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Implementing Open Innovation: Insights from Ariana Smetana of AccelIQ Digital

Qmarkets

The days of boardrooms and R&D departments keeping innovation under lock and key are waning, as companies are increasingly preferring a more collaborative approach with startups and other external parties. These collaborative partnerships allow us to facilitate deploying solutions to accelerate digital transformation in agile ways.

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Open-Source Innovation: Insights from Ariana Smetana of AccelIQ Digital

Qmarkets

The days of boardrooms and R&D departments keeping innovation under lock and key are waning, as companies are increasingly preferring a more collaborative approach with startups and other external parties. These collaborative partnerships allow us to facilitate deploying solutions to accelerate digital transformation in agile ways.

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Build Your Career by Sharing a Crowdsourced Idea

IdeaScale

The power tools giant runs quick one-to-four week challenges to solicit ideas on how to improve their product lines. Moderators say it’s a powerful tool for employee engagement and collaboration. Most of the participants are engineers or product developers, but anyone can submit an idea. In 2013, Stearns was 26-years-old.

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The Case for Dual Innovation

Tim Kastelle

This trend is even more pronounced among strong innovators, with those pursuing a centralized approach rising from 68 percent in 2013 to 71 percent in 2014. Two-thirds of all breakthrough innovators stated that all innovation and product development is controlled and driven by a centralized organization, at least in its initial stages.

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An Answer to the Pains of Integrating Agile and UX

Boxes and Arrows

I recently attended UXPA 2013 in D.C. The answer situates itself within the Lean approach to product development. Of course, this collaboration model is not new with this book—the “movement,” if you will, has been gaining momentum for a few years now. It tied in quite nicely with the book I’m reviewing here.

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The Case for Dual Innovation

Integrative Innovation

This trend is even more pronounced among strong innovators, with those pursuing a centralized approach rising from 68 percent in 2013 to 71 percent in 2014. Two-thirds of all breakthrough innovators stated that all innovation and product development is controlled and driven by a centralized organization, at least in its initial stages.

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What is innovation management and why your organization needs it

hackerearth

The focus area (new markets, new uses, the source of ideas, line extensions, product development, etc.) for a consumer-product company or a business-product one or the best practices for product development in low-tech and high-tech firms will be different. Culture/Country.