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The 2015 Breakthrough Innovation Report

Innovation in Practice

Nielson released its 2015 BREAKTHROUGH INNOVATION REPORT that features best practices from winning brands – with seven specific case studies from Pepsico, Kraft, MillerCoors, Kellogg’s, Nestle Purina, Atkins and L’Oreal Paris. The report is based on a two year study examining over 3000 products launched in the US.

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Does the Stock Market Inhibit Innovation?

Destination Innovation

His conclusion is that these results suggest that the transition to public equity markets leads firms to reposition their R&D investments toward more conventional and safer projects. They compared 207 consumer goods companies and a sample of over 40,000 new products between 1980 and 2011.

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Planbox Acquires Imaginatik Creating an Agile Innovation Powerhouse

Imaginatik

Planbox’s track record of solid growth and its strong financial performance will accelerate product innovations and improve scalability for Imaginatik’s long-standing clients. “We Since the acquisition and merger of BrainBank Software and Planbox in November 2015, Planbox has transformed the innovation management landscape.

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100%Open Past and Future

100%Open

In many projects we’ve worked on, an unexpected bonus is the effect on corporate culture. To take one sector as an example, financial services illustrates the potential of open innovation to go beyond product innovation into a whole new world of radically different business models that are redefining the meaning of banking brands.

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Six Internal Innovation Sources You should know

ITONICS

A good example is the case of Toyota, where the leadership encourages innovation by eliminating some of the pressure for short-run returns. Toyota’s decade-long investment in its brand Prius eventually resulted in creating a reputation for the company as a respected product innovator. Centralized R&D Unit. Stay tuned!

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6 Internal Sources of Innovation

ITONICS

A good example is the case of Toyota, where the leadership encourages innovation by eliminating some of the pressure for short-run returns. Toyota’s decade-long investment in its brand Prius eventually resulted in creating a reputation for the company as a respected product innovator. Centralized R&D Unit. Stay tuned!

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How to enable inclusive innovation

hackerearth

Read more about their amazing projects for low-wage markets here.) In 2018, UNDP held a hackathon in Lesotho to encourage product innovations for inclusive financial services.

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