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

Qmarkets

Another example I like to present is Nintendo, originally a purveyor of handmade playing cards, attempted to enter a number of new markets due to the fact that consumer interest in playing cards had decreased substantially. Thus, began the distinguished history of Tiffany & Co.

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Announcing the 2016 Innovation Management Award Winners

IdeaScale

The City of Calgary is the winner of the Best Engagement Strategy for their myCityInnovation campaign, an internal program which is part of the broader City innovation program Civic Innovation YYC. City of Calgary—Best Engagement Strategy. Congratulations to our winners! What We Learned.

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The Importance of Evidence Based Storytelling in Innovation

IM Insights

Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences . 11:00) On the leap of faith component of investing in innovation. (12:00) Tendayi co-designed Pearson’s Product Lifecycle which is an innovation framework that won the Best Innovation Program 2015 at the Corporate Entrepreneur Awards in New York.

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Strengthen 5 Dimensions of Your Culture for Innovation, Recovery and Resurgence

Values Centered Innovation

Later in this blog I’ll present 5 dimensions of such a culture. That is the liminal question of innovation, recovery, and resurgence ! A culture that galvanizes effective responses to present-day challenges. We present them here to give you an initial sense of where you are, and what you could strive to strengthen: 1.

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

Steve Blank

Instead of lean innovation programs, there is a mandate to cut $2 billion in expenses by the end of next year, lift profits and raise the dividend. Are lean innovation and the Startup Way a failure in large companies? And as Trian’s presentation suggests, they’ll get GE to take on more debt to buy back stock.

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

CREATORS

While mapping over 160 corporate innovation programs for the CREATORS Corporate Innovation Report 2017, we came across some successful examples of “spray and pray” elements in innovation strategy: Coca Cola invested in Spotify. The following year, Matthias Döpfner became CEO, and radically transformed the business model.

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