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Getting Board Buy-In for Your Innovation Project

IdeaScale

Taking an innovation project from idea through execution is challenging, and there can be obstacles at several places along the journey. When there is company-wide buy-in for an innovation project however, these challenges can be overcome more easily, and there is far less chance for the project to go uncompleted.

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Conference Wrapup – Change Management 2015

Braden Kelley

Recently I had the opportunity to attend the Association of Change Management Professionals’ (ACMP®) annual conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, titled appropriately Change Management 2015. The event represented a convening of nearly 1,000 change management professionals from around the globe, … Continue reading →

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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.

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What’s the key to success in corporate-startup collaboration?

HYPE Innovation

And second, how can we increase the chance of success of collaborative projects between these asymmetric partners from the outset? While research on corporate-startup collaboration is not new , it has attracted increasing interest in recent years.

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If you want someone to make a decision, give them fewer choices

Idea to Value

While one meta-analysis of choice overload in 2010 found only limited evidence for choice overload, and a lot of positive aspects of additional choices, a more recent and larger 2015 meta-analysis did indeed find strong evidence for choice overload leading to fewer options resulting in more being chosen.

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Innovation 2015 or Five Lame Excuses?

Gregg Fraley

Now is the time to impact 2015. Projects are what change culture. In fact, Nothing changes innovation culture except real world innovation projects. I don’t know how to do innovation — start a project and learn as you go! But at the heart of it, it’s about ongoing projects.

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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 Nielsen Breakthrough Innovation Project has examined over 20,000 new product launches over the past four years.

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