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Flirting with ideas

HYPE Innovation

A great idea – but ‘they’ hadn’t yet done it and so Slawa decided to remedy the situation. Except that the prospect on this May morning with its ominous looking clouds was not so inviting – and so to prepare for the likely showers she took a heavy umbrella with her.

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Concept Development: An Exercise to Make Idea Investment Decisions Easier

Planview

Recently, a client shared a story about presenting some very intriguing ideas from a crowdsourcing challenge to decision makers and being met with “Yes, great ideas, but we can’t decide which of the good ones to pick or what to invest without knowing a lot more.”. Competition and disruption are too intense to flirt with maybes.

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Leave Benchmarks Behind

Daniel Burrus

But what if you could move beyond the idea of competition? Competition: Flirting with Failure. Meanwhile, Netflix was redefining the idea of renting a movie through the convenience of streaming. That makes the idea of competition utterly moot. Would that be a bona fide game changer? Redefine What It Means to Benchmark.

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Barely scratching the surface

Jeffrey Phillips

We are all guilty of flirting with prosperity, toying at the edges of innovation possibility, never fully committing to discover all the value locked up just below the surface. Where innovation is concerned most organizations have a similar experience to many of those who rushed to California. Second, the risk-reward spectrum.

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Process Consulting: understand the benefits for your business

mjvinnovation

In addition, by spending less time on processes where machines easily exceed the production of a human being, it is possible to allocate employees in the development of new ideas and projects. Mapping opportunities for improvement – identifying bottlenecks and triggers of wasted resources, which prevent increased productivity.

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What is Divergent thinking vs Convergent thinking

Idea to Value

But what do these two terms mean, and how do they work together to form a creative idea? Divergent thinking: The production of a large number of original ideas from a starting point (like a problem or challenge). Convergent thinking: The selection of the most appropriate or valuable ideas to solve the problem or challenge.

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Open Innovation Day to Tackle Social and Environmental Challenges

IdeaConnection

Essex and Suffolk Water , a water supply company in the UK have been flirting with open innovation in a major way. Everyone was free to ask questions, come up with their own ideas and build on the ideas of others. Showcasing Ideas. A HUGE thanks to everyone who took part in our Day of Innovation festival today in Essex!