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

IdeaScale

Nowadays, you hear terms like “corporate social responsibility” (CSR) a lot. Business schools are teaching courses on CSR, top-notch organizations are too. Times have changed. A good corporate image is now reflected in the environmental and social issues a company corresponds with. What Is Social Innovation?

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An Innovation Lexicon

IdeaScale

Let’s start with a general definition that states “Innovation is something new and useful ” incorporates both the concepts of novelty and value. Of course questions arise: What things? The way we think about innovation has changed over time. Or of Jugaad – small, smart innovation for ordinary people.

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Establishing an innovative business platform adoption approach

Paul Hobcraft

Platforms help manage the difficulties of transitions we are all undergoing and change how we see the world through a broader collaborative set of lenses.” Innovation needs to function in a constant state of flux as what is going on impacts what is around them. Diffusion and Adoption of Innovation- theory into reality.

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Changing the world … for good

Innovation Excellence

Working with ideas of self-organisation that spring from the likes of Senge, Wheatly, Bohm, Semler, Morgan, Semler, et al, we developed the beginnings of a “Futurist Manifesto”, where better leadership will be needed: Of course, this is quite a list and certainly beyond the reach of 30 people acting alone.

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Career Innovation Through Continuous Learning Platforms

Tullio Siragusa

When learners have relevant courses to develop their skills it will always add value to their career. Emeritus is such a platform that partners with top-notch universities across the world and creates content and shares the courses in 80 different countries. Conclusion. We can envision the future of education as more career oriented.

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Serious About Your Social Mission? Innovate It.

Leapfrogging

The obvious place to turn is innovation approaches such as design thinking , rapid prototyping , and open innovation. They have helped businesses break through inertia and build game-changing products, but are still surprisingly uncommon when it comes to social good. And a new mindset is needed, Chang contends.

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11 female innovation leaders share their definition of innovation

Idea to Value

I contacted a selection of my fellow innovation experts (this time all women) to see how they talk about innovation with their clients, and compiled the results for you here. I asked them all: What is your definition of “innovation”? What mistake do companies often make when they talk about innovation?