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. 2 – Doing more of the same is not innovative and does not create value – McDonald’s.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

When you are undertaking such a transformation in any system like energy, innovation becomes vital to inject new forces of dynamism and creative thinking to tackling such a change. As we switch from conventional power to renewables or we look to upgrade the distribution grids, we need to look towards innovative solutions.

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Leapfrogging

MAY 28, 2015

Why Women are the Future of Business Innovation. 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. WomEngineering – Women matter in Operations – June 18 & 19, 2015 Chateau de Mery (Paris) France.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 19, 2021

“Without a major acceleration in clean energy innovation, reaching net-zero emissions by 2050 will not be possible.” 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 role of innovation has a crucial one to play.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 19, 2021

“Without a major acceleration in clean energy innovation, reaching net-zero emissions by 2050 will not be possible.” 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 role of innovation has a crucial one to play.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

In today’s technologically advanced society, the Internet is a vital resource for start-ups and established businesses alike when it comes to driving innovation. From finding new ideas to testing prototypes, the Internet provides a vast multimedia platform through which companies can innovate on a global scale.

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Innov8rs

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Innovation is evolving, and so is the role of the Chief Innovation Officer. A few decades ago, innovation was just a matter of inventing new products. To stay competitive, the entire organization needs to become more innovative and innovation can’t be delegated and/or relegated to the Chief Innovation Officer (CINO) alone.

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Open Innovation EU

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

A while ago I sat down with Machiel Wetselaar & David van Dinther to create a list of innovation methodologies for a course we’re developing. Up to now we’ve gathered 71 different methodologies for implementing innovation in your organization. Innovation Cycle (Avans). Open Innovation (Chesbrough).

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IdeaSpies

MARCH 16, 2018

19 on Innovation worldwide. 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. Our challenge is to keep our creativity ranking and to improve our innovation ranking. So how do we improve our innovation rating?

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Idea to Value

AUGUST 24, 2016

As discussed in the new innovation book Robert’s Rules of Innovation II: The Art of Implementation , one of the biggest reasons why the actual implementation of innovation can become such a formidable if not insurmountable process is because of people-related issues. 2] After tabulating the recently released U.S.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 23, 2017

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. 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.

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Daniel Burrus

AUGUST 26, 2015

If an industry has already been disrupted, chances are more innovators — emboldened by the spike in news stories and early success that comes with such developments — will hop on the bandwagon, trying to best whatever innovation prevails at the time. ®2015 Burrus Research, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Norbert Bol

JUNE 7, 2015

Successful companies however view sustainability as one of the biggest trends that will shape the future and use sustainability as an innovation tool. Companies can use sustainability in their process innovation, product or service innovation, market innovation, brand innovation, company innovation and strategic innovation.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 25, 2016

There are a myriad of lists out there extolling the top trends and innovative products to watch for 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. 2016 will see things go further.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 25, 2016

There are a myriad of lists out there extolling the top trends and innovative products to watch for 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. 2016 will see things go further.

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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. Product innovation shows the most clear path-dependency. Norbert Bol. Literature.

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Rapid Innovation in digital time

MAY 22, 2015

Ulrich Betz is Head of Innovation & Entrepreneurship Incubator’ at Merck Serono. 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.

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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. What drives eco-innovation?

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 14, 2016

The latest one for 2015 is here. They are positioning themselves on a mission to find the right remedy for designing future growth engines by wanting to fill that gap by creating a set of tools for business strategy, business design and innovation. Innovation labs too show similar variation (4.22 Disruptive Innovation Labs.

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Idea to Value

JULY 8, 2016

The innovation book Robert’s Rules of Innovation: A 10-Step Program for Corporate Survival lays out a step-by-step framework of 10 Key Imperatives that an organization must take to achieve profitable business growth through innovation. Innovation requires more than just idea generation.

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 20, 2015

I rise today to praise Innovation Leader and Innosight on their publication of the 2015 Innovation Benchmarking Report. Even corporations with long time commitments to innovation find it difficult to sustain an innovation team or capability. The reporting is fantastic.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 28, 2020

“Innovate or stagnate.” 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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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.

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Tim Kastelle

APRIL 30, 2016

The first time I was advocating the idea of a dual innovation approach, here also referred to as organizational ambidexterity, is now more than 5 years ago. As recently outlined, I consider organizational ambidexterity to be a key innovation issue for organizations in 2016 and beyond.

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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.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 31, 2016

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

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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. In 2015, China set up a $6.5 billion fund for seed stage startups to boost innovation in the private sector.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Cross-industry investigations develop our abilities to ask different questions, combining elements that might not be expected without a more open mind, finding new innovation patterns and then testing concepts through new customer validation techniques such as Steve Blank’s customer development process. Enjoy the ride!

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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.”.

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hackerearth

MARCH 28, 2018

After a not-so promising start at the beginning of this decade, India has been climbing up the Global Innovation Index ( GII ) rankings in the last couple of years—moving to from 81 in 2015 to 60 in 2017. According to a 2016 Capgemini study , India was the best innovation destination in Asia and the third best in the world.

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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. We discern a clear trend-hackathons are successfully battling talent scarcity, acquisition, and retention as well as fueling innovation across domains and functions.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 18, 2016

I believe we need a new way to manage risk within our innovation activities. This post here is the third and last part , part three, where I lay out different mechanisms and framing of risk and innovation. We need to formulate a more robust risk innovation framework. Risk is becoming an evolving capability.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 18, 2016

I believe we need a new way to manage risk within our innovation activities. This post here is the third and last part , part three, where I lay out different mechanisms and framing of risk and innovation. We need to formulate a more robust risk innovation framework. Risk is becoming an evolving capability.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Your Innovation Pipeline Is What You Feed It. Oct 20, 2015 | Anthony Mills. After World War II, competition, especially global competition, entered markets, and with it, many more choices. This is a process known as Discovery–Driven Innovation. The world was awash in a sea of black cars. But then things changed.

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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%. With any innovation system it is important to involve users from every stage of the product delivery chain, however when it comes to risk management this is essential.

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Your Ideas are Terrible

OCTOBER 24, 2016

It’s a competitive imperative that will keep you ahead in the marketplace. We see a lot of myths about creativity’s role in innovation. Innovative companies have some secret tactic to fostering creativity like Google’s 20% time. Companies like Google, Apple, and Disney innovate because their environment fosters creativity.

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hackerearth

JUNE 22, 2018

The innovation system would meet the needs of every person. Inadequacy or inaccessibility should not constrain people’s innovative ability. What is inclusive innovation? Here, the excluded groups are both producers and customers of innovations. How can inclusive innovation help address inequalities?

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