The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation

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The Spirit of a Social Entrepreneur

This episode of the Mission Innovation Podcast is in conversation with Paul Schroeder, who is a social entrepreneur, awardwinning author, teacher, former Greek Orthodox priest and a coach.

The Role of Idea Managers in the Innovation Process

To gain the most benefit from their innovation efforts, companies need to manage their innovation process.

The technological innovation process and its 8 steps

The technological innovation process consists of a series of phases necessary to implement improvements or develop a new production process, product or service.

Project Management Best Practices for Innovation and CoCreation Project Management Training

Whats innovation? Whats cocreation? And how can PM help realized them?

Circular Economies 2.0: Experts Highlight Innovation and Best Practice

A number of experts presented innovative technologies for wastetoenergy solutions and associated challenges.

100 Innovations That Transformed Tourism

This article provides a systematized and analytically concise collection of 100 innovations that were not specifically inventedfor tourism but nevertheless affected tourism to a significant extent.

Breakthrough Innovation vs. Disruptive Innovation

Aren’t breakthrough innovation and disruptive innovation the same thing? It’s a common question when building innovation strategy.

Diffusion of Innovations

Professor Rogers explains how new ideas spread via communication channels over time. Such innovations are initially perceived as uncertain and even risky.

Five Examples of Companies With Internal Innovation Programs

Many companies are now starting to focus on developing various types of crossorganizational innovation programs, and in some cases, these programs have been going on for years.

How Microsoft Organizes for Innovation and Cultural Change through Hackathons

Linda Thackeray, Director of The Garage at Microsoft, discusses how organizations can prepare for hackathons and how they can free up time for employees to innovate.

Reclaiming Social Entrepreneurship

We dont need more social businesses, we need more social change and that requires more than just starting new businesses. It requires system change leadership. Daniela Thornton tells why and how.

Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm

Open Innovation describes an emergent model of innovation in which firms draw on research and development that may lie outside their own boundaries.

COVID19s Impact On Corporate Innovation

How will the COVID19 crisis affect corporate innovation? The Innovator brings you an exclusive story on the results of a survey of 23 multinational corporations.

Rework

This book shows you the way. Youll learn how to be more productive, how to get exposure without breaking the bank, and tons more counterintuitive ideas that will inspire and provoke you.

How Companies Can Innovate through Ecosystem Partnerships

Amy Trejo, Open Innovation Manager at Procter Gamble, discusses the role Silicon Valley and other hot ecosystems play in innovation partnerships.

Corporate Venturing Programmes INSEAD

For entrepreneurs, teamleaders and executives who want to ensure the prosperity of their entrepreneurial business ventures.

The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation

The Medici Effect shows how breakthrough ideas most often occur when we bring concepts from one field into a new, unfamiliar territory.

Six Lessons From Corporations With The Best Innovation Culture

Here, we share a few practical methods and examples on how to inspire creativity and get into an innovation mindset, for both you as well as others in your organization.

Making Radical Innovation a Mainstay in Large Companies

JeanLuc Meyer, SVP Strategy, Marketing Business incubation at Schneider Electric, discusses the primary challenges for making radical innovation a reality in corporations.

Strategic Management of Technological Innovation

This book approaches the subject of innovation management as a strategic process, and is organized to mirror the strategic management process used in most strategy textbooks.

The process of possibility

As the firstever Director of Venture and Innovation for Homeland Security, Molly Cain has learned to redefine “disruption” for herself and for the overall safety of the United States.

5 Tools Every Innovation Manager Needs

A company’s infrastructure will make or break corporate innovation.

8 Powerful Ways to Create a Culture of Innovation

In this episode of the We’re Only Human podcast, we point out 8 key ways that HR leaders can create, reinforce, and drive innovative behaviors in the business.

Innovate the way you innovate

For a long time, “innovation” really meant “innovation in products and services.” But for a while now, innovation of this kind has shown a declining return on investment. Why?

