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Learning to be Innovative – Future Building’s Crucial Role in Driving Innovation Impact

Imaginatik

These skills are often overlooked or underutilized by innovation and R&D teams. Taking a page from Scenario Planning and almost exclusively focusing on the “emblematic events”1 paths, it is a lightweight, yet structured, way for innovation and R&D teams to channel their imagination to productive ends. Ecosystem Scanning.

Learning 100
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Our inabilities to adapt needs changing.

Paul Hobcraft

Erosion is everywhere, it just seems inevitable, we somehow get caught up in the process of time and our organizations seem to ‘freeze’ before our eyes, then simply age. We often give up and leave, moving on to better places and challenges.

Change 100
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Uncertainty is the Innovator’s Friend

The Inovo Group

There are four primary dimensions of uncertainty: Organization, Demand, Design and System (ODDS). All four need to be managed during the innovation process. By using the ORL uncertainty framework, organizations can better manage innovation uncertainty. A Necessary Part of the Innovation Process.

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Good Ideas Often go Nowhere: Here’s What You Can Do About It

The Inovo Group

Yuan was Cisco’s vice president of engineering and in 2011 he pitched a new smartphone-friendly video conferencing system to Cisco management. Companies can deal with technological and market uncertainty, even ecosystem uncertainty, using innovation processes, methods and tools developed over the decades.

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

It has been a while since Henry Mintzberg developed his influential work that made us aware of the importance of structures in organization design. Structures are no longer of primary focus in design organizations. Let me show you how the focus of organization design has changed over the years: Scholar. It enhances productivity.

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Digital transformation – the need to transform our innovation approaches

Paul Hobcraft

Digital transformation is being asked of everybody to get involved in but do we have a sufficient understanding of it? Add in the magic ‘need’ so innovation can benefit from this business digital transformation and we begin to shift around in our chairs even more. We needed to step back and ask, what is truly transformational?

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Digital transformation – the need to transform our innovation approaches

Paul Hobcraft

Digital transformation is being asked of everybody to get involved in but do we have a sufficient understanding of it? Add in the magic ‘need’ so innovation can benefit from this business digital transformation and we begin to shift around in our chairs even more. We needed to step back and ask, what is truly transformational?