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Innovation Department Best Practices: A Talk with Peter Berger

IdeaScale

Push the boundaries, but don’t forget where your competitive advantages are. The Components of a Productive Innovation Department. Running an innovation department requires systematic management of ideas, from their earliest forms through to fully fleshed-out ideas through prototyping and production.

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Understanding the Origins of Innovation

IdeaScale

Innovation can come from anywhere, anytime, and learning to encourage and manage innovation is a major competitive differentiator. Innovation management software is the key to ensuring that the best ideas, regardless of who submits them, are the ones that are developed and pursued.

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Four Steps for the successful Implementation of a holistic Innovation Management

ITONICS

Based on our long-standing cooperation with international innovation leaders, we have developed a consulting approach consisting of four components using frameworks, methods, and training to establish and encourage successful and holistic innovation management. Download full White Paper. How to win?

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Balancing Function, Design, Process and Structure for Creative Tension

Paul Hobcraft

It is all about the fit of innovation and the tensions between the design, function, structure, and process needs to manage innovation management. We relate this specifically within our Executive Innovation Work Mat. Try the work mat; it enables and brings a greater cohesion to innovation in needs and design.

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All You need to know about Roadmapping in Innovation

ITONICS

Thus, it’s essential to actively use robust methods such as roadmapping – to stay ahead of the competition. In addition to internal company roadmapping (technological and strategic roadmap), open innovation roadmapping is another form of roadmapping that can bundle the knowledge of an “ecosystem“ and make it usable for all stakeholders.

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Our inabilities to adapt needs changing.

Paul Hobcraft

Then it becomes a mad scramble to transform ourselves, often with damaging consequences of deteriorating performance, battling more competition that are sensing our weakness, never capable of returning to those previous highs. We are at a crossroads of determining if the management of innovation should change and if so, how.

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8 External Innovation Sources You should know

ITONICS

Understanding these insights by larger companies can play an important role in their own innovation strategy, portfolio, and activities. Software and consulting companies that provide solutions and services for innovation management. and Chun Zhang, published at MIT Sloan Management Review.