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The Innovation Sophistication Index

Destination Innovation

How can you assess how innovative your business is? The Innovation Sophistication Index is a list of just 24 statements. This is the Launch phase where the need for innovation is recognised but not much has been achieved so far. You are implementing modern concepts of Open Innovation and the Minimum Viable Product.

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Top Innovation Conferences for 2019

IdeaScale

Small presentation or giant hall, innovation conferences can sharpen your focus. Innovation is a constant process, and often it helps to take a day or two, step outside the boundaries of the problem you’re working on, and see how others innovate and refine their ideas. The Future Festival, Multiple Dates And Locations.

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15 Things Leaders should Not Do – if they want Innovation.

Destination Innovation

We hear plenty of advice for leaders on what they should do to drive entrepreneurship and innovation in their organizations. It might be smarter to just stop making some of the common mistakes which inhibit innovation. Do not make fine speeches about innovation and expect people to change. Once or twice is not enough.

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An Innovation Lexicon

IdeaScale

Innovation means different things to different people. Sometimes it’s hard to have a good conversation about innovation, because people understand the concept in very different ways. Let’s start with a general definition that states “Innovation is something new and useful ” incorporates both the concepts of novelty and value.

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Successful Innovation Program Highlights the Value of Intrapreneurship

IdeaScale

Intrapreneurs are people who are dedicated to their employer yet know how to apply basic principles of entrepreneurship within their roles at work. There may have been a time when people with characteristics of intrapreneurs were discouraged or outright forbidden to innovate, even within their areas of responsibility.

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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

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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How to Kill Innovation Projects

Destination Innovation

Which of these is the most important skill for a leader of innovation? Generating good proposals for innovative products and services is fairly easy. Here are some bad reasons to kill innovation projects. Here are some good reasons to kill innovation projects. Setting the vision, goals and metrics. Celebrating success.

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