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Choosing your direction of travel

Paul Hobcraft

Product innovation from discovery to market is still the biggest drag on industry performance. The project and portfolio management, the life-cycle management, integrating the supply chain, quality assurance and corporate sustainability all are work-in-progress. The parts are not digitally connected-up.

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What Will the Long-Term Impact of COVID-19 Be on Digital Transformation?

IdeaScale

Particularly of interest is the question of travel. As professional conferences turn into hybrid events and as work-related travel is evaluated to see if it’s necessary, fewer workers will travel. And those that do will travel fewer miles.

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Innovation Department Best Practices: A Talk with Peter Berger

IdeaScale

As an innovation director, Berger is working on projects that include the development of an all-electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft to be used for short-distance air travel with the ease of hailing an Uber. The Components of a Productive Innovation Department.

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Finding the best innovators

Jeffrey Phillips

I am talking about Horizon 2 and Horizon 3 (transformative and disruptive innovations), which of course can come in a variety of types - Doblin identifies ten types of innovation. So we need people who can think about service innovations, process innovations, experience innovations, business model innovations, and so on.

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The new ROI for digital innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Clearly, this emerging concept will not be easy, but it does bring together all parties to attempt to drive impact and innovate in different fields where we have bigger social challenges. The key is it does need to generate shared value for all and that is going to be a hard road to travel.

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Why Communication is the Key to Enterprise Innovation?

IdeaScale

According to Harvard Business School professor Clay Christensen, 95% of all product innovations fail after their release on the market. This helps off-site employees, freelancers and those traveling for business stay connected and continue to contribute to innovation conversations, even while on the go.

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Overcoming fixedness before being locked in amber

Jeffrey Phillips

Innovation is possible in any setting and in any industry. Even a very heavily regulated industry such as air travel has plenty of potential for innovation if only the participants would think beyond product innovation. In other industries that are less regulated, innovation opportunities abound.