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If You Want to Be Innovative, Innovate

Tim Kastelle

Here are some things that don’t work: Buying the magic innovation software. Outsourcing new product development, customer development, or any of the work that connects what you want to sell to the problem that people need solved. Which, of course, you must, if you want to be innovative.

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I don't want to live in a Ready Player One world

Jeffrey Phillips

Another software firm I worked with got just big enough to get acquired by a larger company, and yet another software company received funding from Softbank but failed to get another round just after 9/11. The software ideas are of course almost infinitely scalable, while consulting is somewhat scalable.

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Selling A Rejected Idea Back to Them: The SoulMUCH Story

IdeaScale

One of the reasons that they want a software solution to collect employee ideas is because they’re afraid that they’ll miss a great idea that comes from someone in their workforce. Of course, this means that a company needs to have the capability to recognize and act on great ideas when they arrive, as well.

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Interview with Design Thinking Leader Steven Forth on What Makes Business Model Innovation So Challenging

IdeaScale

About 70% of people said, “Of course we should include values in our model. And of course, in B2B, if it’s not a commodity, then nobody knows it. Service-led growth occurs when one leads with services, but delivers the service through software. The other 30% said, “That’s ridiculous. Do you think so?

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New Study: 2018 State of Embedded Analytics Report

Why do some embedded analytics projects succeed while others fail? We surveyed 500+ application teams embedding analytics to find out which analytics features actually move the needle. Read the 6th annual State of Embedded Analytics Report to discover new best practices. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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My innovation journey (so far)

Jeffrey Phillips

What we quickly realized was that while companies could acquire and use our software, they lacked the infrastructure, the processes and the teams to do anything with ideas, so we quickly scaled up a consulting capability, more focused on how to do innovation, rather than how to capture and manage ideas. Not too innovative.

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InnovationOps: the Next Evolution of Innovation Management

Innov8rs

Mike has thirty years of experience in building and leading cross functional teams and organizations to successfully define, develop and bring new companies and products to market. Of course, every company is fundamentally different. Innovation jobs are typically described as a mix of titles, functions and disciplines.

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How to Package and Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, application owners can charge 24% more for their product. This framework explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. How much value could you add? Brought to you by Logi Analytics.