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71 Innovation Methodologies

Open Innovation EU

Experiments Open Innovation (Guinan). Human-Centered Design (IDEO). Focus stage: Seed Published: 2014 more…. Updated Model of Design Thinking. Focus stage: Seed Published: 2014 more…. Design Thinking Process (Stanford). Design Competitions. Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2014 more….

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

It has been a while since Henry Mintzberg developed his influential work that made us aware of the importance of structures in organization design. Structures are no longer of primary focus in design organizations. Let me show you how the focus of organization design has changed over the years: Scholar. It enhances productivity.

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Innovation Strategy – Pat McGauley and a New Beer in Town

BrainZooming

He reported that packaging innovation was more difficult to develop than liquid innovation. Based on comments he made regarding working with retailers on in-store shelving, product innovation may have been easier because it might lead to a fight for shelf space. Pat formed two innovation teams. – Mike Brown.

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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

Another study has indeed proven that specifically within SMEs, entrepreneurs use both causation and effectuation at the same time (Berends, Jelinek, Reymen, & Stultiëns, 2014). Shane, Venkataraman, & MacMillan, 1995; Venkataraman, 2014). Corbett, Covin, O’Connor, & Tucci, 2013). Neck et al. Missing Literature.

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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 1

Tim Kastelle

Adapted from: https://nbry.wordpress.com/2014/06/27/massive-platforms-for-cocreation-the-new-normal-22/. It requires a more deliberated approach, such as the lean startup process, design thinking or a combination thereof. Tip: Tim Kastelle has posted a worthwhile series on how to implement lean startup for innovation initiatives.

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Why you need extreme constraints to fuel innovation

hackerearth

In 2014, the Stanford bioengineer, Manu Prakash built a 50-cent paper microscope, the origami Foldscope, with all the functionalities and efficacy of a standard microscope. Amazing, cost-effective and extremely useful innovations come out from this frugal science advocate’s lab. “I Constraints are fundamental to problem-solving.

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What You Need to Know About Insourcing

Planview

As of 2014, the global outsourcing market amounted to $104.6 Web design, creatives, manufacturing needs — almost anything can be outsourced. And for the past few decades, outsourcing has been the method of choice for getting things done without blowing the annual budget on a single project. But there’s a catch.