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Is Your Office Design Stifling Creativity?

IdeaScale

Collaboration + Innovation. Thus, the more that workers bump into each other and have conversations, the better the chances of developing and advancing more and better ideas. The Gensler 2016 Workplace Survey reveals that two-thirds of workers say their workplaces crush creativity and innovation. Don’t let that be you.

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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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5 Ways to Fail at Innovation

Imaginatik

There’s no such thing as a bad idea – only an unfinished one. Large portions of the organization view the innovation team as a foreign entity. Many innovation teams are so concerned with being agile and entrepreneurial that they spend precious little time understanding where to point their efforts. Bungle team composition.

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Knowledge sharing in project teams is important to go beyond your limitations

Norbert Bol

These developments are creating a complexity of interdependent information flows which can be opportunities and/or threats to the organization. If in such an environment organzations need to perform tasks that are high in complexity and have many interdependent subtasks, project teams are an appropriate way to organize. Norbert Bol.

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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. These communities stimulate social engagement around the product through participation in forums, sharing, collaboration or even user-driven innovation by co-creating new products.

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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 2

Tim Kastelle

Research confirms: development of exploration in parallel to exploitation capabilities proves to be mandatory for established companies in order to compete successfully and sustainably. One way for established organizations to strengthen exploration is by developing internal capabilities in order to overcome their inherent inertia.

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Digital Innovation Units: Setting-Up for Scaling-Up

Integrative Innovation

The labs find it particularly difficult to develop innovations that are distant from the core business. By analyzing the DIU setups of the surveyed companies, Strategy& identified four DIU archetypes – each associated with a specific operating model: Laboratory (10% of DIUs): Small team focusing on ideation. blockchain).