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Creating Innovation Connections as the Customer Advocate

IdeaScale

They did just that, and by 2011, e-books sales surpassed sales of print books. In fact, by April 2011, Amazon became the world’s largest e-book retailer. Bring the “voice of the customer” into the decision making and idea generation. User groups : Hold user group meetings where ideas are shared and feedback is welcomed.

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Best Practices for Internal Crowdsourcing: Lessons Learned from NASA

IdeaScale

The center was created in 2011 by the federal Office of Science, Technology, and Policy to foster innovation at NASA and throughout U.S. NASA@Work, the space program’s internal crowdsourcing program, is charged with promoting knowledge-sharing and idea generation. government departments.

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You need a red team, not a red pill

Jeffrey Phillips

Why you should consider a red team Let's imagine, instead, that your innovation team, the people with the great new idea, are the blue team. They've developed an idea based on a set of insights, voice of the customer work, great idea generation and a lot of testing.

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Creative Problem Solving Process

InnovationTraining.org

This initial thought process has led to later models, including the 2011 Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Learner’s Model from the Creative Education Foundation. While divergent thinking, or brainstorming, generates lots of potential possibilities, convergent thinking involves evaluating and choosing the most promising one.

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Can’t We All Just Get Along? Innovation and Bridging the Generational Divide

Idea to Value

Innovation requires more than just idea generation. After all, innovation cannot exist in a vacuum; but rather, an organization must build a culture of innovation to catalyze and sustain the creation of new ideas and then ultimately actually implement the ideas that make it out of the initial starting gate.

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Warm and Fuzzy at the Front End of Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

I wrote about “ hearing all the voices of ideas at the front end and the “ two distinct parts of the innovation funnel ” building from my original post “ the new extended innovation funnel “, written in 2011. The big shift potential at the front end of innovation.

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33 Routes to Open Innovation

Open Innovation EU

More info: Steen, Manschot & De Koning (2011). Searching for and collaborating with these communities may increase new ideas. It has become a main topic of research within design thinking. Route 11: Open Business Models. Weiblen, 2014 ). Route 28: E-Participation.