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My innovation journey (so far)

Jeffrey Phillips

I'm ready to dive back in, to write about innovation, to lead innovation projects and to build up an innovation competency in the firms where people want to get good work done. 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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Design Thinking Double Diamond Framework Training

InnovationTraining.org

Learn more about this classic Double Diamond design thinking framework and find resources, tips, and more to apply it to your own projects. Developed and popularized by the British Design Council, the double diamond framework has been around since 2004. Design Thinking Software Tools. Design Thinking Workshop Resources.

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Integrating UX into the Product Backlog

Boxes and Arrows

Early agile pioneers were working on in-house IT projects (custom software) or enterprise software [ 1 , 2 ]. The economics are different in selling consumer products than when developing software for enterprises—UX matters more for consumer products. Larry makes money even if people can’t use his software.

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What is Crowdsourcing, and How Can it Add Value to Your Enterprise?

Qmarkets

Since the 2004 publication of James Surowiecki’s highly influential book, The Wisdom of Crowds , the idea that large groups of people can be smarter than a few individuals, no matter how brilliant, has been gradually gaining prominence in academic circles, business communities, and public opinion. appeared first on Qmarkets.

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Top 9 Actionable Employee Engagement Ideas and Activities

Acuvate

Encourage time for passion projects. For example, founders of Google – Larry Page and Sergey Brin wrote in their 2004 IPO letter that “We encourage our employees, in addition to their regular projects, to spend 20% of their time working on what they think will most benefit Google”. Gauge Employee Wellness.

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Innovation Management: Importance, Ideas, and Examples

Acuvate

MarketsandMarkets Research predicts that the Innovation Management market is projected to grow from an estimated USD 421.6 Incorporating innovation management software or tools like Wave can play a major role in fostering employee engagement and involvement in innovation using techniques like gamification. Million in 2017 to USD 1,519.2

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How Telltales Told You Not to Own Wal-Mart, and Continue To Do So

Adam Hartung

In May, 2011 I reiterated this problem at Wal-Mart in a column that paralleled the retailer with software giant Microsoft, and pointed out that because of financial machinations not all earnings are equal. In other words, Wal-Mart is projecting the classic “hockey stick” forecast. At that time WMT was about $54/share.