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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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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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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.

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5 Practical Ways For Creating a Successful Innovation Program

Acuvate

The goal of innovation programs is to encourage employees to come up with ideas – give them the opportunity to pitch their ideas, provide experimental capital to employees, test ideas, and then invest in the successful ones. But what accurately will it take to build a sustainable innovation program? Open Innovation.

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8 External Innovation Sources You should know

ITONICS

Having looked more closely at a company’s internal innovation sources , we will now examine the most important external sources. Academic and research institutions that run innovation programs funded by the company. Partnerships between companies and universities are one of the key drivers of the innovation economy.

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Axel Springer & External Innovation. How to turn “Spray and Pray” into “Spray and Succeed”?

CREATORS

Today’s competitive market has made it both trendy?—?and for corporations to invest in digital transformation and innovation. However, the ways in which they focus and collaborate with the innovation ecosystem can be very different. and necessary?—?for

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8 External Sources of Innovation

ITONICS

Having looked more closely at a company’s internal innovation sources , we will now examine the most important external sources. Academic and research institutions that run innovation programs funded by the company. Partnerships between companies and universities are one of the key drivers of the innovation economy.