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Enterprise Teamwork: What It Is and How It Works

CMOE

Understanding the Team Environment. Like any dynamic system, a team operates within a broader and bigger system: the “environment.” Teams are an organic component of this system and play a role within it. Highly effective teams are able to support the environment and this system supports the team.

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How can academics ensure their work has impact?

IdeaSpies

Take Bell Labs, for example, an industrial research and development (R&D) company, now owned by Nokia but originally founded by Alexander Graham Bell in the late-1800s. Fortunately, it can be bridged by collaborating with industry. . In some cases, the TTO might ‘spin-out’ the technology into its own company.

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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 2

Tim Kastelle

Research confirms: development of exploration in parallel to exploitation capabilities proves to be mandatory for established companies in order to compete successfully and sustainably. One way for established organizations to strengthen exploration is by developing internal capabilities in order to overcome their inherent inertia.

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Overcome resistance and capture growth in the Financial Services Industry

Innovation 360 Group

It drives innovation to a transactional level and leads organizations to seek the perceived lower risk of acquiring new ideas vs developing them in house. Often agile development initiatives are not ‘agile’ at all. The breadth of innovation culture. Perhaps the risk isn’t lower after all. The importance of radical innovation.

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Hackathons—HR’s best friend

hackerearth

HR leaders no longer just stick to legal and compliance issues; they are now strategic business partners with a key role to play in shaping the company’s culture and taking the company closer to realizing its vision. Wipro held an internal hackathon for its employees in June 2014. Hackathons—an underrated tool.

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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). They need support from a management team dedicated to thinking differently and championing new policies, processes and products working in tandem. Outreach to local communities for shared protection and development.

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Why you need extreme constraints to fuel innovation

hackerearth

The team calls itself a curiosity driven research group at Stanford, trying to invent novel technologies with clinical applications with a current focus on resource-poor settings. In an Agile system, you could adjust cost, scope, and schedule to impact development positively. Have you heard of the “Prakash Lab”?