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Ten pitfalls inventors face and tips for avoiding them

Idea to Value

Many studies have been carried out by different groups coming to different top 10 or top 20 reasons why startups fail, which are, without any doubt worth reading and learning from. Partners and team. Tip: Develop mock-ups or prototypes early and use them for validating your assumptions and the market need. Not starting.

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How to Boost Innovation by Recycling Existing Ideas

IdeaScale

In these early stages of product development, it can sometimes seem like all of the good ideas have already been taken. When you apply this train of thought to innovation, it becomes apparent that some of the most successful products and services in human history were developed by recycling existing ideas.

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3 Keys to Team Building Exercises that Create Impact

BrainZooming

I was the “interviewee” for an “Inside the Executive Suite” article from Armada Corporate Intelligence about how to plan team building exercises that create impact for work teams. As described in the article, I’ve been on the good and bad side of various team building exercises during my career.

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Why I have a problem with the Global Innovation Index

Idea to Value

The total weightings of the various indexes which then result in a net rank for each country compared to each other country, allowing the GII team to say which country achieves the overall highest Innovation Efficiency Ratio ranking (it’s Switzerland). Innovation Leader, Achievers and Underperformers, GII 2016.

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Brainstorming with an expert, Richard Ahern

Betterific

Welcome to the second part of our new “Brainstorming with…” series, where we interview two sets of people – the innovation challenge winners and the product developers and innovation experts that sponsor the challenges. And most importantly I’ve learned about the end-to-end cycle of product development.

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How to make our planning process purposeful?

Be-novative

To uncover the techniques that connect individuals, teams and organisations with a sense of purpose we involved best practices from our partner organisations. Chemistry group’s Boss Up! Growth just for the sake of growing and earning more profit is the means but not the ultimate purpose of a team or company.

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How to deal with Diversity, Equality and Inclusion issues in an authentic way?

Be-novative

Or even more, what if you are part of the minority group as a consultant or as team lead? Bringing this topic into our diverse, multinational, and multicultural gender-balanced group was a brave and useful step from our protagonist’s side. INTERNATIONAL GROUPS ARE CONSCIOUS AND THUS MORE OPEN.