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Why You Should Care About Service Design

Innovation Excellence

That’s precisely the power and impact of Service Design and service blueprints. GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton What if a tool had the power to delight your customers, cut your costs, increase your bottom line, and maybe double your stock price? You’d use it, right? Yet very few people, especially in the US, know, understand, […]

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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

As opposed to entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial thinking is not necessarily bound to entrepreneurs (to be); it is an essential skill for ‘strengthening human capital, employability and competitiveness’ (Bacigalupo et al., Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurial thinking. That brings us to entrepreneurial thinking.

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Separate Innovation from Entrepreneurship!

Innovation Excellence

The words innovation and entrepreneurship became synonymous in our language, and the place we see this the most is in universities and business schools. Why is being an innovator means I have to launch a startup company? Can’t I be an innovator in a mature company? But why are we linking these two words?

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Intrapreneurs

eZassi

Invest in Intrapreneurs – Innovation Management Supports Your Organization’s Greatest Change Makers Intrapreneurs are those important team members with the optimism, intellect, initiative, and discipline to champion bright ideas and drive new project pipelines, establishing innovative change across the business.

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

It has been a while since Henry Mintzberg developed his influential work that made us aware of the importance of structures in organization design. Structures are no longer of primary focus in design organizations. In fact, building blocks as ‘middle management’ might only still exist on paper today.

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Questions about Innovation

InnovationTraining.org

How can innovation be measured and assessed? What role does technology play in innovation? How can innovation be managed and directed in an organization? How does innovation differ from creativity, and how do the two relate to each other? How does innovation relate to entrepreneurship?

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71 Innovation Methodologies

Open Innovation EU

Experiments Open Innovation (Guinan). Human-Centered Design (IDEO). Updated Model of Design Thinking. Design Thinking Process (Stanford). Design Competitions. Managing Distributed Innovation (Bogers). Managing Unsolicited Ideas (Alexey). Innovation Circle (Berenschot). Roadmapping.