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Questions & Answers with an Innovation Leader from Intel

Qmarkets

What is innovation management software and how does it work? This class of software allows businesses to manage their various innovation practices digitally – enabling all relevant data around an innovation project to be organized and promoted in a secure, centralized location.

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Treating Innovation Risk Differently, Dealing with Uncertainty

Paul Hobcraft

Based on retrospective analytics—Net Present Value (NPV) models, for instance, are built on market projections that are calculated using past trends—they tend to skew innovation decisions toward optimizing existing product lines rather than pursuing new ones. As a result, promising ideas are often smothered.

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Treating Innovation Risk Differently, Dealing with Uncertainty

Paul Hobcraft

Based on retrospective analytics—Net Present Value (NPV) models, for instance, are built on market projections that are calculated using past trends—they tend to skew innovation decisions toward optimizing existing product lines rather than pursuing new ones. As a result, promising ideas are often smothered.

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Innovation FAQ #1: What Is Innovation Management?

Qmarkets

What is innovation management software and how does it work? This class of software allows businesses to manage their various innovation practices digitally – enabling all relevant data around an innovation project to be organized and promoted in a secure, centralized location.

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Meet the yet2 team – Seetha Ramnath

Yet2

We recently spoke with Seetha Ramnath , innovation project leader, in our worldwide headquarters, in Waltham, Mass. Mainly, I was helping companies improve their market forecasting accuracy while simultaneously managing inventories efficiently under tight customer service guidelines. Seetha with her son Deven.

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Innovation SOP: Overcoming the Hurdles of Digital Transformation

Qmarkets

Welcome back to Qmarkets’ Innovation Standard Operating Procedures (SOP): In this series, we will present different guidelines on how to bring innovation theory to practice. Who in the company was already clamoring for digital transformation and has the enthusiasm and zeal to lead projects?

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Applying the Three Horizon Thinking to a Fresh Perspective of Innovation Design

Paul Hobcraft

I recently applied the three horizons thinking to ‘frame’ a new innovation design. So the thinking intent of searching for a new innovation design had some framing assumptions that can leverage where we are to move towards a new future. In my view, we must go way beyond “open innovation” as we practice it today.

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