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The Role of Innovation in New Product Development: Three Approaches for Success

Qmarkets

If an idea gains 10,000 supporters (or votes) from other members, it is considered for production in a ‘Lego Review’. This occurs 3x a year and is held by the ‘Lego Review Board’ consisting of designers, product managers, and other key team members. Here Lego have created a continuous process of generating a pool of new ideas.

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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

As McKinsey points out , organizations that focused on innovation even during the 2009 crisis, outperformed the market average by 30% and their growth continued to accelerate the following years as well. They successfully emerged from the crisis in 2007 through a series of bold decisions from leaders who embraced innovative thinking.

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PLAYING IT SAFE IS THE MOST DANGEROUS THING YOU CAN DO

Innovation 360 Group

Companies disappear all the time without a word, due to changing cultural values, changing technology, or changing audience demographics. When disruption came for the taxi industry, the music industry, the retail industry, and others, there were usually four flashing lights that just about anyone could see.

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A brief history of work, innovation and skills in the UK

Wazoku

Advances in mechanisation, mass production and, more recently, technology have shaped where and how we work, as well as what we produce. A new era of work and technological change. New technology in the home made it easier for women to do paid work, relieving them of time-consuming housework.

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Successfully Merging Theory and Practice in your Innovation Program

Qmarkets

Eric Gabas-Varini is the Partner and Co-Founder of Innovation Framework Technologies, a consulting firm which was founded in Paris, but has since established regional offices in the United States, South Korea & Japan, with a network of associate offices in Latin America and the Middle East. Merging Theory and Practice. Pitfalls to Avoid.

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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. The trend data you gather can be based on anything from new technologies and services to new disruptive business models.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

did a follow-on study that found 32 of the 50 companies described in these books to only matched or underperformed the market over their subsequent 15-to-20-year period. Jack Ma (2000), Jeff Bezos (2003), Mark Zuckerberg (2004), Reed Hastings (2007), Brian Chesky (2008), Travis Kalanick (2009), Anthony Tan (2012). Now, how about these?