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Qmarkets & Amer Sports – An Innovative Partnership that Created Unprecedented Employee Engagement

Qmarkets

Amer’s R&D team grew from 487 people at the close of 2009 to 802 people at the close of 2016 – amounting to 9% of all employees and 9.5% An incredible 50% of all Amer employees and 30% of factory workers have already collaborated to take the company further. What were the Innovation Challenges Facing Amer Sports?

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Community Collaboration Workshops Come in All Sizes

BrainZooming

Last week was diverse in the Brainzooming world, as we were engaged in serving clients across many different aspects of what we do. Thursday included working with a local non-profit to develop the strategic foundation for an important initiative, along with developing initial themes from the Carbondale community collaboration workshops.

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We require a more dynamic view of Innovation understanding.

Paul Hobcraft

I keep working on this; I need some partners to collaborate and invest in building this out further. Paul Hobcraft and Agility Innovation Specialists, all rights reserved, a journey that continues to pursue the innovation dynamics studies and suggested frameworks 2009 – 2023.

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10 Years of Brainzooming to Help You Create Amazing Possibilities

BrainZooming

On November 2, 2009, we launched Brainzooming as a new company helping organizations across industries imagine and implement strategy, branding, and innovation initiatives. From the start, we have emphasized making strategic planning simple, engaging, and fun. They want to collaborate now and in the future.

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Building a Culture of Innovation

Fehmida Kapadia

These games are wonderful at promoting teamwork, camaraderie and collaboration, because they allow us to be children again and experience the unbridled joy of being silly, of failing and trying again. This model of unbridled creativity made Zappos wildly successful and it was acquired by Amazon in 2009.

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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

As McKinsey points out , organizations that focused on innovation even during the 2009 crisis, outperformed the market average by 30% and their growth continued to accelerate the following years as well. Organizations should make changes in their strategy, governance, engagement, and incentives.

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Qmarkets & Intesa Sanpaolo Card: Tailoring Innovation Management for the Finance Industry

Qmarkets

Intesa Sanpaolo Card is a provider of payment solutions, which was founded in 2009 as a member of one of the largest banking groups in Europe. Many of the innovation software vendors on the current market offer a standardized out-of-the-box solution, which offers some very basic idea submission and collaboration functionality.