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Soren Kaplan’s April 2015 Leapfrogging Newsletter

Leapfrogging

Sustained competitive advantage comes from innovating how we innovate. That’s the essence of real innovation. In the past, new products and technologies consumed the vast majority of the innovation air-time. What are five trends shaping the world of innovation itself that anyone can apply to their business?

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Nomination Wanted: 2015 Thinkers50

Matthew May

My three areas of focus — strategy, innovation, and lean — are all founded on the ground-level, everyday application of Roger Martin’s Play-to-Win framework (strategy), IDEO/Stanford d school-originated design thinking (innovation), and Toyota-born systems thinking (lean). NOMINATIONS CLOSE JULY 31, 2015.

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How 2015 Changed Corporate Innovation: An Overview

Innovation Excellence

There were several key (and generally welcome) themes that emerged throughout 2015 within corporate innovation. It is truly an exciting time to be in this field and to see these changes form across the industry.

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7 Noteworthy Disruptive Innovations of 2015

HYPE Innovation

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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Accelerating Clean Energy Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

“Without a major acceleration in clean energy innovation, reaching net-zero emissions by 2050 will not be possible.” This 2050 target is in line with the 2015 Paris Agreement, the foundations of global consensus to limit the rise in global temperature to 1.5c. The role of innovation has a crucial one to play.

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Give the Gifts of Innovation and Change

Braden Kelley

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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Walmart: How an Innovator in Arkansas Continues to Change our World

IdeaScale

It was a reminder of what many who had been paying attention already knew: Walmart is, in many under-appreciated ways, a powerful innovator. Walmart’s Past Of Innovation. Walmart has always been innovative. By 2015, it led corporate America in solar capacity and is branching out into energy storage.

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