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. 2015: Innovate Your State. Finding the top-selling product of all time. Crowdsourcing a winning ballot measure!

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Innovation Management Management Crowdsourcing Innovation 0

Leapfrogging

JANUARY 25, 2016

It’s all about “playing hard to get” with your customers, something pretty counterintuitive in today’s fiercely competitive world. In October 2015, Lee Jeans launched a campaign across 32 cities in China to promote a range of heat-retaining denim. Figuring out how to rise above the competitive noise can be mind-bending in itself.

Artificial Inteligence 100

Artificial Inteligence Competition Culture Marketing 100

Leapfrogging

JANUARY 25, 2016

It’s all about “playing hard to get” with your customers, something pretty counterintuitive in today’s fiercely competitive world. In October 2015, Lee Jeans launched a campaign across 32 cities in China to promote a range of heat-retaining denim. Figuring out how to rise above the competitive noise can be mind-bending in itself.

Artificial Inteligence 100

Artificial Inteligence Competition Culture Marketing 100

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

It can give you a real competitive advantage by translating what you learnt in applying analogies to solutions that solve your customer problems. Often this is the toughest work as you have to strive to overcome the mentality of “not invented here, so it won’t work for us”. Turning “yes but”….into into “yes and” is hard.

Industry 215

Industry Trends LEAN Change 215

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 18, 2015

Innovation ca feel a lot like that — your competition is a big tough impossible-to-beat player like Superman. Now is the time to impact 2015. In the song Jimmy Olsen is competing with the man of steel for the affection of Miss Lois Lane. He’s got a secret weapon, a pocketful of Kryptonite.

LEAN 40

LEAN Design Thinking Innovation Idea Generation 40

IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Until recently, net neutrality has been upheld by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and their 2015 Open Internet Order. In this manner, net neutrality provides a level playing field where businesses of all shapes and sizes can drive innovation and compete for the attention of consumers without restriction. But how is this possible?

Innovation 164

Innovation Technology Data Resources 164

CMOE

JANUARY 16, 2020

In fact, when used in a web-based learning environment, microlearning is 22% better than long-form learning , according to a 2015 study conducted by Germany’s Dresden University of Technology. The post Gaining a Competitive Edge Through eLearning by Costa appeared first on CMOE. All posts are peer-reviewed by CMOE.

Competition 52

Competition Training Software Review Course 52

Adam Hartung

DECEMBER 30, 2015

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. Because of McDonald’s size and legacy the media covered this story heavily in 2015.

Leadership 36

Leadership Industry Company Marketing 36

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

If we are to meet the mandated Paris Agreement of 2015, where member states agreed to limit global warming to 2 degrees C versus pre-industrial levels by 2050, we have to look at every climate change mitigation we can find. Energy is a vital part of any country’s ability to be competitive.

System 180

System Innovation Technology Collaboration 180

Open Innovation EU

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Design Competitions. Focus stage: Growth Published: 2015 more…. Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2015 more…. Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2015 more…. Focus stage: Early-stage Published: 2015 more…. Focus stage: Seed Published: 2012 more…. Crowdsourcing (Whitla). Focus stage: Growth Published: 2009 more….

Crowdsourcing 81

Crowdsourcing Innovation Open Innovation LEAN 81

IdeaScale

APRIL 7, 2021

If a company developed a way of doing things in 2015, then it was likely the ideal one at the time. Still, other companies with a friendly competition culture might respond better to “gamification” strategies. The response to this should be “So why did you decide to do it that way?” Yet that’s a long time ago.

Innovation Processes 162

Innovation Processes Underperforming Technical Team How To Innovation 162

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?

Comparison 100

Comparison Report Industry Training 100

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].

How To 100

How To Innovation Survey Tips 100

Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

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. Legitimate Risk Factors.

Competition 40

Competition Crowdsourcing Collaboration Open Innovation 40

Leapfrogging

APRIL 23, 2015

2015 has so far been monumental for women. This isn’t just unjust, it threatens the future of business innovation, the economy, and global competitiveness. Mainstream business culture penalizes women for being women. But “feminine” skill sets are the not-so-secret ingredients for what it takes to innovate in today’s digital world. .

Innovation 100

Innovation Software Leadership Policies 100

Leapfrogging

APRIL 23, 2015

2015 has so far been monumental for women. This isn’t just unjust, it threatens the future of business innovation, the economy, and global competitiveness. Mainstream business culture penalizes women for being women. But “feminine” skill sets are the not-so-secret ingredients for what it takes to innovate in today’s digital world. .

Innovation 100

Innovation Software Leadership Policies 100

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.

Disruption 40

Disruption Competition Industry Trends 40

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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Survey Innovation Tips Idea Generation 102

Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 20, 2015

I rise today to praise Innovation Leader and Innosight on their publication of the 2015 Innovation Benchmarking Report. From what I can see of this report it is an excellent synopsis of the state of play of innovation in 2015. Times have changed, business models have morphed and competition has accelerated.

