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Announcing the 2015 Global Innovation Survey

Imaginatik

Though innovation has become an executive imperative, it has yet to mature into an established company-wide core competence at most organizations. To help innovation leaders and forward-thinking companies do better, Imaginatik has launched the 2015 Global Innovation Survey. To take the survey, please visit this link.

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Soren Kaplan’s April 2015 Leapfrogging Newsletter

Leapfrogging

The most innovative companies today realize that competitive differentiation comes as much from how they innovate as it does from what they’re innovating. 175k Innovation Prize 2015 – Deadline April 30, 2015. Global Millennial Conference 2015 – May 15, 2015, Columbus, OH.

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Nomination Wanted: 2015 Thinkers50

Matthew May

Contributor: The New York Times, Strategy+Business, Fast Company. NOMINATIONS CLOSE JULY 31, 2015. Martin “Playing to Win” strategic choice framework. Designer, The Play-To-Win Canvas. Regular contributor: The Rotman Magazine; HBR Blogs; AMEX Open Forum; 99U. That’s it! 30 seconds, max. THANK YOU IN ADVANCE!!

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Soren Kaplan’s Leapfrogging Newsletter – February 2015

Leapfrogging

Some companies know that products only get you so far, that services are the future-in fact, services already account for 75% of the global economy. The most innovative companies know that even when they’re selling a product, they’re actually selling the function that it provides. FIND OUT> Must-Reads from around the Web.

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These companies failed because leaders did not want to hear bad news: The Ostrich Effect

Idea to Value

This can be especially dangerous when the problem they are avoiding is that they are being disrupted , other companies are out-innovating them, an important project is off-target or performance KPIs are falling behind. The fear that froze the company came from two places. In essence, ignore problems instead of acknowledging them.

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Innovative Start-Ups Founded by Women

Destination Innovation

Here are some inspiring women entrepreneurs and the companies they have started. The company has raised over £37 m in equity finance so far, across three funding rounds, and has been awarded grants from Innovate UK. Saasha Celestial-One and Tessa Clarke founded the food waste company, OLIO in 2015.

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The great miscalculation–and exit–of multinationals in Africa… again

Christensen Institute

In 2015, many multinational companies exited Africa. For the record, even in this unconducive business environment, some companies are thriving, as the Bloomberg article notes. The implication is that if a company is not focused on market creation–that is, transforming nonconsumption to consumption–it need not be in Africa.

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