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Idea Management: Learning When and How to Say “Enough”

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We all know intellectually that sometimes projects fail, but that doesn’t necessarily make it easier when it’s our project that fails. If you have ever had to scrap a project, you’re in good company. Over one-third of projects fail , either not meeting their business intent, missing timelines, or going over budget.

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Five Components of a Repeatable Innovation Portfolio

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By implementing specific stages for each innovation project , you’ll be able to lay out a clear path from problem to solution. By implementing specific stages for each innovation project , you’ll be able to lay out a clear path from problem to solution. Idea Collection and Inspiration. Proposal Generation. Implementation.

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Innovation Department Best Practices: A Talk with Peter Berger

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As an innovation director, Berger is working on projects that include the development of an all-electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft to be used for short-distance air travel with the ease of hailing an Uber. If you’d like to learn more, we invite you to download our Crowdsourcing to Innovate Products white paper.

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Why is Diversity Important to Innovation

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Diversity and Crowdsourcing. This especially makes sense when you think about innovation in relation to crowdsourcing. For so long, businesses focused all of their efforts on research and development departments full of fairly homogenous employees who were assigned to “innovation.” Making All Voices Count.

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Crowdsourcing App Studies the Health Benefits of the Outdoors

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A new crowdsourcing app developed by scientists at the University of Cambridge in the UK could help them to understand more about the relationship between biodiversity and well-being. Other questions relate to who they are with and what they are doing, while their location is recorded via GPS. But just how healthy is it?

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How to Boost Innovation by Recycling Existing Ideas

IdeaScale

However, maybe we don’t need completely new ideas; simply a reinvention of an old classic. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations.

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Learning to be Innovative – Future Building’s Crucial Role in Driving Innovation Impact

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Download the paper now: The Art of the Possible – Future Building’s Crucial Role in Driving Innovation Impact ]. Many innovation programs, and some R&D teams, benefit from full-time staff who work as designated innovation scouts. For starters, you can crowdsource clues from elsewhere in your own organization.

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