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

Qmarkets

With so much disruptive innovation happening so fast, it has become less and less rare for companies to be formed around a service or product that defines them for their lifetime. Rising competition from Apple and Google caught Nokia out of position and led to near-bankruptcy in 2012.

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Innovation is a Company Wide Responsibility

ImagineNation

It’s tempting to blame such resistance as “aversion to change” and “closed-mindedness” but the real problem is that the Innovation Team was working in a walled-off garden, and no one benefits when any group is throwing things over walls instead of working collaboratively across fluid boundaries. Katherine lives in Camas, Washington.

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Guest Blog – Innovation is a Company Wide Responsibility

ImagineNation

It’s tempting to blame such resistance as “aversion to change” and “closed-mindedness” but the real problem is that the Innovation Team was working in a walled-off garden, and no one benefits when any group is throwing things over walls instead of working collaboratively across fluid boundaries. Katherine lives in Camas, Washington.

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Why Corporations Need “Coopetition” with Startups

KindlingApp

Startup swami Eric Ries’ essential book The Lean Startup defines a startup as “a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty”, which implies an essential element of innovation. When seen through this lens, the disrupting startup is not the enemy.

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Top 10 must-read books on Innovation

hackerearth

He believes diverse teams with an array of perspectives should collaborate to bring ideas from various fields to create the Medici Effect. Running Lean is undoubtedly an inspiring book for anyone looking to start a business project or company. This is the key takeaway from this book published by Harvard Business School Press in 2004.

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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). These two extremes – and everything in between – have been topic of discussion ever since. Neck et al. Technovation, 54, 7–21.

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50 what-if questions to reimagine the future

Board of Innovation

find new ideas and examples to disrupt your industry. Some of the most notable and disruptive inventions of tomorrow will require a paradigmatic change in the way we interpret things today, in the way we perform tasks, in the technologies and resources we have access to. What if all your employees were freelancers?