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Three Flavours of Open Innovation: breaking down institutional boundaries through the X-Factor, Speed Dating, and iOT

Imaginatik

A great deal of activity has been happening under the topic of ‘open innovation’, however we have found very different initiatives launched by our clients that challenge a common definition of the term. From this cross-client perspective we understand a broad set of practices and ambitions for open innovation, which we can begin to place in patterns of approach or flavours. We have just peeked at three different flavours of open innovation.

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Qmarkets Partners with Wellspring to Offer a Data-Enriched Open Innovation Platform to Enterprise Clients

Qmarkets

The partnership and integration allows Qmarkets clients to access hundreds of millions of innovation intelligence data points directly within the Qmarkets platform. As a result, Qmarkets is now able to offer clients a data-enriched end-to-end open innovation solution.

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Qmarkets Partners with Wellspring to Offer a Data-Enriched Open Innovation Platform to Enterprise Clients

Qmarkets

The partnership and integration allows Qmarkets clients to access hundreds of millions of innovation intelligence data points directly within the Qmarkets platform. As a result, Qmarkets is now able to offer clients a data-enriched end-to-end open innovation solution.

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3 Open Innovation Reports You Need to Read Right Now

Planview

In the open innovation space, one regularly leads to the other. Read these three in-depth industry reports to find out the new rules of the collaborative economy, why the United States is leading the way in turning customer feedback into innovative products, and what challenges are soon to crop up in crowdsourcing. Companies Leverage Open Innovation Better than China. that are taking innovation initiatives to heart.

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5 Practical Ways For Creating a Successful Innovation Program

Acuvate

Innovation practice has made some amazing progress over the last few years. Large enterprises are trying various programs to foster new innovations in an attempt to find the best way to change course for their big ships. To resist ever-growing challenges, organisations are increasing their investments in innovation and deploying a variety of strategies. You’ve heard it a thousand times now: organisations need to invariably innovate to sustain.

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Companies betting big on open innovation

hackerearth

Open innovation is the use of purposive inflows and outflows of knowledge to accelerate internal innovation, and expand the markets for external use of innovation, respectively. Open innovation (OI) uses a mix of approaches, thereby affording higher responsiveness and flexibility while trying to grow beyond its core business. The free flow, in and out, of ideas and IP promotes innovative ecosystems. Why does open innovation work?

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Crowdsourcing at Work: Open Innovation with Unilever’s Foundry IDEAS™

Planview

One of those brands is Unilever , one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home and Personal Care products that launched its crowdsourced innovation program , Unilever Foundry, last year, to make sustainable living commonplace by collaborating with innovators. Unilever Foundry is becoming a proven model for generating innovation and harnessing people’s ideas,” says Karen Hamilton, Unilever’s VP of Sustainable Business. The world has a lot of problems.

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Successfully Merging Theory and Practice in your Innovation Program

Qmarkets

Eric Gabas-Varini is the Partner and Co-Founder of Innovation Framework Technologies, a consulting firm which was founded in Paris, but has since established regional offices in the United States, South Korea & Japan, with a network of associate offices in Latin America and the Middle East. With a strong background in R&D, Eric now uses his expertise to help leading organizations deliver innovations across a range of industries and use cases.

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Enterprise Innovation Management Research Report

eZassi

CIMdata Publishes Enterprise Innovation Management Solutions Landscape — Connecting the Dots. eZassi Participates in CIMdata’s Enterprise Innovation Management Solutions Landscape Report Findings. CIMdata recently published this report, eZassi participated in the report findings, providing insight, commentary, discovery and suggestions to aide in guiding enterprise organizations with connecting the dots of enterprise innovation management (EIM).

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Successfully Merging Theory and Practice in your Innovation Program

Qmarkets

Eric Gabas-Varini is the Partner and Co-Founder of Innovation Framework Technologies, a consulting firm which was founded in Paris, but has since established regional offices in the United States, South Korea & Japan, with a network of associate offices in Latin America and the Middle East. With a strong background in R&D, Eric now uses his expertise to help leading organizations deliver innovations across a range of industries and use cases.

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9 Surefire Ways to Kill Innovation (That You Aren’t Thinking About)

Planview

But bad business habits can throw a major wrench in innovation before it even has a chance to get off the ground. Here are 10 things you might be doing without thinking that are killing your innovation efforts right now. You want people to contribute great ideas to your innovation program, and that’s exciting. Herd mentality is very real, and presents a major threat to innovation.

