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Examining the State of Crowdsourced Innovation in 2019

IdeaScale

Riskiest of all are transformational innovation activities, but when they pay off, their ROI is highest of all. Innovation initiatives may focus on lower-risk core initiatives or higher-risk initiatives involving adjacent or transformational innovations. Want to learn more? There is no time like the present.

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

Imaginatik

An obvious example is a clue from 2011 – the public launch of Uber’s ride-sharing program in San Francisco. Many innovation programs, and some R&D teams, benefit from full-time staff who work as designated innovation scouts. Future Building – a Core Innovation Skill Set.

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Innovation is a Company Wide Responsibility

ImagineNation

These authors never talk about what happens after an innovation program reaches sufficient maturity that it’s ready to leverage the organization’s resources into a successful implementation. The “business as usual” program will always win. Breakthrough innovation programs take longer and have a lot more risk.

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Guest Blog – Innovation is a Company Wide Responsibility

ImagineNation

These authors never talk about what happens after an innovation program reaches sufficient maturity that it’s ready to leverage the organization’s resources into a successful implementation. The “business as usual” program will always win. Breakthrough innovation programs take longer and have a lot more risk.

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Pivotal Innovation Management: The Past, Present, and Future of 180° Business Changes

Qmarkets

Rising competition from Apple and Google caught Nokia out of position and led to near-bankruptcy in 2012. In my work with companies who use innovation management platforms to run their innovation programs, I've noticed that this collaboration can usually be broken down into several categories.

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Axel Springer & External Innovation. How to turn “Spray and Pray” into “Spray and Succeed”?

CREATORS

In most cases, such tactics prove unsuccessful, yet few companies seem to have learned any lesson. While mapping over 160 corporate innovation programs for the CREATORS Corporate Innovation Report 2017, we came across some successful examples of “spray and pray” elements in innovation strategy: Coca Cola invested in Spotify.

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Innovation lessons from Lego

Jeffrey Phillips

What we are seeing now is the aftermath of too little innovation and too much marketing. What lessons can we learn? What can we learn from Lego's example? However, and complexity isn't necessarily a factor in its innovation success, unless Lego allowed complacency and bureaucracy and risk avoidance to grow as sales grew.