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A Look Back at the Innovation Management Awards

IdeaScale

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. 2015: Innovate Your State. This is just a taste of what innovation management award winners can accomplish.

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Sorting through our Innovation Management Tools

Paul Hobcraft

We all are caught up in handling and understanding different management tools. There are management tools that have become ‘enshrined’ in organizations and many of the executives become settled on the ones they have bothered to learn or seemingly do the job. Tracking the trends on Management Tools.

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Why Innovation Management is Important – 3 Key Reasons

Qmarkets

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.

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5 Leadership Lessons from 2015’s Business Headlines

Adam Hartung

2015 was not short on bad decisions, nor bad outcomes. But there are 5 major leadership themes from 2015 that can help companies be better in 2016: 1 – Cost cutting, restructurings and stock buybacks do not increase company value – Dow/DuPont. Yet, sales per store remained weak even as the denominator grew smaller.

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Innovation 2015 or Five Lame Excuses?

Gregg Fraley

Innovation ca feel a lot like that — your competition is a big tough impossible-to-beat player like Superman. Here’s the thing, like the inept and psychologically damaged journalist Jimmy Olsen, even a dysfunctional company that heretofore hasn’t managed to get innovation going can start now.

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 2: Why Business Model Innovation Matters

The BMI Lab Blog

Learnings from sports competitions Competition in business is similar to sports competitions – there are winners and losers. But what is the “secret sauce” of winning athletes and companies? This figure shows how competitive advantage is generated over a market lifecycle.

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Five Barriers to the Innovation Process and How to Overcome Them

IdeaScale

This, by far, is the most common challenge faced across companies. If a company developed a way of doing things in 2015, then it was likely the ideal one at the time. Similarly, if they have one good idea, why does it matter if it doesn’t have company? Challenges in “Buy-In”. Yet that’s a long time ago.