Christensen Institute

JANUARY 4, 2024

I think that’s because in most conversations about education innovation today, skills are the “what”, and tech-enabled efficiency is the “how.” Against that backdrop, this year I’m watching innovations that explicitly humanize an environment where skills and AI will likely dominate the mainstage.

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100%Open

JULY 26, 2018

We have published almost 500 blog posts on the 100%Open blog over the last decade. The great thing about blog posts is that they are not meant to be perfect and they just reflects a series of thoughts at a moment in time.

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Artificial Inteligence Open Innovation Crowdsourcing Exercises 40

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 19, 2019

Do you stop and reflect, do you “veg” out, do you seek alternative points of stimulus or find something completely different to go and do, read a book, listen to music, take a walk, climb a mountain or simply tune-out. Extending innovations value – appreciating the whole system.

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System Innovation Innovation Processes Resources 229

Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 7, 2019

I wrote my obligatory look back at 2018 article on innovation recently, so it is natural that we should turn our attention to where innovation will take us in 2019. Or perhaps the stock was overvalued and Apple has become more interested in margin than in innovation. What do we know about the state of innovation?

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Innovation Data Product Innovation Strategy 203

Tim Kastelle

JUNE 2, 2018

Note: this was originally posted on Harvard Business Review Blogs , with terrific editing by Sarah Green Carmichael. In the early days, a management consultant used the familiar chiefs/Indians line to predict they’d fail. The people that do the work are of lower status than those that decide what work to do.

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Tullio Siragusa

JANUARY 24, 2022

If we are individuals who crave and thrive in collaborative environments, we will want to influence more collaboration. What are the principles to create a fair and trustworthy working environment? Without bosses, self-managing teams were working with clients to build software. How collaboratively do organizations really work?

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Idea to Value

JUNE 2, 2022

One of the most common questions I am asked is what tools I use to manage my successful online business. Considering I am constantly giving advice on the ways that companies can improve their innovativeness, and people can come up with new business models and business ideas based on their creativity.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 16, 2021

I'm writing a series of blogs based on questions that I regularly receive about innovation. In my last post, I wrote about the staffing plan necessary to sustain growth and innovation , basing it in part on the Pareto rule. But that's not what gets you to the next and the new.

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Innovation Trends Survey Course 144

Qmarkets

DECEMBER 7, 2022

It refers to employees who do the bare minimum required of them and nothing more. In this blog, we will explain why all organizations should be prioritizing employee engagement. Management could help to drive participation in these programs by rewarding employees who are frequently recognized.

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Industry Idea Management Engagement Innovation 97

Yet2

JANUARY 15, 2019

Our team wrote a number of widely read blog posts in 2018, spanning the topics of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, adjacency in tech scouting, startups and their comparative value proposition, anonymous searches in tech scouting and more. Here’s a recap of those blog posts. Tech Scouting Blog Posts.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Trends 49

Qmarkets

OCTOBER 25, 2022

It refers to employees who do the bare minimum required of them and nothing more. In this blog, we will explain why all organizations should be prioritizing employee engagement. Management could help to drive participation in these programs by rewarding employees who are frequently recognized.

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Engagement How To Idea Management Culture of Innovation 98

Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Every company says that innovation is important, and that they value the ideas of their people. Yet the problem lies in the fact that so few established companies actually know how to go about getting value out of their innovation ambitions, let alone turning it into profit. So what can you do about it?

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Company Underperforming Technical Team Brainstorming Design Thinking 248

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2018

Thinking about ecosystems certainly allows us to go out of our normal scope of invention, innovation and being creative. It allows you to search and build on others specialization that “greater” innovation. Regretfully we are not yet fully equipped to manage these new innovation ecosystems.

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Collaboration Design Innovation Technical Review 241

Planview

MARCH 18, 2022

It is a time where we can reflect on all the powerful women who have and continue to advocate for equality and change. For this month’s blog spotlight , we are going to travel to Bangalore and follow Geetika to spend a day in the life of a Software Development Engineer Test manager. What type of meetings do you prepare for?

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Software Developers Software Development Software Management 98

Idea to Value

MARCH 25, 2020

Are innovations really born out of these miraculous moments of insight? There were also many other contemporaries who were working on gravity and Newton was certainly quite familiar with their works , some of which even became key concepts of his theory. We love to hear stories of these great aha moments. Let’s dig a little deeper.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Management Examples 189

Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 6, 2021

For many years, in writing this blog, and in leading innovation projects for my clients, I tried to advocate for the benefits of innovation. The companies that do make the bet, and that do focus on innovation, often show the benefits in terms of higher profits, greater market share and higher stock prices.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Enterprise businesses are constantly on the lookout for their next ‘eureka’ moment – an innovative solution to a strategic business problem. Of course, most recognize that simply happening upon these solutions is not an option, and that innovation needs to be cultivated and managed effectively in order to become sustainable and repeatable.

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Innovation Management Software Innovation Idea Management 98

IdeaScale

AUGUST 29, 2017

I think about what refreshments they’ll want upon arrival, who I should introduce them to, how to best engage them so they have a memorable experience. Here are four things I do at IdeaScale to make the client onboarding experience a pleasant one: The Welcome. Do you respond to your client’s questions promptly?

