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Have organizations become more collaborative over 25 years? What has enabled that?

Paul Hobcraft

This iterative approach is driving innovation by ensuring that solutions are aligned with user needs and market realities. Instead, they are tapping into the global pool of talent and ideas, using tools like crowdsourcing and hackathons. This openness is driving innovation by bringing in fresh perspectives and new ways of thinking.

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Applying Collaborative Innovation to Design Thinking

Innovation Architecture

Of late, many have embraced the practice of collaborative innovation, with its application of social media to sourcing crowds and ideas, and design thinking, with its structured approach to vetting hypotheses about new business opportunities. I reference Designing for Growth by Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie to depict design thinking.

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How a (crowdsourced) idea becomes a product

Betterific

Sterilite launches crowdsourced product. Sterilite , the industry leading manufacturer of plastic storage containers, launched their first ever crowdsourced product idea to the marketplace. . For the crowdsourcing community this is a huge breakthrough. It’s more of a marketing play. . Why crowdsource?

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Recognizing the Building Blocks of Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Design Thinking : The whole emphasis and approach involve using empathy, creativity, and experimentation to solve complex problems. It emphasizes a user-centric approach, where the focus is having a central understanding of the users’ needs and designing solutions that meet them. This evolved over many years.

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What is Innovation Management?

eZassi

It’s the strategies, idea stage gate and workflows that move creative ideas, novel technologies, or key market insights through an efficient and transparent pipeline of challenge solvers and intrapreneurs to drive sustainable growth and gain a competitive edge. Why is it significant?

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New innovation approaches to counter the fear of Business Contagion

Paul Hobcraft

Our ability to perform differently will provide new avenues of innovation discovery and eventual value to offset or bridge the need to make a change we will be forced to make in these different market and society conditions. Today we promote innovation ecosystems, they extend the open innovation thinking further.

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Optimising Your Return on Open Innovation

100%Open

We’re bringing our partners in innovation, organisations who have run their own crowdsourcing projects, innovator powerhouses, and remote work legends into the spotlight. This lends to the fact that company culture is 5x more important than e.g. platform design when determining the success of open innovation.