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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

The study mostly gained publicity for its broader social conclusions, that bubbles form in part due to social conformity, but it offers an intriguing result for those who need decisive choices in their innovation program. 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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Top 3 Alternative Assets for your Business Innovation Strategy

Qmarkets

This can result in a long process of having to evaluate the idea submissions to see whether they can be implemented. 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. Opportunity scouting is a fundamental element of innovation.

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Adapt or die: lessons from 5 companies that failed to innovate

Idea Drop

Although Kodak had early access to the first digital camera technology, they chose not to develop it as they felt it would kill their own film business. In 2007 a small-time, ailing Netflix actually thought they were going to be acquired by the Blockbusters giant, but they decided they didn’t want to. They filed for bankruptcy in 2012.

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