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The art of “Back Casting” needs care

Paul Hobcraft

In large part, this is due to a tradition of compartmentalized disciplines in academia, where the social scientists have pushed a quantitative, value-neutral approach to study these systems in the misguided pursuit of establishing concrete laws similar to the laws of nature.

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Creating Innovation Connections as the Customer Advocate

IdeaScale

Six years ago, when Amazon sold primarily print books, company research showed that customers liked e-books—a new product that threatened Amazon’s core business. 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.

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Top Jobs to be Done Books (JTBD)

InnovationTraining.org

Check out these popular JTBD book recommendations. If you’ve already reviewed our introductory training article, you may be interested in finding more resources to expand your knowledge about this framework and how to apply it to your own creative challenges and innovative problem-solving experiments. Get it here. Get it here.

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Building an Agile & Innovative Organization

Idea to Value

There are great many companies and leaders that obsess about their market share, competitors, or technological prowess. If your technology doesn’t create value for customers, they won’t buy it. Need a contract reviewed by your legal team? Customer obsession. If you don’t have customers, your market share is zero.

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Corporate Challenges to Innovation – How Do You Keep It Going

IdeaScale

That is, at least partially, due to the fact that the productivity gap between frontier firms and their “competitors” is increasing. The good news is, even if you don’t know it, you already have two-thirds of the People / Processes / Technology pyramid needed to implement that plan. Technology. Let’s start with the obvious.

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Creative Construction – Book review

The Inovo Group

Well-respected Harvard Business School professor and HBR contributor Gary Pisano has weighed in on the topic of large company innovation in his new book ‘Creative Construction’. This book is a worthwhile, albeit high-level, treatment of the topic with a rich set of descriptions and examples. Highlights. Gary Pisano, PhD.

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The Key Trends to Watch in Cybersecurity

Business and Tech

To address the problem, security leaders should: Review hiring practices. Which cybersecurity technology trends have you seen make the biggest impact in terms of improving data security in the last year? Build a cybersecurity roadmap. Redefine what the term “qualified” means before seeking candidates. computer science only).

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