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Pivotal Innovation Management: The Past, Present, and Future of 180° Business Changes

Qmarkets

As increased consumer awareness transforms markets and government policy, and as technology creates so many unexpected shortcuts, I believe that this trend will only continue in the future. The future of innovation is now. He began by working in Lean Manufacturing/JIT( Just in time) Kaizen group within the Boeing Company.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup.

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Getting The Fundamentals Right

Innov8rs

You won't get results from your innovation programs, processes and projects if the fundamentals are lacking. And it's your role as innovation leader, for your company as a whole, or for your department or region, to get them right. Assess whether your innovation programs create substantial value for your company.

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Key Innovation Issues for 2016 and Beyond

Integrative Innovation

It requires a more deliberated approach, such as the lean startup process, design thinking or a combination thereof. Tip: Tim Kastelle has posted a worthwile series on how to implement lean startup for innovation initiatives. A well-suited way to govern this approach is to manage a portfolio of initiatives.

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Innovation 101: A Municipality’s Guide to Working with the Startup Community

CREATORS

Here are the results from Binti’s software solution: ? 31 other municipalities purchased the Binti software. It’s cases like this that show how governments, faced with organizational limits and a risk-averse culture, have much to gain from their more flexible counterparts in the private sector.