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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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Taking advantage of emergence for discovery

Paul Hobcraft

She discusses as examples drug therapy, cancer cures, or developing a technology platform to integrate the creation, storage, and distribution of wind power. We need less work on short-term collaborations or open innovation, and more work on ecology-wide strategizing over the long-term. To link to this paper: [link].

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2 Super Smart Ways to Catalyze Innovative Success

BrainZooming

An article in The Wall Street Journal by Paul Ziobro shares an report on how toy manufacturers, including Mattel and Hasbro, are accelerating their new product innovation processes. During June 2016, they noticed people in Greece using beads as a toy for nervous fidgeting. Observing Behavior. Point-of-Sale Analytics Trends.

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

Qmarkets

Organizations choose to adopt the process of innovation for a myriad of reasons; to tackle existing challenges by ideating for solutions, to generate new revenue streams, to improve existing products or services, and so on. Amazon’s flagship product Amazon Prime, resulted from an employee idea. 9 The result?

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

Qmarkets

Organizations choose to adopt the process of innovation for a myriad of reasons; to tackle existing challenges by ideating for solutions, to generate new revenue streams, to improve existing products or services, and so on. In 2000, Netflix approached Blockbuster with an offer to sell their company to Blockbuster for US$50 million.

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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.

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

Qmarkets

For example, one company saw they were making most of their sales from their traditional products, so they focused on that. A short while later they were pushed out of the market by companies that had innovated and created new products. Gartner Research, The 5 Most Effective, Least Used Digital Innovation Hacks.

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