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Rules of enterprise innovation

hackerearth

We know from our history that while promotions may win quarters, innovation wins decades.”. But for an innovation program to be efficient and successful, there are certain guidelines or best practices an organization needs to abide by. Include every employee in the process of innovation. For sustained innovation, all these activities have to run like clockwork. A successful innovation program requires operational changes and cross-functional collaboration.

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The Goal: Ignite Innovative Culture

eZassi

This year is full of potential for innovative growth in your organization. Ezassi is your partner in measurable and achievable business goals with the help of our innovation software and services. We propose you ask these twelve strategic planning questions and read through the suggested resolutions for energizing your organization’s innovative culture. 12 Resolutions to Ignite a Culture of Innovation. Assess the Innovation Pipeline.

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Can an Open Innovation Challenge Methodology Help Solve the Refugee Crisis?

Qmarkets

It’s time to realize the power an open innovation challenge methodology - specifically one that involves crowdsourcing - can have when it comes to affecting real change. Appropriate open idea management platforms can be employed to generate ideas, develop them through collaboration, and then evaluate the best proposals through crowd voting to identify the ones with the highest public support. Can open innovation challenge methods solve the world’s most pressing problems?

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What Does a Healthy Innovation Portfolio Look Like?

eZassi

The concept of an innovation portfolio is still new to some organizations; however, it’s been a topic of conversation among innovation professionals for years. In 2014 Harvard Business Review (HBR) published the article, Managing Your Innovation Portfolio.

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Innovation is Change

Planview

Can you think of a single innovation that didn’t change something? Innovation is change, or at least, innovation requires change. In my role as an innovation keynote speaker and workshop facilitator, I recently led a German-based industrial company’s North American IT leadership team through an innovation workshop, during which we spent part of the time working to define their common language of innovation (as described in my book Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire ).

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Innovation Leadership

eZassi

The Key to Driving Enterprise Innovation? Strategy and Alignment Starting with Corporate Leadership Most companies today consider innovation one of their top-five strategic objectives. The post Innovation Leadership appeared first on Ezassi.

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CTO James Gardner: “Innovation is an Optional Activity”

Planview

Spigit’s Chief Technology Officer, James Gardner, is no stranger to innovation. But if his start in financial services taught him anything, it’s that crowdsourcing innovation — at major healthcare institutions, financial services providers, and even automobile manufacturers — is the most effective way to discover new ideas and make them a reality. How to Succeed at Crowdsourcing Innovation. “Like innovation itself, the crowd can be complex.

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JAMES GARDNER: How to Succeed at Crowdsourcing Innovation

Planview

Spigit CTO James Gardner, who this week is presenting at the Chief Innovation Officer Summit in NYC , knows a thing or two about how to be successful at crowdsourcing innovation. In a recent piece for Techonomy, James outlines the crucial points for enterprise leaders to keep in mind when turning to the crowd for new ideas on solving business challenges and addressing industry woes. “We must learn how to encourage our employees to want to engage in innovation.

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Disaster: CEO’s Ignoring Digital Innovation

Gregg Fraley

Does Any CEO Have the Luxury to Ignore Digital Transformation and Innovation? Innovation + Business + Technology = Digital Leadership. The demands of digital leadership and the enterprises of the future could dramatically accelerate that rate in the next few years. There is amazing opportunity for digital innovation and organizations that adapt have the potential for huge growth and success. The innovation effort alone is complex.

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Key Innovation Issues for 2016 and Beyond

Integrative Innovation

Hence, I gave it some thought, starting by revisting an earlier reflection: Beginning of 2013, Tim Kastelle and I identified four key issues in innovation management for the time to come. From my point of view, all of the issues pinned down at that time have gained significant importance, are being intensively debated and can still be considered cutting-edge for companies to stay ahead in managing innovation. Innovation can’t be tackled through broad-brush recipes or tools.

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Axel Springer & External Innovation. How to turn “Spray and Pray” into “Spray and Succeed”?

CREATORS

for corporations to invest in digital transformation and innovation. However, the ways in which they focus and collaborate with the innovation ecosystem can be very different. In recent years, we have observed more and more enterprises attracting, interacting, and investing in startups that don’t operate within their core business. Most corporations using the “spray and pray” method have disorganized innovation strategies. Axel Springer & External Innovation.

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What is Innovation in Business and How Can it Build Business Longevity?

Qmarkets

You’ve probably heard the term ‘business innovation’ being hailed as a practice to drive business success and to sustain growth during turbulent times – but what does it actually mean? We’ll also dive into how innovation helps drive business success and longevity.

