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50+ Business Cases on Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Open Innovation EU

During a course we developed at Avans University this winter, we asked students to gather relevant business cases on innovation and entrepreneurship in order to analyse them and prepare discussions around organization design. Source: techcrunch.com/2014/05/15/billguard-android/. Do Pivots Matter? Source: leanstartup.co/how-one-fitech-company-used-lean-startup-in-a-regulated-industry/.

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Becoming Real Innovators

Technology Created

What can get companies over the hump from knowing that they should innovate and from knowing the constituent skills that comprise innovation to being companies where innovation happens as a matter of course? Clearly, answering this question is an area of differing opinion and knowing “the answer” of course is a fool’s errand.

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How Apple created two giants

Matthew Griffin

There are, of course, a number of ways that organisations can divest these operations in a way that boosts their overall average margins. Samsung was the first company out of the blocks in 2009 and their new strategy put them firmly on a collision course with Apple. __. Click & Connect with Matthew: LinkedIn . mgriffin_uk . +44

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What is design thinking and how can it help you innovate?

hackerearth

Survey results of Design Management Institute’s 2014 analysis show that design-led companies such as Coca-Cola, Nike, Procter & Gamble, IBM, Whirlpool, and Apple have maintained a significant stock market advantage for the past 10 years and have outperformed the S&P 500 by 219%.

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How to Run the Ultimate Corporate Hackathon

Qmarkets

“Programmers and software professionals squeezing time in against packed evenings and weekends to accelerate productivity.” He continues to describe the hackathon format as one of “decentralized, disintermediated, distributed computer programming [that] proves an industry standard for software development.”.

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How to Run the Ultimate Corporate Hackathon

Qmarkets

“Programmers and software professionals squeezing time in against packed evenings and weekends to accelerate productivity.” He continues to describe the hackathon format as one of “decentralized, disintermediated, distributed computer programming [that] proves an industry standard for software development.”.

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Co-creating volume 3

Innovation 360 Group

Of course, that is not to make light of the serious conditions still facing a great number of people in every region of the Earth. KPIs for Righting the Course. Your innovation system will be instrumental in keeping projects on course with a series of strategic, tactical and operational KPIs. Suffering and inequalities abound.