Fri.Dec 09, 2016

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Corporate Innovation Ventures: Separation vs. Integration

Innovation Excellence

Proper management of the separation vs. integration tension has proven to be a vital, while underestimated ingredient to effective scaling of internal ventures and external startups in corporate settings.

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How Europe is Innovating with Open Innovation

IdeaConnection

According to research by the Gartner Group, there will be more than 20 billion connected devices in use by the year 2020. That is a massive multi-billion euro opportunity that could result in breakthrough innovations in all sorts of areas, and it hasn’t gone unnoticed in Europe. There, bIoTope (Building an IoT OPen innovation Ecosystem for connected smart objects) is paving the way for new open innovation ecosystems, where companies can innovate (with minimal financial outlay) Systems-of-S

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Invest in Innovation Skill Building

Gregg Fraley

Invest in Your Innovation Capacity. In my various consulting engagements I have learned not to take much for granted. I thought by this year in history (2016) everyone in the business world would have a clue as to how to do ideation (aka brainstorming) properly. Wow, not even close. It’s a glaring missing ingredient in staying competitive. It’s a key to growth and it’s routinely done poorly.

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Creating Product Line Roadmaps

Innovation Excellence

A roadmap is a valuable collaboration and planning tool for product teams and organizations. But, not all products stand alone. Many are part of a product line. This begs the question of how roadmaps should be created for product lines.

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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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Crowdsourced Innovation is Supercharging the Energy Industry

Innocentive

Following our articles on how the packaging and manufacturing sectors are embracing crowdsourced innovation , we now turn to the energy sector.

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Are You a "First-Principle" Thinker?

Michael Roberto

In last week’s New York Times Corner Office column , Adam Bryant interviewed Abe Ankumah, CEO and founder of the software company Nyansa. Ankumah discussed the importance of cultivating “first principle” thinkers in your organization. He wants people who don’t just to creating a solution without first understanding and defining the problem in a crystal-clear fashion.