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The basket of bad ideas scenario

Jeffrey Phillips

This is what you get when you scour the back catalogues of comic books, looking for ways to extend the franchise just a bit more. A good movie, The Big Short, noted that this same philosophy, mixing up a number of bad loans into a new package, is what caused the sub-prime lending disaster. But I'm sure there's more coming.

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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

He’s the author of numerous books and an expert on how lean principles can be used to drive innovation. His latest book, What a Unicorn Knows , is available on Amazon and reveals the secrets to building high growth startups. Here’s a Q&A with Matt that highlights the key points in the book. They are real.

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Innovate and Persuade with a Well-Judged Nudge

Destination Innovation

Behavioural nudges are clever policy tweaks often used by governments to influence the choices that people make. The concept was popularised in the influential book, Nudge, by economists, Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler, published in 2008. In 2015 the World Bank established a group to help developing countries use nudge policies.

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What Is Corporate Social Innovation? Understanding the New Driver of Change

IdeaScale

For example, rather than saying your aim is to deliver nutritious food to the poor, you can say that the goal is to increase distribution of nutrients to a population with a particular income by 100% in the next 2 years. This will allow you to know whether you underperformed or not. It must be specific and should have deliverables.

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Episode 11 – Breathing Life into Organisations on Innovation Life Support

IM Insights

Founder of Mulberry Retreats – focusing on leadership development. Career working for the British government in positions such as Head of Innovation for the Foreign Office and Ministry of Defence as well as senior leadership roles in digital transformation for the UK government. (08:00) Entrepreneur and Founder.

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Risk and Innovation frustrate me

Paul Hobcraft

Still I came away with a 50% achievement mark which was not so bad on the overall innovation intent I had set myself but one area was very frustrating to move forward upon- the subject of risk and how it is treated in innovation management. Blood pressure pills came in handy here also. It is going to be tougher than I initially imagined.

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Using Lean Innovation in the Product Development and Commercialization Process

Moves the Needle

Lean Innovation doesn’t begin and end with product development. Developing customer empathy, validating or invalidating key business model assumptions through rapid experimentation, and leveraging data and insights as market evidence results in greater possibility of successful commercialization. What is Commercialization?