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What Formula Made Steve Jobs as an Innovation Leader So Successful?

IdeaScale

And until 2001, that was it. When Apple did debut a new product in October 2001, it was completely outside those categories as well: It was the iPod, a personal music player that worked with Macs. There’s much to learn from Steve Jobs as a leader in innovation. Clearly Held Ownership.

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How to Boost Innovation by Recycling Existing Ideas

IdeaScale

First launched in October 2001, Apple ‘s portable music device has revolutionised how we all listen to and download music. This lightweight, technologically proficient reinvention of existing MP3 players was an global phenomenon that has since sold more than 400 million units since 2001. Take the iPod for example.

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Reinnovation of the Major Automotive Players Through Eco Systems, Openness and Platform Design

Innovation 360 Group

For a deeper understanding of blockers and what you can do to innovate in conservative industries have a look at the blog post about the four paradoxes, including The Dr Winterkorn Paradox. Who are the winners – and what can we learn from them? All the data was collected and analyzed in InnoSurvey (2017).

System 40
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Reinnovation of the Major Automotive Players Through Eco Systems, Openness and Platform Design

Innovation 360

For a deeper understanding of blockers and what you can do to innovate in conservative industries have a look at the blog post about the four paradoxes, including The Dr Winterkorn Paradox. Who are the winners – and what can we learn from them? All the data was collected and analyzed in InnoSurvey™ (2017).

System 40
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A New Model to Start Innovation

Gijs Van Wulfen

Cornelius Herstatt and Birgit Verworn state on this: “Within the innovation process, we believe, the early phases (“fuzzy front end”) to have the highest impact on the whole process and the result, since it will influence the design and total costs of the innovation extremely. Dr. Cornelius Herstatt, Dipl.-Ing.

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

Qmarkets

Kodak Learned A Lot, But Didn't Unlearn. Kodak even ventured out and acquired a photo-sharing website called Ofoto in 2001 - before Facebook or Instagram were founded. This means that you want to consider confronting old belief systems before implementing change or bigger innovation processes.

Company 60
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3 of the Best Innovation Team Formulas…and When to Ignore Them

Qmarkets

Even some innovation experts claim that “ innovation is everyone’s job.” Actually this notion that “innovation is everyone’s job” is quite popular in many companies. Because it allows its leadership to adopt a hands-off approach to innovation process.