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Case Study: Medicins San Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders)

IdeaScale

Overview: Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has always been in need of innovation, so it took advantage of its natural organizational structure and the broad range of talent involved to develop a new innovation unit in 2010 that was updated in 2017 and has produced several improvements to how MSF does its crucial work.

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Helping discover your innovation pathway

Paul Hobcraft

I started posting my thoughts on innovation in August 2010. I always find the post-New Year to be a reflective part of the year of reviewing, deciding, and then setting new goals. Innovation application and practice seem to have stayed stuck, largely due to how it is organized. You need to discover your innovation pathway.

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Smart Service Canvas

ITONICS

Due to having an experience of running such workshops, we managed to develop the canvas and compiled extensive guidelines, use cases, and success stories that can serve as innovation initiatives in practice as a ready-to-use toolkit that is easy to adopt. . Smart Service Canvas workshops. Further Reading. Allmendinger, G. and Lombreglia, R.

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What is idea management and why is it important for any business

hackerearth

“Idea Management is a structured process of generating, capturing, discussing and improving, organizing, evaluating, and prioritizing of valuable insight or alternative thinking that would otherwise not have emerged through normal processes” (Karlsson, 2010). What are the phases of idea management? Description. Idea genesis and gathering.

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Digital Transformation: why be a data company

mjvinnovation

As of 2010, mobile communication, via the internet, reached 70% of the world population. . What you really need to know is that no business can afford not to have a strategy to take advantage of the digital revolution. However, the best staff is not enough if people do not have digital software, applications and equipment. .

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Why you should care about the Creativity Era

Innovation 360 Group

New customer mind-set, power of influencing other buyers’ opinion and higher expectations , easily communicated through social medias or other channels (TripAdvisor or Booking.com and their respective customer reviews are perfect examples of this revolution in B2C activities). The knowledge, information and technologies are available.

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Innovate, Adapt, Overcome: How to Beat a Recession with Idea Management & Continuous Improvement

Qmarkets

However, by developing an innovation strategy that anticipates a downturn, you can help your enterprise weather the storm and even uncover lucrative ways to gain a competitive edge. In the interests of futureproofing your enterprise, it’s important to ensure your innovation strategy can accommodate the privations of turbulent economic times.