TechEmpower Innovation

MARCH 4, 2024

Generative AI is revolutionizing how corporations operate by enhancing efficiency and innovation across various functions. Focusing on generative AI applications in a select few corporate functions can contribute to a significant portion of the technology's overall impact.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 24, 2023

It was from a white paper “ Accelerating Sustainable Energy Innovation , released in May 2018 and prepared in collaboration with KPMG. Energy innovation systems need a really much stronger and more effective push to deliver a broad range of technologies and solutions to the market faster than what is happening today.

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Strategos

MARCH 28, 2018

How can you harmonize and accelerate innovation in a corporate organisation? Anyone given the responsibility to accelerate innovation in a large corporation quickly appreciates that they won’t start from scratch. In reality, accelerating innovation is difficult and systemic.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A new partnership between Qmarkets and New York-based innovation and venture strategy firm Arable Ventures will provide a specialized innovation solution for enterprises across North America comprising both strategic consultancy services and dedicated software. About Qmarkets Managing innovation in large organizations is never easy.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 5, 2020

Innovation is a buzzword in the corporate world today. Successful innovation management derives from a mindset that welcomes new ideas and allows for a certain amount of risk. Risk aversion can get in the way of forming the right innovation strategy when companies pass up lucrative opportunities in favor of those that are safe.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Shaping Innovation for a Meaningful Change Following on from my initial post, “ Our Need is to Shape Innovation Dynamically, ” this post outlines the eight value-adding points that I can help build out and deliver alongside you in different delivery modules to fit your circumstances and budgets.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 25, 2019

The word ‘corporate innovation’ is becoming an increasingly popular buzzword, but for the most forward-thinking companies, it represents the future of the business and a significant spend on research and development. Corporate innovation nurtures unique thinking within corporate settings.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 19, 2021

“Without a major acceleration in clean energy innovation, reaching net-zero emissions by 2050 will not be possible.” The role of innovation has a crucial one to play. The IEA also highlights the ratcheting up of global ambitions, both by leading governments, financial institutions and corporates.

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Innov8rs

APRIL 17, 2024

Innov8rs | How Zurich Insurance Group uses its annual Innovation Championship to harness the innovative potential of startups for long term success. Innovation at Zurich Insurance Group is characterized by a mindset that embraces challenge head-on. The Zurich Innovation Championship is an important link in this chain.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 12, 2023

In my view any new approach to innovation needs to aim to achieve interdependent and interlocking innovation, solving problems that have not been addressed before and offering sustainable value, impact, and returns to all involved or significantly improving on the existing solutions. Nothing can work in isolation.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 7, 2019

I wrote my obligatory look back at 2018 article on innovation recently, so it is natural that we should turn our attention to where innovation will take us in 2019. Or perhaps the stock was overvalued and Apple has become more interested in margin than in innovation. What do we know about the state of innovation?

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Tim Kastelle

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Too many people want to make their organisations more innovative without going through the pain of actually changing anything. It’s the same with innovation. If you want to be innovative, it is simple: innovate. Here are some things that don’t work: Buying the magic innovation software.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Unleashing Innovation with the Best Keynote Speakers Importance of Keynote Speakers in Corporate Events Keynote speakers play a pivotal role in corporate events, as they have the power to set the tone and energize the audience. Highlighting the importance of collaboration and diversity in driving innovation.

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Innov8rs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Innov8rs | Engaging with startup communities has become a must for corporations pursuing innovation. But when you set up an accelerator, incubator, hackathon series, or any other kind of startup program, copy-paste doesn't work. Corporates have three major options when it comes to driving innovation: build, buy, or partner.

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IM Insights

OCTOBER 18, 2023

About the Episode Elijah Eilert is talking to Kumuda Suppayah an Innovation strategist, and business transformation expert in the Oil and Gas sector. Explore the significance of corporate venturing, distinguish it from strategic entrepreneurship, and unveil the key ingredients for corporate venturing success in this episode.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Open innovation is a core strategy for transformative growth amongst a growing number of enterprise companies around the world. The days of boardrooms and R&D departments keeping innovation under lock and key are waning, as companies are increasingly preferring a more collaborative approach with startups and other external parties.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 20, 2023

Qmarkets is pleased to announce a new partnership with US-based innovation consultancy Accel IQ Digital to provide comprehensive strategic innovation services to joint clients across the United States, Brazil, and the Middle East. About Qmarkets Managing innovation at large company is never easy.

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

For years, actually almost two decades now, I've been working with corporations, government agencies and non-profits to help them generate new ideas and create new products and services. Over time, as innovation has matured somewhat, many innovation consultants began to reference Doblin's Ten Types model.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 28, 2021

There are so many places where innovation is essential within the Energy Transition, due to the magnitude, size, and complexity of the change needed to achieve a decarbonized world. There is a world of innovating possibilities. My opener for relating to the three-horizon framework Opener to the Three Horizons for Innovation.

