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Balancing your innovation portfolio: Does the 70-20-10 rule still apply?

Idea to Value

How much of your innovation budget and innovation efforts should focus on improving your existing business, and how much should seek to explore and transform your business for the future? But what does a well-balanced innovation portfolio look like? So what is the best new ratio for companies.

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Innovative Start-Ups Founded by Women

Destination Innovation

The company has raised over £37 m in equity finance so far, across three funding rounds, and has been awarded grants from Innovate UK. Louise Hill founded GoHenry in 2012 when she grew tired of funding her children’s online purchases and wanted to teach them financial independence.

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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

Would you like to have read the best 50 books on sales, marketing, leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship and self-improvement? Just imagine all the insights and lessons you would have learned and how that would have helped you in your business career. But how much time would it have taken?

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There are Knowns and Unknowns in Innovation: Let’s Manage Them Differently

Paul Hobcraft

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. Paper presented at PMI® Global Congress 2012—North America, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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Creative people are more likely to cheat

Idea to Value

People usually associate creativity with positive things, like producing beautiful art , scientific breakthroughs or successful new innovations. Research from 2012 suggests that people with higher creativity were more likely to be dishonest than less creative people. But creativity might also have a dark side.

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Examining the State of Crowdsourced Innovation in 2019

IdeaScale

Those figures indicate increased volatility, but they also indicate that innovation is behind the churn. The fact is that companies that don’t continuously innovate risk irrelevance because innovation is going to happen, whether major corporations participate or not. Core, Adjacent, and Transformational Innovations.

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Innovation Requires Going Fast, Slow and Meta

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell In the regulatory filing for Facebook’s 2012 IPO, Mark Zuckerberg included a letter outlining his management philosophy. Entitled, The Hacker Way, it encapsulated much of the zeitgeist. “We We have a saying,” he wrote. Move fast … Continue reading →