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What Role Does Competition Play in Innovation?

IdeaScale

Competition is innate in what humans do. However, left unchecked, competition can become a toxic fight to win, rather than succeed. That begs the question, exactly what role does competition have in innovation? That begs the question, exactly what role does competition have in innovation? Balance is needed.

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Crowdsourced Innovation: Three Things I Learned

IdeaScale

During my first two weeks as a Marketing Intern for IdeaScale, I learned about how the business world operates, particularly how an organization uses crowdsourced innovation with tools such as IdeaScale. Every company says they want to be “innovative” and some of them use “crowdsourcing” to do so.

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Adopting a Rapid Digital Innovation Process

Paul Hobcraft

The belief that lean management principles will get the innovation out of the door quicker, has been one of those management adoptions that often trick us into believing we are achieving more than we actually are. Designing the complete rapid innovation application process.

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Five Barriers to the Innovation Process and How to Overcome Them

IdeaScale

It would seem that the innovation process is simple: Get an idea, refine that idea, implement it, and repeat the process. Here are five common problems with the innovation process and how to resolve them. A well-implemented strategy is key to any innovation process, but that doesn’t mean finding one is easy.

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Measuring Innovation Performance

Why do only a third of the organizations worldwide have formal innovation metrics in place despite accepting that innovation is critical to survival? Download this eBook to learn about the 5 basic principles that guide every successful innovation process.

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The Energy Transition Needs A Structured Innovation Process

Paul Hobcraft

When do we ramp up and scale in a competitive marketplace. Regretfully we are still in the chase for “individual defining technologies” that give a competitive advantage. This period, up to 2029, must be all about researching, developing, demonstrating, and successfully learning from the deployment and scaling up.

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Recognizing the Building Blocks of Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Many tools, techniques, frameworks, mechanics, and emerging methodologies have allowed different parts of the innovation process to be explored and exploited. We are moving innovation along but not at a pace or design that reflects the need to connect “it ” into one comprehensive process.