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Nine Short Innovation Lessons from Lego

Destination Innovation

Lego is now revered as one of the most innovative and successful companies in the world. But in 2003 the company was $800m in debt and on the verge of bankruptcy. It is currently rated the number one toy company in the world and the world’s most powerful brand. Collaborate to innovate. Galvanize the culture.

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Top 10 Innovation Links for the Week of 1.29.16

Planview

Welcome to Spigit’s weekly roundup of innovation links, where we feature a carefully curated selection of our favorite content on innovation, crowdsourcing, and more from around the web. The skinny: Uber launched in London in mid-2012. Companies Are Now Making Innovation Everyone’s Job. How do you Crowdsource Innovation?

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

Imaginatik

Not too long ago, executives at a F500 consumer goods company were facing a daunting prospect. Their mission is to identify and catalogue emergent trends across the ecosystem, as well as formulating viewpoints about what those trends may mean for their company or industry. They thought they needed a new growth strategy.

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Five Product Innovations that Evolved Over Time

IdeaScale

The most successful, innovative companies strike a balance between core, adjacent, and transformational initiatives. A 2012 study found that companies that allocated about 70% of their innovation activity to core initiatives, 20% to adjacent ones, and 10% to transformational ones outperformed their peers.

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The 8 great talks from 8 years of Union

100%Open

Date: April 2012 – Theme: User Makers – Host: Arup. Date: June 2012 – Theme: Business Without Borders – Host: Method Design. Date: Sept 2014 – Theme: Currency of Collaboration – Host: National Theatre. Cesar Harada – Protei. It was such a brilliant idea. It was such a brilliant idea.

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Top 10 must-read books on Innovation

hackerearth

To help innovation officers and wannabe innovators in their task, we’ve put together the best books to inspire you and help your company and workforce stay relevant. He believes diverse teams with an array of perspectives should collaborate to bring ideas from various fields to create the Medici Effect.

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50 what-if questions to reimagine the future

Board of Innovation

What if power naps were allowed at your company? What if you used drones in your company? If a company replies after 24h, the company needs to pay per message sent. It’s a smart incentive to position Whatsapp as the quickest channel to get answers from companies. What if your industry was fully decentralized?