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PCAST Meets to Discuss How Science & Tech Can Drive Innovation

IdeaScale

Overview : Since 2001, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) has drawn on outside scientists, academics, engineers, and others to guide the President on effective policy for boosting innovation and scientific advancement in America. Looking to learn more about government innovation? We can help.

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The Rise of Product Management

Moves the Needle

Ken Beer was the Director of Product Management and reported into the Marketing department. It was not unusual to find PM’s who reported into Engineering at the time, the two cases perhaps reflecting the above origin stories. By 2001, I was running Product Management at a different company. I had never heard of Agile.

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2024: A Corporate Innovation Odyssey

PlanBox Innovation

In the annals of technological evolution, we find ourselves at a juncture akin to the iconic 2001: A Space Odyssey. Forrester’s The State Of Future-Fit Technology Strategy, 2022 report found that companies with a future-fit tech strategy grew revenue 1.8 Continuous Learning: Invest in skills and foster a learning culture.

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The fallacy of "modern" management when it comes to innovation management

Moves the Needle

Doing so means a new kind innovation management because the management most of us learned in school won’t quite do the trick. The New Wave of Innovation Management Paradigms – Efficiency in Discovery When facing uncertainty, we need processes that allow us to optimize learning, not just execution. For the consumer, this is awesome.

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The digital innovation era calls for new board leadership

Innovation 360 Group

In doing so, they must of course also follow the law and obey the ”code of conduct” but this may in fact very well kill their companies unless they learn how to govern the risky and experimental nature of world class Innovation! In this model, the shorter perspective, the current (core) business, is called Horizon 1(H1).

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When Information Design is a Matter of Life or Death

Boxes and Arrows

Directive 2004/27/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 amending Directive 2001/83/EC on the Community code relating to medicinal products for human use. Report of the Committee on Safety of Medicines Working Group on Patient Information. 2 European Commission. Brussels: European Commission. pdf/karen.pdf.

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Axel Springer & External Innovation. How to turn “Spray and Pray” into “Spray and Succeed”?

CREATORS

In most cases, such tactics prove unsuccessful, yet few companies seem to have learned any lesson. While mapping over 160 corporate innovation programs for the CREATORS Corporate Innovation Report 2017, we came across some successful examples of “spray and pray” elements in innovation strategy: Coca Cola invested in Spotify.

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