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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

Innovators are forced to give up on initiatives, projects, and resources. In this context, innovators wonder how to get ideas across, how to continue projects, what back-up solutions to find and how to keep innovation afloat. The long-horizon projects are the first to go and this leads to an unbalanced innovation portfolio.

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Top 3 Alternative Assets for your Business Innovation Strategy

Qmarkets

Benefits of Crowdsourcing Trends Facilitate Focused & Efficient Ideation: Within innovation, knowing where to focus your ideas by basing them on trend data is extremely efficient. This is advantageous as it means that you can hone your ideation process early on, creating a much more efficient ideation and productive process.

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Bringing Design Thinking into the classroom to prepare the next generation for the challenges of the future

Betterific

During the first 20 years of my career, I assigned an essay on 1st day of school and I did the things that most teachers do with homework, projects, and tests while emphasizing critical thinking skills. — projects to redesign cities using insights from different perspectives. We live in an amazing world at an amazing time.

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PLAYING IT SAFE IS THE MOST DANGEROUS THING YOU CAN DO

Innovation 360 Group

Since its founding in 2007, this file storage startup from Silicon Valley has ballooned up to a 12 billion dollar US valuation in a little over a decade. Successful innovators are structured, methodical, and systematic in organizing their innovation projects.

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The Content Conundrum

Boxes and Arrows

Designers often design totally separate from content ideation and development. ” The value of most design projects is typically placed in the upfront design and strategy work. There are a number of tactical things we can do with every project to mitigate the risks. Content The Design(er) is King.

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50 what-if questions to reimagine the future

Board of Innovation

If you bought Radiohead’s 2007 album In Rainbows or a digital package at Humble Bundle , you’ve participated in the ‘pay what you want’ sales model. GE also launched 100 FastWorks projects in US, Europe, China, Russia and Latin America. Need help organizing an ideation workshop? What if all your employees were freelancers?