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Adapt or die: lessons from 5 companies that failed to innovate

Idea Drop

They filed for bankruptcy in 2012. Even when things seem to be going well, you should be working to put innovation processes in place, as an ad hoc approach to problem solving leads to the kind of strategic and communication errors that prompted the downfall of most of these businesses.

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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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Can creativity and innovation be managed?

hackerearth

The result of this journey has been that their Managed Innovation framework has been successful in generating 134,232 ideas from 55,383 empowered employees and implementing 19,172 innovations for over 400 clients. In 2012, their innovations generated a value of $548 million through savings. Why manage innovation?

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Case Studies: Learning from Failure, or Dying from it

Qmarkets

We also frequently hear about the great innovation successes: Tesla, SpaceX, Uber, Amazon, and even the classic innovation failures, like Kodak and Nokia, who saw incoming disruptive innovation but didn't do anything to face it. On February 1, 2012, JCPenney launched a new pricing method.

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Get Real About Your Company’s Future

The Inovo Group

As the world becomes increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous ( VUCA ) , longer-term disruptions are the greatest existential threat to a company’s growth and survival. Relatively few methods and tools exist to help companies gain insights into longer-term futures that include discontinuities and disruption.

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

New generations, societal change, sustainable goals and disruptive technology require organizations to be much more flexible, self-reinventing organisms that don’t fit above-mentioned design principles. The model describes organizational typologies based on cultures of innovation. Managing Your innovation portfolio.

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MAKING GAMIFICATION ACCESSIBLE – BRINGING NEWNESS TO CORPORATE LEARNING

ImagineNation

I was first introduced to gamification when I met Mario Herger , in 2012, when he was a Senior Innovation Strategist at SAP Labs LLC, in Israel, as a participant in his two-day gamification workshop for Checkpoint security software. Evolution of the gamification market. Benefits of a gamified approach.