Culture Brings Its Strategy to Life. In this HBR post, Paul Leinwand & Varya Davidson share the importance of the alignment of culture and strategy in the success of an enterprise. It is clear to any leader who has tried to create and execute on a new strategy, how difficult it is to get people to change the way they do things (culture).

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Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 2, 2017

Question: We’re a very large, well-known consumer products company, and our portfolio is actually quite complex, as we have many different types of initiatives included, all at vastly different stages. In fact, we often debate whether certain projects should be included at all. Do you have any leading practices related to defining what should be.

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Rmukesh Gupta

JANUARY 2, 2017

We just welcome a new year and I am sure there are a lot of people who have already decided what change they would like to bring to their lives in 2017. Some set themselves SMART goals and some set themselves generic resolutions. When it comes to new year resolutions or making personal change happen, I have believed in identifying a core theme for the year and decide some areas of life that I want to change.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 2, 2017

Every person who has ever had a job has experienced at least one "moment of truth" in their life -- a time when all the chips were on the table and the decision of whether to go "all in" or not had to be made. One such moment happened to me a few years ago when I was facilitating a creative thinking session for 110 of Lucent Technology's "best and brightest" -- a room full of brilliant computer scientists with more PhDs than most politicians have excuses.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 2, 2017

One of my favorite apocalyptic texts is the saying that if you sow the wind you'll reap the whirlwind. This is from the Old Testament, where the prophet Hosea is telling the people that they need to change their ways. Obviously the passage has a rather negative connotation. I think, however, we are the brink of some seismic changes and those firms that are ready will be able to ride the coming whirlwind, surf the tsunami, or benefit from the size and magnitude of the coming change.

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