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Using Design Thinking to Ready Your Company for the Green Economy

IdeaScale

In 2011, EY and GreenBiz Group conducted a survey of executives employed by companies generating revenue greater than $1 billion. Why not start by using design thinking to start solving those problems? As we’ve discussed in a previous blog post, design thinking is a six-phase process that puts people in focus.

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Nine Short Innovation Lessons from Lego

Destination Innovation

They asked customers to help design new products. As recently as 2011 90% of Lego’s users were boys. Manufacturing operations were outsourced to Mexico and the Czech Republic and headcount in Denmark was reduced by over 4000. Inventory was reduced and the number of individual parts was halved from 13000 to 6500.

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71 Innovation Methodologies

Open Innovation EU

Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2011 more…. Focus stage: Early-stage Published: 2011 more…. Human-Centered Design (IDEO). Updated Model of Design Thinking. Design Thinking Process (Stanford). Crowdsourcing (Whitla). Crowdsourcing Process (Geiger). Focus stage: Early-stage Published: 2011 more….

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Learning to be Innovative – Future Building’s Crucial Role in Driving Innovation Impact

Imaginatik

An obvious example is a clue from 2011 – the public launch of Uber’s ride-sharing program in San Francisco. Many innovation programs, and some R&D teams, benefit from full-time staff who work as designated innovation scouts. For starters, you can crowdsource clues from elsewhere in your own organization.

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33 Routes to Open Innovation

Open Innovation EU

Collaborative engineering: a term mainly used in conventional manufacturing and production industry, with a focus on collaboration between two or more partners in the full process of design, engineering and manufacturing with multidisciplinary teams and supply chain integration. Route 10: Co-design. Route 6: Co-learning.

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How to Build the Ultimate Crowdsourcing Platform: Qmarkets’ New VP of Product Discusses Creativity and Innovation Management

Qmarkets

Sivan Leshem joined Qmarkets in 2011 as a project manager, before going on to manage the product delivery department during a period which would see Qmarkets grow into a leader within the idea management market. A key design criteria for everything we do, is to always keep the migration path of our existing customers in mind.

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Transforming workplace culture with your innovation management program

IdeaScale

In one of the defining studies on the subject, Moreau and Mageau conducted research on almost 600 health professionals in 2011 and found that “ perceived autonomy support predicts health professionals’ work satisfaction and psychological health. ”. — This blog post is part of a series authored by IdeaScale employees.