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Inspiration and hope at the I3 Access to Market event in Nigeria?

Christensen Institute

On December 6, 2022, I got the opportunity to attend the inaugural Investing in Innovation (I3) Access to Market event in Nigeria. First the event was focused on the innovators and, more specifically, connecting them to markets. Investing in market-creating innovations is the key to this prosperity.

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How the GSAs 10X Program Advances Government Innovation

IdeaScale

Overview : Founded in 2017 off of a popular crowdsourcing initiative, the Government Services Administration (GSA)’s 10X program internally crowdsources ideas to design new approaches and launch new programs. The General Services Administration, or GSA, has the job of ensuring government employees have what they need to do their jobs.

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Innovation Project Governance Do's & Don'ts

Innov8rs

Innov8rs | Despite its importance, innovation project governance is often handled ineffectively, slowing down rather than driving innovation. Innovation project governance is a decision-making discipline where organizational leaders decide which ideas to pursue, how to allocate the innovation budget, and how to assign resources.

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Dealing with the raw emotions of the Cop28 event

Innovating4Energy

That CoP28 was an event that catches many of the basic emotions we are going through for managing the Energy transition to rapidly move towards a safer, sustainable climate and balance with nature. I was reflecting on the different parts and sought a way to describe these “emotions” as my reflection of the CoP28 event and all it means to me.

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The one pledge leaders should make at this year’s climate conference?

Christensen Institute

It’s no secret that since 1995, when the first COP event was held, annual global CO2 emissions have risen by more than 50%. The global consensus is that the world–you, me, corporations, governments, NGOs–isn’t doing enough to avert the looming climate disaster. The focus is often on what governments can do to slow down climate change.

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Innovation Management in 2023: Governance & Portfolio Management

Innov8rs

Like it or not: for innovation, governance is the theme of the year. How To Set Up Governance For Success? We’ve talked about the innovation teams, but at what level of the corporate hierarchy should innovation portfolios actually be governed? In other words, what does it take to build a proper governance system?

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Governance Charter for Managing New Product Investments

Huub Rutten

One level lower in the hierarchy Emily faces in fact the same challenge, she cannot enforce results, she has to coordinate and deal with unexpected events, lack of resources. Engineering can always call on technical problems, unforeseen conditions and events and therefore lack of critical resources, to justify delay and scope changes.