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Has innovation changed over the last ten years?

Paul Hobcraft

Today, innovation is seen as an open process, where organizations leverage external sources of knowledge, ideas, and feedback to enhance their innovation performance 1. Open innovation is the practice of sharing and using external and internal ideas to create value 2.

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Seven Strong Reasons not to Innovate

Destination Innovation

Innovation is risky. Most radical innovations fail so let’s just keep making our current products and services better. Everyone is busy but we have to find time and resources for innovation. Highly innovative companies like Google allocate up to 20% of employees’ time for exploration of new initiatives.

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Is Organizational Structure The Secret to Innovation?

Leapfrogging

To Bahcall, the goal is to create a structure where you get people motivated and incented to go for “loonshots,” crazy ideas that ultimately turn into big innovations. Bahcall’s book argues that the first step is to balance innovation with execution. Management Span: the number of direct reports that executives of the company have.

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So Where Is Innovation Heading?

Paul Hobcraft

This needs significant process redesign and the redesign into small, nimble teams and cross-trained groups who collectively gather around a problem to solve it and then disperse and reform in different shape and form to address the next need. The road you take will decide where innovation is heading for you.

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Digital Technology MoshPit

Gregg Fraley

New Service Offering for Digital Technology Innovation. Discover Ideas for Long Term and Tactical Innovation Projects. Chicago, IL, August 1, 2018 — The MoshPit Innovation Service is an innovation project discovery service marketed by GFi (Gregg Fraley Innovation). GFi guarantees its work.

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Mitigating risk with a balanced innovation portfolio

Innovation 360 Group

Assume that you have a number of projects that you want to execute, and you have a number of resources that can be used to execute them (resources such as innovation managers, or programmers). If the resources can be organized so all projects can be optimally executed without any interdependencies (i.e.,

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How Behavioral Economics is Killing Innovation

Innovation Excellence

When my daughter Maya was in middle school, she decided to repeat a behavioral economics experiment featured in Dan Ariely’s book Predictably Irrational for her science project. In her experiment, she offered participants from the control group two options. Facebook access, she suggested, was going to cost money.

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