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Sometimes, flat hierarchies can hurt innovation in Start-ups

Idea to Value

Founders may even be able to all sit at a single table across from one another and collaborate this way. 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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What Does a Chief Innovation Officer Do?

IdeaScale

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. ” So a Chief Innovation Officer needs to be an advocate for collaboration and scaling communication across an entire network of people. Fosters Innovation Skill Building.

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a Great Innovator Because they Nurture Innovators

IdeaScale

JUMP is an online crowdsourcing community launched in 2015. Upon announcement of the judges’ decisions, the innovator (the submitter of the winning idea), Lab technical advisor (a technical member of a national laboratory with relevant technical expertise for the call at hand), and industry partner collaborate to move the technology forward.

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Using Design Thinking to make your employees ready for the Internet-of-Things

InnovationManagement

trillion in 2025 (McKinsey 2015). The Service Science Factory and Noventum collaborated on this article to present a state-of-the art view on the Internet of Things and how to implement this vision within organizations. It is predicted to increase economic value by $11.1

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Be-novative builds strong Europe-wide cooperation with Pioneers Group and Startup300

Be-novative

We are going to empower more organisations with the AI-based gamified ideation process, that we will further develop for high usability and the global networking of innovation teams to get methods, connections and resources to make their idea happen in real life.

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Be-novative builds strong Europe-wide cooperation with Pioneers Group and Startup300

Be-novative

We are going to empower more organisations with the AI-based gamified ideation process, that we will further develop for high usability and the global networking of innovation teams to get methods, connections and resources to make their idea happen in real life.

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eZassi Names Jennifer Creech as Chief Executive Officer

eZassi

Based on her leadership skills, the growth of the business and market success of In House’s commercial appraisal technology, she was awarded the 2015 Women of Influence by HousingWire. Prior to joining eZassi, Creech was the CEO and President of InHouse, Inc., About eZassi.