Sun.Aug 28, 2016

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4 Things We Need To Do To Boost Innovation And Entrepreneurship

Digital Tonto

A free enterprise system is merely a starting point. We can only truly win the future if we invest in it. Related posts: We Need To Accelerate Innovation—Here’s How: What Should We Do When The. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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What makes a country innovative?

Innovation Excellence

Each year INSEAD team up with the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) and Cornell University to produce an innovation league table for the countries of the world. It’s designed to rank the infrastructure and support environment for innovation around the world. The 2016 rankings have just been published, and given the desire of the EU.

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The Global Innovation Index

Innovation 360 Group

The Global Innovation Index gathers data from companies and their clients to measure how innovative countries are all over the world. This provides an overview of the business environment and could help predict how global economies will evolve over the upcoming decades. For 2016, the Global Innovation Index found that Switzerland and Sweden are the first and second most innovative countries on the planet, respectively.

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Key Innovation Issues for the Time Ahead – Part 2

Innovation Excellence

In addition to the still highly topical issues, outlined in part 1, I’d like to raise another four points which I personally foresee key for innovation management in the time to come – making no claim to completeness: Organizational Ambidexterity As you can see from previous posts, I’ve been passionately advocating the importance of organizational ambidexterity for a couple of years.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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The Single Most Important KPI for Building Innovation Muscle

HYPE Innovation

The best literature on innovation all points to the same thing: innovation is highly uncertain, and therefore the best approach is to experiment and prototype, iterating until you find the right product/market fit, and conduct this iteration with the diligence of the scientific method. The advice is so consistent, yet when we look at innovation metrics, there is rarely any kind of KPI measurements around the details of experimenting and prototyping.