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Inspiring Innovation: How People Stories Can Spark Lateral Thinking

Destination Innovation

His efforts empowered millions, especially women, by providing small loans to help them start businesses, earning him the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. His work through The Ocean Cleanup project reflects the impact of fresh, bold thinking in tackling global environmental issues.

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Eating your own dog food

Idea to Value

In 2006, the editor of IEEE Software recounted that in the 1970s television advertisements for Alpo dog food, Lorne Greene pointed out that he fed Alpo to his own dogs. One major type of project we sold, which clients often paid millions for, was the implementation of the newest version of SAP finance software.

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How Vanguard, Verizon, and Spotify Apply a Product Operating Model at Scale

Planview

These on-demand sessions from the Project to Product Summit 2024 feature three distinct perspectives that answer this question. Agile Methodology Reinforcement: Vanguard had used agile since 2006 but lacked proper CI/CD pipelines. But what does a product operating model look like in practice and at scale?

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Interview with Design Thinking Leader Steven Forth on What Makes Business Model Innovation So Challenging

IdeaScale

IdeaScale was introduced to Ibbaka because they are working with us on a very special project to help us innovate on our business model, but we were impressed at their experience, conversancy in design thinking and innovation and passion for subjects like growth models. We do that in several ways: . How do you put it at the center?

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What impact does time pressure have on creativity?

Idea to Value

Companies such as AT&T’s Bell Labs (leading to the transistor and the laser), 3M allowing people to have 15% of their time to work on projects of personal interest (leading to Post-It notes ) and Google. However, above moderate levels of stress, creativity quickly falls.

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Planning fallacy: Why we are so bad at predicting how long something will take

Idea to Value

But did you know that it is one of the best examples of a project going over time and budget? Large-scale and important projects often take longer to complete and more money than originally planned. Large-scale and important projects often take longer to complete and more money than originally planned.

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#1,530 – The Sketchbook Project

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

According to Atlas Obscura : “The Brooklyn Art Library houses the Sketchbook Project: a collaborative library of artists’ sketchbooks that’s grown every year since 2006. And the project is not only open for people to contribute to, but also for people to browse. A definitive guide to artistry since 2006.

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