Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

While one meta-analysis of choice overload in 2010 found only limited evidence for choice overload, and a lot of positive aspects of additional choices, a more recent and larger 2015 meta-analysis did indeed find strong evidence for choice overload leading to fewer options resulting in more being chosen.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

When you are undertaking such a transformation in any system like energy, innovation becomes vital to inject new forces of dynamism and creative thinking to tackling such a change. As we switch from conventional power to renewables or we look to upgrade the distribution grids, we need to look towards innovative solutions.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 8, 2017

JUMP is an online crowdsourcing community launched in 2015. Its an online place where innovators, particularly small entrepreneurs, can present ideas for new technologies for energy-efficient buildings to private and public sector leaders in research and development. In order to meet program objectives, ORNL launched JUMP.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 13, 2019

Most of us have little difficulty listing male inventors, but rattling off a list of female innovators is harder. It’s not because women don’t innovate, but because historically they haven’t had the educational opportunities that male innovators have had. Here are five of the top female innovators of all time.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

In today’s technologically advanced society, the Internet is a vital resource for start-ups and established businesses alike when it comes to driving innovation. From finding new ideas to testing prototypes, the Internet provides a vast multimedia platform through which companies can innovate on a global scale.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 5, 2022

The global push to develop a private space industry was both driven by innovation and drives innovation in both the private and public sectors in turn. And it happened in large part due to a drive for innovation and a desire to take the space program to the public. The Promise of Space. The Roots Of A Private Space Sector.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 4, 2017

The Innovation Management Awards are in their fifth year and we thought it would be good chance to look back at all the past winners as we prepare to receive submissions from around the world in this year’s competition. Improving the University’s “Innovation Quotient.” 2015: Innovate Your State. State of Minnesota.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 4, 2022

This can be especially dangerous when the problem they are avoiding is that they are being disrupted , other companies are out-innovating them, an important project is off-target or performance KPIs are falling behind. In essence, ignore problems instead of acknowledging them. Volkswagen. Fixing the Ostrich Effect in your organisation.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Switzerland takes the first place in the rating of the World Intellectual Property Organization on the level of innovation development. Switzerland is a global leader due to their level of scientific knowledge and their ability to launch technologies into consumables for the market. How have they achieved these results?

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Destination Innovation

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Little wonder then that Bloomberg reported that 150 of the USA largest tech firms were sued 226 times for age discrimination from 2008 to 2015. They could lead the company into new markets and attract more users – including many smart senior citizens. Why are most chess masters under 30?’. They might improve creativity and usability.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

I wrote this recently in a post entitled “ Bringing New Innovation is Stretching the Mind “ It opened with this view: “There is a profound shift taking place, relating to innovation. Each of these is a link to the post itself: Bringing New Innovation Together Is Stretching the Mind, Posted on October 25, 2016.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 19, 2021

“Without a major acceleration in clean energy innovation, reaching net-zero emissions by 2050 will not be possible.” This 2050 target is in line with the 2015 Paris Agreement, the foundations of global consensus to limit the rise in global temperature to 1.5c. The role of innovation has a crucial one to play.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

I wrote twelve dedicated posts over this period, including this one, to highlight innovations place within the energy transition going on. To have any chance to reverse these temperature rises there is an increasing emphasis on innovation solutions within the technology that is required for the Worlds energy system. Super grids.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 19, 2021

“Without a major acceleration in clean energy innovation, reaching net-zero emissions by 2050 will not be possible.” This 2050 target is in line with the 2015 Paris Agreement, the foundations of global consensus to limit the rise in global temperature to 1.5c. The role of innovation has a crucial one to play.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Its success is due to a mixture of transparency, willingness to discuss when ideas won’t work, and accepting failure as part of the innovation process. It’s a role in government that demands constant innovation. And in 2015, that was what the GSA set out to encourage more of. Small Business Administration.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 24, 2022

Business innovation and sustainability go hand-in-hand. Today’s sustainability leaders are 4 times more likely to be considered innovation leaders compared to those not focused on sustainability, as you can see in our downloadable infographic. This belief is driving innovations in all areas of business.

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Imaginatik

JANUARY 10, 2019

Planbox, the pioneering provider of AI-Powered Agile Innovation Management software, and Imaginatik, the #1 ranked leader in Corporate Innovation Management according to Forrester Research, will join forces to seize on the innovation boom. Imaginatik has an incredibly talented team and product with a lot of potential.

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Destination Innovation

MAY 17, 2016

Amazon pioneered many innovative practices such as recommending what customers would like based on an algorithm which compared previous buying patterns with those of other consumers. By 2015 Amazon Web Services was the world’s leading provider of Cloud infrastructure services. Not all the innovations succeed.

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 2, 2018

In one case I remember vividly from 2015, Nigeria’s former national security adviser, Sambo Dasuki, was arrested for allegedly stealing $2bn [Ed: Yes, that’s a billion with a B] by awarding phantom contracts to buy 12 helicopters, four fighter jets and ammunition. The government in 2015 sent out a credit-card sized I.D.

