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Eleven Reasons for the UK’s Poor Productivity

Destination Innovation

Weak political leadership, lobby groups, regulation and enquiries lead to a paralysis of decision making and action. Low educational standards particularly in scientific and technical fields are holding back the economy. Low investment in Research and Development. Poor management. Poor leadership.

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Designing at an Innovation Management Company

IdeaScale

Here’s what I’ve learned about designing at an innovation management company so far. As the only designer on my team, I tend to design on an island. I’m outnumbered by sales reps, account managers, and overseas developers. As a solo designer, my role is to teach my team about design.

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Managing Expectations in Innovation Management

IdeaScale

However, this can present some challenges for innovation managers. Some concerns we have heard from innovation managers: “I do not want to overpromise what we’re going to do with people’s ideas.”. What do we do if a bad idea is gaining support?”. What if the ideas are in a focus area we’re not even working in?”.

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How to Move from Process Improvement to Innovation

IdeaScale

Understand the Stages of Innovation. In a sense, innovation requires you to go back to the drawing board, but that’s not a bad thing. You start by considering the problem to be solved (development of a new process, implementation of new technology, a new way of responding to customers, etc.) from a fresh perspective.

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What Is Corporate Social Innovation? Understanding the New Driver of Change

IdeaScale

The societal issue that you target cannot be something as general as “education” or “poverty.” For example, rather than saying your aim is to deliver nutritious food to the poor, you can say that the goal is to increase distribution of nutrients to a population with a particular income by 100% in the next 2 years. Let’s say you did.

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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 2

Tim Kastelle

In part 1 of this post , Ralph revisited key innovation issues that were already addressed by us three years ago. Research confirms: development of exploration in parallel to exploitation capabilities proves to be mandatory for established companies in order to compete successfully and sustainably. Co-Innovation and startup engagement.

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Shelf Space – a hard KPI for Innovation Management

Huub Rutten

A while ago I was in the process of understanding the challenges of business people with the innovation process. Business people: I mean the Sales teams and their leaders. The person I will discuss here, Christine, has different challenges with innovation. It takes years to recover from a bad launch in my business.