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Qmarkets & Amer Sports – An Innovative Partnership that Created Unprecedented Employee Engagement

Qmarkets

Amer’s R&D team grew from 487 people at the close of 2009 to 802 people at the close of 2016 – amounting to 9% of all employees and 9.5% An incredible 50% of all Amer employees and 30% of factory workers have already collaborated to take the company further. What were the Innovation Challenges Facing Amer Sports?

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Building the Core Competencies for Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

A dedicated site has been put together to understand the potentially different innovation types (in collaboration with Jeffrey Phillips over at Ovo Innovation ).It Competitive needs to think through the action orientation, the business acumen that is needed, the customer engagement intent and the result focus outcomes expected.

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Forget Best Practice, Think Always Of Learning Next Practice

Paul Hobcraft

Agility, adaptability & innovation. Cross-discipline collaboration. Agile product development. Enterprise Architecture. Behaviour Based Systems. Stability & predictability. Change Management. Adoption Engineering. As-Is and To-Be grand designs. Next state, evolving, “adaptive change”. Discipline specialization.

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Key Innovation Issues for 2016 and Beyond

Integrative Innovation

In the course of this first month of 2016, I was asked a couple of times what my prospects are for the year ahead when it comes to key innovtion issues. Recent research has confirmed successfully disrupting as well as outperforming companies to be significantly more engaged in business model innovation.

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The backdrop of digital transformation and its consequences

Paul Hobcraft

The customer has become absolutely central to this transformation and the drive towards the 4th Industrial revolution is driving this transformation wholesale across all industries and services engaged in business. We need to fundamentally transform our processes by opening up and engaging with customers.

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11 female innovation leaders share their definition of innovation

Idea to Value

In 2016, I wrote the article What is innovation? Beyond data-driven processes, focus on their human potential in terms of creativity and emotions: empathy, intuition, collaboration,… to create innovative solutions that emotionally connect with consumers. Rita McGrath. Tiffani Bov a. Natalie Nixon. Whitney Johnson. Fabienne Jacquet.

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Titans of Transformation: 5 Outstanding Examples of Innovation in Business

Qmarkets

Adapting agile principles, Amazon launched the Beta version of Amazon Custom in a short time frame, allowing existing customers to provide feedback directly. By implementing Qmarkets innovation management software, PMI has engaged more than 65,000 employees worldwide. Nestle: Powering Agile Ideation With Startups.