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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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Corporate identity influences sustainability and innovation

Norbert Bol

In the journal of Technological Forecasting & Social Change is an interesting article about the effects of corporate identity on innovation strategies and sustainability (Staub et al., Hard corporate identity drivers are hardly changed and can be identified by the corporate culture, corporate behavior and corporate philosophy.

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What is Innovation in Business and How Can it Build Business Longevity?

Qmarkets

This type of program also allows for organizations to open up specific challenges to their workforce; for example Amazon opened up their challenge of ‘finding a new type of customer loyalty program that would radically change the retail industry. Amazon’s flagship product Amazon Prime, resulted from an employee idea.

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What is Innovation in Business and How Can it Build Business Longevity?

Qmarkets

This type of program also allows for organizations to open up specific challenges to their workforce; for example Amazon opened up their challenge of ‘finding a new type of customer loyalty program that would radically change the retail industry. 9 The result? Amazon Prime. Sometimes those improvements are big, often they are small.

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One Thousand innovation posts and more to come

Jeffrey Phillips

Like Jeremiah from the Old Testament I feel like a prophet of impending doom, but I also see the incredible possibilities that lie ahead of us once we finally decide that innovation is more important than efficiency and as we recognize the coming wave of business model innovation. This is going to change.

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How Chief Innovation Officer (CINO) may replace the traditional Chief Information Officer (CIO)

hackerearth

The 2018 Gartner CIO Agenda Survey demonstrates that technological innovation and digitalization are changing the way CIOs work. Of the CIOs surveyed in India, 51 percent reported that they were heading innovation, whereas 49 percent reported that they were leading digital transformation. billion on technology in 2016.

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Gartner Research Insights: 5 Innovation Hacks to Boost your Digital Return

Qmarkets

In his new book, The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations , Lerner says the key to success lies in adopting a hybrid model that combines aspects of both. Funding innovation requires a mindset that encourages disciplined experimentation with a portfolio approach. Gartner Research, 2016.

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