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Innovation 2015 or Five Lame Excuses?

Gregg Fraley

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. Now is the time to impact 2015. Projects are what change culture. But at the heart of it, it’s about ongoing projects.

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Planbox Acquires Imaginatik Creating an Agile Innovation Powerhouse

Imaginatik

Since the acquisition and merger of BrainBank Software and Planbox in November 2015, Planbox has transformed the innovation management landscape. Planbox was quickly recognized as a Leader by Forrester in the Innovation Management Wave Report in 2016. About Planbox. About Imaginatik.

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When Disruption Becomes Destructive: How Can Financial Services Companies Close the Innovation Gap?

Qmarkets

DAO, a venture capital firm run by a network of machines, became the biggest crowdfunded project of all time, raising $168million. billion in 2015. A customer-centric idea management software that’s open to existing customers or the public can bridge the gap between top-down ideas and customer realities.

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Diamonds in the Rough – How To Discover More Innovative Business Ideas For Your Enterprise

Qmarkets

One hears the idea of someone else and gets inspired to a new idea: we call this process 'idea synthesis'. But these discussions require rules to make sure that even ideas which sound awkward at first are also considered. Two members of a group do not need to meet anymore to discuss and improve an idea.

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Fostering Innovation with Technological Solutions – Part 2

Wazoku

Apollo stimulated many areas of technology, leading to over 1,800 spinoff products as of 2015. Innovation and Idea management platforms. Also known as Idea management, or ideation management, software structures the process of gathering insight on products, then organizing and managing those ideas for improvement or development.

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Sustainable Innovation: SDG 13 – Our Journey to Wazoku becoming Carbon Neutral

Wazoku

Idea management and open innovation are very tied to sustainability, and as I mentioned above, many of our clients use our software and services to drive sustainable innovation. The winning idea will save 40,000 tonnes of CO2 per year when fully rolled out. Getting started Becoming carbon neutral had been on my mind for a while.

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Six Internal Innovation Sources You should know

ITONICS

The Corporate R&D unit coordinates activities on a company-wide basis and keeps all product and process innovations transparent in an overarching project management system. Employees that drive their own innovation projects by leveraging the resources of the company. Employees need to be encouraged to submit their proposals.