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Zebras - Not Unicorns - for Profitable and Scalable Corporate Innovation

Innov8rs

Mattia Visigalli Innovation Consultant - Group Strategy and Innovation at Zurich Insurance Group Zurich’s Open Innovation Strategy and Ecosystem Zurich’s collaboration partners span a range of different entities within a mature and well- structured open innovation ecosystem.

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Innovation Strategy – 40 Articles on Fostering an Innovative Workplace Culture

BrainZooming

9 Critical Steps Before Your Innovation Strategy Gets Sexy. #2 Throw open innovation to encompass perspectives from throughout the organizations AND outside the organization. 10 Signs to Invest in Your Brand’s Innovation Strategy – Right Now! Strategic Thinking Exercises to Pursue an Outside-In Innovation Strategy.

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Six factors that lead to greater innovation success

Jeffrey Phillips

Without better scope and definition, the innovation teams almost invariably constrain themselves to something that looks and feels a lot like existing products or services. The more divergent and/or disruptive the opportunity, the more you need to conduct trend spotting and scenario planning to understand how the future may unfold.

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Can you teach people to innovate?

Jeffrey Phillips

However, since most innovation is "one and done", the vast majority of people don't regularly exercise their innovation skills and experiences. Thus, training is often ineffective because the tools that are learned aren't regularly engaged in consistent, repeated innovation activities.

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When Technology Scouting Comes Up Empty

Yet2

Changes in consumer buying patterns and increases in demand have substantially disrupted inventory forecasting. Since the start of the pandemic, yet2 has conducted several searches for clients looking to proactively prevent future disruptions to their supply chain. Background.

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Top 10 Posts from the 100%Open Blog.

100%Open

How to Measure Open Innovation Value – The very first 100%Open blog post when we launched 100%Open 8.5 years ago by David making the case that with open innovation, different things matter to different partners so need to be understood and measured separately. Don’t Predict, Prototype!

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Sustainable Innovation: SDG 13 – Our Journey to Wazoku becoming Carbon Neutral

Wazoku

We are facing major disruption and financial uncertainty. open innovation firm InnoCentive, creating a unique, powerful and compelling innovation platform and community. But what was assumed to be a 30-day exercise turned into 90 days before we were finally done. Going carbon neutal.in