Innov8rs

APRIL 17, 2024

As Mattia Visigalli, Innovation Consultant - Group Strategy and Innovation at Zurich Insurance Group, says: "Future-proofing our organization involves falling in love with problems because these problems are the key to finding innovative solutions.”

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

We have a particular key learning to share along with an open innovation success story. We talked a lot about the Collective Creativity principle and its importance in not only our business world, but society. In a nutshell, she studied the world’s most innovative and creative companies and came to a particular discovery.

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100%Open

JANUARY 10, 2023

One of the tasks of an innovation agency is to keep an eye on the future without losing grip on the present. We’ve made predictions before (some quite percipient, such as this one ), but we’re not futurologists. The economic context hadn’t proved to be such a major challenge for innovators.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 16, 2018

Seizing the grand opportunity was Charles Tiffany, who bought the shares of Young and Ellis, and shifted the merchandise towards jewelery. An example of this is Volvo and Jaguar Land Rover who both committed to stop selling cars that are powered by internal combustion engines only, by 2020. Source: Mckinsey [/caption].

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Yet2

MARCH 1, 2021

In fact, we would recommend you read yet2 ’s Startup blog series for more details. We receive a full range of assignments from scouting high technology/research applications for government agencies to Fortune companies whose needs may be more ready-to-engage nuts-and-bolts orientation that fits with their current go-to market strategy.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

It is not just for innovation application, that can determine innovation activities. Thinking in different horizons prompts you to go beyond the usual focus of fixing innovation just in the present it provides the connections of the present with the desired future. This 3H thinking helps break down complex issues.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

Some of these investigations or explanations were fairly long so I decided to not reproduce them here but to have an opening summary and then set up the links onto their site for you to read the ones that are of interest or curiosity to you. “We all are caught up in handling and understanding different management tools.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 10, 2024

Recently, I presented my framework to the GIMI think tank GIMI was initiated by a worldwide group of chief innovation officers, innovation executives, academics and consultants in 2009. Connecting innovation, business, dynamics, and enterprise is crucial for creativity, growth, adaptability and growth.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2015

The realization that innovation goes way beyond product innovation is a massive hurdle for many of our existing organizations to overcome, certainly in what they are offering today as solutions. Well I would suggest we do need to refocus. We need to find a new way of doing things.

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Fehmida Kapadia

AUGUST 12, 2022

We can take these pages from history and implement those lessons to build ecosystems of innovation and creativity. In his book Imagine How Creativity Works , John Lehrer has researched and documented these historical examples that created environments of innovation and creativity. Picasso Children create with abandon.

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100%Open

JULY 7, 2020

We had three excellent speakers, two rounds of breakout rooms, and one platform via which many parts of the world were represented and connected. Union is a club for innovation professionals, hosted by 100%Open, and its aim is to connect people. We considered the aspects of a Union event that would be difficult to replicate.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

You know they are nowhere at the point of really understanding the potential of the changes that could take place within adopting a broader view on all aspects of innovation. Blockbusters seem a thing of the past but perhaps they don’t need to be with a very different innovative approach. We need to engage differently.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Firstly what we seem to get wrong in many labelling of business ecosystems, where sustainability fits, and then attempting to show apparent differences between Natural and Business Ecosystems needs a greater appreciation of differences. We label far too much as Business Ecosystems. Are Ecosystems going the same way as Innovation?

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 25, 2015

Within all the failures to change there still remains inside our existing organizations there is the inability to let go, to open up and share. There is still this relative reluctance to form broader collaborations that will provide new ways of managing through this technology led revolution. Control still dominates.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2016

It can hold a key for us to help solve vexing questions, real challenges, and connect different voices, that builds into a community that can combine and open up the fields of opportunity for new solutions. We will go into that in a future post covering different challenges today. Will it continue to grow at these rates or even more?

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Innov8rs

MARCH 6, 2023

Innov8rs | As we seem to heading towards economic downturn, leaders find themselves trying to reduce costs and foster growth at the same time. We have seen this happening during the last economic crisis, when merely 10% of companies performed better at the end of the crisis than they did before it.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2016

It can hold a key for us to help solve vexing questions, real challenges, and connect different voices, that builds into a community that can combine and open up the fields of opportunity for new solutions. We will go into that in a future post covering different challenges today. Will it continue to grow at these rates or even more?

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Leaders can mentor innovators through any of the practical business steps in the value creation process itself: Connecting to emerging market trends and identifying the most significant opportunities. Connecting to others who can help them create compelling value propositions. Gaining customer insights.

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mjvinnovation

MAY 13, 2019

We will talk about this throughout this article. So when we talk about Exponential Growth, we are referring to growth that is not linear; it is giant and continuous; it’s with bulky and unobstructed scale – or with frequent overcoming of various obstacles. Think of the number of people who are fans of Apple.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 9, 2016

Today we are seeing a significant movement in crowdsourcing by the fact that many communities are forming through finding the independent voice, by collectively working on issues that would not have been as possible without these crowdsourcing platforms. Knowing what we are getting into becomes critical to want to jump in and take part.

