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My innovation journey (so far)

Jeffrey Phillips

We felt that to remain competitive, larger companies needed to recapture the sense of wonder and adventure that working in the "front end" of innovation would create. My friend, who founded OVO Innovation with me in 2004, was really passionate about the idea of reviving innovation in corporations.

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The Resolution Myth

Stephen Shapiro

We’ve been told that because it’s a new year, it’s time for a new you. This is especially true for those who set money-related resolutions: 41% are not happy, 34% are moderately happy, and 25% are happy. Of course, numbers only represent averages and do not reflect your personal situation. Welcome to 2024.

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How four market-creating innovations are improving education and employment in Brazil

Christensen Institute

In our recently published paper titled Leveraging Market-Creating Innovations to Solve Brazil’s Education Paradox , we describe how Brazil currently spends more money on education than its Latin American peers, however much of the outcome of its education system is subpar to theirs in comparison. The impact.

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3 Vital Idea Crowdsourcing Best Practices from the 2021 Suez Canal Obstruction

Qmarkets

However, as we will see this concept was not effectively utilized and in the end it took a week to move the ship, holding up a staggering $9.6bn of trade, and $15m dollars per day for the Suez Canal Authority. What we did see is some third-party crowdsourcing efforts on behalf of the SCA.

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Why Business Strategy Shouldn’t Be “Scientific”

Innovation Excellence

It seems more than a little silly, and of course, no cargo every came. Feynman’s point was that we can’t merely mimic behaviors and expect to get results. In 2004, I was leading a major news organization during the Orange Revolution in Ukraine. Yet these tribal societies persisted in their strange behaviors. The Halo Effect.

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The Lean Scale-Up: Innovation & Entrepreneurship for New Ventures

Open Innovation EU

All this, calls for more organic, innovative and learning organizations that are lead by strategic leaders ( Greiner, 2004 ). It was the Nordstrom Innovation Lab who firstly created the following image on the relation between Design Thinking, Lean and Agile. Many popular tools are based on this process view on organization design.

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Three Vital Idea Crowdsourcing Best Practices from the 2021 Suez Canal Obstruction

Qmarkets

However, as we will see this concept was not effectively utilized and in the end it took a week to move the ship, holding up a staggering $9.6bn of trade, and $15m dollars per day for the Suez Canal Authority. What we did see is some third-party crowdsourcing efforts on behalf of the SCA.