IdeaScale

OCTOBER 4, 2017

The Innovation Management Awards are in their fifth year and we thought it would be good chance to look back at all the past winners as we prepare to receive submissions from around the world in this year’s competition. We’ve honored a variety of organizations and companies in the past and we hope that we have just as much to learn this year.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 25, 2016

But perhaps the greatest innovations in business won’t be what companies decide to sell, but how they’ll go to market in ways that create entirely new business models. It’s all about “playing hard to get” with your customers, something pretty counterintuitive in today’s fiercely competitive world. 2016 will see things go further.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 25, 2016

But perhaps the greatest innovations in business won’t be what companies decide to sell, but how they’ll go to market in ways that create entirely new business models. It’s all about “playing hard to get” with your customers, something pretty counterintuitive in today’s fiercely competitive world. 2016 will see things go further.

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Daniel Burrus

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Think of business intelligence as the ways in which companies use data to improve their management and operations. As I discussed in a previous post , companies too often only see an overwhelming volume of data when they should be seeing a more comprehensive resource for elevating business strategy. ©2015 Burrus Research, Inc.

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Daniel Burrus

AUGUST 26, 2015

By digitally disrupting ourselves instead of passively, reactively waiting for it to happen, we can make disruption our biggest competitive advantage — leading the way for personal, business and industrial innovation instead of trying to keep up with the pack in some middling effort to survive. ®2015 Burrus Research, Inc.

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Innov8rs

OCTOBER 21, 2022

As sustainability and other trends are pushing companies to reshape their core, innovation today is a matter of reinventing what you do, how you operate, and how you run the business. In the 2010s, digital-native companies began disrupting many sectors. In 2015, the companies felt the need to realign their internal operating models.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

From finding new ideas to testing prototypes, the Internet provides a vast multimedia platform through which companies can innovate on a global scale. Until recently, net neutrality has been upheld by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and their 2015 Open Internet Order. But how is this possible?

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

All this changed however, with the popularisation of the internet, and since then there have been hundreds of different companies which have sought to profit by facilitating communication using this network. One of the first companies to offer their own chat service was Yahoo, who launched Yahoo Pager in 1998. Picture Perfect?

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Idea to Value

AUGUST 24, 2016

However, the Pew Research Center specifically delineates Millennials as people ages 18-34 in 2015. [2] million) have surpassed the Baby Boomers (people ages 51-69 in 2015, who now number at 74.9 2] After tabulating the recently released U.S. million) as this country’s largest living generation. [3]. Look at Goldman Sachs as an example.

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Norbert Bol

JUNE 7, 2015

Companies have a responsibility for the environment and society, but on the other hand companies cannot resolve all the environmental and social problems in the world. Successful companies however view sustainability as one of the biggest trends that will shape the future and use sustainability as an innovation tool. Literature.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 19, 2021

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. This requires nothing short of a total transformation of the energy systems. Knowledge transfer from first?mover

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Idea to Value

MARCH 31, 2016

hours, yet would be cheap enough to run that they would be economically competitive with normal airlines taking more than twice as long. These innovative planes would be faster than the decommissioned Concorde service, able to fly from London to New York in about 3.4 Do you like insights into new innovations like this?

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Norbert Bol

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

There is an interesting article in press (Hojnik & Ruzzie, 2015) about the drivers of eco-innovations also known as environmental innovations and green innovations. The upcoming article (Hojnik & Ruzzie, 2015) is based on 155 studies on drivers of eco-innovations. Norbert Bol. Literature. Hojnik, J., & Ruzzier, M.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Here is a brief look into this year’s winners: Chevron Nicolas Cooper, Portfolio Strategy Senior Analyst Chevron’s Environmental Management Company (EMC) manages remediation and asset retirement obligations for over 650 sites across the United States.

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2017

From our analysis of nearly 1000 hackathons conducted across 75 countries in the world during a two-year period from 2015 onward, we bring you this Global Hackathon Report. From ideation to execution, we see hackathons are upending traditional business models and rewiring the competitive landscape. Private companies rules the roost.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 3, 2020

According to Global Human Capital Trends 2015 pg 36, “Organizations that create a culture defined by meaningful work, deep employee engagement, job and organizational fit, and strong leadership are outperforming their peers and will likely beat their competition in attracting top talent.”. Linehan, M. The Guilford Press. Schatsky, D.,

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Norbert Bol

APRIL 26, 2015

Based on the recent article “ Exploring the interoperability of innovation capability and corporate sustainability ” in the April 2015 edition of the Journal of Business Research, there are 8 ways to improve the interoperability of innovation and sustainability. There are: Internal necessities of an organization. Norbert Bol.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 28, 2020

Although many decision makers at large companies recognize the importance of innovation, most fail to implement it in a strategic, consistent, and effective way. In this article, we’ll explore why innovation management is important for any company looking to remain competitive on the corporate landscape. In 2015, Total S.A

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

More and more companies are breaking out of their industry box, forming radically different business models, delivering products, services and processes all seen outside their industry and found they can be applied within theirs. Have you noticed nothing seems to stand alone today; it is now more connected, more dependent on others.

