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Why are innovation ecosystems important?

Paul Hobcraft

In the event, I was asked what the difference is and why we should shift from today’s traditional innovation models to this interconnected one where innovation ecosystems are the foundation. So, I want to explain the importance of shifting our thinking towards designing innovation ecosystems.

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Organize innovation to fit your strategy & culture.

Leapfrogging

That’s because they try to apply processes and structures that don’t fit their business strategies and cultures. They partner with Silicon Valley startups who have breakthrough technology when they really just want incremental innovation that delivers quarterly results. Open Innovation Networks. Solutions Teams.

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Can Crowdsourcing Support Your Operational Excellence Strategy?

Qmarkets

This audience is already delivering results across a huge range of use cases, from disruptive innovation to new product development, so why is it currently being overlooked by leaders looking to augment their operational excellence strategy? There was only one rule – no PowerPoint. How has the landscape of process excellence changed?

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Top Five Skills of Innovative Leaders

IdeaScale

Leadership in innovation is more than positivity. Innovation is about skill as much as talent. While creativity is central to any innovation strategy, it takes more than just ideas to be an innovative leader. is fundamental to all innovation, and innovative leaders tend to ask why in all sorts of ways.

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The Leadership of Open Innovation

Speaker: Paul Sloane, Director, Destination Innovation

Paul Sloane is a well-known author and speaker on open innovation. In this on-demand recorded session, Paul will takes through the breadth of what open innovation can be for organizations and the value it can bring. Of course, innovation where other parties are involved means a different leadership approach.

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The Pressing Need to Link Risk into an Innovation Strategy- part one

Paul Hobcraft

So in a three-part series I want to set risk in a better strategic and operational framework but to begin with until we address the alignment issue between a firm’s strategy and the linkage of the innovation activities, innovation fails to make the essential boardroom connections. The third is to manage trade-offs.

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Crowdsourcing and Smart City Innovation: A Winning Combination

Qmarkets

The evolving trend of smart city innovation is one that governments should be wholeheartedly embracing, but as with many government initiatives, seems to be having a hard time getting off the ground. Embedding crowdsourcing and innovation management into the smart cities initiative could be what makes the difference.