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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. This bias surfaces when we are faced with ideas for new offerings, business models or strategies that the company is not used to. The idea was rejected. Cisco’s WebEx is now struggling to catch up.

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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. One of the challenges we must overcome is that technology and radical innovations are still considered as the only "true innovations". Merging Theory and Practice. Pitfalls to Avoid.

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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. One of the challenges we must overcome is that technology and radical innovations are still considered as the only "true innovations". Merging Theory and Practice. Pitfalls to Avoid.

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Part 1: Accelerating the impact of Innovation Campaigns

Values Centered Innovation

In a 2007 McKinsey Quarterly article on “Leadership and Innovation,” the authors made it quite clear that “Innovation is a core driver of growth, performance and valuation.” Attract and develop human capital. Revitalizing the organization design in terms of networked teams, not silos. Creating and managing new knowledge.

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

The Inovo Group

Identifying and describing these guide those who want to create persistent strategic innovation. Then a business downturn comes, or a new CEO with a different strategy and mindset, or a corporate re-org, or the leader of the corporate innovation group gets frustrated and quits, or any one of a myriad of other events happens.

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How Apple created two giants

Matthew Griffin

+44 (0) 7957 456194. Company Executives are increasingly compelled to report profit in percentage terms so naturally they promote and reward the behaviours that increase margins. There are, of course, a number of ways that organisations can divest these operations in a way that boosts their overall average margins.

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Get Real About Your Company’s Future

The Inovo Group

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Effective futuring that includes the ability to gain insights into long-term futures with inevitable disruptions and discontinuities needs to be a key component of a company’s strategy and innovation efforts.