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Destination Innovation

OCTOBER 26, 2015

At the age of 21 Jobs founded Apple with Steve Wozniak in order to market the Apple I personal computer. They eschewed the keyboard as used by the then market leaders Blackberry and Nokia. The Apple iPhone was launched in 2007 and became the market leader in the mobile phone market. Lessons for innovators.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 28, 2016

Known best for its high-end vacuum cleaners, Dyson has consistently entered new markets which make use of its digital motor technology to get more airflow through smaller areas. Dyson is often held up as an example of an innovation leader, especially when representing Great Britain. Dyson’s view of innovation suggests yes.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 1, 2016

Are we entering 2016 with an innovating mind-set? As we look to enter into 2016 what is top of mind for innovation to take hold and become the real core within our business organizations? Moving innovation from just being symbolic to essential. Moving innovation from just being symbolic to essential.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 14, 2016

The problem we are having, many of the traditional tools, many still taught in most management schools are lagging the changing market we are operating in. The latest one for 2015 is here. Innovation labs too show similar variation (4.22 Tracking the trends on Management Tools. Tracking the trends on Management Tools.

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Destination Innovation

JUNE 8, 2023

Would you like to have read the best 50 books on sales, marketing, leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship and self-improvement? Just imagine all the insights and lessons you would have learned and how that would have helped you in your business career. But how much time would it have taken?

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 4, 2016

2015 was the fourth full year of operations for Innovation Excellence. To celebrate we've pulled together a list of the Top 100 Innovation Articles of 2015. But enough delay, here are the 100 most popular innovation posts of 2015 (each receiving 7,400 - 56,000 page views): Continue reading →

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 18, 2016

I believe we need a new way to manage risk within our innovation activities. This post here is the third and last part , part three, where I lay out different mechanisms and framing of risk and innovation. We need to formulate a more robust risk innovation framework. Risk is becoming an evolving capability.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 18, 2016

I believe we need a new way to manage risk within our innovation activities. This post here is the third and last part , part three, where I lay out different mechanisms and framing of risk and innovation. We need to formulate a more robust risk innovation framework. Risk is becoming an evolving capability.

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Innovation in Practice

JUNE 29, 2015

Nielson released its 2015 BREAKTHROUGH INNOVATION REPORT that features best practices from winning brands – with seven specific case studies from Pepsico, Kraft, MillerCoors, Kellogg’s, Nestle Purina, Atkins and L’Oreal Paris. To date, only 74 products have been named a “Breakthrough Innovation Award Winner."

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Idea to Value

MARCH 20, 2016

2] That one particular woman is Joy Mangano, the “Queen of HSN”, who is a serial entrepreneur and innovator with more than a hundred patents to her name and is most famously known for her first invention, the Miracle Mop. More importantly, we can glean so many lessons about business acumen and innovation in business from her life story.

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 20, 2015

I rise today to praise Innovation Leader and Innosight on their publication of the 2015 Innovation Benchmarking Report. Even corporations with long time commitments to innovation find it difficult to sustain an innovation team or capability. The reporting is fantastic.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 13, 2015

OVO has done a fair amount of innovation work in the banking and financial sector. It was with great interest that I read a synopsis of a presentation given at Forum 2015, by the wonderfully named Jeffry Pilcher, who is the CEO/President and Founder of The Financial Brand. His talk to the conference was on a key innovation target.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 15, 2018

It turned a light bulb on for me and I saw the future of “connected innovation”. We begin to question current or existing knowledge as we gain greater connections and new innovation is often born from this. It is knowledge coupled with insights that lead to new innovation. So are you with me so far?

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Christensen Institute

MAY 17, 2022

In 2015, the private equity firm purchased CHI Overhead Doors, a garage door manufacturing company, for around $600 million. Much of the work we do at the Christensen Institute’s Global Prosperity practice is about learning how market-creating innovations can trigger widespread prosperity in poor countries. .

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Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 3, 2016

It’s clear that today, Sunday January 3rd, 2016 is the day that we’ve hit Peak Innovation. Josie Gibson pointed out to me that in 2015, it was the most-used business buzzword word in both Australia and the world. As a result of this, we’ve also started seeing a major backlash against innovation.

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Leapfrogging

AUGUST 1, 2015

The retail battle royale created the kind of hype associated with summer blockbusters and put the marketing punch for the new Terminator to shame. <&nbsp> <&nbsp> It’s all about business model innovation. Innovative Learning Conference – October 15 – 16 San Mateo CA. <&nbs.

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Innovation Excellence

MARCH 28, 2022

GUEST POST from Greg Satell In 1929, just before the stock market crash, Louis Bamberger and his sister, Caroline Bamberger Fuld, sold their department store in Newark to R.H. Macy and Company for $25 million ($343 million in 2015 dollars). … Continue reading →

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 25, 2016

There are a myriad of lists out there extolling the top trends and innovative products to watch for 2016. But perhaps the greatest innovations in business won’t be what companies decide to sell, but how they’ll go to market in ways that create entirely new business models. What does that mean for marketers?

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