Innovate the Pixar Way: Business Lessons from the World’s Most Creative Corporate Playground

Readers of this concise and accessible book will learn how to apply Pixar’s secrets of success, which include the company’s ability to turn visions into clear directives.

Innovate the Way You Innovate

In today’s fastpaced business environment, the ability to innovate is not enough. You need to innovate efficiently, quickly, and with less risk.

21 Great Ways to Innovate

Continuous innovation is not easy and if you keep using the same method you will experience diminishing results. Try innovating how you innovate by employing some of these ideas from Paul Sloane.

Six tools to improve your creativity during an innovation process

The majority of the most successful innovation methodologies give creativity a strong role. Check out 6 tools that can help you.

Connect 2015: Innovate the way you innovate

Innovation evangelist Stephen Shapiro outlines the necessary elements for bringing about behavioral change within an organization and fostering innovation.

Eat, Sleep, Innovate : How to Make Creativity an Everyday Habit Inside Your Organization

Most would admit theyve failed to create truly innovative cultures. Theres a better way. And it all starts with the power of habit.

Better Innovation Season 3

Jeff distills his three key insights from this season to help you along your own unique innovation journey.

Radical Innovation Strategies

Examples of how companies radically innovated and disrupted whole industries.

Yoomap

Yoomap is the only player offering a complete software suite to manage your entire innovation process with 3 complementary solutions.

The fast future of mobility

Eric Bell is the CEO of Blue Duck, a mobility platform designed to get consumers from anywhere along their last mile, safely, responsibly, and with ease.

Examples of supply chain innovations

The overarching challenge in the next decades will be to design supply chains that meet future economic, environmental and social requirements, in short that are “people, planet, profit” oriented.

Brainstorm cards

Board of Innovations corporate ideation game, with 52 triggers to generate new business ideas.

9 Habits That Make It Easy To Come Up With Great Ideas

It’s not hard to come up with a great idea.What’s hard is to develop the habits that enable you to come up with great ideas.

Four quick strategies for finding your next idea

This episode is all about four quick hands on strategies for finding your next business idea big or small.

How To Come Up With Great Ideas and Actually Make Them Happen

This book will help you achieve ambitious visions for learning through swift innovation. We will borrow from the people who invent what we all end up using tomorrow, create much from very little.

How to Consistently Come Up with Great Ideas

The strangest thing about the process of generating ideas, is that there seems to be a commonly held belief that it is some sort of mystical process.

Lucidspark

Take your brainstorming digital in a workspace that’s as nimble as your creative process. Grab a sticky note, sketch freehand annotations, and watch your ideas blossom on an infinite canvas.

Where Good Ideas Come from, by Steven Johnson

One of our most innovative, popular thinkers takes onin exhilarating styleone of our key questions: Where do good ideas come from?

11 Templates for Brainstorming

These top ideation and brainstorming templates from Miro can be used with your team remotely or in the same room.

7 Ways to Come up with Creative Ideas, Backed by Psychology

Good ideas usually seem to come out of nowhere, but research suggests there are ways to cause these sudden flashes of insight to happen more readily.

A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing: Advice from Leading Experts in the Field

This book explains how to use the power of the internet to build and innovate in order to introduce a consumer democracy that has never existed before.

Ventures in Curiosity

As cofounder of one of the largest cannabis portfolio companies, Scott Kajiya is a life long learner and explorer. He shares his wisdom and insights on life, business, and cannabis.

Jugaad An Indian way of Innovation

Story of a roadside corn roaster and his passion towards technology.

Monetizing Innovation: How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price

Many companies have come to accept that a high failure rate, and the billions of dollars lost annually, is just the cost of doing business. Monetizing Innovations argues that this is tragic, wasteful, and wrong.

Understanding Doblin’s 10 types of innovations with examples

Doblin’s model covers the categories in which most of the innovations will fall, which are explained here with the support of examples.

