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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. The knowns are those products, services, processes, etc. I wrote about this some time back, discussing the extended innovation funnel ( here ) and used this visual. Characterizing unknown unknowns.

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

Imaginatik

Thus, for insurance and transportation firms, Uber’s early successes in 2011 – 2012 could have yielded important insights about the future of transportation, urban living, and the sharing economy. Second, Future Building improves on a number of ad-hoc, homespun innovation practices by structuring and formalizing them.

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99 Mental Barriers for Innovation Infographic

Open Innovation EU

When asked to organize an ‘open innovation session’, students enthousiastically start to read details about open innovation, open sessions and different ways of creating an open innovation-mindset within SME. ” 99 Mental Barriers for Innovation. Download Infographic. Example 5: Alternative Blindness.

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

Idea Drop

They filed for bankruptcy in 2012. Each CEO was so ignorant of history that they presented the same business plan over and over again, until Netflix was ready to take their market share with a bulletproof online offering. Lesson: If you don’t do it, someone else will.

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

Planview

Nair and his team turned to Spigit for help in 2012. And that Cambia was not only focused on innovating but establishing a culture of innovation with a clear direction for where that innovation would lead us.” Cambia picked Planview Spigit as it was most easily aligned with its company philosophy. “We The Result.

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Innovation System Thinking on a Sunday! What, no roast or glass of wine? Later.

Paul Hobcraft

We must think differently and that might mean whole innovation system thinking. Complex adaptive systems are yet another story as I attempted some time back, actually in 2012 and it still sits here in my pile of things to connect up. Going back and reminding myself. It does not need to be.

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How Failure does or does not impact Innovation

ITONICS

Below we present approaches to how failure can be used as a lever for innovation. In some companies, excuses seem to be their core business – true to the motto: “ If you don’t do anything, you can’t do anything wrong “ There are many excuses that employees make about why they can’t innovate.