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Creative Construction – Book review

The Inovo Group

The author presents a clear three-part framework consisting of Innovation Strategy, System and Culture that a large company needs to use to be an innovative organization. Every now and then a book on innovation is published that deserves to be put on the innovator’s bookshelf along with other seminal writings about innovation.

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Innovation cannot expand without the 4th Industrial Revolution

Paul Hobcraft

Equally the nature of much of production has been designed “on the fly” and the equally tough job of connecting the whole process up in a new integrated, fully connected system meets huge resistance. The system complexity, understanding and investment delays are often huge and difficult to unwind.

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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 1

Tim Kastelle

Tip: Tim Kastelle has posted a worthwhile series on how to implement lean startup for innovation initiatives. Operating in unpredictable environments relies on an agile organization , following an adaptive, evolutionary and more bottom-up approach, resembling complex adaptive systems, e.g. in biology.

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Successfully Merging Theory and Practice in your Innovation Program

Qmarkets

With a strong background in R&D, Eric now uses his expertise to help leading organizations deliver innovations across a range of industries and use cases. One of the challenges we must overcome is that technology and radical innovations are still considered as the only "true innovations". Merging Theory and Practice.

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DON’T LISTEN TO YOUR CUSTOMERS!

Innovation 360 Group

They thought customers were buying film, chemicals, inkjet cartridges, workflow software, and so on. Kodak’s competition was not just other camera and printer companies, but entirely new innovations like social media. You may remember the three innovation horizons from the last episode, but it’s worth reviewing them again for clarity.

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Successfully Merging Theory and Practice in your Innovation Program

Qmarkets

With a strong background in R&D, Eric now uses his expertise to help leading organizations deliver innovations across a range of industries and use cases. One of the challenges we must overcome is that technology and radical innovations are still considered as the only "true innovations". Merging Theory and Practice.

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Striking Gold: The $40m Idea Unearthed Through Crowdsourcing

Qmarkets

Since then, Hochschild has used the platform to gather and develop the collective intelligence of its workforce, driven by a system of incentives and rewards. What drives innovation investment? Although you try to map underground resources very diligently, there’s still a margin for error once you go underground.