Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 20, 2019

In 2012, Shaun Wilson and Michael Brett were designing aerospace simulation software. On one particular project, Lockheed Martin’s Chief Scientist, Dr. Ned Allen, mentioned that it had just acquired an early quantum computer from D-Wave Systems, which he thought would help with computational work. They were impressed. “We

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

In summary: The Technology Collaboration Programme supports the work of independent, international groups of experts that enable governments and industries worldwide to lead programmes and projects on a wide range of energy technologies and related issues.

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Rapid Innovation in digital time

JUNE 8, 2015

Maxime Barbier has been heading Public Innovation Project since 2012. He has extended the development of 'Futurs Publics', the innovation lab of the French government, to a success. He shares with us this compelling story. Continue reading →

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Innovation 360 Group

APRIL 30, 2017

My experience spans as a client-side program manager delivering capital infrastructure (EPCM), design management, business transformation, strategic procurement, construction management and IT system projects for health, sustainable utilities, smart cities, and NSW government. Project, Program and procurement management.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 12, 2018

Paper presented at PMI® Global Congress 2012—North America, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Newtown Square, PA: Project Management Institute. Converting something previously unthought of (those unknowns) gives the potential for far greater value. Characterizing unknown unknowns.

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Stephen Shapiro

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

January 2012: Although I planned to fully develop the Challenge Toolkit in 2012, it got sidetracked by other ideas that launched that year, including my 30-day Innovation Challenge , new branding, a new website, and a Personality Poker® revamp. May 2011: I created a spreadsheet cataloging a number of lenses. The list grew over time.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The UK Government G-Cloud framework was established in 2012 to encourage the use of, and trust, in Cloud-based suppliers. The framework includes a comprehensive selection of SaaS offerings, including customer relationship management, project collaboration tools, and idea management platforms.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The UK Government G-Cloud framework was established in 2012 to encourage the use of, and trust, in Cloud-based suppliers. The framework includes a comprehensive selection of SaaS offerings, including customer relationship management, project collaboration tools, and idea management platforms.

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Crowdsourcing Software Idea Management Innovation Management 52

IdeaConnection

MARCH 2, 2018

Indian Railways is embarking on an ambitious project and has turned to open innovation for help in achieving its goals. The IRSDC was created in 2012 with the express purpose of transforming the country’s railway stations.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

In summary: The Technology Collaboration Programme supports the work of independent, international groups of experts that enable governments and industries worldwide to lead programmes and projects on a wide range of energy technologies and related issues.

Technology 130

Technology Report Collaboration Data 130

InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 6, 2019

This IDEO project set out to find ways to turn kids into the heroes of their own lives with empathetic tools for childhood ailments and illnesses. By changing painful, awkward kid experiences as rites of passages and superpowers, this project was able to unlock kid-approved medical innovations. Mayo Clinic | Patient App.

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Boxes and Arrows

OCTOBER 22, 2013

We are increasingly accustomed to using socially-oriented web applications, and many social features are high on the requirements lists of new web projects. Some interesting projects have started to look at interface “nudges” which may encourage good information practice on the part of the user. 2012 [link]. 4 Simpson TW.

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Anaqua

MARCH 30, 2018

This concrete example from May 2012, when Google acquired Motorola, illustrates the challenge in the communicated value of “intangible assets” (where patents and trademarks reside in the Balance Sheet): Google Balance Sheet, intangible assets (in millions): End of 2013 $6,066. End of 2012 $7,473. End of 2011 $1,578. billion ($2.9

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Innovation Walk

JUNE 14, 2019

However, more than 60% of replaced televisions were still functioning in 2012. ENGAGE THE RIGHT PEOPLE: the innovation project must be led by motivated and committed people. As featured on The Guardian , a study made by the German environment agency was conducted to analyse consumers’ reasons for replacing electronic appliances.

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Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 6, 2018

Make recommendations to team members about which usability methods to use to answer their questions about users and design directions based on projects’ needs, goals, and constraints. Searches for ‘design thinking’, December 2012-June 2017 (Source: Google Trends). Collaborate on paper and functional prototypes. And who does research?

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100%Open

MARCH 16, 2015

An article a year or two back from Global Corporate Funding stated that between 2010 and 2012, 182 CV units were formed bringing the total number globally to 936. For example in 2012 Intel alone made 150 investments worth $353m. 10% a year. You can invest in anything from from smart watches to a Green MP for Cambridge.

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Imaginatik

JANUARY 13, 2017

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. When presented with a clue or insight, it is common to immediately formulate ideas about which innovation projects to launch. Get the facts!

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Phil McKinney

MAY 9, 2023

When something holds great importance to me, I dedicate myself to being punctual, whether it be an appointment or a project deadline. Punctuality Applied Since taking on the CEO position in June 2012, I have made it a habit to call each Board member two weeks before each upcoming board meeting.

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Michael Roberto

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The subjects wore small badges called sociometers to record interactions within the teams, and the creativity and quality of the teams’ ideas were rated by peers on a scale of one to five.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 31, 2017

A 2012 study found that companies that allocated about 70% of their innovation activity to core initiatives, 20% to adjacent ones, and 10% to transformational ones outperformed their peers. This is why including various sources of input is so vital in innovation projects! However, these innovations aren’t that common.

