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Case Study: Xaxis Teaches Us About Accelerating Careers and Solutions

IdeaScale

Overview: Xaxis, the world’s largest programmatic media company, realized that despite the company’s global reach, it didn’t have a global innovation program. This has led to rapid growth; by 2017, it had over 3,000 clients in 47 different markets. The Challenge. The Benefit.

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FinTech and Machine Learning

IdeaScale

These programs can grow and change on their own once they know how to learn and some financial companies are beginning to use machine learning for a variety of different reasons. This idea was shared in an internal innovation program called Up Squad. But perhaps best of all this prototype tool reduced failure demand (i.e.

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Culture: Innovation’s Biggest Challenge

IdeaScale

Culture is the starting point for the success of all innovation programs and it is also a project that is never complete. Innovation should be repeatable, but the only way to make innovation continuous is to have it top of mind every day. How will you keep innovation top of mind? Idea Implementation.

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Zebras - Not Unicorns - for Profitable and Scalable Corporate Innovation

Innov8rs

Beyond internal innovation, Zurich is also continuously looking for solutions externally. These responses are then broken down into themes, which provide the submission categories for the Innovation program. Popularized in a 2017 Medium article, zebra startups balance profitability with sustainability. This is the zebra.

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Employee Engagement Propels Innovation

Planview

Most companies will agree that innovation is critical to sustaining growth and remaining competitive. Creating a culture of innovation is seen by most business leaders as the number one way to drive innovation for the business. Pfizer engages 90,000 employees for hundreds of innovations. Unfortunately, most aren’t.

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Innovation is a Company Wide Responsibility

ImagineNation

These authors never talk about what happens after an innovation program reaches sufficient maturity that it’s ready to leverage the organization’s resources into a successful implementation. The “business as usual” program will always win. Breakthrough innovation programs take longer and have a lot more risk.

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Pivotal Innovation Management: The Past, Present, and Future of 180° Business Changes

Qmarkets

Rising competition from Apple and Google caught Nokia out of position and led to near-bankruptcy in 2012. In my work with companies who use innovation management platforms to run their innovation programs, I've noticed that this collaboration can usually be broken down into several categories.