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 8, 2020

I'm writing a series of blog posts about the fundamentals of innovation success. In my previous article I wrote about the importance of fundamentals in any activity , using music and practicing scales as an analogy for understanding the fundamentals of innovation. This mindset and cultural preference conflicts with innovation.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 7, 2017

In 2030, 75% of the global employees will be “digital natives,” who grew up surrounded by mobile devices, mobile communication and the Internet. Digital transformation challenges established new business models and management approaches. However, successful innovation management goes beyond the research and development department.

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Open Innovation Crowdsourcing Internet of things Innovation 150

Idea to Value

JUNE 4, 2021

As all of us working on innovation know, it’s quite an opaque topic that many innovators and organizations don’t talk about openly. As a result, innovation is an area that’s fraught with many common myths and misconceptions. But, without further ado, let’s get to these myths and misconceptions on innovation. The Reality.

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Innovation Marketing Course Tools 190

InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

These activities are designed to help organizations get started with innovation. Our ability to adapt and innovate is essential in an ever-changing technological landscape. Businesses and organizations who want to stay ahead must evolve and learn from and with their customers to create better solutions to life’s challenges.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 29, 2018

It always amazes me how we limit growth by not investing fully in innovation. While most large companies want to become more agile and innovative, many of them fail to turn this wish into a reality. Innovation as a dedicated activity still sits uncomfortably within many organizations. What is holding this innovation age back?

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Innovation Programs Innovation Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 222

IdeaScale

JUNE 20, 2017

However, this can present some challenges for innovation managers. Some concerns we have heard from innovation managers: “I do not want to overpromise what we’re going to do with people’s ideas.”. What if the ideas are in a focus area we’re not even working in?”.

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Innovation Management Management Crowdsourcing Underperforming Technical Team 150

Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

I've written before, both on this blog and on the blog I share with Paul Hobcraft about platforms and ecosystems about the need for seamless experiences. That's a huge problem and an opportunity for innovators. The packaging was difficult to open, for a number of reasons, and was bulky and difficult to dispose of.

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Technical Review Innovation Technology Management 144

Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Over the last year I've been conducting a one person listening tour, talking to a lot of my peers in consulting, as well as prospects, customers and friends who work in government and industry. While there is a lot of noise about innovation from all quarters, it appears from my discussions that there is little activity.

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Innovation Artificial Inteligence Engagement Creativity 185

Qmarkets

JULY 20, 2022

“For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.” Margaret Heffernan – Entrepreneur, CEO and writer Few would disagree with the notion that innovation is driven by the sharing of good ideas. What is Open Innovation?

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IdeaScale

APRIL 4, 2017

Innovators listen to what leaders say, but most of all, they watch what leaders do. Day-to-day actions and decisions show whether leaders are actually committed to innovation or whether it’s simply a popular tagline that sounds good but has no real support. Innovation is not easy. Ask, “What can we learn?”

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

For most people who have a middle-class background, the lifestyle of a person who cannot seem to hold down a job, maintain stable housing or provide adequately for their children seems chaotic, confusing and frustratingly self-perpetuating. Some authors in the innovation space claim that innovation requires a special kind of person.

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Company Innovation Programs Innovation Product Development 40

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 14, 2018

There I’ve said it, it is out in the open, “ I suffer from SMRD”. To be honest I am struggling with social media in innovation, struggling to get my head around it for my business, for me for a long time. It often seems overwhelming, do you feel the same? I worried about this years ago and still do.

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Engagement Innovation Marketing Strategy 213

Tullio Siragusa

APRIL 11, 2022

Examining consumer’s need before beginning to create services or product is the foundational research piece of design thinking that informs us on what problems or issues we are seeking to solve. Ask Questions: Why do the issues exist? Who is impacted? Generally, the ideation phase is handled by project managers or engineers.

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Design Thinking Design Ideation Survey 118

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

So how do businesses organise their structures to be able to simultaneously manage the needs to exploit and explore innovation? Managing this, in all honesty, though, is hard to get the balance right but highly valuable if you do achieve it, it can transform the business.

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Management Innovation Leadership Design 124

IdeaScale

APRIL 6, 2017

As if corporate managers didn’t have enough to worry about, they must now consider a new business challenge: investors are increasingly looking towards non-financial data to determine your company’s risk. assets under management last year, up 33% since 2014, according to the U.S. As a manager, how are you thinking about these issues?

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Strategy Strategy Data Engagement 145

Cris Beswick

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

As a leader, you need your people to perform at their best if innovation is going to happen. If you want your organisation to be able to innovate repeatedly, protecting the environment for healthy dialogue around differing views must become a regular part of the culture you create.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 7, 2017

I set out to engage 100% in innovation work, it has been quiet a journey of discovery and then translating the parts. Just trying to stay your own course is tough enough but with all the diversity of views it must be even more overwhelming for others who are asked to take on a role within innovation. Its areas of focus: [link].

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

Recently, well actually, over the past twelve or eighteen months, I was asked to explore and explain different frameworks that the innovator might need to know or at least have an opinion upon. These were for HYPE and posted on their blogs, mostly under their “Methods & Frameworks ” tag.

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Crowdsourcing Innovation Engagement Design 199

Cris Beswick

OCTOBER 30, 2023

As a leader in an organisation that wants to drive innovation, it is crucial to have the ability to understand and relate to your people. Allowing leaders to develop empathy-based relationships can make all the difference towards creativity, innovation, and motivated employees willing to go above and beyond the status quo.

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