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Famous for being Anonymous

Destination Innovation

Girl with Balloon first appeared as an original graffiti mural painted outside a Shoreditch shop in 2002 and later at London’s Southbank, this time accompanied by the epitaph “There is Always Hope”. The post Famous for being Anonymous appeared first on Destination Innovation. In 2017 it was voted the UK’s favourite artwork.

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Trust the Customers, Not the Experts

Destination Innovation

When he returned to England in 2002, he endeavoured to raise funding. In 2002 he was successful in gaining a grant from the Prince’s Trust who also provided him with a mentor and business advice. Lessons for Innovators. The post Trust the Customers, Not the Experts appeared first on Destination Innovation.

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The Knowns and Unknowns of the Front End of Innovation

HYPE Innovation

Secretary of Defense Donald Henry Rumsfeld, who mentioned “unknown unknowns” (Rumsfeld, 2002). For innovators so much of innovation is hard to detect, it needs discovery and working through these quadrants of knowledge as well.

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What impact does time pressure have on creativity?

Idea to Value

Diamonds are formed under pressure There are numerous examples of companies who allowed staff to take time to work on their own innovations and creative ideas. In this 2002 Harvard Business Review article previewing some of the findings, the authors noted: When creativity is under the gun, it usually ends up getting killed.

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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

Would you like to have read the best 50 books on sales, marketing, leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship and self-improvement? Just imagine all the insights and lessons you would have learned and how that would have helped you in your business career. But how much time would it have taken?

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Seven Companies That Failed to Innovate and What Happened to Them

IdeaScale

Overview: Companies that fail to innovate can go out of business, yet there are even worse fates that can await them. These seven companies lost out on entering major new markets, got acquired by competitors, or accumulated billions on bad bets, all by failing to innovate or grasp the value of their innovations. The lesson?

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 1: What is a Business Model?

The BMI Lab Blog

The number of companies, which have established dedicated business model innovation units and processes is even lower. Magretta, 2002). WHO – Every business model serves a certain customer group (Chesbrough and Rosenbloom 2002; Hamel 2000). Magretta 2002). The object of innovation 2.