Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 11, 2015

The Surge of innovation reports in 2015. I am sure you have experienced that in 2015 we have seen a significant surge in innovation reports, many of these coming from large consulting firms or innovation publishers. I decided this would be valuable to save you time or reconnecting to some good reports that came out in 2015.

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Braden Kelley

AUGUST 17, 2015

Thank you everyone for your nominations for the Innovation category of the Thinkers50 Distinguished 2015 Distinguished Achievement Awards. The short lists for the eight categories will be announced in early September. September 1st is the last day to cast your … Continue reading →

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Idea to Value

JUNE 10, 2016

Originally published at Excellent review of the latest 2015/2016 innovation consulting reports. Shocking news, I know 😉 There are some excellent other authors out there on the subject, and occasionally they will release something so insightful that it is my duty to let you know about […].

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Idea to Value

AUGUST 9, 2021

In a brilliant component teardown article from 2015 by Ken Shirriff , he opened up the Magsafe charger which powered Apple’s laptop at the time. If you were to open up an Apple MacBook’s power charger, inside you will find a microchip which is faster than the CPU powering the entire first Apple Mac computer.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 16, 2023

Interestingly, other studies from 2015 showed that being in a positive, happy mood made people perform better at divergent thinking, but not necessarily convergent thinking. Interestingly, another study from 2015 found that people’s capacity for how creative they could be was not correlated with their overall happiness.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 3, 2021

A 2015 study by Francesca Gino, Adam Galinsky and Li Huang set out to test whether sarcastic exchanges between people could have positive effects in addition to negative ones. It is often seen as being hostility disguised as humour.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

However, eventually as more employees join the company, the research shows that without management layers being added, employees become unable to organise themselves to actually deliver projects.

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HYPE Innovation

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Disruptive innovations are defined as those new products and services that are so unique and powerful that they literally disrupt the entire industry. The cloud, for instance, was disruptive because it changed the way that people store and use information and applications.

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Exago

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Between 2015 and 2017, the group devoted over 200 million euros to activities connected to innovation, almost twice as much as the second company featured in a study recently published by the national Directorate-General of Education and Science Statistics.

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Destination Innovation

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Saasha Celestial-One and Tessa Clarke founded the food waste company, OLIO in 2015. In 2015 she founded DnaNudge a company which helps people make healthy choices based on their own unique DNA profile. The company has raised over £37 m in equity finance so far, across three funding rounds, and has been awarded grants from Innovate UK.

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Destination Innovation

MARCH 16, 2018

It was founded in 2015 with $2.5m Their innovative mattress was chosen as one of Time’s best inventions of 2015. The suitcase company, Away Travel , sells fashion suitcases which are featured on social media sites such as Pinterest and Instagram where they have over 150,000 followers. It comes with a 100 day free trial period.

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Destination Innovation

AUGUST 3, 2017

In 2015 the World Bank established a group to help developing countries use nudge policies. org is a non-profit group founded at Harvard University whose mission is to use the power of behavioral science to design scalable solutions to some of society’s most difficult problems.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

While one meta-analysis of choice overload in 2010 found only limited evidence for choice overload, and a lot of positive aspects of additional choices, a more recent and larger 2015 meta-analysis did indeed find strong evidence for choice overload leading to fewer options resulting in more being chosen.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 25, 2020

Since 2015, the Innovation Management Awards, presented by IdeaScale, have sought out the best innovation strategists, designers, and approaches. 2020’s field was a tough one to narrow down, as innovation management has spread from the smallest businesses to the biggest conglomerates.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

Originally released in 2015, it has since found a new lease of life after being shared extensively online, and now has over 6 million views on Youtube. Watch the short film in the video above. Called Alike , it was directed by Daniel Martínez Lara & Rafa Cano Méndez and has won over 81 international awards.

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 7, 2023

In certain fields, like doctoral students looking for research topics to investigate and write about, a study in 2015 showed that the perceived need to be original causes significant burdens and limits on people. Sometimes, this fear of coming across as your idea being a copy of what has come before it can paralyse people with fear.

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Creativity Study Examples Learning 252

Digital Tonto

DECEMBER 16, 2015

My top posts over the past year. Related posts: Top Posts of 2010. Top Posts for 2014. Top Posts of 2012. Top Posts of 2013. Top Posts of 2009. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Idea to Value

MARCH 4, 2022

An important 2015 set of experiments on the Gender Bias in the Attribution of Creativity found that when comparing the creativity of men and women, that “outside the box” creativity is more strongly associated with stereotypically masculine characteristics (e.g., cooperativeness and supportiveness).