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Innovation in Media – Renowned Swiss Publishing House Launches Qmarkets’ Idea Management Platform After Successful Pilot

Qmarkets

Franziska Reisser, Head of Innovation at Somedia manages the employee innovation programe “Once we decided on Qmarkets, we went straight into the fast lane” shared Franziska Reisser, Head of Innovation at Somedia.

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Pivotal Innovation Management: The Past, Present, and Future of 180° Business Changes

Qmarkets

With so much disruptive innovation happening so fast, it has become less and less rare for companies to be formed around a service or product that defines them for their lifetime. The future of innovation is now. In today’s highly disruptive, always-connected world, online innovation communities can be a most powerful force for change, propelling companies in directions their executives might not have thought of otherwise.

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Why Your Innovation Funnel Needs an Overhaul: A Step-by-Step Guide

Qmarkets

Traditionally the Innovation funnel is a stage-gate process that organizations use to define their approach to ideation. In this blog, we’ll give you a step-by-step guide to our ‘Innovation Ecosystem’ , providing you with multiple ways to discover and manage innovations at your enterprise.

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Why Your Innovation Funnel Needs an Overhaul: A Step-by-Step Guide

Qmarkets

Traditionally the Innovation funnel is a stage-gate process that organizations use to define their approach to ideation. However, here at Qmarkets we believe that this is only one part of a greater innovation funnel. Innovate & Craft Once you have gathered insights and trends etc.

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Qmarkets Fall Product Release 2019: Making Innovation Engagement Easy

Qmarkets

Discover how these new features and developments – both big and small – can have a dramatic impact on helping your organization deliver repeatable, value-driving innovations. When you have an innovation management system that generates hundreds or even thousands of ideas, one of the most critical functions of the tool is its ability to automatically and efficiently ‘filter the gold from the gravel’. This is why engagement is such a crucial aspect of any innovation project.

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Qmarkets Fall Product Release 2019: Making Innovation Engagement Easy

Qmarkets

Discover how these new features and developments – both big and small – can have a dramatic impact on helping your organization deliver repeatable, value-driving innovations. When you have an innovation management system that generates hundreds or even thousands of ideas, one of the most critical functions of the tool is its ability to automatically and efficiently ‘filter the gold from the gravel’. This is why engagement is such a crucial aspect of any innovation project.

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Qmarkets Product Release Fall 2019: Making Innovation Engagement Easy…

Qmarkets

Discover how these new features and developments – both big and small – can have a dramatic impact on helping your organization deliver repeatable, value-driving innovations. When you have an innovation management system that generates hundreds or even thousands of ideas, one of the most critical functions of the tool is its ability to automatically and efficiently ‘filter the gold from the gravel’. This is why engagement is such a crucial aspect of any innovation project.

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Gartner Research Insights: 5 Innovation Hacks to Boost your Digital Return

Qmarkets

Hackathons, internal innovation programs, open innovation, technology acquisitions…these days it seems like everyone is jumping onto the innovation bandwagon. How is innovation best performed? Can guidelines for innovation be created? The survey presented five key innovation practices which delivered the highest improvements in performance. Once upon a time innovation was a technique practiced by lone inventors.

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Qmarkets Product Release Fall 2019: Making Innovation Engagement Easy…

Qmarkets

Discover how these new features and developments – both big and small – can have a dramatic impact on helping your organization deliver repeatable, value-driving innovations. When you have an innovation management system that generates hundreds or even thousands of ideas, one of the most critical functions of the tool is its ability to automatically and efficiently ‘filter the gold from the gravel’. This is why engagement is such a crucial aspect of any innovation project.

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Gartner Research Insights: 5 Innovation Hacks to Boost your Digital Return

Qmarkets

Hackathons, internal innovation programs, open innovation, technology acquisitions…these days it seems like everyone is jumping onto the innovation bandwagon. How is innovation best performed? Can guidelines for innovation be created? The survey presented five key innovation practices which delivered the highest improvements in performance. Once upon a time innovation was a technique practiced by lone inventors.

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Best practices: How to facilitate a virtual workshop?

Be-novative

? Let remote collaboration and digital transformation open new doors for stabilization, recovery and future growth. These were ideation sessions for large enterprise employees, virtual Design Sprints including startups and mentors.

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Best practices: How to facilitate a virtual workshop?

Be-novative

? Let remote collaboration and digital transformation open new doors for stabilization, recovery and future growth. These were ideation sessions for large enterprise employees, virtual Design Sprints including startups and mentors.