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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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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. We continue to see more and more Chief Innovation Officers at the enterprise level. But what does a Chief Innovation Officer do? Well, here are a few of their responsibilities.

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Creative Problem Solving Process

InnovationTraining.org

This initial thought process has led to later models, including the 2011 Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Learner’s Model from the Creative Education Foundation. The methodology was developed by Alex Osborn and Sid Parnes in the 1940s as the “Osborn-Parnes Creative Problem Solving Process”. How to use creative problem solving techniques.

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How NASA Leads Intrapreneurial Innovation

InnovationManagement

But in fact, back in 2011 (after they ran a highly successful crowdsourcing pilot) NASA established the Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI). Not everyone knows that NASA has embedded crowdsourcing into their strategy and capabilities.

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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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Innovation by numbers: Lessons to learn from the CIA and Netflix

Innovation 360 Group

Back in 2011, we were wondering how to develop the first hypothesis in the large and very complex assignments we were undertaking. Last year the CIA released to the public nearly 470,000 additional files recovered in the May 2011 raid on Usama Bin Ladin’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

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Alison McMillan, PhD

Innovation 360

She previously worked at Rolls-Royce plc, between 1997 and 2011, where she developed capability acquisition plans and lead research programmes. Product innovation, invention, ideation techniques. Area of expertise: Alison’s two main areas of expertise are around innovation and mechanical engineering. Innovation.