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Innovation Management in 2023: Venture Building & Scaling

Innov8rs

Susana shares more about Telefónica, a Spanish multinational telecommunications company that employs more than 100,000 people that has been investing in startups since 2006- for a total of 1000+ startups. Through Wayra, the Telefónica's Venture Builder, the corporate accompanies and supports its startups from ideation to founding.

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How much is innovation costing your organization?

Innovation 360 Group

Our research suggests that most organizations have challenges in one of more of the four stages of innovation – i.e., ideation, selection, development and commercialization – often relating to gating and decisioning efforts as they move through the four stages. The Wheel of Innovation Sawhney, Wolcott and Arroniz (2006).Penker

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Creative Strategy Formula – Snickers and Lead, Copy, Swerve, Integrate, Go

BrainZooming

Here’s how this creative strategy formula plays out between two well-known consumer brands. In 2006, Snickers switched its logo out in an advertising campaign. In a recent creative thinking workshop, we spent significant time discussing how to enable consumers to customize and personalize a product.

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In defense of industry-agnostic innovation management

David Marks

And with so many different technology breakthroughs these days, how should one know which to focus on? Back in 2006 the duo reigned supreme in the mobile phone market. Firstly, processes to validate assumptions so that decisions can be made based on facts (And not the identity of the ideator). But it isn’t the only ingredient.

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Why take an industry-agnostic approach to innovation

David Marks

And with so many different technology breakthroughs these days, how should one know which to focus on? Back in 2006 the duo reigned supreme in the mobile phone market. Firstly, processes to validate assumptions so that decisions can be made based on facts (And not the identity of the ideator). But it isn’t the only ingredient.

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In defense of industry-agnostic innovation management

David Marks

And with so many different technology breakthroughs these days, how should one know which to focus on? Back in 2006 the duo reigned supreme in the mobile phone market. Firstly, processes to validate assumptions so that decisions can be made based on facts (And not the identity of the ideator). But it isn’t the only ingredient.

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Innovation in the Era of COVID-19

Innovation Excellence

As innovators, we often struggle with coming up with a way to wrap up a piece of work in which we are engaged, whether that is an ideation workshop or a presentation to stakeholders on a new idea. Peter’s (New York: Plume, 2006). Tokyo, Japan. Peter’s Square with Obelisk (Pixabay.com).