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Nine Short Innovation Lessons from Lego

Destination Innovation

In 2014 the Lego Movie was awarded 96% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. He transformed the culture into a creative, agile and rapid hothouse of innovation. It was a marriage made in heaven for the toy company and spawned video games and short movies which became wildly popular. Innovative use of Video.

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So Where Is Innovation Heading?

Paul Hobcraft

They point out that since 2014, only four types of innovation and that are all related to digital, have grown increasingly in importance in their pursuit by companies. This agility needs the tools of testing, feedback, and adaptation to accelerate the innovation process.

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Why we should focus on Innovation Governance

Paul Hobcraft

It encourages agility, adapting, being fluid and dynamic in the way to undergo innovation. I do recommend a really excellent book, brought out in 2014 that provides a really detailed look at Innovation Governance. It provides good reporting that conveys innovations importance and impact.

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Does the Stock Market Inhibit Innovation?

Destination Innovation

Will the same team of people who were so agile and entrepreneurial in the start-up become even more innovative once they have some capital and recognition behind them? His 2014 report, Does Going Public Affect Innovation? What happens to an innovative start-up which goes public? Apparently not.

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Innovation Insights from Jeff Bezos and Amazon

Destination Innovation

Traditional bookstores responded with their own websites but none was as appealing, as agile or as successful as Amazon. In 2014 Amazon entered the smartphone market with the release of the Fire Phone. Within two months of opening sales were running at $20,000 a week and they continued to escalate. Amazon.com went public in 1997.

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Mapping the customer journey is the top driver for digital transformation

Paul Hobcraft

Back in 2014 at the time of the last survey by Altimeter, only 25% of companies undergoing some form of digital transformation had mapped the customer journey, as now 88% cited CX as the driver of change and why technology was the necessary solution.

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50+ Business Cases on Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Open Innovation EU

The course was based on the following model: The following list is a selection of the business cases they found, mostly based on the Lean Startup, Lean Enterprise, Corporate Entrepreneurship and agile/Scrum – all available freely and online for use at your disposal, so I decided to share them with you. A Brief History of Lean.