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Nine Short Innovation Lessons from Lego

Destination Innovation

Jorgen Vig Knudstorp joined in 2001 and was promoted to CEO three years later at the age of 36. Galvanize the culture. Knudstorp revolutionized the corporate culture. He transformed the culture into a creative, agile and rapid hothouse of innovation. They appointed a new CEO.

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Seven Companies That Failed to Innovate and What Happened to Them

IdeaScale

Its photography and writing exposed many people around the world to a variety of different cultures. So it seemingly made sense, in 2001, to create a second football league to offer people more football, differentiating itself from the NFL with different rules, scantier clad cheerleaders, and edgy names and logos.

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3 of the Best Innovation Team Formulas…and When to Ignore Them

Qmarkets

For example, a recent publication lists five “innovative” qualities each member of the innovation team is supposed to possess: Leapfrogging mindset : a desire to view the world with the goal of changing it. For example. This is not to say, however, that more specific directions are completely unavailable.

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A New Model to Start Innovation

Gijs Van Wulfen

As speaker on innovation I have been traveling around the world meeting innovators, managers and CEOs in different cultures: from Canada to Cape Town; and from Turkey to Tokyo. Here’s an example of the Idea Route: You can download a free pdf of all the 4 four routes. Birgit Verworn, August 2001, [link]. i] [link]. [ii]

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3 of the Best Innovation Team Formulas…and When to Ignore Them

Qmarkets

For example, a recent publication lists five “innovative” qualities each member of the innovation team is supposed to possess: Leapfrogging mindset : a desire to view the world with the goal of changing it. For example. This is not to say, however, that more specific directions are completely unavailable.

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A New Model to Start Innovation

Gijs Van Wulfen

As speaker on innovation I have been traveling around the world meeting innovators, managers and CEOs in different cultures: from Canada to Cape Town; and from Turkey to Tokyo. Here’s an example of the Idea Route: You can download a free pdf of all the 4 four routes. Birgit Verworn, August 2001, https://www.tuhh.de/tim/downloads/arbeitspapiere/Arbeitspapier_4.pdf.

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Why Your Company Needs To Forget the Past in Order to Create a Brighter Future

Qmarkets

When thinking about the challenges of disruptive innovation - one of the most commonly cited examples is Kodak’s failure to capitalize on it’s dominance during the shift from analogue to digital. Kodak even ventured out and acquired a photo-sharing website called Ofoto in 2001 - before Facebook or Instagram were founded.

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