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How to Kill Innovation Projects

Destination Innovation

Starting exploration projects. Killing the weaker projects. They are all important but I believe that the most vital is #8 – the ability to kill off the weaker projects. Starting evaluation projects is harder but you need to start many because no-one knows which will succeed. Listening to customer feedback.

Project 230
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Individual compentences for sustainable entrepreneurship and innovation

Norbert Bol

2019), show how individual sustainability competences can play a role in business projects and especially in building projects. The effort to successfully gather diverse disciplines in teams and broadly source knowledge, is shown to be an indispensable method to increase sustainability in their projects. Lambrechts et al.

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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

As opposed to entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial thinking is not necessarily bound to entrepreneurs (to be); it is an essential skill for ‘strengthening human capital, employability and competitiveness’ (Bacigalupo et al., Entrepreneurship. That brings us to entrepreneurial thinking. Behind deep cognitive structures are deep beliefs.”

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An Unconventional Approach to Manage Your Projects

Rmukesh Gupta

Almost everyone project manager that I meet wants to find out a way to do two things: Deliver their projects on-budget and on-time Be innovative in their approach while doing so. Yet, we know that most projects are neither on-budget nor on-time. So, why is it that most large projects fail?

Project 45
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Can we change accepted practices in any Energy transition?

Innovating4Energy

The goal is to create a more dynamic, interconnected, and adaptable strategy that builds on having a more collaborative mindset on how we approach the transition to shifting energy sources and finding more creative solutions. We need to engage more broadly in community approaches related to energy.

Change 52
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Case Study: Regional SME Development Project Brings Innovation Lift to Manufacturing Hub

Innovation 360 Group

These businesses are close to the action and markets, allowing them to easily adopt a need-seeker approach, a strategy highly correlated with radical innovation, the kind that shakes up markets and innovates from the inside out—from operations and processes though to business models and products. million Swedish crowns.

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The Innovation Sophistication Index

Destination Innovation

Entrepreneurship, empowerment, diversity and risk taking are seen as core values in the desired corporate culture. Targets are set for key metrics including number of ideas submitted and implemented and for revenue projected and achieved from innovation projects. An Open Innovation strategy is agreed and initiated.