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Creating Innovation Connections as the Customer Advocate

IdeaScale

These insights can become the inspiration sparks of your group’s creative thinking. The strong customer advocate knows the landscape, keeps customers top-of-mind, represents the “voice of the customer”, sets expectations around customer value, supports open innovation with customers, and keeps future customers in mind.

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Are you a Direction Setter? How to Bring the Future into Focus

IdeaScale

One that offers the organization’s most creative people a sandbox in which they can operate. As a direction setter, you must go beyond the data and tell a compelling story about future potential that engages people more deeply and inspires them to bring their creative best. Innovation is making a difference. Why Purpose Matters.

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Be the Architect: Designing an Integrated Innovation System

IdeaScale

Other times, by limiting responsibility for innovation for a specific department, organizations underutilize the creative capabilities of other employees. One example of a tool that cuts through the bureaucracy and enables employees at all levels to develop their innovative ideas is CO-STAR.

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Be the Architect: Designing an Integrated Innovation System

IdeaScale

Other times, by limiting responsibility for innovation for a specific department, organizations underutilize the creative capabilities of other employees. One example of a tool that cuts through the bureaucracy and enables employees at all levels to develop their innovative ideas is CO-STAR.

System 100
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The Innovative Mentor

IdeaScale

Mentors can also encourage innovators to look inside themselves, to understand themselves as leaders or project champions. When is it time for individual vision and when is it essential to collaborate and build a strong team with a shared vision? In our next installment of the Leading Innovation series, we’ll review the Networker role.

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Top 10 must-read books on Innovation

hackerearth

Being innovative or creative looks like an inherent trait to most of us, doesn’t it? However, if you’ve been one of those lucky ones who had “creativity” as an academic discipline at school, you’d know that it can at least be nurtured. And now, we are back to finding ways to use our creative energies to build something of value.

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

It helps in organization your partner-network and starting open innovation projects. Product innovation processes in small firms: Combining entrepreneurial effectuation and managerial causation. Ten types of innovation: The discipline of building breakthroughs. Open innovation and organization design.