Christensen Institute

MAY 17, 2022

In 2015, the private equity firm purchased CHI Overhead Doors, a garage door manufacturing company, for around $600 million. Much of the work we do at the Christensen Institute’s Global Prosperity practice is about learning how market-creating innovations can trigger widespread prosperity in poor countries. .

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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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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. We’ve honored a variety of organizations and companies in the past and we hope that we have just as much to learn this year.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

I wrote this recently in a post entitled “ Bringing New Innovation is Stretching the Mind “ It opened with this view: “There is a profound shift taking place, relating to innovation. Each of these is a link to the post itself: Bringing New Innovation Together Is Stretching the Mind, Posted on October 25, 2016.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 8, 2017

JUMP is an online crowdsourcing community launched in 2015. Its an online place where innovators, particularly small entrepreneurs, can present ideas for new technologies for energy-efficient buildings to private and public sector leaders in research and development. In order to meet program objectives, ORNL launched JUMP.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 13, 2019

Most of us have little difficulty listing male inventors, but rattling off a list of female innovators is harder. It’s not because women don’t innovate, but because historically they haven’t had the educational opportunities that male innovators have had. Here are five of the top female innovators of all time.

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Daniel Burrus

MARCH 20, 2019

There is little doubt that VR has the potential to revolutionize the entire entertainment, tourism and even learning industries if audiences adopt the concept of strapping a device to their heads. There is an enormous responsibility for any advertising agency considering bringing any form of advertising or marketing to virtual reality.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

It is one of the most critical places where innovation application is required and able to be conducted to deliver a sustaining impact in our world. Innovation solutions will provide the energy transition needed, and that is what makes it such a compelling area to focus upon. The question is, will we?

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Idea to Value

MARCH 20, 2016

2] That one particular woman is Joy Mangano, the “Queen of HSN”, who is a serial entrepreneur and innovator with more than a hundred patents to her name and is most famously known for her first invention, the Miracle Mop. More importantly, we can glean so many lessons about business acumen and innovation in business from her life story.

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Norbert Bol

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

Sustainability is increasingly seen as a driver for innovation. Many innovations however fail or did not succeed yet. In a recent article (Wicki, 2015) there is an interesting insight of a failed green innovation and the lessons that can be drawn from this example for those who want to seize business opportunities in the green economy.

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InnovationTraining.org

JULY 12, 2022

In 2015, the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) and the Stanford Design Thinking Research Program conducted one of the most extensive global studies looking into the state of design thinking in organizations. Since 2015, design thinking has grown by 46% in IT departments and 92% in Operations & Manufacturing.

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Innovation in Practice

OCTOBER 12, 2015

The Product Development and Management Association (PDMA), the premier global advocate for product development and management professionals, announced today that it has awarded the 2015 Outstanding Corporate Innovator (OCI) Award to BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX). To learn more, visit www.pdma.org.

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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%. Prediction Markets are speculative markets that are created with the purpose of making predictions. Anticipating Potential.

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The BMI Lab Blog

JULY 28, 2022

Learnings from sports competitions Competition in business is similar to sports competitions – there are winners and losers. You don’t need to “reinvent the wheel” for small but innovative changes in your business model, instead get inspired by existing concepts in other industries and apply them to your business model.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 2, 2019

The nature of the energy landscape will require the transformation of businesses, the push to find and develop new market dynamics and embrace government policy and regulations in an orderly and planned way. Innovation can accelerate progress, especially at the user-end point. The changes are transforming energy management.

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Imaginatik

JANUARY 10, 2019

Planbox, the pioneering provider of AI-Powered Agile Innovation Management software, and Imaginatik, the #1 ranked leader in Corporate Innovation Management according to Forrester Research, will join forces to seize on the innovation boom. Imaginatik has an incredibly talented team and product with a lot of potential.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Switzerland takes the first place in the rating of the World Intellectual Property Organization on the level of innovation development. Switzerland is a global leader due to their level of scientific knowledge and their ability to launch technologies into consumables for the market. How have they achieved these results?

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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. There is no intent of introducing new products or entering new markets via this merger.

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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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Ecosystems4Innovating

JULY 19, 2023

It was called “ Business ecosystems come of age ” and maybe it did not change my life, but it gave it a clearer focus- innovation ecosystems. Take a read, it is well worth it, its value then, 2015 has only matured in my mind. Another great motivation for focusing on innovation ecosystems.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 1, 2016

Are we entering 2016 with an innovating mind-set? As we look to enter into 2016 what is top of mind for innovation to take hold and become the real core within our business organizations? Moving innovation from just being symbolic to essential. Moving innovation from just being symbolic to essential.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

I wrote twelve dedicated posts over this period, including this one, to highlight innovations place within the energy transition going on. To have any chance to reverse these temperature rises there is an increasing emphasis on innovation solutions within the technology that is required for the Worlds energy system. Super grids.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Market Disruption vs. Business Disruption: The Inertial Disruption Factor. Jan 30, 2015 | Anthony Mills. As with physics, so with business innovation. Whenever an innovation impacts a market, it also impacts the business delivering the innovation. There is this relationship of relative inertial masses.

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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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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Bursting the Dam — The "Tipping Point" Market Opportunities. Mar 06, 2015 | Anthony Mills. This is all in the name of unearthing new market opportunities through new and innovative value propositions. And thus the power of the solution that removes the barrier and eliminates the "big but"!

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

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%. Prediction Markets are speculative markets that are created with the purpose of making predictions.

Marketing 40

Marketing Policies System Tools 40

Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

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%. Prediction Markets are speculative markets that are created with the purpose of making predictions.

Marketing 40

Marketing Policies System Tools 40

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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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

"Innovate (verb): To Make changes in something established, especially by introducing new methods, ideas, or products.” . To many people, it might seem as though the business world has become over-saturated with innovation. Just a buzzword? So which one is it? Picture Perfect?

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 14, 2016

There are management tools that have become ‘enshrined’ in organizations and many of the executives become settled on the ones they have bothered to learn or seemingly do the job. The problem we are having, many of the traditional tools, many still taught in most management schools are lagging the changing market we are operating in.

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Leapfrogging

AUGUST 1, 2015

The retail battle royale created the kind of hype associated with summer blockbusters and put the marketing punch for the new Terminator to shame. <&nbsp> <&nbsp> It’s all about business model innovation. Innovative Learning Conference – October 15 – 16 San Mateo CA. <&nbs.

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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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Yet2

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Automotive manufacturers, companies in the automotive supply chain, and technology startups eyeing the automotive market need to understand the innovations that are taking place today – and those that will take place tomorrow. Daimler made just five investments in 2015 – 2016 but made 15 investments from January 2017 to mid-2018.

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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. What does that mean for marketers?

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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. What does that mean for marketers?

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Artificial Inteligence Competition Culture Marketing 100

Open Innovation EU

MARCH 30, 2016

During a course we developed at Avans University this winter, we asked students to gather relevant business cases on innovation and entrepreneurship in order to analyse them and prepare discussions around organization design. Source: www.wired.com/2015/12/product-hunt-app-podcasts-tech/. It’s becoming so much more.

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