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Design Thinking for the Greater Good: Innovation in the Social Sector

Innovation in Practice

As a way to reframe problems, ideate solutions, and iterate toward better answers, design thinking is already well established in the commercial world. Her books include Solving Problems with Design Thinking (2013), Designing for Growth (2011), and The Designing for Growth Field Book (2013), all from Columbia University Press.

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Wazoku Secures New Funding from Barclays

Wazoku

“We are in the process of expansion, with new additions to our management team, and new expertise in our data science team, and the investment will allow us to deliver sophisticated analytics for employee engagement, reward & recognition and cultural metrics.”.

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The EU Sustainability Directive Is Setting a New Global Standard for Business Practices

Innovation 360 Group

It’s the EU Sustainability Reporting Directive (Directive 2014/95/EU, an amendment to Directive 2013/34/EU). What they need most now is a strategic direction tied to sustainability and executed by a workforce trained to enact a culture of innovation. Correcting for Oversimplification.

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Top 10 Innovation Links for the Week of 1.8.16

Planview

Re-framing Innovation: How Iteration Really Does Transform Fear of Failure. The skinny: One of the biggest hurdles to fostering a culture of innovation is fear of failure. But what if you could reframe failure on the journey to innovation success? The Innovation Expedition: A Visual Toolkit to Start Innovation.

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Everything you need to know about innovation management software

hackerearth

Why do companies need innovation management software? A 2013 Accenture study revealed some interesting findings: Companies which have formal innovation management systems, compared to those that have not, are almost twice as likely to say they were very satisfied with their initial idea generation abilities (43% vs. 24%).

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Innovation management software: Everything you need to know

hackerearth

Why do companies need innovation management software? A 2013 Accenture study revealed some interesting findings: Companies which have formal innovation management systems, compared to those that have not, are almost twice as likely to say they were very satisfied with their initial idea generation abilities (43% vs. 24%).

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What is innovation management and why your organization needs it

hackerearth

Broadly speaking, discovery refers to the theme identification phase, i.e. discovering what to focus on; ideation refers to sourcing ideas for problem statements, and execution refers to the creation of a proof of concept and a market-ready product. (To To read more about the process of discovery, ideation, and execution, go here.).