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Use Intuition for Innovation Just Like Apple and Target

Leapfrogging

Robyn Waters, the former vice president of trend, design and product development, once told me the same thing. Participants in the first group are asked to select the best apartment immediately after reading the comparisons–they don’t have time to really think about their choice.

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Increasing innovation focus on the end-user segments within the energy transition story

Paul Hobcraft

As crucial renewable energy solutions (wind, solar) are falling in price comparison, we are beginning to see clean energy solutions for industry, for the environment, and society, as a whole. Here, it is the combination of new system designs and ways to operate, combined with technological innovation.

Roadmap 215
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The Effect of Competition on Creativity

Michael Roberto

Source: Pixabay Daniel Gross has published an interesting NBER working paper titled, "Creativity under fire: The effects of competition on creative production. Source: Pixabay Daniel Gross has published an interesting NBER working paper titled, "Creativity under fire: The effects of competition on creative production. It's hard to do.

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Building an Agile & Innovative Organization

Idea to Value

For example, there are often processes that are specifically designed to eliminate risks and control change. And, if you don’t have customers, the reason really isn’t your competition, it’s you not providing them with enough value. In a large organization, there obviously are a lot of powerful forces preventing that from happening.

Agile 302
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Ecosystems need re-stating for business. Are they real ecosystems?

Ecosystems4Innovating

I wanted to look at this and make some observations and comparisons. Ecosystem thinking and design are fundamental challenges to how existing organizations go about their business. This extension alone is not new Ecosystem thinking or design; it is existing thinking. It is only one part of the design of Ecosystems needed.

Design 59
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Creating the Industrial Ecosystem

Paul Hobcraft

If you take a more holistic view of the all the connected parts of innovation that value-add, built on customer need, that a structured innovation process offers, the result is likely to be more radical in design and end-result. Siemens is in some highly competitive industrial markets. I felt innovation needed a more holistic focus.

Industry 187
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Turning Intuition into Science©

MSSBTI

Understanding how your organization really functions and making decisions based on data that comes from this understanding, is critical to innovation, creativity, a competitive advantage and employee engagement. a national organizational management-consulting firm based in Scottsdale, AZ. Deborah Peck, Ph.D.