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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. For example, Amazon developed a system to enable competitors to sell on its website, even when competitors offered cheaper prices. Review the unsuccessful ones too.

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Best Practices for Internal Crowdsourcing: Lessons Learned from NASA

IdeaScale

The center was created in 2011 by the federal Office of Science, Technology, and Policy to foster innovation at NASA and throughout U.S. This is due to fear —of the unknown, change, the possibility that making the change might be too hard or take up too much time, etc. government departments. Evolve Your Story.

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The Book that Took 9 Years to Publish

Stephen Shapiro

March 2011: I submitted the final manuscript to Penguin for Best Practices are Stupid. It covered a wide range of topics related to innovation: strategy, organization structures, measures, technology, and more. April 2011: Almost immediately after submitting the manuscript, I conceived the concept of a “Challenge Toolkit.”

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How Technology is Empowering the Modern Property Manager

Business and Tech

Elizabeth Francisco, president of ResMan, offers expansive insights from being a woman in business to the rapid advancement of property management technology. Bias showed itself as I came up through the multifamily industry and then in technology with investors, peers, competitors, and prospective customers.

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Best Practices are Stupid

Stephen Shapiro

As you read this and the other chapters, please remember that this book was published back in 2011. For a company that stood to lose billions of dollars in cleanup costs, relief payouts, and lost sales due to bad publicity, this approach might indeed have been a good strategy. But I completely forgot to include the introduction.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

In fact, most of us own at least 4 of the 6 examples of Innovations of the 20th Century that I outlined above. Books such as Consumptionomics (2011) by Chandran Nair and Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (2012) by Peter H. Diamandis provide further evidence of this prosperity. A good idea or two will suffice.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

In fact, most of us own at least 4 of the 6 examples of Innovations of the 20th Century that I outlined above. Books such as Consumptionomics (2011) by Chandran Nair and Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (2012) by Peter H. Diamandis provide further evidence of this prosperity. A good idea or two will suffice.