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The Explainer: What is a Business Model?

’Business model’ and ’strategy’ are among the most sloppily used terms in business.

The Art of Science of Co-creation Osama Malik TEDxJMU

This talk will bring parallels from a successful business executive and an overly passionate musician together to give a really informative talk about how we all have a creative element.

How to develop agile leaders in the New Age

Speed is essential to business success. More than just a “blink of an eye’ experience, today’s era demands accelerating change.

Blue Ocean Strategy Summary

Summary of the first four chapters of the international bestseller Blue Ocean Strategy.

Ambidextrous Organizations Explained

What is an ambidextrous organization? In a nutshell, an ambidextrous organization takes care of current core businesses with the right hand, while taking care of innovation with the left hand.

Technology and Innovation Report 2021 UNCTAD

Human development has been spurred by changes in technology. But so has inequality. Today’s staggering inequalities began to appear with the industrial revolution.

The Greatest Ideas of 2020

2020 may have been the worst year ever but it was also one of the greatest years ever in terms of innovation. Here’s a quick look at some of the absolute greatest ideas of the year.

The dark side of innovation - Innovation killers: The Organisation

This article highlights different organisational factors that drive failure of innovation.

Innovation for Impact - Value creation as an active learning process

Former CEO of SRI International, Curtis Carlson shares his approach to develop groundbreaking innovations.

Big Little Breakthroughs: How Small, Everyday Innovations Drive Oversized Results

The pressure to generate big ideas can feel overwhelming. We know that bold innovations are critical, but when it comes to breakthrough thinking, we often freeze up.

Why business building is the new priority for growth

It can help companies diversify their revenues and keep pace with shifting customers and markets. But incumbents often lack the skills they need.

Innovation Partnerships Need Preparation

Corporate innovators can use this checklist before closing business development deals with startups.

Here’s the Difference Between Innovation in China and the U.S. I Fortune

What are the characteristics that make China such an innovative country and what are their main challenge?

Creating Innovation Spaces: Impulses for Start-ups and Established Companies in Global Competition

This book offers fresh impulses from different industries on how to deal with innovation processes. Authors from different backgrounds share their experiences with enabling and managing innovation.

’What If?: From Inspiration to Innovation’ TEDx

If we do things the way they have always been done, nothing changes. In this inspirational speech, Mr. Harmeyer reminds us that true innovation happens only when we ask ’what if?’

Making sense of innovation pipelines, funnels, and portfolios

If you have heard the terms innovation pipeline, innovation funnel, and innovation portfolio, you might have wondered—what is the difference?

Sustainable Innovation: Strategy, Process and Impact

The most important theme of the discourse on sustainable development and sustainability challenges concerns the relationship between innovation and sustainability.

Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen

The first prescriptive, innovative guide to seeing inflection points before they happen—and how to harness these disruptive influences to give your company a strategic advantage.

8 things that could derail innovation at your company — and how to avoid them

In this excerpt from “From Incremental to Exponential,’ the authors spell out the “eight deadly sins of stasis’ that can doom a company’s efforts to change.

The Customer-Driven Playbook

Many product developers wish they could work more like a startup, with small, nimble teams capable of making quick decisions.

What Sustainable Innovation Might Look Like in 2021

To tackle some of the biggest challenges we face today, like climate and health, we’ll need to fundamentally rethink our approach to innovation.

Three things I learned about disruptive innovation as an UberX driver TEDxQueensU

In a world buzzing about disruptive innovation and traditional work being turned upside down, what can any one individual do to successfully forge their own way despite all this unpredictability?

ideasby.ai

Content ideas generated by A.I.

The New Innovation Standard

Like it or not, there’s one problem every company will inevitably confront: how do I innovate successfully? In this book we lay out the industry-tested Innovation-Led Growth framework.

The Jobs To Be Done Playbook

The Jobs To Be Done Playbook (JTBD) helps organizations turn market insight into action.

