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How to Spot Your Innovation Blind Spot

Phil McKinney

There are several underlying actors that contribute to the creation of innovation blind spots. One of these is organizational culture. If an organization values tradition over innovation, or if it encourages conformity and discourages taking risks, it's likely that innovation blind spots will develop.

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Awesome Innovation Infographic To Double Your Effectiveness

Gijs Van Wulfen

.” “Our innovation process is unorganized. ” “There is no support for innovation among my colleagues.” ” We like to help you with a structured approach, which combines both creativity and business reality. The method is part of the innovation bestseller The Innovation Expedition.

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Awesome Innovation Infographic To Double Your Effectiveness

Gijs Van Wulfen

Our innovation process is unorganized. There is no support for innovation among my colleagues.”. We like to help you with a structured approach, which combines both creativity and business reality. The method is part of the innovation bestseller The Innovation Expedition. It’s chaos.”. “We

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What is idea management and why is it important for any business

hackerearth

Another definition hinting at its pivotal role in innovation is this: “Idea management is facilitating the flow from idea generation to idea conversion in the innovation value chain” (Hansen & Birkinshaw, 2007). This is different from creative problem solving where you have to just come up with an idea.

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A New Model to Start Innovation

Gijs Van Wulfen

Cornelius Herstatt and Birgit Verworn state on this: “Within the innovation process, we believe, the early phases (“fuzzy front end”) to have the highest impact on the whole process and the result, since it will influence the design and total costs of the innovation extremely.

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Get Real About Your Company’s Future

The Inovo Group

Innovative approaches are filling this gap and proving their value to companies that adopt them. When Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007, Research in Motion (RIM) was a major player in a worldwide market that sold about one billion cell phones annually (the term “smartphone” was new). Would that company invest in R&D?

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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

In essence it is nowadays recognized as the difference between creativity (Schumpetarian) and alertness (Kirzner) – creation versus discovering. The entrepreneur is an innovator and disturbs the economy (De Jong & Marsili, 2010; Schumpeter, 1934). When to be creative, when to be managerial. Krueger, 2007).