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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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An innovation culture or a culture of continuity

Jeffrey Phillips

Switching on, or switching off, innovation What companies fail to realize is that to innovate means to adopt a new way of thinking, to promote creativity and exploration, to brainstorm things that are likely to fail, to run experiments and test ideas, to gather ideas from customers and markets and to spot emerging opportunities.

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Redefining Conflict Resolution: The Design Thinking Way

Tullio Siragusa

Ideation — Brainstorming Solutions Once the problem is crystal clear, the ‘Ideate’ phase takes center stage. This phase is all about brainstorming potential solutions. The ‘Ideate’ phase not only brings forth potential solutions but also encourages a culture of open innovation.

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Innovation Strategy – 40 Articles on Fostering an Innovative Workplace Culture

BrainZooming

If you’re looking at your organization and wondering where to start to foster a more innovative workplace culture, here are forty articles to go deeper into the topic. An innovative workplace culture: #1 Provides Direction. It’s vital to point your innovation strategy in a direction. Who Needs Vision Statement Examples?

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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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Questions & Answers with an Innovation Leader from Intel

Qmarkets

This is because most of the major innovation management software platforms facilitate idea submission, evaluation, and implementation. giving users the means to brainstorm, comment, and vote on ideas – and gamification elements – i.e, How much does innovation/idea software cost and what is the pricing structure?

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Tune-In To Taster Tools On Thursday

Gregg Fraley

The 30 minute weekly webinar features demonstrations of various facilitation tools for: strategy, challenge clarification, idea generation (aka brainstorming), problem framing, idea selection, innovation projects, and idea development, etc. Sessions begin on Thursday March 18th. Thinking Differently Takes Tools.

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