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In this article Denys Resnick, executive president of NineSigma presents an opinion toward the difference between incrmental change and real innovation. She makes us wonder if incremental change should be considered as innovation and proposes a perspective towards real innovation.
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An interesting post by Scott MacFarland in the Huffington Post explains why immediacy and accuracy are important factors in the innovation process: “As innovation becomes a necessity for survival, so will immediacy and accuracy characteristics that make up the innovative
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What keeps business leaders up at night? If it’s not their company’s ability to streamline operations and lower costs, it’s whether their teams have the vision to see future opportunities and the flexibility to pursue those opportunities faster and more
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Interest in open innovation has risen dramatically in recent years. However, much of that interest has centred on large-scale enterprises. The focus of this paper is to explore open innovation from an SME perspective and in particular the under-researched perspective
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Since the beginning of an open innovation era back in 2003, the research of the phenomenon keeps spiking the interest and the publications with the keyword open innovation grow exponentially every year. The multitude of research focused on many details
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FEI open innovation 2014
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Over the last few month, the phrase “Responsible Innovation” has been booming on scientific social media. It has emerged from Corporate Social Responsibility as a topic that researches the effect and consequences of innovation on the long term. This could
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One of the products that we have been supporting recently, the Innovation Management Game, has been nominated by Accenture for the Accenture Innovation Awards 2013. According to the website of Accenture: The Innovation Management Game is a ‘serious game for serious professionals’: a
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Based on the rankings of the SSRN database, we are able to create a ranking of the best – most downloaded – Open Innovation and related topics articles that have been published in 2013 so far. Therefore, this is a
The Golden Circle of Innovation
Recently, a new article about the “The Golden Circle of Innovation” has been published in the SSRN. It provides an interesting way of combining Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle and some traditional literature on innovation science into the ‘Golden Circle of
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