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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% What were the Innovation Challenges Facing Amer Sports? To achieve his goals, Knibiehly knew he needed more than innovation management software. Innovation as a Force Multiplier.

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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. Hence, I gave it some thought, starting by revisting an earlier reflection: Beginning of 2013, Tim Kastelle and I identified four key issues in innovation management for the time to come.

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Open Innovation: A critical success factor when you build your innovation journey

IdeaScale

and How can we change the way we work and the way we interact with our customers, to ensure that we know their needs at all times to respond in an agile and fast way? As a consequence there is not a “one size fits all” solution – each company needs a unique plan to drive innovation and change successfully.

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Building the Core Competencies for Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

The whole point of both of these thinking through positions was to raise the bar of understanding around ‘different’ innovation, create this better fit and strive towards this alignment strategically and operationally. These need to be recognized as constantly fluid, adaptive and agile. Gaining Alignment. Seeking out the motivators.

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Part 2: Accelerating the impact of Innovation Campaigns

Values Centered Innovation

IT-based platforms for enabling innovation have variously been called idea management, crowdsourcing, or innovation management systems. What do these kinds of innovation campaigns promise to accomplish? Cultivating the mindset and culture for collaborative innovation – breaking down the silos.

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50+ Business Cases on Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Open Innovation EU

The course was based on the following model: The following list is a selection of the business cases they found, mostly based on the Lean Startup, Lean Enterprise, Corporate Entrepreneurship and agile/Scrum – all available freely and online for use at your disposal, so I decided to share them with you. Source: businesscasestudies.co.uk/jaguar/lean-production/.

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The Case for Dual Innovation

Tim Kastelle

As recently outlined, I consider organizational ambidexterity to be a key innovation issue for organizations in 2016 and beyond. Let’s sum up some relevant findings of these studies, making the case for dual innovation management: BCG: Most Innovative Companies 2014 . Accenture: 2015 US Innovation Survey.