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How to Spot Your Innovation Blind Spot

Phil McKinney

How To Avoid Being Surprised By Your Innovation Blind Spot First and foremost, avoid cognitive biases by opening up your mind to new ideas and concepts. Be curious and invest in learning about new industries, trends, and technologies. Accept that failure is a part of the innovation process.

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Celebrate Pride Month by Recognizing the Role of Diversity in Innovation

IdeaScale

While Amundsen had plenty of experience navigating tundra and polar areas, when he arrived in Canada and met the local Inuit tribes, he learned their language and bartered not for food or supplies, but for knowledge. This underscores that diversity is needed throughout the innovation process, not just at one point.

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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.

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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.

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A New Model to Start Innovation

Gijs Van Wulfen

The ‘front end’ is the informal start of innovation and defined as “fuzzy” by many due to its lack of process and structure. However, the “Fuzzy Front End” is unfortunately the least well-structured part of the innovation process, both in theory and in practice.” [ii]. The way innovation starts is diverse.

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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). To learn how you can introduce idea management software in your business, Click here. Idea implementation.

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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). Technology roadmapping?