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Design Thinking for Social Innovation

Tullio Siragusa

Design Thinking for Social Innovation. Social innovation is a means to develop and implement innovative and effective solutions to solve environmental or social issues. . It is a new perspective that provides systematic and practical solutions that can be applied to ongoing social issues.

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Webinar: How United Way Served Community Needs During the COVID-19 Crisis

IdeaScale

UWW teamed up with IdeaScale to create an innovation strategy drawing on its volunteers and members to predict these issues in an initiative called Invisible Problems. The approach was simple; UWW used IdeaScale’s tools to reach out and to collect information on issues their team was seeing “on the ground.”

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An Innovation Lexicon

IdeaScale

For an academic or science-based organization innovation is primarily research and development and has a very broad scope – from generating new insights with no possible present use, to inventing new things for a market that is likely to exist in the future, to improving things we already have for markets we have defined today.

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Have you heard about ISO 50501?

IdeaScale

They’re looking to define standards that support business, public sector, and not for profit organizations in marketplace innovation, value chain innovation, process improvement innovation, organizational culture innovation, product and service innovation, as well as social innovation.

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Establishing an innovative business platform adoption approach

Paul Hobcraft

” Recently in Stanford Social Innovation Review, an article on the “ Adoption of Innovation ” by Benjamin Kumpf & Emma Proud is well worth the read as adopting any innovation process is a tough, slow one. Diffusion and Adoption of Innovation- theory into reality.

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25 years of Innovation- how has it evolved? Has it been successful?

Paul Hobcraft

Harnessing the Power of Data and Analytics: The rise of big data and analytics has transformed innovation by providing unprecedented insights into customer behaviour, market trends, and competitive landscapes. This has created a more distributed and collaborative innovation ecosystem.

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The Future of Work: Building Ethical, Sustainable Organizations Through Self-Management

Tullio Siragusa

In a self-managed organization, information flows freely, and everyone has access to the data they need to make informed decisions. This openness eliminates bottlenecks and barriers to communication, allowing teams to collaborate more effectively and respond quickly to challenges.