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Three Myths About Innovation Explained

By On December 29, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Many senior mangers want good ideas with little investment. Often Innovation is perceived as being an expensive activity where many resources are wasted through the ‘hit and miss’ approach of idea development. Not so according to Jim Stikeleather of the Management Innovation eXchange.

Jim’s post, ‘Three myths about innovation‘ is a good [...]

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Customer Satisfaction is Top Metric for Innovation, says PwC

By On December 18, 2011 · Leave a Comment

A new report by consulting giant PwC highlights customer satisfaction as the top metric for innovation in today’s companies.

According to Smart Planet, customer satisfaction was cited by 79% of innovators as being the leading metric, followed by market expansion at 72%.

And why not? Ultimately innovation in a commercial sense is about creating competitive advantage [...]

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Challenge Driven Innovation

How to Accelerate Innovation through Challenge Driven Innovation

By On November 23, 2011 · 2 Comments

Steve Bonadio of Innocentive talks about the benefits of Challenge Driven Innovation (CDI) to speed up innovation cycles, harness crowdsourcing principles and drive out the cost of internal innovation. Check out How to Accelerate Innovation through Challenge Driven Innovation | InnovationManagement.

In June 2011 The Economist teamed up with Innocentive to harness [...]

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Innovation Skills

Top Skills Innovators Need to Succeed in 2012

By On November 19, 2011 · 2 Comments

Today’s organisations need innovators more than ever. As products and services become increasingly commoditised and the global economy slips into further turmoil the companies that innovate for competitive advantage will be the ones that survive in the long term. Increasingly companies such as GE are running formal innovation  programmes in order to foster [...]

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Interested in Innovation? So are we…

By On August 1, 2011 · 1 Comment

Why do some organisations just innovate better than others? How do you foster and manage innovation in your company? Are you building the right personal skills for innovation?

Welcome to The Innovator’s Journey. We’ll be discussing and answering these questions in this new blog. I will be inviting guest bloggers and bright minds to [...]

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