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Why corporate innovation is harder than a startup

Jeffrey Phillips

Since innovation is a difficult and often misunderstood word, or perhaps just because it is used to mean different things in different contexts, it can be difficult to understand why innovation at an entrepreneurial company or a startup is different from innovation in a corporation. But every entrepreneur has an idea.

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What if the current use of your product were banned?

Destination Innovation

This idea can be a fruitful source of innovations for your product or service if you only you can think laterally. Its advertising tag line was ‘Lucozade aids recovery’ Mothers bought it for their sick children. The team has to generate many ideas for entirely different applications. Observe your customers.

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Helping discover your innovation pathway

Paul Hobcraft

You need to discover your innovation pathway. I started posting my thoughts on innovation in August 2010. This is a post about the sources of my knowledge that feeds my innovation passion. I have followed a number of great innovation thinkers and read different books on the areas of innovation. Let me start.

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IdeaScale’s Open Nation 2019 Set to Inspire Innovation

IdeaScale

The spotlight will be on creativity, communication, inspiration, and innovation leadership at Open Nation 2019, IdeaScale’s annual conference set for Oct. Organizers have jam-packed at least a dozen seminars led by some of the most influential innovation leaders at top organizations into this two-day event. Is Innovation Tangible?

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Rationale, Passion and Beliefs: Changing how we approach the Energy transition.

Innovating4Energy

“During this year, I felt we were in a growing need to significantly alter the accepted practices of managing the Energy Transition in a new, more innovative, ecosystem-thinking way. “ I opened that post by posing a question and pointing towards this answer. We need a broader energy transition movement.”

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Exploring frameworks and methods you need to know as an Innovator

Paul Hobcraft

Recently, well actually, over the past twelve or eighteen months, I was asked to explore and explain different frameworks that the innovator might need to know or at least have an opinion upon. These were for HYPE and posted on their blogs, mostly under their “Methods & Frameworks ” tag.

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Strive for Clarity, Not Cleverness

Stephen Shapiro

This got me thinking about how this concept relates to innovation. These lower-fat fries came with a fatter price tag. Supposedly it was to suggest quick delivery, but people had no idea what it was. Supposedly it was to suggest quick delivery, but people had no idea what it was. Are they clear? Have you tested them?