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Constructing the innovation mandate

Paul Hobcraft

We need to understand successful innovation actually touches all aspects of a business, by contributing to improving business processes, identifying new, often imaginative, ways to reduce costs, building out existing business models into new directions and value and discovering new ways and positioning into markets.

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Deepening the Thinking Around the Innovation Mandate – part two

Paul Hobcraft

It should articulate how innovation will contribute to achieving these objectives, and what specific goals and metrics will be used to measure the success of the innovation program. The innovation mandate should clearly define the value goals for the innovation program and how they will be measured and tracked over time.

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Assess Your Innovation Program

Planview

Either your organization is innovating or it’s getting swallowed up by the competition. That’s why having an effective innovation program is so important to stay afloat. The challenge for many program leaders and their innovation programs comes down to their level of involvement in the idea implementation process.

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Are we EVER going to embrace innovation?

Paul Hobcraft

Organizations need balance, and innovation tends to constantly push to upset this need; that’s its nature as it seeks to change. Can innovation be something different than it is for the vast majority today? The market for investing in innovation management tools remains fragmented. I am only partly there.

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Successfully Merging Theory and Practice in your Innovation Program

Qmarkets

On April 25 th and 26 th , Eric will be a speaker at our Paris Innovation Leader Breakfast Tour, which will explore a variety of topics around the themes of systemic innovation and digital transformation in Enterprise-grade businesses ( click here for more details). How to Tackle the Problem. Quantity does not equal quality.

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Unique Ways Successful Startups are Changing the Corporate Innovation Landscape

Idea to Value

Corporate innovation nurtures unique thinking within corporate settings. The corporate landscape is changing drastically, and for a corporate brand to stay relevant, they must innovate in order to change with the market. The concept is more broadly related to product development and UX design. Open innovation program.

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Zebras - Not Unicorns - for Profitable and Scalable Corporate Innovation

Innov8rs

Beyond internal innovation, Zurich is also continuously looking for solutions externally. The customer-facing side of the company is also consulted on the latest trends and customer insights in the market, followed by business leads for different regions - who have the opportunity to feed back on the biggest challenges they’d like solving.