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Enexis Interview: Navigating Operational Innovation in an Environment Ripe for Innovation Stagnation

Qmarkets

Yet the company have managed to implement up to 300 new ideas a year resulting in millions in cost saving since 2014. A Qmarkets’ customer since 2014, we sat down with Enexis to discuss more about their innovation initiatives, overcoming resistance to change, and what the future of innovation looks like for them.

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Can’t We All Just Get Along? Innovation and Bridging the Generational Divide

Idea to Value

Innovation requires more than just idea generation. After all, innovation cannot exist in a vacuum; but rather, an organization must build a culture of innovation to catalyze and sustain the creation of new ideas and then ultimately actually implement the ideas that make it out of the initial starting gate.

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Creating Great Ideas: Combining Open Innovators and Extroverted Peers on a Team

Michael Roberto

Sharique Hasan and Rembrand Koning have conducted research on idea generation in teams, using a unique field experiment design. These scholars conducted their field experiment within the opening week of an entrepreneurship academy in India during the summer of 2014.

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Ideating at Enexis – Driving Operational Innovation in Dutch Energy Sector

Qmarkets

Yet the company has managed to generate hundreds of new ideas each year since 2014, resulting in millions in cost-saving and improved employee safety. From the necessity of growth the most creative ideas are often formed. We receive around 200-300 ideas every year, and roughly 25% of those are actually implemented.

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What is innovation? 15 experts share their innovation definition

Idea to Value

He was voted one of the world’s top innovation bloggers for 2014 and is a leader in thought leadership on the science of improving creativity. What is your definition of “innovation”: The application of ideas that are novel and useful. Innovation is not just Idea generation. Follow @ideatovalue. David Burkus.

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Ideating at Enexis – Driving Operational Innovation in Dutch Energy Sector

Qmarkets

Yet the company have managed to implement up to 300 new ideas a year resulting in millions in cost-saving since 2014. A Qmarkets’ customer since 2014, we sat down with Enexis to discuss more about their innovation initiatives, overcoming resistance to change, and what the future of innovation looks like for them.

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What is idea management and why is it important for any business

hackerearth

Idea Management is a structured process of generating, capturing, discussing and improving, organizing, evaluating, and prioritizing of valuable insight or alternative thinking that would otherwise not have emerged through normal processes” (Karlsson, 2010). What are the phases of idea management? Idea genesis and gathering.