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

Paul Hobcraft

Secretary of Defense Donald Henry Rumsfeld, who mentioned: “unknown unknowns” (Rumsfeld, 2002). For innovators so much of innovation is hard to detect, it needs discovery and working through these quadrants of knowledge as well. Our pursuit in life is often the same as our innovation efforts, the search for discovery.

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

Imaginatik

These skills are often overlooked or underutilized by innovation and R&D teams. Taking a page from Scenario Planning and almost exclusively focusing on the “emblematic events”1 paths, it is a lightweight, yet structured, way for innovation and R&D teams to channel their imagination to productive ends. Ecosystem Scanning.

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Can creativity and innovation be managed?

hackerearth

Does “managing” innovation limit creativity, thus stifling innovative ideas? Samuel Palmisano, the former CEO of IBM, said, “We treat innovation as if it were magical, not subject to guidance or nurturing much less planning. If we study history, however, we know that’s simply untrue. Why manage innovation?

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Culture of Innovation Video and Case Study: Cambia Health Solutions Transforms the Health Care Landscape Through Innovation

Planview

With great uncertainty in the US health care system, senior leadership at Cambia was committed to “embedding innovation into the company’s bloodstream,” to transform and disrupt the health care industry. We had to become a lightning rod of innovation, attracting and engaging employees to join us in ideation and design.”

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Get Real About Your Company’s Future

The Inovo Group

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Effective futuring that includes the ability to gain insights into long-term futures with inevitable disruptions and discontinuities needs to be a key component of a company’s strategy and innovation efforts.

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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. Let me show you how the focus of organization design has changed over the years: Scholar. It enhances productivity.

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Great Ideas Aren’t Enough

Innovationship

You’ve heard this proverb before, and you’ve undoubtedly had the experience of realizing its simple truth: the initial conditions of a process will have a dramatic impact on the outcome. And we were already seeing some early examples of what digital imaging might offer. What a team!

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