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The Challenges being Faced by Innovation Consultants

Paul Hobcraft

From my perspective I’ve been looking at a real challenge today, that many consultants offering innovation services are not providing real sustaining consulting value to clients, only ad-hoc services. In many ways, the consulting industry specializing in innovation is its own worst enemy.

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What do most innovative companies have in common?

hackerearth

Although failure is a stigma to the corporate world, Eric Reis, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur-turned-VC-turned author and founder of Lean Startup Movement, encourages companies to embrace the concept of “failing fast”. They adhere to lean principles of product development. BuzzFeed and Shyp are the perfect examples here.

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Sorting through our Innovation Management Tools

Paul Hobcraft

One of the consulting companies, Bain & Co has conducted the Bain’s Management Tools & Trends survey since 1993. Presently the highest rated tool is Big Data Analytics; more than half of surveyed executives say that Advanced Analytics are transforming their marketing strategy. Big Data for instance scores a 4.22

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The core principles of Leading FOR Innovation

Cris Beswick

Corporates and consultants alike (I can’t say that I haven’t been guilty of this myself) have bastardised and devalued the word innovation for a decade now, to the point where many don’t know what it means. By dedicating resources to these horizons, organisations can future-proof their businesses and stay ahead of industry disruptions.

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A New Way of Thinking About the Automotive Industry

Qmarkets

Recent trends suggest that the automotive industry might be next on Silicon Valley's disruption list. Consulting firm McKinsey expects such vehicle use restrictions to grow even more stringent in emerging countries as the level of urbanization and air pollution increases. Key Challenge: Self-Disruption. embed][link].

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How to Set Up a Corporate Innovation Outpost That Works

Corporate Innovation

The Outpost is on the lookout for innovations that: Could become threats that could lead to the disruption of the corporate parent. Could allow the corporation to be disruptive by entering adjacent markets to the ones it currently serves. Could create and introduce new and disruptive offerings for new markets.

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How to Set Up a Corporate Innovation Outpost That Works

Corporate Innovation

The Outpost is on the lookout for innovations that: Could become threats that could lead to the disruption of the corporate parent. Could allow the corporation to be disruptive by entering adjacent markets to the ones it currently serves. Could create and introduce new and disruptive offerings for new markets.