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How Law Enforcement Benefits from Cutting-Edge Innovation Management

IdeaScale

Law enforcement has no choice but to adapt to changing technologies and the changes that technologies cause among the populations they serve. Innovation may not change what police officers do, but it can improve how they do it. In short, innovation is necessary, as is managing innovation.

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Understanding the Origins of Innovation

IdeaScale

The word innovate comes from the Latin innovatus , where “in” means “into” and “novatus” is a form of the verb for “making something new.” The word eventually came to refer to bringing new things or changing established practices. Managing a Bountiful Harvest of Ideas with Innovation Management Software.

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Innovation Department Best Practices: A Talk with Peter Berger

IdeaScale

Running an innovation department requires systematic management of ideas, from their earliest forms through to fully fleshed-out ideas through prototyping and production. If you’d like to learn more, we invite you to download our Crowdsourcing to Innovate Products white paper.

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Our inabilities to adapt needs changing.

Paul Hobcraft

They become fixed, rigid and locked into their established ways, not adapting to the changes occurring around them. If we can’t adapt to changing times, we simply struggle to survive, that is the growing reality operating in today’s environment. Can innovation and transformation combine and work together?

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Balancing Function, Design, Process and Structure for Creative Tension

Paul Hobcraft

So I hope I can help fill those gaps and explore the what, why and how of having a dynamic functioning design and structured process to meet today’s demanding and highly energetic world of constant change. We relate this specifically within our Executive Innovation Work Mat. Equally, you can contact Jeffrey or me directly.

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Applying innovation thinking in different horizons

Paul Hobcraft

1Rn5Svq under his excellent Model for Integrative Innovation article.He ‘talks’ of cornerstones and offers different premises to anchor these a little more. The different premise: premise 1 : Innovation management follows a balanced portfolio approach.

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Establishing a new mentality for innovation

Paul Hobcraft

If we do need to re-present innovation to our corporate boards to engage in more, we need to offer them a compelling set of arguments on why innovation needs a fundamental rethink, a renewed focus on building the capabilities, competences and capacities that are possible if you engage in a comprehensive innovation management.