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How to Spot Your Innovation Blind Spot

Phil McKinney

Even if we are aware of the potential innovation, it's difficult to recognize because our current knowledge and experience may not provide us with the context or perspective to identify it. Accept that failure is a part of the innovation process. Thirdly, adopt a risk-taking mindset.

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Celebrate Pride Month by Recognizing the Role of Diversity in Innovation

IdeaScale

The Inuit taught Amundsen how to make shelters, how to improve their mobility across the ice, and how to clothe themselves for maximum warmth and safety in cold temperatures. This underscores that diversity is needed throughout the innovation process, not just at one point. Making Innovation Inclusive.

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Innovate, Adapt, Overcome: How to Beat a Recession with Idea Management & Continuous Improvement

Qmarkets

Read on to discover how you can transform a recession into a rejuvenation. job losses skyrocketed during the peak recession years 2008-2010 Given the devastating impact of the 2007-08 financial crisis, it’s little wonder that companies worldwide are sensitive to omens of a new “great recession”.

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Successfully Merging Theory and Practice in your Innovation Program

Qmarkets

On April 25 th and 26 th , Eric will be a speaker at our Paris Innovation Leader Breakfast Tour, which will explore a variety of topics around the themes of systemic innovation and digital transformation in Enterprise-grade businesses ( click here for more details). How to Tackle the Problem. Merging Theory and Practice.

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COVID-19: Business R&D Spending Will Fall by at Least 5-6%

Commodore Innovation

And it might be larger ways such as helping to drive or facilitate innovation processes that identify ways your organization can help our communities and our governments (e.g. Longer-term implications for innovation Innovation leaders will also need to turn their attention to longer-term questions.

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Successfully Merging Theory and Practice in your Innovation Program

Qmarkets

On April 25 th and 26 th , Eric will be a speaker at our Paris Innovation Leader Breakfast Tour, which will explore a variety of topics around the themes of systemic innovation and digital transformation in Enterprise-grade businesses ( click here for more details). How to Tackle the Problem. Merging Theory and Practice.

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

At the centre are the innovation brokers: consultancy firms, education professionals and knowledge brokers who do not directly work with innovation, but accelerate it (Chesbrough, 2007). Product innovation processes in small firms: Combining entrepreneurial effectuation and managerial causation. – Berends, H.,