Mind Map to Success: The Peter Draws Method

There are numerous ways to customize and personalize this for your own use, such as adding color to define pathways, using different sizes and orientations of paper.

Product Portfolio Management Framework

The Product Portfolio Management Map enables an intentional allocation of RD and Marketing investments that realizes a riskreward mix as determined by overall corporate strategy.

Innovation Thinking Methods for the Modern Entrepreneur

Building ’step-function’ better things is going to be every innovator’s job the next few years. This book introduces the framework that can help you find those solutions simply and reliably

Innovative Ninja : A STEAM Book for Kids About Ideas and Imagination

Innovative Ninja shares how we can become more innovative by using the 3 Is. Find out what happens in this STEAM book about imagination and ideas.

How to get Ideas

How to Get Ideas shows you - no matter your age or skill, your job or training - how to come up with more ideas, faster and easier.

Meaningful: The Story of Ideas That Fly Kindle Edition

Our ideas fly when we show others their wings. Jiwa explains a whole new way to innovate and change the world.

5 Ideas A Day eBook

5 Ideas A Day eBook – What happens when you come up with 5 ideas for 365 days? What’s included:🚀 1825 ideas💡 Tips and advice for generating ideas.

How to Develop a Strong Learning Culture to Innovate

In this constantly changing business environment, innovation has become a necessity not only for growth but also for survival.

How to Mindmap: Going deeper into the 5 Basics

Mindmapping is a great solution. What would it be like to be taught mindmapping by someone who’s used it to harness his dyslexia?

Mind Map Tutorial My Secret for Project Management

I first picked up mind mapping while at Google. It’s been my secret weapon for everything from managing projects, designing products, strategizing business deals and accelerating learning curves.

Want to learn better? Start mind mapping Hazel Wagner TEDxNaperville

Hazel Wagner has spent her life learning how to learn. Hazel shares her work on mind mapping and what it can do for understanding, memorization and retention.

How to Mind Map with Tony Buzan

Find out how to Mind Map and why it is so effective from the inventor of the process, Tony Buzan.

IDEO Brainstorming Video from IDEO U

Want to learn by seeing how experts brainstorm? See brainstorming in action with IDEO’s Toy Lab. This brainstorm - about attracting more visitors to a zoo - was recorded as part of a course by IDEO

The Three Brainstorming Techniques That Work

In many organizations they use brainstorming techniques to help them generate new ideas. Here are some ideas to ensure that those brainstorming sessions are better and are more effective for you.

Brainstorming Techniques - How to Innovate in Groups

Brainstorming is a good way to come up a solution or two. As the name suggests, the idea is that you storm on the neural pathways through the brain to pick a lot of thoughts quickly and intuitively!

Tired of the Unpredictable? Learn to be Anticipatory

More often than not, many businesses and organizations I work with view it as difficult or even impossible to foresee problems before they occur in our unpredictable world.

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Business Model Innovation

Rethink how your organization creates, delivers, and captures value--or risk becoming irrelevant.

Disruptive Vs. Incremental innovation

The fundamental differences between incremental and disruptive innovation are their starting point and their desired outcomes.

The Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing Game-Changing Breakthroughs

Read The Radical Innovation Playbook and discover how to successfully unleash and develop your breakthrough moment.

Innovation in a crisis: Why it is more critical than ever

A crisis presents a choice. This is particularly true today.

COVID-19’s Impact On Corporate Innovation

How will the COVID-19 crisis affect corporate innovation? The Innovator brings you an exclusive story on the results of a survey of 23 multinational corporations

Innovation for Development Impact

The development co-operation community needs to innovate to meet the global challenges ahead.

Transformation is the Only Way to Really Change the Game

Steve Jobs of Apple once stated, The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. There is actually quite a big difference between change and transformation.

How Apple Is Organized for Innovation: The Functional Organization

The adoption of a functional structure may have been unsurprising for a company of Apple’s size at the time. What is surprising—in fact, remarkable—is that Apple retains it today.

