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The Innovation Sophistication Index

Destination Innovation

Things are really happening with innovation and you are starting to see real results and improvements in performance. You are implementing modern concepts of Open Innovation and the Minimum Viable Product. Innovation can now become a serious competitive advantage for you. If you score over 18 then congratulations.

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11. To Compete or Not To Compete (part 2)

Stephen Shapiro

In it, I talked about competitions vs collaboration. Now we go to three downsides of traditional brainstorming (there are actually MANY more). There are several reasons traditional brainstorming sessions don’t work: 1. Here is the continuation of Tip 11 from Best Practices are Stupid. Part 3 will be posted tomorrow.

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Collaboration in the Time of the Coronavirus: How to Innovate Effectively During a Crisis

Qmarkets

To better ensure your company can respond efficiently to changing customer needs during the crisis, you may want to consider expanding your brainstorming initiatives to include external input. All these benefits could contribute towards your business gaining a competitive edge during this uncertain period.

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What is Innovation Management?

eZassi

Navigating Innovation Management: Implement a Scalable Process and Engaging Platform for Enterprise Ideation and Collaboration Creating Open Innovation Solutions Regardless of your organization’s innovation portfolio size or scope, every business needs a strategy and competitive advantage for growth and technological advancement.

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Bringing innovation in from the cold

Jeffrey Phillips

What's needed, and what will signal that innovation has become more important, is when any of these people, confronted by a business challenge, is comfortable considering innovation methods and activities as equally valid and potentially useful, and knows how to implement either an efficiency action or an innovation action with equal skill.

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Why Innovation Management is Important – 3 Key Reasons

Qmarkets

A recent study by McKinsey & Company found that 84% of executives agreed innovation was important for their growth strategy, but only 6% said they were satisfied with innovation performance. It Helps You Uncover the Best Ideas The ‘Tilt’ open innovation platform – powered by Qmarkets – allowed Total S.A

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Digital Technology MoshPit

Gregg Fraley

Seeking combinations and applications where other aren’t looking is how competitive advantage is created. Nearly all brainstorming techniques, and even innovation frameworks, fall short in terms of helping people make new conceptual connections. This is not your Dad’s brainstorming.