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eZassi

JULY 13, 2017

As you start Innovation budget planning, Here are eight things to consider: When it comes to Innovation and R&D fiscal year budget planning, it’s typically a laborious process that spans several months with business model canvases, business cases, proposals and pipeline discussions. A five-year plan may no longer hold true.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 18, 2016

We need to open up our thinking about risk and innovation management. We should aim for a really healthy construct that does help all involved or associated with innovation and managing risk, that gives a better chance of pushing beyond the incremental innovation that avoids most risk and disappoints those seeking real growth.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 18, 2016

We need to open up our thinking about risk and innovation management. We should aim for a really healthy construct that does help all involved or associated with innovation and managing risk that better chance of pushing beyond the incremental innovation that avoids most risk and disappoints those seeking real growth.

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Wazoku

JUNE 29, 2018

Last week saw the completion of two major innovation initiatives in Copenhagen: The Upcycle Challenge and Copenhagen Fintech Week. Both programmes embraced open innovation – powered by Wazoku’s Idea Spotlight. Amongst the finalists was an Egyptian student who pitched remotely via video from Cairo!

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Innov8rs

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

As part of our Learning Lab on Innovation Strategy, Leadership, Governance and Portfolio Management, we discussed these topics with seasoned corporate innovators Suzan Briganti (CEO at Swarm Vision), Morten Benn (Partner at Nosco), Greg Ratcliff (Chief Innovation Officer at Vertiv), and Louise Kyhl-Triolo (Principal at Heidrick & Struggles).

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Yet2

JULY 12, 2018

There are a number of global trends in the personal care industry that are shaping the open innovation needs of both mid-sized companies and large global brands. How these companies embrace innovation can have a big impact on their bottom line. We’ve worked with many companies who manufacture and sell personal care products.

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100%Open

DECEMBER 29, 2016

As we approach New Year it’s a time to prioritise what we do and don’t want to do next year. 2016 has been pretty eventful and it looks like we’ve got our work cut out in 2017 so we all want to know what is going to be the next big thing? There is no time like the present to tackle all manner of social and commercial challenges.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 9, 2016

Today we are seeing a significant movement in crowdsourcing by the fact that many communities are forming through finding the independent voice, by collectively working on issues that would not have been as possible without these crowdsourcing platforms. Knowing what we are getting into becomes critical to want to jump in and take part.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 20, 2020

COVID19 will change the way we behave, conduct business, and indeed how we innovate for years to come. And the social disruption caused by COVID19 has broken more habits and established behaviors than any global event since WWII, opening the door to unprecedented change.

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Anaqua

MAY 2, 2018

Becoming an expert in patent landscaping can help you understand your current and future competitive landscape, ‘whitespace’ gaps in technology that are opportunities for innovation and potential patents for acquisition or for strategic partnership. For example: Who are our key collaborators on new technology development?

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 17, 2018

As a founder, CEO with a psychology background, for me it is just as much about the experience and learning we can provide for the participants. We have talked about the most important aspects of organizing a successful hackathon with Henrik, Open Innovation Specialist in Be-novative on the second day of the Aegon Hackathon.

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Strategos

JUNE 19, 2019

Innovation is associated with creativity, fun, change and excitement and many people speak of the need for an “Innovation Culture”. If you are in an organization and you’ve just been given the responsibility for innovation management, you quickly realize that you are not starting from a green field situation.

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eZassi

JULY 30, 2017

As a follow-up to our recent blog on “ What to Include in Your Innovation Budget ” we have created an innovation budget planning components list with 10 key items you should include in your innovation budget. Ask yourself: Do we have the skills and resources necessary for our project research and development?

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eZassi

JULY 30, 2017

As a follow-up to our recent blog on “ What to Include in Your Innovation Budget ” we have created an innovation budget planning list with 10 key components you should include in your innovation budget. Ask yourself: Do we have the skills and resources necessary for our project research and development?

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100%Open

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Collaborating between different organisations, in different geographies, and with different cultures, is inevitably very difficult. And so no matter what you are doing, it’s tempting not to even bother attempting to collaborate, and rather to try to do it all yourself. If you want to go fast, go alone. African Proverb.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

with innovation hubs around the US, to solve some of their biggest challenges through crowdsourced innovation. Through crowdsourced innovation, enabled through a central platform known as AFWERXChallenge.com where participants can ideate and collaborate any time, anywhere. What is AFWERX Challenge?

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

From my perspective I’ve been looking at a real challenge today, that many consultants offering innovation services are not providing real sustaining consulting value to clients, only ad-hoc services. In many ways, the consulting industry specializing in innovation is its own worst enemy.

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