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Your Innovation Program Recipe for Success: The Three Essential Ingredients

Qmarkets

2020 was not what we expected, but nevertheless the old adage ‘out of adversity comes opportunity’ has never been more apt. The enormous pressure of the pandemic has caused irrevocable change, forcing organizations to adapt and innovate to survive.

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How Government Innovation Promises to Help Communities Fight Wildfires

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Firefighting agencies are responding with computer modeling, advanced topographic mapping, new fire management techniques, sensors, mobile monitors, infrastructure upgrades, and new government innovation programs. According to a Congressional report , over 17,000 structures burned across ten million acres during 59 fires in 2020 alone.

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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. An employee innovation program is simply a process that empowers each employee to share their ideas.

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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. An employee innovation program is simply a process that empowers each employee to share their ideas.

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

Qmarkets

An example of this is Volvo and Jaguar Land Rover who both committed to stop selling cars that are powered by internal combustion engines only, by 2020. Rising competition from Apple and Google caught Nokia out of position and led to near-bankruptcy in 2012.

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The Top 4 Innovation Culture Best Practices from the World’s Most Successful Companies

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“Incentive structure is set up that innovation is rewarded but failure to try to innovation comes with a big penalty” – Elon Musk Taking inspiration from Musk and rewarding employees for innovative thinking is key to any successful innovation program.

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4 Innovation Culture Best Practices from the World’s Most Successful Companies

Qmarkets

The organization has been built with innovation in mind to facilitate creativity and curiosity at every turn. Taking inspiration from Musk and rewarding employees for innovative thinking is key to any successful innovation program. Their approach ‘creates focused innovation and mitigates any disruption risks’.

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