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Innovation Management in 2023: Venture Building & Scaling

Innov8rs

Susana shares more about Telefónica, a Spanish multinational telecommunications company that employs more than 100,000 people that has been investing in startups since 2006- for a total of 1000+ startups. Through Wayra, the Telefónica's Venture Builder, the corporate accompanies and supports its startups from ideation to founding.

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Design Thinking and Scrum: taking your projects to another level

mjvinnovation

Below you will learn how these two approaches can complement each other, their benefits and how to properly use them in your business. In another project, this time for the Hospital sector, we were able to understand how the patient’s experience cycle worked and how new solutions can be developed. Prototyping.

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Scaling-Up: Crossing the Internal Chasm in Corporate Innovation

Integrative Innovation

Hackathons’ or comparable formats are used to bring together external ideators with internal experts for drumming out disruptive ideas. Open Innovation helps to understand how to look for external, missing pieces of technology, capability and knowledge, including how these should be integrated.

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Ignite Spotlight: An Interview with Southern Company’s Julie Pigott

Planview

As one of the top 10 utility companies in the world , Southern Company is a shining example of how to leverage an employee-base to transform the way a business operates. The question is, how did they do it and what can you learn that can be applied in your organization? Julie: Getting people involved.

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5 Tips for Adding Value to Agile Design

InnovationTraining.org

They don’t tell the team how to design, but they serve as virtual guardrails to prevent the project from careening off the road. Indeed, a thorough research effort can show the team specifically what to design and perhaps even how to approach the new design. Instead, gather the entire team and ideate together.

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A Real Life Example of the Power of Giving Feedback

Idea Champions

Here's how I see it: one of the biggest (and least addressed) reasons why most change initiatives fail can be traced back to the cro-magnon way most innovation-seeking people give and receive feedback -- especially when it comes to pitching high concept ideas. Oh Mr. CEO of a very large and profitable telecommunications company.

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If You Want to Create Breakthrough Products, Get Meaningful Feedback Early in the Game

Idea Champions

Here's how I see it: one of the biggest (and least addressed) reasons why most change initiatives fail can be traced back to the cro-magnon way most innovation-seeking people give and receive feedback -- especially when it comes to pitching high concept ideas. Oh Mr. CEO of a very large and profitable telecommunications company.