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Getting Board Buy-In for Your Innovation Project

IdeaScale

For innovation to thrive in a company, it must be prioritized at every level. Taking an innovation project from idea through execution is challenging, and there can be obstacles at several places along the journey. A 2015-2016 study by researchers at the Harvard Business School found that boards don’t prioritize innovation.

Project 185
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Sometimes, flat hierarchies can hurt innovation in Start-ups

Idea to Value

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. Founders may even be able to all sit at a single table across from one another and collaborate this way.

Project 307
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Crowdsourcing with the Competition: Rewarding Venture or Precarious Proposition?

Qmarkets

Why your company needs to think about crowdsourcing with the competition…. Understandably, the increase in competition and market saturation is seen by those who experience it as a direct threat to their organizational legitimacy. Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.” Sleeping With the Enemy.

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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.

LEAN 40
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Accelerating Clean Energy Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

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 acceleration that is needed also requires a large increase in investment in demonstration projects. Most of these projects are concerned with the electrification of end?uses,

Report 345
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Crowdsourcing with the Competition: Rewarding Venture or Precarious Proposition?

Qmarkets

Why your company needs to think about crowdsourcing with the competition…. Understandably, the increase in competition and market saturation is seen by those who experience it as a direct threat to their organizational legitimacy. Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.” Sleeping With the Enemy.

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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.