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Good Ideas Often go Nowhere: Here’s What You Can Do About It

The Inovo Group

Eric Yuan, the founder of Zoom, was one of the first 20 employees of WebEx that was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2007. Using Collaborative Concept Evaluation Not all input aggregators and crowd voting systems focus on both the idea and the crowd. A collaborative concept evaluation tool like Rationalize is one of the exceptions.

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The Importance of Persistence: Building an Innovation System for the Long-term

The Inovo Group

A 2007 study by M. Most corporate business functions – new product development (NPD), quality, sales, R&D, marketing, etc. Many companies succumb and invest in showy innovation activities (see this article for some humorous examples). But the CEO’s words to the shareholders often reveal a deeper truth. Prabhu, & R.

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