Times Higher Education Innovation Impact Summit

’What makes a successful innovation climate?’, Royal institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, 26 - 28 Apr 2022s

Outcomes Over Output: Why customer behavior is the key metric for business success

In the old days, when we made physical products, it wasn’t so hard to set project goals. But in today’s service and software-driven world, ’done’ is less obvious.

Human-centred innovation in a digital world.

Today we are facing many current disruptions where we need to react fast and intelligently. There are many situations we are facing that are a race against time.

How covid-19 is boosting innovation The Economist

As businesses and organisations look towards the post-pandemic era, what lessons can be learned about innovation?

Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value

To remain competitive in today’s marketplace, companies must adopt a culture of customer-centric practices that focus on outcomes rather than outputs.

Cross-industry transfer map

Transfer cross-industry insights and come up with new ideas for your challenge!

Capturing the Real Value of Innovation Tools

Advances in development tools have tremendous potential for increasing productivity, cost savings and innovation.

Diffusion of Innovation Theory: The Adoption Curve

In every society, there are specific segments of the population that try a new product or adopt a new behavior at different stages.

From Trend Watching to Idea Wrangling: How To Turn Cycles Into Action Plans

We’ve seen cycles come and go—everything from music trends that emulate days gone by to past decades of fashion making a comeback. It is evident that cycles are all around us.

Design Driven Innovation: Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating What Things Mean

To date, the literature on innovation has focused on either radical, technology-driven innovation or incremental, market-pulled innovation.

Why Innovation Needs Legitimacy and Power to Flourish

When innovation does not have a high enough status within the organization, innovation projects are always placed at the bottom of everyone’s priority list.

Why innovation in biomaterials is key to the success of bioprinting

The ultimate goal of bioprinting is to produce artificial organs for organ transplantation. Learn more about current current research.

Why Innovation Matters for Business That Want to Grow and Thrive

This article will focus on why your business needs to be more innovative now and how to go about developing a real innovation plan.

Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

From three partners at Google Ventures, a unique five-day process for solving tough problems, proven at more than a hundred companies.

Construction Careers Just Got More Interesting – And Most Likely, Less Backbreaking

Whether it is a global pandemic or everyday disruptions, most of us default to reaction and agility when faced with a crisis.

Antler: Meet and Greet

Antler, an early-stage VC company builder is launching in Copenhagen to build and invest in sustainable tech-companies and has its first meet and greet this Thursday at 12pm (84)!

The Critically Important Innovation Narrative

Whatever we do, we do far better when we become emotionally connected. Often understanding a good story builds this emotional connection or simply puts you off.

Discomfort is Necessary for Innovation

What is the core element of innovation? Sterling Hawkins explores discomfort, a key ingredient of innovation.

Why Innovation’s Future Isn’t (Just) Open

Innovating with external partners doesn’t always give companies a competitive advantage. It needs to be balanced with internal efforts.

Running Lean

What we need is a systematic process for quickly vetting product ideas and raising our odds of success. That’s the promise of Running Lean.

Use innovation to grow your business

This guide explains how you can make innovation a key business process and outlines the different approaches you can take.

The best kindergarten you’ve ever seen Takaharu Tezuka

Meet: the world’s cutest kindergarten, designed by architect Takaharu Tezuka.

The 10 most innovative countries in the world

Switzerland tops the list for the fourth consecutive year for its investments in innovation infrastructure and...

Creativity Workouts - free 60 min online sessions

In celebration of World Creativity and Innovation Week, April 15 – 21, we are running a series of 60 min Zoom workouts, introducing you to some creativity tools that can unlock and unblock problems!

Think Outside The Control Panel: How To Stay Employable In A Digital World

It is an understandable fear, especially if you consider my Hard Trend Methodology.I.), is without question a Hard Trend, further authenticating the fear of losing your job to technology.

Why Innovation in Health Care Is So Hard

Health care—in the United States, certainly, but also in most other developed countries—is ailing and in need of help.

