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What Does a Chief Innovation Officer Do?

IdeaScale

In this survey from 2015, researchers report that 43% of large companies have some sort of top innovation executive in place, which was up from 33% in 2011. A Chief Innovation Officer can look to an organization for guidance and principles, but they also have to create meaning and excitement around change.

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Using Design Thinking to Ready Your Company for the Green Economy

IdeaScale

In 2011, EY and GreenBiz Group conducted a survey of executives employed by companies generating revenue greater than $1 billion. Ideation: With a properly defined problem and a ton of knowledge resources, you can start ideating. Ideation also means connecting and building ideas so that they become even more impactful.

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Design Thinking for the Greater Good: Innovation in the Social Sector

Innovation in Practice

As a way to reframe problems, ideate solutions, and iterate toward better answers, design thinking is already well established in the commercial world. Her books include Solving Problems with Design Thinking (2013), Designing for Growth (2011), and The Designing for Growth Field Book (2013), all from Columbia University Press.

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How much is innovation costing your organization?

Innovation 360 Group

As a result, too much time and investment is spent on efforts at the periphery that have no link to value—and the opportunity to create true change within the companies is missed, once again.” (Accenture, Discover Where Value’s Hiding, 2018). Penker (2008-2011). The innovation process can be unwieldy and costly to operate.

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Adaptive Strategy Matrix [Infographic]: exploration vs. exploitation?

Open Innovation EU

I recently ran into an article (Walrave et al 2011) that analyzed a simulation of investing in exploration vs. exploitation. External pressure will force them to change their strategy to exploitation. In this strategy companies focus on social innovation, entrepreneurship, ideation and technology.

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Transforming workplace culture with your innovation management program

IdeaScale

This is an acute reality when an organization is facing a clear mandate or opportunity for this type of change. Those in charge of managing this change are often pushed to justify their efforts and expenditures in a fashion that doesn’t align with the type of gains that are being sought.

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Warm and Fuzzy at the Front End of Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

The subject was the changes occurring at the front end of innovation. My argument was the results we have obtained from a disconnected set of front end activities was poorer than they should be and this needs changing. So here is the newsletter, I will be explaining the impact and change potential that can be made in a future post.