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Adam Hartung

OCTOBER 16, 2015

By February, 2012 I pointed out that the big reorganization at Wal-Mart was akin to re-arranging deck chairs on a sinking ship and said nobody should own the stock. Where it was in January, 2012 and only 10% higher than when I first said to avoid the stock in 2010. I continued to say that this disease would cripple Wal-Mart.

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Adam Hartung

JUNE 14, 2016

Meanwhile, corporations will come back to Microsoft in droves as they convert Linked-in into a comprehensive project management tool that uses Lynda to educate employees, and 365 to push materials to employees – and allow document collaboration – all across their mobile devices. Even the $1.2B

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Boxes and Arrows

MAY 22, 2012

Podcast Summary In this episode Chris Baum speaks with Donna Spencer , Lynne Polischuik , Justin Davis and Erin Jo Richey at the 2012 IA Summit about their interactive panel discussion Taking the Plunge: Diving Into Indie UX. Download mp3 (audio only) Download m4a (with visuals, requires iTunes, Quicktime, or similar).

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Michael Roberto

DECEMBER 18, 2017

They studied over 1,300 banks during the 1996-2012 time period. Second, domain experts may exhibit high degrees of overconfidence in terms of their ability to make projections and forecasts. 124 of those banks failed (slightly less than 10%).

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hackerearth

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

In 2012, their innovations generated a value of $548 million through savings. Google employs a 70/20/10 breakup, where most of their innovation resources are engaged in bettering existing projects. Why manage innovation? Horizon 2 (H2) innovations: involve extending current competencies into new and related markets.

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Acuvate

MAY 2, 2023

Sustainable Water Management: In 2012, the US Director of National Intelligence warned that, by 2030, global water demand would exceed supply by 40%. One of our standout projects was to revamp the operations of one of the world’s most prominent metropolitan water supply authorities. billion gallons daily.

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Innovation 360 Group

MAY 17, 2015

Check out these robots from Kiva Systems (that was acquired by Amazon in 2012). This is a concept video for Amazons current trials of using drones: Similar experiments are currently performed by Google X in Project Wings , and by DHL delivering medication to German island Juist. Well of course, they are delivered by drones.

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CMOE

MAY 20, 2020

Born between 1997 and 2012 , the oldest members of Generation Z are already graduating from college and entering the workforce. This, coupled with their overwhelming size (with a projected boom of 61 million new job seekers ) makes the Post-Millennial generation transformative and one that will demand every business’ attention.

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Information Playground

AUGUST 11, 2015

Jim and I have been studying the industry as part of a joint research project. million in 2012. The diagram below depicted each process: During this series of posts I highlighted some of the research findings discovered by Dr. Jim Short (San Diego Supercomputer Center). It's a difficult problem to solve, especially for breaches.

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Christensen Institute

AUGUST 11, 2022

During the 2011–2012 school year, there were 3,700 public schools” operating year-round school serving over 2 million students. But there are public schools around the country that have been moving to year-round school, or what’s often known as a balanced calendar. These schools still offer breaks for students.

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IdeaSpies

MARCH 16, 2018

Create Safe Spaces In 2012, Google embarked on an enormous research project. Code-named “Project Aristotle,” the aim was to see what made successful teams tick. If you want to innovate effectively, don’t chase the latest trend, find a problem your customers will care about and solve it for them.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 9, 2018

With the help of over 1200 individual and company backers, Vickie successfully raised $83k in 30 days on Kickstarter to fund the project. People were getting their projects everywhere, all over the interwebs, and then they were getting the education on how to make their projects through sites like Craftsy and CreativeLive, and now Brit + Co.,

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Michael Roberto

OCTOBER 24, 2017

They see one of the world's most ambitious companies and a stock price that has quadrupled since 2012, and happily toss aside their Amazon spreadsheets filled with question marks. Ovide writes that Amazon provides quarterly earnings projections that are "comically broad." Secrecy is acceptable when companies are doing well.

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Open Innovation EU

APRIL 19, 2017

Many of our students work on innovation projects for SME. In 2012 Rolf Dobelli published his book ‘ The Art of Thinking Clearly ‘, which contains 98 missers in our brain when it comes to business and marketing (and innovation if you like). ” 99 Mental Barriers for Innovation.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

At this point, it’s an overhead project at most companies. However, this is an important reminder: Once you’ve developed and applied that taxonomy to your content, the project is far from done. We’ve asked these questions before in part 2, Planning a Taxonomy Project. Over time, this project has evolved.

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Outside Innovation

FEBRUARY 27, 2016

The Estonian Genome Project is a population-based biological database and biobank which was established in 2000 to improve public health in Estonia. The UK's National Health Service has been implementing the UK's 100,000 Genome Project since 2012. . The timeline has been quite fast for a government-initiated project.

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Outside Innovation

FEBRUARY 27, 2016

The Estonian Genome Project is a population-based biological database and biobank which was established in 2000 to improve public health in Estonia. The UK's National Health Service has been implementing the UK's 100,000 Genome Project since 2012. . The timeline has been quite fast for a government-initiated project.

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