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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. The knowns are those products, services, processes, etc. We are often specifically asked to improve on them by finding cost savings, improving their functionality or design.

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Can creativity and innovation be managed?

hackerearth

Later, the company began to focus on the capabilities that differentiated it from its competitors, such as intuitive user interfaces, sleek product design, exceptional consumer experience, and iconic branding. In 2012, their innovations generated a value of $548 million through savings. Why manage innovation?

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What is design thinking and how can it help you innovate?

hackerearth

Today, the business world recognizes that continuous innovation and design thinking are the keys to long-term sustainability and success. Design Thinking is NOT a New Concept. With all the hype around design thinking, one would think that it is a new concept. What is Design Thinking? Stages of Design Thinking.

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

It has been a while since Henry Mintzberg developed his influential work that made us aware of the importance of structures in organization design. Structures are no longer of primary focus in design organizations. In fact, building blocks as ‘middle management’ might only still exist on paper today.

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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). Practice of Creativity: can be taught using creative techniques and methods such as design thinking (Neck et al.,