InnovationCast

InnovationCast is the collaborative innovation management software that helps companies engage people to cocreate ideas and bring them to life.

Ward Off Zoom Zombies: How to Foster Virtual Creativity with Employees, Customers and Partners

Join expert ideation facilitators Lauren Raouf and Kulvir Gill as they share a toolkit for leaders to promote virtual creativity develop breakthrough innovations.

You Don’t Need a Good Idea Yet – You Need a Good Problem

Ideas get all the glory. But you can’t come up with a truly great idea until you’ve identified an important problem to solve. To find a great problem, ask yourself these six questions.

Fashion is fuel for innovation TED Institute

From the Industrial Revolution to WWII to the hippie movement, the culture of fashion has always blended the cutting edge of selfexpression with the latest innovations in technology.

Innovation: the Fashion Industry Course

Understand how big fashion retailers innovate and discover the story behind a favourite piece of your clothing.

Social innovation offers five golden opportunities to the apparel industry

The global apparel industry has grown significantly in the past decade, but at a heavy environmental and social cost. Social innovation can bring healthier, more holistic future growth.

Supply Chain And Product Innovation With Perry Elliss Director Of Innovation

With todays environmental problems, innovation and technologydriven apparel companies are breaking into the industry with exponential growth.

Tech and Innovation in the Fashion Industry: UK Industrial Strategy

For London Tech Week, Black Neon Digital and Fashion Roundtable hosted a panel event on Human Connectivity, Ethics and Fashion discussing the importance of empathy and authentic connection.

Process Innovation in the Global Fashion Industry

This book provides a comprehensive examination of process innovations occurring in the global fashion industry, with a focus on fashion brands from USA, Italy, and Japan.

Innovation In The Fashion Industry

The April panel was all about the innovations and technology that are impacting the fashion industry.

INNOVATING IN THE FASHION INDUSTRY

There are few industries remaining that have yet to be disrupted. The Fashion Industry is certainly on its way to joining the list of those being disrupted.

Sustainable innovation examples

This list of sustainable innovation examples is based on their CO2 reduction.

The Creativity Mini Course

The foremost thing I wish someone had taught me years back in a short and fun way is what creativity is, how it works, and how I can use it—so that’s what this mini course is all about.

Technology convergence innovation

Dr. Richter presents examples of technological convergence that leads to innovation and explains why a multi disciplinary system is key to an entrepreneurial society.

EP 232: Total Rethink: Why Entrepreneurs Should Act Like Revolutionaries

The problems we now need to solve today require a revolution in thinking and behavior in order to avoid disaster.

TIP Tool by TriangleIP

The TIP tool millennial friendly helps enterprises manage the complete workflow from ideas to patents in one place. The tool facilitates seamless collaboration from all the stake holders.

Brightidea

1 Software for Managing Employee Ideas

ITONICS

The Innovation Cloud for Everyone:ITONICS is the 1 digital innovation platform for SMEs and big enterprises. Start lean and think big.

How Operational Innovation Can Transform Your Company

Operational innovation and operational excellence may sound similar, but they are totally different.

upBOARD

A fully integrated endtoend innovation management solution

Creative Destruction

The concept of creative destruction is explored in this short revision video. The term “creative destruction was first coined by Joseph Schumpeter in his book Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy in 1942.

EP 234: The Art of Ideas

Great ideas don’t just happen. Innovation springs from creative thinking—a method of the human mind that we can study and learn.

How to create an Innovation Capture Program within your Organization?

Organizations want to become more strategic with their patent program.In this video, Thomas Franklin shares some strategies that you can adopt to implement an innovation capture program in your organization.

Measuring Innovation – The Definitive Guide to Innovation Management KPIs

You may have heard the saying, you cant manage what you dont measure. While there might be an element of truth in the saying, not everything in life, or business, can be measured accurately.

Measuring the unmeasurable quality of ideas

Measurement problems tend to lead individuals to make bad decisions, and innovation is by far one of those areas we measure the worst.

