article thumbnail

The state of innovation at the end of 2018

Jeffrey Phillips

Since everyone is compelled to write at least one backward looking story at the end of the year, I've chosen as my topic a review of innovation at the end of 2018. Taking these in reverse order: Management teams - in 2018 in a large corporation most executive management is in their early 60s.

article thumbnail

Is finance too low-tech to support sustainability innovations?

Norbert Bol

In the october edition of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Christensen et al. 2018) conclude that they were surprised about the low-tech financial decision rules that are being applied to green office investments. Knowledge from financial experts, technological experts and other stakeholders. Norbert Bol.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Balancing your innovation portfolio: Does the 70-20-10 rule still apply?

Idea to Value

One of the best ways to assess what proportions your company should allocate to different types of innovation projects is by looking at your current and desired innovation portfolio. Some companies, like technology companies which need to produce new offerings more quickly, might have a ratio that is more like 45-40-15.

Project 284
article thumbnail

4 Ways to Amplify Digital Innovation in 2018

Gregg Fraley

Learn 4 Ways to Amplify Digital Innovation in 2018. The challenges facing innovation leaders, facing 2018 is — how do you integrate new digital capability? How do you integrate all this new fancy stuff into strategy and ideation to create actual projects? Alignment, Team Diversity, Knowledge & MoshPits.

article thumbnail

New Study: 2018 State of Embedded Analytics Report

Why do some embedded analytics projects succeed while others fail? We surveyed 500+ application teams embedding analytics to find out which analytics features actually move the needle. Read the 6th annual State of Embedded Analytics Report to discover new best practices. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

article thumbnail

Accelerating Sustainable Energy Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

It was from a white paper “ Accelerating Sustainable Energy Innovation , released in May 2018 and prepared in collaboration with KPMG. Energy innovation systems need a really much stronger and more effective push to deliver a broad range of technologies and solutions to the market faster than what is happening today.

article thumbnail

How the 2021 Olympic Games Are Some of the Most Innovative Yet

IdeaScale

The Tokyo Olympics were originally scheduled for 2020 but were delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. That’s made a few innovations more important at both the athletic and technical level. Most of this technology wasn’t rolled out for spectators but will be tested in Tokyo to be used in future games. The Challenge.

article thumbnail

Measuring Innovation Performance

Why do only a third of the organizations worldwide have formal innovation metrics in place despite accepting that innovation is critical to survival? Download this eBook to learn about the 5 basic principles that guide every successful innovation process.