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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. ” So a Chief Innovation Officer needs to be an advocate for collaboration and scaling communication across an entire network of people. Fosters Innovation Skill Building.

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Creating Innovation Connections as the Customer Advocate

IdeaScale

They did just that, and by 2011, e-books sales surpassed sales of print books. In fact, by April 2011, Amazon became the world’s largest e-book retailer. As the customer advocate, you’ll need consistent habits that help you: Stay informed about customer satisfaction and the competitiveness of your offerings.

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The Creativity Crisis: It’s Getting Worse

Idea to Value

Making test scores as the measure of success fosters students’ competition and narrows their goals, such as getting rich, while decreasing their empathy and compassion for those in need. However, since the 1990s: Avoiding collaboration. Narrowing visions. Narrowing minds. Results of The 2017 Creativity Crisis Study.

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Covering Innovation My Way

Paul Hobcraft

This is a collaborative site I share with Jeffrey Phillips from Ovo Innovation. This is actually our fourth substantive collaboration here but this time we decided to turn our thinking into a regular viewpoint as the subject is presently evolving before us. Innovation Ecosystems. Guide4innovating.

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When Pundits Say That Robots Will Take Our Jobs, Remember These 4 Things

Innovation Excellence

So training tellers to process transactions efficiently was a key competitive trait. What’s more, these aren’t considered competitive traits, but commodity services. Borders filed for bankruptcy in 2011 and was liquidated later that same year. Our paychecks are usually sent electronically. Consider the case of bookstores.

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Innovation Metrics session at Innov8rs Madrid

Innovation 360 Group

Innovation is notoriously difficult to measure but any activity that significantly impacts investment, staffing, resources and competitiveness needs to be measured. Join Magnus Penker, he will be speaking about Innovation Metrics. What techniques are being used to quantify and score innovation to push forward winners? About innov8rs.

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The Life Sciences Industry: Decision Making from Batch to Continuum

IdeaScale

IBM estimated in 2011 that of the 161 billion GB data that the healthcare Industry needs to analyze to make decisions, about one fourths of the total cost of curation is attributable to human effort, workflow tools and metadata. Innoplexus started a journey in 2011 to use AI to completely automate this process.