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The Creativity Crisis: It’s Getting Worse

Idea to Value

Making test scores as the measure of success fosters students’ competition and narrows their goals, such as getting rich, while decreasing their empathy and compassion for those in need. However, the greatest innovators in history were inspired by big visions such as changing the world.

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Continuous Improvement and Breakthrough Innovation: Why You Need Both

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Businesses that strive for continuous improvement lay a better foundation for breakthroughs than businesses that preserve the status quo at all costs or otherwise eschew change. The British cycling team used incremental improvements to go from also-rans to winning seven of ten gold medals in the 2008 Olympics. Breakthrough Innovation.

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IDEA 2008

Boxes and Arrows

Vice-President of Interaction Design at Critical Mass , David Armano shares what organizations are doing this and how we’ll all need to re-think how brands are built and sustained in an ever-changing 2.0 37signals’ products do less than the competition—intentionally. We were either here, or there.

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The New Game Or Is It? Asset Orchestration

Paul Hobcraft

In this research they (Sirmon et al) suggest there are three primary stages of structuring, bundling and leveraging resources for the purpose of creating new value for customers and gaining competitive advantages, however temporary in today’s world. One highly relevant observation.

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The Innovation Intensity needed in the Energy Transition

Paul Hobcraft

In the short term, the dramatic economic downturn has given rise to seeing air pollution levels drop during the “lockdown” months, but as was seen after the 2008 /9 financial crisis when the economy came “roaring back,” so did the carbon emissions. We need to “push” for change now, certainly in the next five years.

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Covering Innovation My Way

Paul Hobcraft

I have two established businesses, one started in 2000 and one in 2008. These site includes our thoughts on what makes up innovation ecosystems and the changes these can offer us in innovation opportunity. I thought I’d outline the six here in this post as the sum of the parts that contributes to the whole. Guide4innovating.

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When tough times are ahead, you should double down on innovation

Idea to Value

For example, during the 2008-09 financial crisis, most companies cut their technology budgets by 20-30%. Their effects will stick around for a long time and can even become a clear competitive advantage for the business going forward. That obviously meant quite a bit of trouble for most technology companies.