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Topics covered in this episode: 00:02:00 – His journey to starting Collective Campus, working with startups and corporations across the world. In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with serial entrepreneur and author Steve Glaveski. 00:06:30 – Why most companies have a C.R.A.P.

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Collectivecamp

AUGUST 22, 2023

Despite the initial enthusiasm and potential benefits, many corporate startup accelerator programs fail to achieve their intended outcomes and are often costly and counterproductive failures - creating a culture of fear around innovation and doing things differently.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 29, 2021

Most corporations suffer from what I call the Baskin-Robbins syndrome when it comes to innovation - there are far too many options and flavors, and that makes choosing the right innovation activities and investing in the right innovation outcomes exceptionally difficult. The same is true for innovation.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Open-source innovation (or simply ‘open innovation’) is developing into a core strategy for transformative growth amongst enterprise companies around the world. We caught up with the founder and CEO of AccelIQ Digital, Ariana Smetana, to find out more about the business and its approach to open-source innovation.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Innovation comes to businesses in many ways, yet one thing is for certain: It relies on a diversity of thought. After all, differing viewpoints have been known to encourage greater innovation. Take a corporate-led accelerator, for example. Of course, not all businesses go the accelerator route.

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Board of Innovation

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Have you been thinking about running a corporate accelerator to boost innovation capabilities at your company? The post Innovation accelerator for corporates appeared first on Board of Innovation. This might help you make your decision.

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

For corporates, open innovation is all about being transparent and public about the challenges and themes they're looking to go after and solve, and then finding the best-fit partners for that. Together we discussed what's next for open innovation and partnerships, as summarized below. What can’t be missing?

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ImagineNation

APRIL 7, 2024

My client enrolled in an online innovation learning program to learn to innovate by acquiring the fundamentals of mindset and behaviour changes to shift their thinking and act differently. Productivity growth means getting more from our work and our investments. Again, according to McKinsey and Co.,

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 18, 2019

I was on a conference call recently, discussing an upcoming keynote that I'll deliver to a academic-federal government program meant to accelerate new technologies from basic research into the market. One participant talked about the role that large corporations could play, and sometimes do play, in commercializing new technologies.

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Innov8rs

AUGUST 22, 2023

To succeed with corporate venture building, lean on one of the main resources you already have: your people. Before joining Mach49, Christian served as Head of Airbus Scale — Airbus’ central innovation unit — where he drove all of the company’s internal and external innovation activities. The question really is – how?

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Destination Innovation

JUNE 15, 2018

How can you assess how innovative your business is? The Innovation Sophistication Index is a list of just 24 statements. This is the Launch phase where the need for innovation is recognised but not much has been achieved so far. A result between 13 and 18 indicates that you are at Stage 3 – Acceleration.

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

For over a decade I've been working with corporations, trying to help them accelerate their ability to generate new, interesting ideas to market as viable products and services. But even with these obstacles it would seem we should have more innovation than we do. Change is constant and accelerating. Those days are over.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Overview: On the Ideascale Nation podcast , we talk with Manuel Moreno, Corporate Director of Innovation at Winpak. As a global packaging company constantly in need of ideas, Winpak developed 25hundred Innovators, which reduced the challenges of geography and language. 25hundred Innovators. The Challenge.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 22, 2023

I've been leading innovation work for close to 20 years, writing about it on this blog and in my book (Relentless Innovation). I've made some great friends along the way and been influenced by a range of great innovation thought leaders. Too much time at the innovation coal face was making me a bit cynical.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

I've been writing about innovation for close to 20 years. During most of that time, I've had the good fortune to lead innovation projects for clients as well. There are kids out there, getting ready to graduate from college, who were just being born when I started doing innovation work. Innovation.

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Your Ideas are Terrible

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Many of our corporate clients ask us for advice about planning and running hackathons. About corporate hackathons. Corporate hackathons are typically a 24-72 hour event in which 50-100 internal and/or external participants organize into teams of 3-5 to develop and present solutions to a known business problem. Everybody wins.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Twenty years ago, when I started advising startups and Fortune 500 companies on their innovation strategies, a “2020 vision” served as a key staple in most business planning efforts. This will drive innovation across sectors, but will be especially useful for green energy applications like solar power.

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 12, 2018

One factor I've been considering for some time has to do with the power of a corporate bureaucracy to create or block change. In fact I think one could easily say that there are real strengths and real barriers to any bureaucracy, whether that bureaucracy is housed in a government agency - think the driver's license bureau - or a corporation.

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