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Five Benefits of a Diverse Innovation Team

IdeaScale

Nikon is a crown jewel of Japanese engineering and imaging technology, and yet a lack of diversity resulted in a camera Japanese people couldn’t use. Diversity Stops Embarrassment In 2009, HSBC launched a campaign with the slogan “Assume Nothing.” Diversity Spots Problems.

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How to Boost Innovation by Recycling Existing Ideas

IdeaScale

This lightweight, technologically proficient reinvention of existing MP3 players was an global phenomenon that has since sold more than 400 million units since 2001. Similar innovation strategies can be noted within all fields of industry; from the technology sector to the entertainment industry. ” The end result was a 6.5

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Proven Social Strategy to Accelerate the Inventive Process

Daniel Burrus

These days, we see new, dramatic innovations in technology with considerable frequency. But while we’re seeing more creativity and inventiveness, how much of this technological development is disruptive rather than simple tweaks to existing innovations already embedded within mainstream society?

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Open Innovation and IP Contamination: Are you at risk?

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Open Innovation (OI) refers to the practice of accelerating innovation by leveraging ideas and technologies from outside sources. Since the introduction of the term in 2003, OI has become a way of being for companies looking to keep an edge on the competition, from large corporations to small and medium size enterprises.

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100%Open Past and Future

100%Open

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. Many companies are now equipped to to build new external networks, create successful challenges and find exciting new technologies.

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Building a Culture of Innovation

Fehmida Kapadia

This model of unbridled creativity made Zappos wildly successful and it was acquired by Amazon in 2009. For example, technology that powers space shuttles into orbit was adopted to create a heart pump. As Peter Thiel appropriately said “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”

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IdeaScale CEO Shares Innovation Tips with SuperbCrew

IdeaScale

From his background in crowdsourcing software as part of the open government initiative, Rob and co-founder Vivek Bhaskaran founded IdeaScale, which was promptly adopted by 23 federal agencies. Rob Hoehn started his crowdsourcing software career as part of the open government initiative in 2009.?.

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