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Challenging the Assumption of the Status Quo

Innovation Excellence

(A Lesson Learned from Yogurt) GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton In September 2006, I moved to Copenhagen, Denmark, on a temporary assignment with BCG. As one does when arriving somewhere for an extended period, I went to the grocery store to stock my kitchen. Since the grocery store was on the ground floor of my […]

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Eating your own dog food

Idea to Value

In 2006, the editor of IEEE Software recounted that in the 1970s television advertisements for Alpo dog food, Lorne Greene pointed out that he fed Alpo to his own dogs. For example, analysis of mutual fund managers in 2011 found nearly half of the managers did not themselves invest in the core funds they were advising customers to buy.

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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

by Brian Tracy – 2001 Mindset by Carol Dweck – 2006 Go-Giver by Bob Burg and John David Mann – 2007 Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman – 2011 Thrive by Arianna Huffington – 2014 Atomic Habits by James Clear – 2018 The post Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books appeared first on Destination Innovation.

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Flow Metrics for the Win — Planview Named a Leader in Forrester Wave™ on Value Stream Management

Planview

My first experience with it was back in 2006 when I took a call from Carey Schwaber of Forrester. I was not sure who Forrester was and why they were researching a category called Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). A similar shift is underway in how we visualize, manage, and optimize flow across our organizations.

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Crowdsourced Innovation: Three Things I Learned

IdeaScale

In fact, Netflix crowdsourced its innovation process by paying 1 million dollars to the people who figured out how to improve its recommendation algorithm from 2006 to 2009. So your company has a crowdsourced innovation management program in place — great! Creating a Concrete Innovation System Helps Firms Get Ahead.

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Innovation Management in 2023: Venture Building & Scaling

Innov8rs

As part of our recent The Innovator’s Handbook 2023 launch event, we discussed this (and more) with Frank Mattes (CEO at Lean Scaleup), Sean Sheppard (Managing Partner at U+), and Susana Jurado (Head of Wayra Builder at Telefónica). Why can it be so hard for corporates to launch substantial new businesses? Business Building: Pros and Cons.

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Ten years building the future together

Exago

In 2006, an IT visionary, an innovation hunter and an algorithm doer met for coffee and an idea came up. In November 2007, Exago was born. Now, on our 10th anniversary, we celebrate the results of our brilliant customers and the over one million users who have taken part in building their organisation’s future. From […].