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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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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

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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Case Studies: Learning from Failure, or Dying from it

Qmarkets

We frequently talk about how innovation is a crucial necessity for your enterprise company, and how the right innovation can be the difference between setting the market standards and being shunted aside as a new market leader makes the rules. What can we learn from their innovation failures? Toys Were Us.

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How Failure does or does not impact Innovation

ITONICS

Let’s face the facts: failure is becoming a trendy thing due to the ever-increasing speed of innovation. More and more we hear entrepreneurs say “ It’s OK to fail ” or “ Failure is a must for success ”. In fact, failure itself doesn’t lead to innovation, it’s more about how you deal with failure that matters.

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Pipeline Power

Information Playground

In particular, the first four steps in the process ( Productivity , Initiative , Collaboration , 3 Box ) result in a unique corporate form of innovation that facilitates the generation of rich intellectual property. Innovation mentoring programs targeted at aspiring intrapreneurs. Relationships with university researchers.