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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. One major type of project we sold, which clients often paid millions for, was the implementation of the newest version of SAP finance software.

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Interview with Design Thinking Leader Steven Forth on What Makes Business Model Innovation So Challenging

IdeaScale

IdeaScale was introduced to Ibbaka because they are working with us on a very special project to help us innovate on our business model, but we were impressed at their experience, conversancy in design thinking and innovation and passion for subjects like growth models. We do that in several ways: . How do you put it at the center?

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Qmarkets Selected as a Innovation Management Service Provider by Israeli Government Procurement Administration

Qmarkets

Qmarkets is one of a small group of suppliers that have been approved to provide software and consulting services to assist the Israeli public sector with innovation management, citizen engagement, and efficiency objectives. ( For the Hebrew version click here.

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Qmarkets Selected as a Innovation Management Service Provider by Israeli Government Procurement Administration

Qmarkets

Qmarkets is one of a small group of suppliers that have been approved to provide software and consulting services to assist the Israeli public sector with innovation management, citizen engagement, and efficiency objectives. (For the Hebrew version click here.)

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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. Carey and I had a fascinating discussion on the problems with silos in software development, and I appreciated her interest in discussing the state of the art in academia on the topic. At the time, I was a Ph.D. Fast forward to 2016.

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Companies betting big on open innovation

hackerearth

[This paradigm] assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, as they look to advance their technology.” ( Henry Chesbrough, 2006 ). Check out how the idea generation and project roadmaps here.). We can't do all that innovation ourselves – it's not possible.

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Crowdsourcing vs crowdfunding – what’s the difference?

Wazoku

Crowdsourcing was coined in 2006 by Wired writer Jeff Howe who defined it as taking a task traditionally performed by an employee and outsourcing it to an undefined, sometimes large group of people. Crowdsourcing first became popular among software developers: open sourced code was a way for companies to more quickly develop software.