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Successfully Merging Theory and Practice in your Innovation Program

Qmarkets

From 2003 to 2007, I have been in charge of the R&D project portfolio management line of business at a solution provider. This is mainly due to the engineering culture that is embedded in many companies and which drives the decisions at the highest levels. Merging Theory and Practice. Pitfalls to Avoid. How to Tackle the Problem.

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Successfully Merging Theory and Practice in your Innovation Program

Qmarkets

From 2003 to 2007, I have been in charge of the R&D project portfolio management line of business at a solution provider. This is mainly due to the engineering culture that is embedded in many companies and which drives the decisions at the highest levels. Merging Theory and Practice. Pitfalls to Avoid. How to Tackle the Problem.

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Adapt or die: lessons from 5 companies that failed to innovate

Idea Drop

It feels like the world is moving faster than ever, which means that companies in every sector have to prioritise agile innovation or risk becoming defunct. In 2007 a small-time, ailing Netflix actually thought they were going to be acquired by the Blockbusters giant, but they decided they didn’t want to.

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Top 3 Alternative Assets for your Business Innovation Strategy

Qmarkets

Often this is a manual process which can lack in transparency, due to the inability to give feedback on people’s ideas, especially in large enterprises. Strategically making steps towards increasing your market share. Benefits of Crowdsourcing Opportunities Become a Market Leader: There is huge potential in scouting.

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The Content Conundrum

Boxes and Arrows

More than likely, that content was discussed, created, and iterated outside or separate from the core design review process and ultimately plugged into a content management system (or pasted into the code by a developer) much later in the development process. Reviewing your own work this way will dramatically improve your design.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

Microsoft entered the 21st century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device. 16 years later it’s just another software company. These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. Here’s why.

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Designing for Harmony

Boxes and Arrows

In a flash of insight, he realized that software could replace pencil-and-paper accounting for everyone. They had users try their new software, Quicken, while they ran a stopwatch. Then they’d tweak the software and retest until processes that took an hour were reduced to a quarter of that.

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