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

IdeaScale

The need for a socially appropriate goals and actions of a corporation has given rise to corporate social innovation where companies form partnerships with NGOs. And what was once a coexisting relationship is slowly morphing into a cooperative and collaborative partnership, what Prahalad like to call the “co-creation” model.

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Open innovation & crowdsourcing resources

Board of Innovation

Open innovation & crowdsourcing resources Open Innovation, crowdsourcing, co-creation… overlapping terminologies to describe a trend towards more open business models and a closer collaboration with customers. On this page we gather a list of inspiring examples.

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5 Things You Need to Know About Collaborative Innovation Software

PlanBox Innovation

Collaborative innovation software brings purpose, focus, and structure to collaboration to help you turn ideas into commercial value. Collaboration tools are necessary to the proper functioning of any business, especially for organizations with a large workforce spread across many different locations around the globe.

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Design Thinking for Collaboration: A COOs’ Guide to Cross-Functional Teams Innovation

Tullio Siragusa

Design Thinking for Collaboration: A COOs’ Guide to Cross-Functional Teams Innovation. As a COO, you can apply this approach to increase collaboration within your company by following these steps: Encourage cross-functional teams: Design Thinking requires collaboration between different teams and departments.

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Innovative Leadership in Circular Economy Initiatives: Paving the Way for Sustainability

Tullio Siragusa

The Urgency of Embracing a Circular Economy The linear “take-make-dispose” model is increasingly untenable in the face of finite resources and growing environmental concerns. The circular economy offers a sustainable alternative, aiming to close the loop on resource use and minimize waste.

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The Importance of Staying Scrappy in an AI-Driven Era

Tullio Siragusa

This ability to adapt and innovate in a scrappy, resourceful way is often the fuel behind revolutionary ideas and game-changing products. Companies should invest in design thinking, ethnographic research and other human-centric innovation methods. As companies scale up, they gain more customers, resources and clout.

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Design Thinking Human-centered Approach to Innovation

Tullio Siragusa

They aim to extract the most benefit from the least number of resources and time. However, even though their processes have brought out successes in productivity and efficiency, they could not bring out the needed innovation throughout the required sectors. Set up Environments Conducive to Innovation. Forming the Right Team.