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Time for Innovation Excellence

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Norbert Majerus and George Taninecz Lean manufacturing and the Toyota Production System started an industrial revolution (at least for those who adopted it). Transformative events that began in the automotive industry spread into many other sectors (including healthcare, finance, even innovation).

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How African organizations can manage the continent’s scientific brain drain

Christensen Institute

Compounding Africa’s struggles with an inadequate healthcare system, the continent is dealing with a scientific brain drain problem that demands attention. As we described in our book, The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty , the average person wants to make progress.

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Using Lean Innovation in the Product Development and Commercialization Process

Moves the Needle

Lean Innovation doesn’t begin and end with product development. The most mature organizations deploy integrated lean innovation practices across the product lifecycle. How does the role of healthcare providers differ by country? But how can an enterprise organization re-invent product commercialization?

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The 5 Most-Needed Qualities for Leadership in Healthcare

CMOE

The healthcare industry is complex and dynamic. In fact, the opportunity for improvement in healthcare is estimated to be more than $500 billion. Clearly, there are many opportunities for growth, and healthcare leaders are looking for innovative ways to capitalize on this potential. Unique Demands Healthcare Leaders Face.

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5 Tech Issues That Can Slow Down Innovation

IdeaScale

In our minds, technology and innovation are interconnected. The seeming slowdown in innovation is also partly due to expansion in outcome-based industries like finance and healthcare that are more difficult to measure than how many widgets one produces. 5 Old Computers and Legacy Systems Slow Down Innovation.

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The great GE innovation experiment

Jeffrey Phillips

GE, once a large conglomerate, has announced that it will divide itself into three companies , a healthcare company, an energy company and an aviation company. We can also find out which leaders will adopt innovative measures, and change the cultures of their businesses, and which will "stay the course". We've got a doozy.

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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 1

Tim Kastelle

At the beginning of 2013, Tim Kastelle and I identified four key issues in innovation management for the time to come. Let’s have a brief look at each of them: Differentiating and integrative innovation concepts. Let’s have a brief look at each of them: Differentiating and integrative innovation concepts.