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Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 21, 2024

GUEST POST from Greg Satell When Barry Libenson arrived at Experian as Global CIO in 2015, he devoted his first few months to speaking with customers. Everywhere he went he heard the same thing: they wanted access to real-time data. On the surface, it was a straightforward business transformation, but Libenson knew that it was […]

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Digital Tonto

DECEMBER 20, 2015

My list of great books that inform, entertain and inspire! Related posts: The 2011 Digital Tonto Reading List. A Digital Tonto Reading List for 2009. The 2014 Digital Tonto Reading List. The 2013. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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HYPE Innovation

AUGUST 16, 2022

During the 2015 United Nations Summit, the international community adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) under the United Nations (UN). Our new blog series will take you through the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals in detail: What drives each one? Why is it important? How is it implemented?

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Destination Innovation

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Little wonder then that Bloomberg reported that 150 of the USA largest tech firms were sued 226 times for age discrimination from 2008 to 2015. Why are most chess masters under 30?’. There were more suits for age bias than for racial or gender discrimination.

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Creativity Report Study Technology 203

Idea to Value

JANUARY 17, 2022

Other studies from 2010 and 2015 found that cannabis use actually impaired divergent thinking performance. Research shows a negative correlation between cannabis and creative performance. A study from 1978 showed no improvement in divergent thinking scores after participants has taken cannabis.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 28, 2023

A 2015 study of 180 participants over 9 weeks showed that creativity training not only significantly improved the participant’s view of their own creativity, it resulted in those participants producing more creative output A 2016 study showed one 1.5

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Training Creativity Analysis Study 262

Leapfrogging

MAY 28, 2015

2015 has so far been monumental for women. WomEngineering – Women matter in Operations – June 18 & 19, 2015 Chateau de Mery (Paris) France. 11th Annual Women’s Leadership Conference -10 &11 June, 2015 New York, NY. Why Women are the Future of Business Innovation.

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Earlier this year, Jason Williams shared a list of 46 Innovation Conferences for 2015. That list has grown to over 150 and provided the inspiration for Explorious Ventures. Explorious Ventures, both a collector and connector, has curated the world's largest list of innovation-related events, conferences, festivals and happenings.

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HYPE Innovation

MARCH 22, 2022

While research on corporate-startup collaboration is not new , it has attracted increasing interest in recent years.

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

We knew we follow a lot of great innovation people on twitter (including a lot of the great Innovation Excellence authors) and based on your responses and some of our own we've compiled this year's list of the Top 50 Innovation Twitter Sharers of 2015. Continue reading →

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 23, 2015

2015 has so far been monumental for women. In light of Hilary announcing her run for office, and six women winning the Pulitzer Prize (compared to one female winner in 2014), I though I’d share this infographic depicting the historic impact of women in the business world over the past century.

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Improvides

DECEMBER 21, 2014

If you want to stay on the cutting edge of innovation insight and techniques, then these are the blogs and experts you need to follow in 2015 2014 has been an excellent year for the spreading of insights around what makes innovation and creativity around the workplace. The proliferation of blogs, LinkedIn groups, podcasts and […].

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 5, 2022

Once the stage was set, the private space race took off, and over the last five years has seen some notable milestones: In November 2015, Blue Origin launched the first reusable suborbital rocket successfully. In December 2015, SpaceX landed its first reusable first stage of an orbital rocket.

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Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 27, 2015

An overwhelming 94 percent of the world’s largest innovators now conduct elements of their R&D programs abroad, according to the 2015 Global Innovation 1000 study, our annual analysis of corporate R&D spending. The geographic footprint of innovation is changing dramatically as research and development programs become more global.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 4, 2022

In 2015, it became clear that instead of being able to develop a diesel car which met emmissions standards (a huge engineering challenge), something had allowed a situation to develop where the chosen course of action was to lie and pretend like they had achieved the standards. Volkswagen.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 17, 2019

A 2015-2016 study by researchers at the Harvard Business School found that boards don’t prioritize innovation. It turns out, getting buy-in from the board of directors can be particularly vexing due to the typical board makeup, their strengths, and their skills gaps. Boards Don’t Prioritize Innovation.

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IdeaScale

MAY 30, 2018

In this survey from 2015, researchers report that 43% of large companies have some sort of top innovation executive in place, which was up from 33% in 2011. We continue to see more and more Chief Innovation Officers at the enterprise level. But what does a Chief Innovation Officer do? Well, here are a few of their responsibilities.

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Michael Roberto

JANUARY 7, 2025

They examined data from 2012-2015 to measure "crew familiarity" - i.e., how often had referees worked together. Amanda Ferguson and her colleagues studied that question in a new paper titled, "Relieving the Pressure: Team Familiarity Attenuates External Conformity Pressure on Team Member Decisions."

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Braden Kelley

DECEMBER 15, 2015

2015 is quickly coming to a close and perhaps you have a little bit of money left in your budget. What better way to spend it than to get everyone on your team a copy of the popular book Stoking … Continue reading →

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