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Why You Should Care About Service Design

Innovation Excellence

That’s precisely the power and impact of Service Design and service blueprints. GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton What if a tool had the power to delight your customers, cut your costs, increase your bottom line, and maybe double your stock price? You’d use it, right? Yet very few people, especially in the US, know, understand, […]

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An Innovation Lexicon

IdeaScale

Today when some people talk about innovation they mean inventing or adopting new technology. Others define innovation as entrepreneurship – starting a new business. Outside the capitalist loop, we have the proponents of social innovation – developing new things which have a demonstrable social value.

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The Hedgehogs' Dilemma

Mills-Scofield

My friend and colleague, Ian Gonsher , uses design thinking to solve the dilemma with applications for humans of all ages. I bet you can think of ways to make it apply to you – at work and elsewhere. HedgeHog's Dilemma by Ian Gonsher from Mills-Scofield, LLC.

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Questions about Innovation

InnovationTraining.org

How can innovation be managed and directed in an organization? How does innovation differ from creativity, and how do the two relate to each other? How does innovation relate to entrepreneurship? What are the different types of innovation? How does innovation drive economic growth?

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Intrapreneurs

eZassi

Nurturing an intrapreneur to come up with your next generation product involves creating an environment that encourages innovation, providing support and resources, and fostering a culture of entrepreneurship within your organization.

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The Emerging Impact Entrepreneur

Innovators Alliance

The business paradigm is shifting with an increased focus on ‘impact’ entrepreneurship. Consider how businesses are seeking alternatives to plastic, adopting renewable energy, sharing technology designs for global benefit, and looking at circularity in supply chains. Impact entrepreneurship – why now? Have you noticed?

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Top funds for innovative ideas and startups: Asia — India

hackerearth

Big companies are relying on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and licensing, with huge funds set aside to grow and consolidate, for continuous and disruptive innovation. Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review. Business development and micro venture innovation fund. Social diffusion. Part 1: India.