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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 22, 2021

“Fundamentally, I believe that every company will become a software company.” ” A phrase by Satya Nadella, former executive president of Microsoft, during an event at the American Chamber of Commerce (Ancham), in 2015, became one of the biggest technology hits of the decade. How does IT consulting work?

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Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

The Creativity Era: fast-moving markets, hyper competition and companies’ shrinking lifespan…. The era of creativity, also referred frequently by Philips and ADLittle, to mention two examples, presents the following characteristics: Rapidly expanding global competition , pushing companies to find new competitive advantage quicker.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 14, 2016

One of the consulting companies, Bain & Co has conducted the Bain’s Management Tools & Trends survey since 1993. The latest one for 2015 is here. One company pioneering a change in tools is Strategyzer founded by Alex Osterwalder of Business Model Canvas fame. Tracking the trends on Management Tools.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Once again the power of Prediction Markets was displayed last week, as it correctly predicted 19 out of the 24 winners at the 2015 Oscar awards; an accuracy level of 79%. This is compelling evidence for the argument that harnessing collective intelligence can be more accurate than expert opinion, at least when it comes to the Academy Awards.

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Idea to Value

JULY 8, 2016

While a structured, repeatable innovation process is critical to create and sustain innovation in a competitive, dog-eat-dog marketplace, it alone is not always sufficient to turn a great innovative idea into a profitable “on-the-store-shelves” reality. Millennials, whom we define as those ages 18-34 in 2015, now number 75.4

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ITONICS

MAY 14, 2018

All of us have to deal with insurance companies, and it’s not fun. Meet Lemonade , the 3-year-old insurance company and fintech star based in NYC. Lemonade is arguably the most talked about InsurTech company to date – and for a good reason. Lemonade is not like other insurance companies. How did it start?

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 1, 2016

In this report, they surveyed 614 global board professionals from a total of 50 countries during the period covered from November 2015 through to February 2016 and then published in February 2016. It examined the role of innovation in company strategy and its strategic importance on the board’s agenda.

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Innovation in Practice

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

How and where innovation is performed matters: As Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter, author of classic texts on corporate strategy and the competitive advantage of nations, has noted, “Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.”. Most of this spending is being conducted by companies from Europe and the U.S. ,

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Michael Roberto

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The article quotes him directly: The brand “hasn’t articulated what they stand for,” said Ivan Wicksteed, a former chief marketing officer at Old Navy who left in 2015 and now works for a health-care-technology company. “If The company operates major retail chains: Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy, and Athleta.

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Anaqua

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Asia is home to many of the world’s most innovative companies… as well as some of the most ingenious imitators. Asian companies are taking a more holistic view of their IP portfolios and finding that many of their IP rights can work harder and more profitably for them. 1 Asian Companies are Looking to Monetize their Portfolios.

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hackerearth

MARCH 29, 2018

The startup scene is China, Japan, and Southeast Asian countries is flourishing because of changing attitudes, untapped local markets, huge human resources, fierce competition, and foreign investment. With the establishment of the SoftBank Vision Fund, we will be able to step up investments in technology companies globally.

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The Inovo Group

MAY 14, 2020

How do you create a company that can adapt, respond, and reinvent itself to become stronger in both good times and bad? The story of a company called Sweetgreen points the way. By 2015, they were growing fast with a leadership team recruited for their extensive experience in the food industry. Highlights.

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Norbert Bol

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

An interesting remark in this respect came from one of the respondents who indicated that decision makers are educated enough, because otherwise they cannot maintain their position in the competitive business arena. Life long learning or permanent education is in most professions a requirement. You can download the report here. Norbert Bol.

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Adam Hartung

DECEMBER 13, 2015

duPont as a gunpowder manufacturer for the revolutionary war, the company has long been one of America’s leading business institutions. But in a series of fast actions during 2015, DuPont as it has been known is going away. From dynamic roots, the company had become quite stodgy and unexciting. Founded by e.i.

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The Human Factor

MARCH 6, 2021

The standard system for quality management is called the IS0 9001:2015. With so much competition, you’ll need a way to stand out from the crowd. When you ensure quality across every aspect of your company, you’ll protect your business and keep on growing. Train your employees.

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Adam Hartung

JULY 27, 2016

The company had 7 straight months of revenue declines, and leadership was predicting the trend would continue. Using data from several thousand companies across more than 3 decades, companies in a Growth Stall are unable to maintain a mere 2% growth rate 93% of the time. He also closed 700 stores in 2015 , and 500 in 2016.

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Adam Hartung

JULY 13, 2016

And both companies played up the planned pay increases as benefitting not only the employees, but society at large. Simply put, to meet local laws, find and retain decent employees, and have any sort of equitable compensation across regions both companies had no choice but to take action to raise the pay for these bottom-level jobs.

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Adam Hartung

JUNE 30, 2015

24×7 Wall Street just released its fourth annual analysis of the worst companies to work for in America. Of the 30 unique companies identified, exactly half (15) were retailers. By paying minimum wage, and often refusing to hire employees full time, the companies keep costs of brick and mortar store operations lower.

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