How to take the measure of innovation

McKinsey Podcast: Two simple R D conversion metrics can help executives measure the value of innovation efforts.

6 Ways To Measure Innovation Success That Every Company Should Put In Place

Here are the 6 metrics that the author found most useful to measure innovation success. His advice is to use them as a set and dont cherry pick one or two.

Five Principles of Innovation Measurement

What gets measured gets managed. Innovation is not serendipity; it’s a managed process of transforming novel ideas to achieve their business value. You can only manage what you measure.

Handbook of Innovation Indicators and Measurement

This Handbook comprehensively examines indicators and statistical measurement related to innovation.

Innovation KPIs

This video proposes two key innovation KPIs that should be used together.

Innovation measurement framework to determine innovativeness of a company: Case of semiconductor industry

A good measurement model will help a company to understand its current capability and identify areas that need improvement. This paper develops a framework to determine the innovativeness of a company.

Measuring impact

Annica Johansson from Reach4Change expands on how impact is measured in social enterprises and how to take measurement beyond tedious reporting toward an everyday resource for improving business and learning.

STRATEGY: Measure Innovation

Think its impossible to measure innovation? Watch to learn Tom Peters brilliantly simple, easily executable method for ensuring that a good portion of your work qualifies as innovative.

Measuring Innovation: A New Perspective

Measuring Innovation is a major step towards evidencebased innovation policy making. It complements traditional “positioning”type indicators with ones that show how innovation is, or could be, linked to policy.

Orchidea

Collaborative software for codevelopment, prioritization and implementation of innovation.

Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard. This book helps you with the hard part.

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND INNOVATION

Listen to this TEDx talk about how to do good knowledge management in order to enhance innovation capabilities.

Making Ideas Happen

Edison famously said that genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration. According to Belsky, the capacity to make ideas happen can be developed by anyone willing to develop their organizational habits.

Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works

This is a playbook for winning. Lafley and Martin have created a set of five essential strategic choices that, when addressed in an integrated way, will move you ahead of your competitors.

Ten Types of Innovation: The Discipline of Building Breakthroughs

Using a list of more than 2,000 successful innovations, the authors applied a proprietary algorithm and determined ten meaningful categories of innovation.

Crossing the Chasm

Moore shows that in the Technology Adoption Life Cycle there is a vast gap between the early adopters and the early majority. The challenge for innovators and marketers is to narrow this gap.

7 examples of user innovation

Look at these examples were innovation was driven by the users themselves.

EP 237: End of Competitive Advantage with Rita McGrath

In this episode, strategy expert and Columbia Business School professor Rita McGrath takes on one of most fundamental and recognised notions in strategy: that of sustainable competitive advantage.

Innovation Accounting in Practice

How to define, measure, and communicate progress with your internal and external stakeholders.

Understanding the 10 types of innovation

New products are invented all the time but this is only one way to innovate. Learn about all the other types of innovation.

The Collective Mind: Where Does Innovation Come From?

An article looking at some of the great thinkers and innovators.

The Myths of Innovation

Learn about where ideas come from the true history of ideas, why most people dont like ideas, how great managers make ideas thrive and the importance of problem finding.

On Pharma Trends and Big Company Innovation

How does the world’s largest producer of medicines in terms of volume balance the science and the business of innovation?

The Innovators Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care

Our health care system is in critical condition. Now more than ever, the industry needs a shot in the arm. It needs The Innovator’s Prescription, the nowclassic approach to efficient, affordable health care.

The pharmacy of the future? Personalized pills, 3D printed at home

In a talk and concept demo, Kraft shares his vision for a future of personalized medication, unveiling a prototype 3D printer that could design pills that adapt to our individual needs.

Open innovation and external sources of innovation. An opportunity to fuel the RD pipeline and enhance decision making?

In recent years, multiple extrinsic and intrinsic factors induced an opening for external sources of innovation and resulted in new models for open innovation.

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