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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. While a flat hierarchy led to more creative ideas in Start-ups, it often resulted in worse commercial performance.

Project 307
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Seven Essentials of an Effective Innovation Project Manager

Gregg Fraley

Outsourcing innovation project management might be the most strategic money you spend this year. What I hear from top management: “we don’t have the time or resources for innovation projects, we’ll start later this year.” One solution, not a new one, is to outsource innovation project management.

Project 40
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Crowdsourcing Case Study: Polaris Industries

Planview

Through their Ideate Innovation program, which the team uses to surface and develop ideas and turn them into award-winning products. Spigit allowed the Polaris team to fully automate their Ideate Innovation program, making the process of ideation to execution 80% faster. The Ideate Innovation Program. An Automated System.

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Be-novative builds strong Europe-wide cooperation with Pioneers Group and Startup300

Be-novative

We are going to empower more organisations with the AI-based gamified ideation process, that we will further develop for high usability and the global networking of innovation teams to get methods, connections and resources to make their idea happen in real life.

Groups 52
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Why Innovation Management is Important – 3 Key Reasons

Qmarkets

In 2015, Total S.A By using a combination of these approaches, you can help ensure that ideation at your company yields the best possible results. The Qmarkets platform makes it easy to manage all aspects of idea ‘incubation’ , as well as track the ROI of innovation projects. French energy giant Total S.A

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Sofie Lindblom

Innovation 360 Group

In the same year she founded her own company Sofster for passion projects and consulting. 2015 she gave two TEDx Talks: “IT girls are the new it girls” about challenging stereotypes and “All that glitters is not gold” about finding your passion by living life as a prototype. Ideation and Creativity. Areas of expertise.

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Be-novative builds strong Europe-wide cooperation with Pioneers Group and Startup300

Be-novative

We are going to empower more organisations with the AI-based gamified ideation process, that we will further develop for high usability and the global networking of innovation teams to get methods, connections and resources to make their idea happen in real life.

Groups 40