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Ambidextrous organisations: Where innovation should sit in an organisation

Idea to Value

Exploration on the other hand requires a mentality where not everything is known, new ideas need to be developed, tried, iterated and improved, and not everything that is attempted will work out as it was planned. Option 2: Innovation teams within each company brand / product unit. Positives: Simple.

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Working together to shape innovation for meaningful change

Paul Hobcraft

To support you in building out your innovation competencies, capabilities and capacity that requires a deeper investment in skill development in a culture of continual learning. Use tools like brainstorming sessions or interdisciplinary teams to encourage diverse insights.

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Why I have a problem with the Global Innovation Index

Idea to Value

First of all, I want to congratulate these institutions and the hundreds of collaborators who work on not only the report, but also compiling the thousands of data points to make the comparative analysis possible. The problem with extrapolating data. This is why consultants are paid so much. Institutions.

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Why Companies are Turning to Innovation Centres

Destination Innovation

These are some of the reasons why senior corporate executives are increasingly turning to separate innovation labs to spearhead their new product development. An innovation centre is a team of people and a physical location. The report identifies six key goals for innovation units: • Accelerate the speed of innovation.

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An Open Letter to Project Managers

Boxes and Arrows

Dear Project Managers, It has been a very enjoyable experience working with everyone over the last couple of months and sharing our ideas on UX design. Don’t make the only UX designer in your company the UX team, don’t restrict the scope of UX design to the user interface alone, and don’t hide the users from the UX designers.

Project 98
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A Beginner’s Guide to Web Site Optimization—Part 2

Boxes and Arrows

In the previous article we talked about why site optimization is important and presented a few important goals and philosophies to impart on your team. We created the following minimum completion criteria for my past team at DIRECTV Latin America. I’d like to switch gears now and talk about more tactical stuff, namely, process.

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As our lives become more automated, these are the skills you’ll need

Faisal Hoque

For instance, an engineer who can develop brilliant new product designs but who can’t effectively communicate the value of those designs to others (or collaborate with design teams to bring those ideas to life) is doing himself and his organization a major disservice. FOCUSING ON “SOFT SKILLS” PAYS OFF–LITERALLY.