Co-Innovation

Co-Innovation: Collaborative creation of value by parties leveraging shared resources and knowledge to achieve mutual benefits.

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Innovation Leaders

Innovation Leaders: Individuals driving organizational change through pioneering strategies and creative solutions.

Innovation Charter

Innovation Charter

An Innovation Charter is a method of opportunity management used to create and formalize an organization's commitment to innovation.

Measuring Innovation

Measuring Innovation aims to find benchmarks and evaluate the performance and effectiveness of innovation initiatives within an organization.

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Co-design & Co-creation - What is the difference?

Co-design & Co-creation - What is the difference?

Co-design and co-creation are two concepts used by businesses to involve stakeholders in the design process of products, services, and experiences.

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‘Collaborative Synthesizim’ and Innovative Nations

‘Collaborative Synthesizim’ and Innovative Nations

Collaborative synthesizim is a new global age phenomenon focusing on re-thinking and re-looking at the world. Innovators who master this technique will succeed in the new $100 trillion global economy.

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Cultural Differences and Innovation

Cultural Differences and Innovation

Cross-cultural and multicultural capabilities are crucial for innovation in today's globalized world. This article explores the effects of cultural differences on innovation and provides practical advice on how to manage them.

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Customer Co-Creation Examples: 12 Companies Doing it Right

Customer Co-Creation Examples: 12 Companies Doing it Right

Co-creation projects are on the rise, with 58% of businesses using them to drive innovation. We look at successful initiatives from 12 companies and their key takeaways.

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Diversity and Innovation: Benefiting from a Corporate Culture of Inclusion

Diversity and Innovation: Benefiting from a Corporate Culture of Inclusion

Diverse perspectives are integral to successful innovation. This article explores three important diversity frameworks to consider for effective idea management.

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Evolving and Revolving.

Evolving and Revolving.

Camping can teach us about building effective networks: provide the right space, bring individual skills, maintain connections, and have a campfire to collaborate and coexist.

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Everything’s an Offer

Everything’s an Offer

An improvisational theatre concept called 'offers' can help enterprises engage with and respond to changes. Vague or too specific open innovation programs hinder progress while collaboration at intersections leads to productive innovation.

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General Mills' Open Innovation Initiative

General Mills' Open Innovation Initiative

General Mills' G-WIN initiative focuses on connected innovation, enabling the company to match business needs with the right talent.

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How Innovation Equals Diversity: the Science and Promise of an Inclusive Workplace

How Innovation Equals Diversity: the Science and Promise of an Inclusive Workplace

Diversity is not just a buzzword in business, it is the key to achieving true innovation. Evidence shows that diverse perspectives lead to creative problem solving and increased profits.

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Innovation and a network effect

Innovation and a network effect

Successful innovators have a proclivity to network with a broad array of people, industries, and ideas. However, internal networking within a firm is equally important to create a critical mass of innovators who exchange ideas and compete for resources and attention.

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Learning by Exchanging Ideas

Learning by Exchanging Ideas

Interview with Rami Levy of Motorola Mobility on the importance of innovation and the keys to successful collaboration within organizations.

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Online Community Management - 10 Ways a DJ Would Manage a Community

Online Community Management - 10 Ways a DJ Would Manage a Community

Online community management can be approached like being a DJ – mixing different content to create a unique and engaging stream.

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Our Guiding Practices for Diversity

Our Guiding Practices for Diversity

Brainzooming, an innovation management blog, is committing to diversity and outlining guiding practices to contribute towards improving black lives and the lives of other people of color in the US and globally.

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To Truly Disrupt Your Industry, You Can’t Go It Alone

GE Power is on a mission to transform the power industry by collaborating with customers and competitors in co-innovation initiatives, as well as exploring cross-industry innovation. This interview with Hao Dinh, an intrapreneur spearheading GE Power's innovation initiative, explains how the company is partnering with customers to achieve meaningful change.

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Welcome to Atlanta: Uprising. Leader. Convergence. Collaboration.

Join the Innov8rs Atlanta event on March 22-23, where experts will share success and failure stories, and you'll learn how to effectively implement company-wide innovation programs.

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What is an Innovation Business Developer?

An Innovation Business Developer is crucial to the success of any new product. This person develops new markets and creates a network of contacts to help commercialize and co-build the product.

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What is Customer Co-Creation?

Design and market research are shifting towards participatory experiences where users become a critical component of the process.

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What’s the key to success in corporate-startup collaboration?

Corporate-startup collaboration is a strategic partnership that involves exchanges, co-development and sharing of products or services. While these partnerships have surged recently, they face challenges in establishing symbiotic relationships.

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Whose responsibility is innovation anyway?

Innovation is no longer just the responsibility of R&D or Marketing departments. It is a contact sport that requires collaboration across the business and externally.

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Why Is External Collaboration So Important?

External collaboration can be critical to business success. This article discusses ways project managers can succeed through collaboration tools and the different methods for working with external groups.

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