Analysis 100

Analysis Survey Innovation Report 100

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 14, 2016

The latest one for 2015 is here. On the 2015 list of Bain’s is Disruptive Innovation Labs. They are often deployed in three situations: When companies face new forms of competition that are stealing market share or reducing profitability. Tracking the trends on Management Tools. Disruptive Innovation Labs. It would me.

Tools 100

Tools Management Innovation Management Underperforming Technical Team 100

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.,

Culture 69

Culture Meeting Engagement Leadership 69

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. The respondents describe that competition and technology are among the four most important external challenges their companies are facing now.

Disruption 100

Disruption Radical Innovation Survey Report 100

Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 23, 2017

This will be the third competition, building on the highly successful 2015 and 2016 events, won by the US Department of Energy and Orange respectively. ISPIM, the International Society for Professional Innovation Management, is delighted to announce the launch of the ISPIM Grand Prize 2017, for Excellence in Innovation Management.

Innovation Management 40

Innovation Management Management Competition Innovation 40

IdeaSpies

MARCH 16, 2018

The Creativity score is based on the Global Creativity Index 2015, published by the World Economic Forum, which ranked Australia as the top country in the world. The 2015 Startup Muster research report said that getting funding is the most reported external challenge for Australian startups (40%). Australia is ranked no.

Creativity 57

Creativity Innovation Report Policies 57

100%Open

DECEMBER 22, 2015

It’s been an intense and exciting second half to 2015 for the whole 100%Open team. Working very closely and collaboratively with UBS, we launched The UBS Future of Finance Challenge on 12th August 2015, an open competition for entrepreneurs and technology startups around the world.

Competition 40

Competition Video Collaboration Disruption 40

Rapid Innovation in digital time

MAY 22, 2015

Merck Serono initiated recently a great variety of open and participative innovation initiatives: Innospire Idea Competition, Innovation Boost 2015, Innovation Cup, Open Compound, Open Call for drug discovery, and Outcubation. Ulrich Betz is Head of Innovation & Entrepreneurship Incubator’ at Merck Serono.

Entrepreneurship 40

Entrepreneurship Innovation Competition Open Innovation 40

Norbert Bol

JUNE 7, 2015

Creating competitive advantage by institutionalizing corporate social innovation. Based on three recent scientific articles it looks like companies innovate more to resolve environmental and social problems when there are more external pressures and they can learn more form other companies (external sources). Norbert Bol. Literature.

Innovation 40

Innovation Social Innovation Trends Learning 40

The BMI Lab Blog

JULY 28, 2022

Learnings from sports competitions Competition in business is similar to sports competitions – there are winners and losers. It also explains why prominent firms, which have been known for their innovative products for years, suddenly lose their competitive advantage?

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Competition Innovation Handbook 52

Daniel Burrus

MARCH 6, 2017

By learning how to accurately anticipate much of the future before it happens, you can accelerate innovation and competitive advantage. In 2015, according to one source , the Federal Register reported more than 3,000 final rules and regulations, with thousands more proposed. That trend has done anything but slow down.

Trends 78

Trends Guidelines Examples Disruption 78

Norbert Bol

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

In the December edition of Research Policy there is an interesting article by Tavassoli & Karlsson (2015) about the persistence of innovation. The research of Tavassoli & Karlsson (2015) shows that innovation is persistent. Norbert Bol. Literature. Tavassoli, S., & Karlsson, C. Research Policy, 1887–1901.

Policies 40

Policies Innovation Product Innovation Innovation Processes 40

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.

Innovation 40

Innovation Competition Groups System 40

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.

Innovation 40

Innovation Study Resources Course 40

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

It can give you a real competitive advantage by translating what you learnt in applying analogies to solutions that solve your customer problems. Often this is the toughest work as you have to strive to overcome the mentality of “not invented here, so it won’t work for us”. Turning “yes but”….into into “yes and” is hard.

Industry 100

Industry Trends LEAN Change 100

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.

Creativity 45

Creativity Technical Review Competition Software Review 45

Michael Roberto

JANUARY 7, 2025

They examined data from 2012-2015 to measure "crew familiarity" - i.e., how often had referees worked together. They might be more likely to take risks, be different, and stake out a distinctive competitive position. Ferguson and her colleagues conducted an ingenious study of NCAA football officiating crews.

Study 41

Study Groups Industry Report 41

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.

Report 40

Report Ideation Analysis Trends 40

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. mover countries can also help in the acceleration needed and is particularly important in the early phases of adoption when new technologies are typically not competitive with incumbent technologies.

Innovation 130

Innovation Report Technology Policies 130