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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.

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How the GSAs 10X Program Advances Government Innovation

IdeaScale

Overview : Founded in 2017 off of a popular crowdsourcing initiative, the Government Services Administration (GSA)’s 10X program internally crowdsources ideas to design new approaches and launch new programs. In 2015, the GSA held what was intended to be a one-off event called “The Great Pitch.”

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Employee Engagement Propels Innovation

Planview

Creating a culture of innovation is seen by most business leaders as the number one way to drive innovation for the business. Their success spurred the company to create a new group to review all company call centers and implement the same solutions. Pfizer engages 90,000 employees for hundreds of innovations.

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What Does a Healthy Innovation Portfolio Look Like?

eZassi

The concept of an innovation portfolio is still new to some organizations; however, it’s been a topic of conversation among innovation professionals for years. In 2014 Harvard Business Review (HBR) published the article, Managing Your Innovation Portfolio. In 2017, Inc. 40:40:20 Innovation Portfolio Model.

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Get a Grip on Innovation — 10 Questions, 20 Minutes

Gregg Fraley

Get a Grip on Innovation — 10 Questions, 20 Minutes. Ten questions for you to focus on assessing the state of your organization’s innovation program. If you think your current program is working, non-existent, or just a disaster — you will learn something by taking this quick survey. Make a list.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. Innovation at GE was on a roll. — In June 2017, the board “retired” Jeff Immelt and promoted John Flannery to CEO.

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

Qmarkets

As increased consumer awareness transforms markets and government policy, and as technology creates so many unexpected shortcuts, I believe that this trend will only continue in the future. These would then share products, tech and insights with the company which had opened the hub, allowing for future development.