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Successfully Merging Theory and Practice in your Innovation Program

Qmarkets

From 2003 to 2007, I have been in charge of the R&D project portfolio management line of business at a solution provider. T o overcome this challenge, and as innovation became a top priority, most companies have created diversified corporate innovation programs to generate new innovation projects. Pitfalls to Avoid.

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Successfully Merging Theory and Practice in your Innovation Program

Qmarkets

From 2003 to 2007, I have been in charge of the R&D project portfolio management line of business at a solution provider. T o overcome this challenge, and as innovation became a top priority, most companies have created diversified corporate innovation programs to generate new innovation projects. Pitfalls to Avoid.

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Management Innovation:  Busting Bureaucracy

Strategos

While most of the client work that Strategos does is aimed at business model innovation, in recent years we have developed a principle-based approach to Management Innovation (see Mercy Salaz’s blog, Scope Creep ) and used this approach on several internal processes and practices such as product development. Hamel, Gary.

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Get Real About Your Company’s Future

The Inovo Group

For many, “future” is in fact a continuation of the immediate past and projections of near-term forces and trends that are easy to see and understand. Would it have a new product development or innovation process? This present-forward approach relies on projections from the immediate past and present state.

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Emotional Design with A.C.T. - Part 1

Boxes and Arrows

During the product development process, there is often a disconnect between design, marketing and usability for this very reason. 5 Complementarity is the theory that people are attracted to people with personalities that complement their own level of dominance or submissiveness (Markey 2007 9 ; Personality Research 10 ).

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Method Mondays: Never stop learning

Boxes and Arrows

This helps players of the game identify with the persona and project themselves onto it. Being able to identify the different characters in a project or the workplace and being able to adapt your own behavior to the strengths and weaknesses of your team can be a great advantage. For more details consult “Remember the Future.