HYVE Success Stories Blog

A blog about innovation, digital transformation, product design engineering, market research AI and digital solutions, capable of boosting your business or professional career.

The Importance of Innovation in Business

Learn about the steps you can take to become more innovative in your career.

How covid-19 is boosting innovation The Economist

As businesses and organisations look towards the post-pandemic era, what lessons can be learned about innovation?

4 Reasons Why “Innovation’ in Education is Different Today

So why is innovation in education moving to the forefront?

Going beyond the known of today

There are so many places where innovation is essential within the Energy Transition, due to the magnitude, size, and complexity of the change needed to achieve a decarbonized world.

Leading a values-based business

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz rose from a childhood in public housing to leading a company that revolutionized the way the world drinks coffee.

10 MOST INNOVATIVE SCHOOLS IN THE WORLD

Learn about 10 innovative school concepts around the world that try to disrupt the education sector.

Anticipatory Minds don’t Ask about the New Normal, they Forge the Next Normal

From virtual museum tours to five-star curbside pickup of a steak and lobster dinner, some tremendously innovative ideas emerged out of the coronavirus pandemic of 2020.

How Taco Bell Is Becoming the World’s Most Innovative Franchise

Taco Bell, the Mexican-inspired fast-food chain, is quickly adapting for a new era of food culture.

The Lean Enterprise: How Corporations Can Innovate Like Startups

The first and most comprehensive book on bringing the startup mindset into large organizations.

8. How practicing in public can help with idea generation struggles

In the latest episode of ’idea talks’ I talk about a mindset of ’practicing in public’ and how it can help overcome idea generation struggles.

8. How practicing in public can help with idea generation struggles

In the latest episode of ’idea talks’ I talk about a mindset of ’practicing in public’ and how it can help overcome idea generation struggles.

What We Can Learn from the 8 of the Most Innovative Schools in the World

Innovation isn’t just related to business. It’s also something that educators strive to achieve.

29 BEST INNOVATION BOOKS (IN 2020)

In this article, we’ll share our 29 favorite innovation books.

Leadership Alignment Work Mat for making Innovation fully connected.

The Leadership Alignment Workmat provides a unique examination of the executive’s role in innovation

IoT Could Soon Be As Common As Your Daily Commute

The technology that encompasses a Smart City is fast becoming a reality, and it is already applied in many ways

5 OPEN INNOVATION SUCCESS STORIES

For organisations seeking to uncover new and innovative products and services, it’s no longer enough to look inwards. Today, more companies than ever are using open innovation strategies.

The Henry Ford Archive of American Innovation

Learn about innovation from America’s greatest makers, thinkers, and doers.

Making our foundation industries fit for the future

As the Innovation Readiness in Foundation Industries report is launched, Bruce Adderley comments on what we need to do to encourage businesses and the sector to embrace innovation in the UK.

Key to Innovation? A Good Story

“A company without a story is a company without a strategy. – Ben Horowitz

Disruptive Innovation

Disruptive Innovation theory observes how new innovations create a new market and a new value network, which in turn disrupts an existing market.

A.I. Requires Repositioning Your Workforce Rather Than Laying Them Off

Artificial intelligence (A.I.), one of the 20 core technologies I identified back in 1983 as the drivers of exponential economic value creation, has started out simple.I.I. Continue reading A.I.

Mapping Out Your Innovating Way Forward

Mapping any innovation journey can be complicated. There is a fairly detailed journey needed to be undertaken for mapping out your future direction of innovation.

2 Inspiring Business Innovation Success Stories: Carrier and 3M

Let’s take a look at these innovation business success stories from two well-known companies that used innovation challenges to come up with groundbreaking products that we still use today.

Smarter, cleaner local energy systems for a net zero future

As the plans for the National Infrastructure Bank are announced, Mareike Schmidt asks what do we need to do to encourage the growth of smarter, cleaner local energy systems across the UK?

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