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Creative Construction – Book review

The Inovo Group

The author presents a clear three-part framework consisting of Innovation Strategy, System and Culture that a large company needs to use to be an innovative organization. It is most useful, however, as a foundation on which corporate innovators can build their own innovation strategy, system and culture – a task left for the reader.

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Designing for Harmony

Boxes and Arrows

In a flash of insight, he realized that software could replace pencil-and-paper accounting for everyone. They had users try their new software, Quicken, while they ran a stopwatch. Then they’d tweak the software and retest until processes that took an hour were reduced to a quarter of that.

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Innovation from the Innovation Nation – Israel

Qmarkets

Most of the time, the people I meet are unsurprised to discover that Qmarkets is based in Israel, however every now and then I will encounter a person or business who is hesitant to work with a company that is located in the middle-east, due to perceived political/economical risks and sometimes even a cultural bias. Nobel Material.

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Innovation from the Innovation Nation – Israel

Qmarkets

Most of the time, the people I meet are unsurprised to discover that Qmarkets is based in Israel, however every now and then I will encounter a person or business who is hesitant to work with a company that is located in the middle-east, due to perceived political/economical risks and sometimes even a cultural bias. Nobel Material.

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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 1

Tim Kastelle

At the beginning of 2013, Tim Kastelle and I identified four key issues in innovation management for the time to come. Culture of experimentation (and speed). It requires a more deliberated approach, such as the lean startup process, design thinking or a combination thereof.

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Ideate or Deteriorate – Why Companies Must Learn How To Be Innovative to Achieve Major Growth

Qmarkets

Launched in 2009, this app was designed to fulfil the purpose of SMS messaging on mobile phones and it quickly became very popular. Whatsapp is no different to the original instant messenger designed by ICQ in 1996, or to any of its other competitors such as AIM, MSN, BBM, or KIK. Picture Perfect?

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What is innovation management and why your organization needs it

hackerearth

It’s about imagining, mobilizing, and competing in new ways,” says Idris Mootee, author of Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation. Whereas, Gartner says it is a business discipline that aims to drive a repeatable, sustainable innovation process or culture within an organization. Reduces risk of becoming obsolete due to competitors.