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Pivotal Innovation Management: The Past, Present, and Future of 180° Business Changes

Qmarkets

Tapping into companies’ collective reservoir of relevant experiences, here’s a brief historical and current panorama of just how business leaders have strived to keep up with the changing times and landscapes – some successfully and some not – and how success can be achieved and failure minimized in our own extremely faced-paced era.

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We are falling badly behind on our invention in technology for the Energy Transition

Paul Hobcraft

No energy transition will be achieved without invention and innovation, yet we are failing badly at present to fund research, development and in deployment. The CETP Annual Report 2020 highlights the programme’s main activities, presenting significant outcomes and areas for further work and planned activities for 2021.

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First-Mover or Fast-Follower: Which is the right innovation strategy for you?

Idea to Value

This can require significant marketing and sales effort to change. What soon becomes clear if you look at enough case studies is that both strategies can work for a company, but only if their innovation strategy and risk profile are set up to fully invest in the innovation opportunities when they present themselves.

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We are falling badly behind on our invention in technology for the Energy Transition

Paul Hobcraft

No energy transition will be achieved without invention and innovation, yet we are failing badly at present to fund research, development and in deployment. The CETP Annual Report 2020 highlights the programme’s main activities, presenting significant outcomes and areas for further work and planned activities for 2021.

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Why We Are Entering A New Innovation Era.

Paul Hobcraft

This dramatic change we will all be undergoing will have a significant impact on organizations innovation management design and it requires new connected thinking” I believe innovation is in a need for change and is coming very quickly to a refraction point in how it’s going to be managed. Posted on November 9, 2012.

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What is Creativity? The Definition, history and science of creativity

Idea to Value

So in 2012, the Creativity Research Journal led by Dr Mark Runco set out the parameters for a standard definition of creativity. This all began to change during the Italian Renaissance period, starting around the 15th century. Perhaps not original in the scope of the entire world (it can be original to the person or situation).

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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. It becomes our task in delivering alternatives, in new varieties, updates, technology enhancement, or simply recognizing the lifecycle of the existing needs refreshing, changing or altering. Characterizing unknown unknowns.