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The most common image of an innovator is of a kid developing a great idea in a garage. But that is the exception to the rule. 
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Switzerland tops European innovation list swissinfo.ch The Innovation Union Scoreboard 2013, published this week, gives a comparative assessment of the innovation performance of the EU's 27 member states and the relative strengths and weaknesses of...
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People are sometimes confused about is the difference between innovation and disruption.
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I wrote the popular book The Myths of Innovation to capture everything I wish I'd been told before I started my career. I've seen bloggers summarize the book into a simple list (or cheezy video), ...
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Very insightful summary indeed.
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For decades, the key challenges on innovation management in large companies have evolved around four elements; strategy, structure/approach, culture and people.
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Blue Ocean Strategy provides the most thorough approach to developing innovation.
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In his book Grand Central: How A Train Station Transformed America, New York Times urban affairs correspondent Sam Roberts writes of the scientific innovations pioneered at New York City's Grand Central Terminal, such as electric commuter trains...
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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESSWIRE)-- Silicon Valley to Tackle Global Tech Challenge at 30,000 feet Today, British Airways announced UnGrounded , an innovation lab in the sky designed to connect industry leaders ...
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This research led from the previous blog post on Disruptive Innovation Explored and showed how the project developed deeper understanding of how organisations reject disruptive innovation opportunities and what can be done to help overcome this tendency. ...
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In my innovation travels I’ve explored much of the lesser understood sides of innovation. I have always set about to try to explain them.
Kasia Hein-Peters's insight:
It's important to understand what we are talking about - align your language around innovation.
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In the final analysis, innovation has little to do with flashy conference presentations or exciting case studies. Much like any other business process, effective management entails being able to infuse core principles into everyday operations.
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Innovation is helped by a thorough process, especially around collecting indepth insights.
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What makes for an innovative company? An innovation initiative is not enough.
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Innovation is a mean, not a goal.
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Why things go wrong even when you do everything right
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It is not enough to bring a new product to the market, even if it is technologically very advanced. The eco system must be there and the product must be incorporated in it.
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Google, a great marketplace success, has fostered continuous innovation by smartly managing its employees. Laszlo Bock, Senior Vice President of Google's People Operations, talked to me on Thursday about Google’s innovation secrets.
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Google culture is an example of proactive approach to culture, with a clear objective in mind of increasing innovativeness.
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Universities are looking for ways to keep education affordable. MOOCs offer that possibility. Amazon.com meets academia and the merchandising makes the head spin.
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Five Forces vs. Blue Ocean Strategy. Do you innovate and move to uncontested territory or improve in exisiting markets? Share/Bookmark · Articles & Advice, Featured Articles & Advice, Your Business RSS 2.0 feed.
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Finding the business model sweet spot can help companies generate both incremental growth from optimizing existing offerings and transformational growth from generating entirely new offerings.
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At ImagineNation™ our experience tells us that innovators are both born with a genetic predisposition and made through active endeavor.
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For decades, the key challenges on innovation management in large companies have evolved around four elements; strategy, structure/approach, culture and people.
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But the arrival of innovation czars represented a new approach to driving organic growth. The idea was to “put somebody in charge” who would lead innovation efforts.
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Collaborative Comes Before Open
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Collaboration is necessary for innovation.
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Behavior is the unknowable variable in every innovation, and it is the variable that most determines the opportunity a new business model has to evolve and take advantage of the new behavior.It's The Behavior, Stupid We are at the tail end of an...
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Despite all of the research pharmaceutical companies do on products, not all side effects are immediately identified. Big data is making this possible.
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RT @ixchat: Learning From Steve Jobs http://t.co/BQ8ixbJv4o Innovation Excellence - Thinking Differently About Leadership #tech
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Life story
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Philip Kotler, faculty, Kellogg School of Management in a class said old marketing that involved mass production, mass distribution, mass marketing and lots of 30 second commercials which would put everyone to sleep, is now dead... Via Ricard Lloria
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Kotler reinventing himself
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There is hope for us, aging innovators... :-)