Fri.Jun 22, 2018

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The Innovation Instinct: Survival of the Fittest in Nature and Business

Qmarkets

Nature has long inspired visionaries to look beyond existing ways of living and thinking. Many notable engineers, architects, designers, and other creators have discovered unique adaptations between a species and its environment, and applied these insights to drive innovation across a huge variety of inventions, products, services, and industries. Known as biomimicry, or biomimetics, the concept is simple.

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How to enable inclusive innovation

hackerearth

In a perfect world, development would be inclusive. The innovation system would meet the needs of every person. Inadequacy or inaccessibility should not constrain people’s innovative ability. Considering how difficult it is to achieve this perfection, we strive for an equally worthy goal of continuous improvement—to generate economic growth that is socially inclusive.

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Fitting understanding into the innovation puzzle

Guide 4 Innovating

Formalizing a new Innovation learning-as-a-service is complicated, far more than I originally thought. Still, a certain course has been set and it is now working through much of its structure, learning much myself on the way to fit this within the innovation puzzle we all have. When I was thinking through this concept I fell back onto one of my most valuable techniques to work through, clustering a set of questions and capturing all the different thinking through the use of Mind Mapping techniqu

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Why Do Questions Matter For Your Success?

Beyond the Obvious

One day when my kids were still little I was sitting in the car with my daughter Tara. She was about four years old at the time, and as we drove down the street she noticed the curb along the side of the road and got curious about it. Suddenly I was fielding question after […].

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

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.

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Innovation Labs: compose your recipe for success (1/4)

Innovation Excellence

Innovation labs or rapid innovation centers are developing at fast pace. Just last week I was discussing about the set-up of an innovation lab in one African country where Orange operates. It often comes to the following 4 questions: What is the aim of the lab, and how will it operate? How to on-board and.

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Open Innovation Approach to Beer Making

IdeaConnection

Widmer Brothers Brewing, a brewery based in Portland, Oregon has turned to the crowd to help it create a new beer. The recipe is based entirely on the public’s suggestions and it will continually evolve. The brewery is calling its new beer Open Sourcery and it is the result of an online survey that let Twitter users provide feedback on the alcoholic drink’s style and ingredients.

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New Publication: Strategic Service Business Development

ITONICS

Dr. Carolin Durst, Scientific Director at ITONICS, and Nadine Lumme, Senior Communications Manager at Siemens AG, have jointly published a new book chapter focusing on Strategic Service Business Development – Spotting Innovation Potentials and Ensuring Competitive Advantage. The book Service Business Development by Manfred Bruhn and Karsten Hadwich illuminates comprehensively how companies can pursue goal-oriented corporate development through services supported by guest articles by renow

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My New Speaking Video ? 3 Minutes of Pure Content

Stephen Shapiro

I am thrilled to share with you my new demo video. The team at Video Narrative did an incredible job of pulling this together. We had one design principle: Don’t sell; educate. We didn’t want this to be a sales pitch. Rather we wanted a video that was content-driven. Therefore, this 3-minute video is pure content (other than two client quotes and a few client logos done subtly in the background).

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