Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Effectiveness is doing the right things, efficiency is doing things right. Innovation efficiency is simply the output produced from the resource invested. Increasing the former while reducing the latter increases efficiency.

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Innovation Resources Innovation Processes Open Innovation 58

Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The innovator’s dilemma, across industries, is that in order to become great, a company has to do many things right. It must listen to its customers, direct its investments to the highest-return opportunities, improve the quality of its products, manage its relationships with suppliers, correctly assess and cope with competitive threats, all amongst many other time and resource consuming activities.

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Disruption Innovation Marketing Competition 49

Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Nicolas Boy speaks with Sylvain Tillon about the Oracle Startup Cloud Accelerator program and the intrapreneurship spirit that Tilkee developed.

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Tools Marketing Design Innovation Management 54

IdeaConnection

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

For the world to grow enough food for the projected global population in 2050, agricultural productivity will have to rise significantly, perhaps even double what it is now. One potential hurdle is that we’re running out of cropland – land needed to grow crops. Other obstacles include climate change, limited growing conditions, and water scarcity.

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Open Innovation Innovation Project Change 45

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

Data

Innovation Leader

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Last week, we asked the Innovation Leader community about how they approach benchmarking.

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Innovation 40

Idea Champions

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

These two Lean Six Sigma practitioners walk into a bar. Wait. no. I mean three Lean Six Sigma practitioners walk into a bar. The first is wearing pink tights. The second is mumbling something about a fishbone diagram. The third is just back from a 10-day vacation in Croatia. Now that I have your attention, click here for a rousing 60-minute webinar on the the relationship between storytelling, innovation, and Lean Six Sigma.

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LEAN Management Innovation 24