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One Size Doesn’t Fit All Innovation

Integrative Innovation

Yesterday, I was quite delighted to see my post Integrating Lean Startup and Design Thinking ranked #11 of the Top 100 Innovation Posts 2014 at Innovation Excellence. This cycle of Inspiration, Ideation and Implementation is a solutions-based approach to solving customer problems. No one size fits all.

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Are Legacy Approaches to Talent Inhibiting Your Innovation Efforts?

Swarmvision

Does it mean candidates need to know Lean Start-Up and Design Thinking? Back in 2014, we were running large-scale innovation crowdsourcing campaigns for huge companies. After all, companies need more than just ideation skills. Defining Innovation Skills What do we mean by innovation skills? Does it mean they need to code?

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50 what-if questions to reimagine the future

Board of Innovation

In 2014, you could start by organizing your own intrapreneurship program. Discover how you can start your own P2P startup from this inspiring keynote from Robin Chase (ZipCar) at the Lean Startup Conference. In 2014, GE plans to expand the program to 5,000 executives and launch hundreds of new projects next year!

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Balancing Innovation via Organizational Ambidexterity – Part 3

Integrative Innovation

Typically, the first stage of an innovation funnel is “ideation”, the last one “market launch”. Ideation : Ideas for innovation in products, services and business models are generated. Ideation : When a firm has a strong innovation culture and a sufficiently open innovation mindset there is usually no shortage in innovation ideas.

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7 Habits of Highly Innovative Companies

ITONICS

The term comes from the English and is based on the Lean Startup Model by Eric Ries. For this very reason, Intel constructed a space called Innovation Open Lab in Ireland to develop and smooth open research, ideation and overall innovation in the company. There is still some negative feeling and judgment behind the word failure.

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The secrets behind building a Unicorn

Matthew Griffin

They use lean, agile development techniques. Only one thing is certain at this stage – you’re going to end up iterating your product time and time again, tweaking, perfecting, tearing it down and starting again. Hyper growth companies all have the following memes in common: They iterate fast and fail fast. They put design first.