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Guresh Ahuja

Innovation 360 Group

My experience spans as a client-side program manager delivering capital infrastructure (EPCM), design management, business transformation, strategic procurement, construction management and IT system projects for health, sustainable utilities, smart cities, and NSW government. Stakeholder Management.

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There are Knowns and Unknowns in Innovation: Let’s Manage Them Differently

Paul Hobcraft

Paper presented at PMI® Global Congress 2012—North America, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Newtown Square, PA: Project Management Institute. Much of this work is incremental or distinctive in innovation. They need different resources and thinking through to manage. Characterizing unknown unknowns.

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Can creativity and innovation be managed?

hackerearth

The result of this journey has been that their Managed Innovation framework has been successful in generating 134,232 ideas from 55,383 empowered employees and implementing 19,172 innovations for over 400 clients. In 2012, their innovations generated a value of $548 million through savings. Why manage innovation?

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Five Product Innovations that Evolved Over Time

IdeaScale

However, these innovations aren’t that common. The most successful, innovative companies strike a balance between core, adjacent, and transformational initiatives. Some product innovations aren’t created by the company at all. Instead, the innovations are brought out by customers who discover a new way to use a product.

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How Failure does or does not impact Innovation

ITONICS

Changing the corporate language from “ risk and failure ” to “ experiment and learn ” becomes indispensable. Below we present approaches to how failure can be used as a lever for innovation. The bigger a company is, the easier it becomes finding reasons why a project should not be started.

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

To my opinion, Mintzberg’s work was a refreshing change to the world of organization design that until then has been largely influenced by Taylor’s Scientific Management Approach and Henry Ford’s efficiency-based adaptation of that. The model describes organizational typologies based on cultures of innovation.

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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

And for that reason it has become an integral criteria in many prescriptive regulations for (higher) education and in increasing numbers also explicitly and implicitly part of curricula (Saavedra & Opfer, 2012). In the Schumpetarian view, opportunities arise from the internal willingness to change the industry. Neck et al.