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Thought Leader and Influencer Interview with Aruna Ravichandran, SVP & Chief Marketing and Customer Officer for Webex, Cisco

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She has authored two pioneering books on DevOps: DevOps for Digital Leaders and The Kitty Hawk Venture , and earned numerous awards including: Top 100 The Most Influential Women in Silicon Valley 2016 by the San Jose Business Journal, and Most Powerful and Influential Woman Award by the National Diversity Council in 2016.

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Forget Best Practice, Think Always Of Learning Next Practice

Paul Hobcraft

Cross-discipline collaboration. Agile product development. Next state, evolving, “adaptive change”. Discipline specialization. IT systems. Information and socio-technical systems. Business/IT divide mgt & translation. Multi-discipline common language. Business & technology specification. Users of technology.

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Why I have a problem with the Global Innovation Index

Idea to Value

INSEAD Business School, along with Cornell University and the World Intellectual Property Organisation have just released their analysis of the world’s most innovative countries for 2016. Top 10 Most Innovative Countries 2016, GII 2016. Innovation Leader, Achievers and Underperformers, GII 2016.

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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. Two-thirds of all breakthrough innovators stated that all innovation and product development is controlled and driven by a centralized organization, at least in its initial stages. Source: Accenture.

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2 Super Smart Ways to Catalyze Innovative Success

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These trends, as one industry insider put it, “burn really bright and really short,” necessitating abbreviating product development cycles from several years to months, or even weeks. During June 2016, they noticed people in Greece using beads as a toy for nervous fidgeting. 2 Super Smart Ways to Catalyze Innovative Success.

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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? Agree on an internal definition at your company – solicit input from all over the organization, not just those in product development, IT and the C-Suite. Rita McGrath. Tiffani Bov a. Natalie Nixon. Whitney Johnson. Fabienne Jacquet. Gaia Grant. Diana Kander. Esther Gons.

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Growkomp project yields a promising model for regional transformation projects

Innovation 360 Group

In addition, they had a need to become much more strategic and collaborative than in the past, while building new models that embody values such as sustainability, diversity and innovation. Practical challenges included skills supply issues, and the need for concrete tools for innovation and business development.

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