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How to Boost Innovation by Recycling Existing Ideas

IdeaScale

In these early stages of product development, it can sometimes seem like all of the good ideas have already been taken. When you apply this train of thought to innovation, it becomes apparent that some of the most successful products and services in human history were developed by recycling existing ideas. Take the iPod for example.

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What Can Your Business Learn About Innovation from Shark Tank Ideas?

IdeaScale

Shark Tank has been around in some form or another since 2001, with the Japanese series “Money Tigers.” Nor are the judges particularly kind if they think an idea is a bad one, offering the prospect of being publicly humiliated on national television, as you can see above. They have any relevant patents in place. Humility First.

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Designing for Harmony

Boxes and Arrows

With partial funding from Cook’s father, the pair not only founded Intuit, which improved many a math- and time-challenged life, but also gave another gift to the software industry that they borrowed from the consumer packaged goods industry: usability testing. They had users try their new software, Quicken, while they ran a stopwatch.

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The Evolution of Digital Transformation and the CIO

MSSBTI

Take for example, the transition between the agrarian age to the industrial age. Any of the above can be considered a major advancement in applied technology, but we happen to exist in a time when they are all maturing into useful applications simultaneously and being used to transform entire industries. We just know it is coming.

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The digital innovation era calls for new board leadership

Innovation 360 Group

Among others we use our own developed assessment tool InnoSurvey TM and our innovation database which today provide us with benchmark data from more than 1000 corporate measurements done over the last few years. You can read more about this in e.g. Mr. Jason Lunday’s featured column about Typical Weaknesses of Codes of Conduct; [link].

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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

Whereas Schumpeter describes an entrepreneur as disequilibrative – destroying the pre-existing stage of the equilibrium ((Kirzner, 1999) – Kirzner chooses to describe the role of the entrepreneur as more equilibrative – entrepreneurs systematically displace disruptive conditions in order to create stabilized market conditions (Kirzner, 1999).

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The digital innovation era calls for new board leadership

Innovation 360

Among others we use our own developed assessment tool InnoSurvey TM and our innovation database which today provide us with benchmark data from more than 1000 corporate measurements done over the last few years. You can read more about this in e.g. Mr. Jason Lunday’s featured column about Typical Weaknesses of Codes of Conduct; [link].