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Exploring frameworks and methods you need to know as an Innovator

Paul Hobcraft

Partly it seems executives don’t engage with their brand or business in the way that their customers do” The difference between DMAIC, DMADV, and Innovation Management (tackling a critical part of Six Sigma). “Will crowdsourcing provide predictable outcomes?

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We are pushing away from the old innovating core

Paul Hobcraft

We need to really engage and have a real depth of understanding of the customer, their needs, their individual journey, by discovering and engaging with them constantly at all their current touch points and experiences of what they are wanting to do, that is different from today and this comes from new combinations.

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Ideating at Enexis – Driving Operational Innovation in Dutch Energy Sector

Qmarkets

How have you handled innovation and specifically idea management in the past? Michiel: Originally we had a post-box where ideas were dropped and an anonymous guy in HQ would say yes or no – mostly no. But this wasn’t engaging and employees were left dissatisfied. What made you choose us over the other alternatives?

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Enexis Interview: Navigating Operational Innovation in an Environment Ripe for Innovation Stagnation

Qmarkets

We now ask for their ideas and let them discuss, and grow their ideas in a transparent and constructive manner. Michiel: Originally we had a post-box where ideas were dropped and an anonymous guy in HQ would say yes or no – mostly no. But this wasn’t engaging and employees were left dissatisfied.

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Ideating at Enexis – Driving Operational Innovation in Dutch Energy Sector

Qmarkets

How have you handled innovation and specifically idea management in the past? Michiel: Originally we had a post-box where ideas were dropped and an anonymous guy in HQ would say yes or no – mostly no. But this wasn’t engaging and employees were left dissatisfied. What made you choose us over the other alternatives?

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33 Routes to Open Innovation

Open Innovation EU

Customer activities: Route 22: Crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing is effective in the early stages of an innovation process because of the fact that it per definition a diverging activity and it results in a wide variety of options to choose from. Searching for and collaborating with these communities may increase new ideas.