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Learning 5 Innovation Strategy Lessons as an Entrepreneur

BrainZooming

I’ll admit it: my views on innovation strategy have been dramatically shaped by working in a Fortune 500 corporation. Given that, moving to an entrepreneurial environment in 2009 was new territory when it came to learning innovation strategy lessons. 5 Innovation Strategy Lessons Learned as an Entrepreneur.

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Community Collaboration Workshops Come in All Sizes

BrainZooming

The week included: Large scale community collaboration workshops – Nearly eighty students from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale gathered Monday night and a comparable number of Carbondale, IL residents assembled on Tuesday for community collaboration workshops to imagine the community’s future with Gigabit Internet capabilities.

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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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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. Because when you allow people to positively shape the organization’s strategy and results, they’re empowered. It is certainly obvious now.

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InnovationOps: the Next Evolution of Innovation Management

Innov8rs

He advises executives on how to be more successful in innovation and execution of strategies such as sustainability. Those units aren’t aligned nor working together to deliver upon the strategies, and there’s limited governance of the processes from start to finish and hardly any suitable tools to manage those processes.

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Proven Social Strategy to Accelerate the Inventive Process

Daniel Burrus

Contests, however, are not some cutting-edge strategy used only by the most forward thinking innovators. It’s like the proverbial story of the fish that doesn’t understand what water is, but in this case, we fail to realize the degree to which the collaborative process using social media and contests occurs around us all the time.

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100%Open Past and Future

100%Open

Interesting – as one of those challenger strategies that would never really rock the boat. The major shift from 2009 to today is that most large organisations have embraced open innovation as mainstream within their innovation, partnering and investment activities. But do they contain collaborative and empathetic mindsets?