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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. I wrote about this some time back, discussing the extended innovation funnel ( here ) and used this visual.

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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. Get the facts!

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99 Mental Barriers for Innovation Infographic

Open Innovation EU

Many of our students work on innovation projects for SME. 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. Download Infographic.

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Get Real About Your Company’s Future

The Inovo Group

For many, “future” is in fact a continuation of the immediate past and projections of near-term forces and trends that are easy to see and understand. Contain cohesive vignettes – present sensible stories based on plausible trends. Include trajectories back to the present – provide insights into what you should do today.

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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.

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

The model describes organizational typologies based on cultures of innovation. This model is drawn upon a combination of Quinn & Cameron’s values framework (2011) and Nagji and Tuff’s innovation ambition framework (2012). Each type of organization exists in three different levels of innovation. References.

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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). Is it easy to create autonomous team and projects? Journal of Product Innovation Management, 31(3), 616–635.