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How to Boost Innovation by Recycling Existing Ideas

IdeaScale

As Bill Fischer highlights in his ‘Innovating The iPod’ article; “The goals articulated by the leadership were surprisingly simple, broad yet precise. The team could get to work without feeling constrained by the way the vision was presented – they were both totally focused and liberated at the same time!

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How to Run a Hackathon that Spurs Real Innovation

IdeaScale

Hackathons originally emerged as a way to quickly advance software technologies and identify new areas for technology innovation. Selection of winners and presentation of awards cap off the hackathon on a high note. The term has since evolved to encompass other types of intensive collaboration events.

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Calculating the ROI of an Idea: Ideas That Saved Time

IdeaScale

Crowdsourcing and open innovation initiatives are vital by bringing vast stakeholders together to share ideas on complex problems and opportunities. To guide us in calculating ROI, I use Ray Sheen’s and Amy Gall’s Guide to Building Your Business Case published in the Harvard Business Review. Introduction to ROI.

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Reflecting on our innovation practices

Paul Hobcraft

We fail to constantly review and re-engineer the innovation process and tend to layer more upon it, without a consistent reassessing what we are trying to achieve. The movement towards the different crowdsourcing techniques and all the variations (or derivation’s) of ‘ crowd’ and co-creation ’ have changed the game.

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Finding knowledge and research to help you learn and adapt

Paul Hobcraft

The emphasis has been on establishing a clear “thought leadership” approach to underpin the consulting expertise. Many of the bigger consulting companies highly value their “thought leadership”. Many are presently actively trying to quantify the impact of this thought leadership. But not all thought leadership is equal.

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Delving into a complex world: helping to keep pace

Paul Hobcraft

The emphasis from many of these leading consultancies has been on establishing a clear “thought leadership” approach to underpin their expertise and attract as a ‘go to’ resource. Many of the bigger consulting companies offer a highly valued “thought leadership” with significant research backing this up.

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The Winning Formula for Financial Process Improvement – How TSYS is Defining the Future of Fintech

Qmarkets

Rapidly changing customer behaviours, disruptive digital technologies, and the emergence of agile fintech start-ups means that disruption is an ever-present danger. Total Systems Services (TSYS) – a fintech giant with more than 13,000 employees worldwide – presents a great example of the results this kind of initiative can deliver.