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Eleven Reasons for the UK’s Poor Productivity

Destination Innovation

Weak political leadership, lobby groups, regulation and enquiries lead to a paralysis of decision making and action. Local government has had to introduce many innovations in order to cope with cuts but central government, the NHS and major state bodies are just not innovating fast enough (or at all). Poor management.

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Managing Expectations in Innovation Management

IdeaScale

However, this can present some challenges for innovation managers. Some concerns we have heard from innovation managers: “I do not want to overpromise what we’re going to do with people’s ideas.”. What do we do if a bad idea is gaining support?”. What if the ideas are in a focus area we’re not even working in?”.

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The Product Development Cycle: From Vision to Value

Qmarkets

These aren’t failures of creativitytheyre often the result of fragmented processes, misaligned teams, and unclear execution across the product development cycle. Yet, many organizations still rely on outdated, linear methods that treat product development like a checklist. What is the Product Development Cycle?

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Designing at an Innovation Management Company

IdeaScale

Here’s what I’ve learned about designing at an innovation management company so far. As the only designer on my team, I tend to design on an island. I’m outnumbered by sales reps, account managers, and overseas developers. As a solo designer, my role is to teach my team about design.

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3 Dimensions of Innovation: the 23 Capabilities your company needs to succeed

Idea to Value

In fact, innovation and creativity are cited as being some of the most important skills and differentiators listed by CEOs which will determine their future success. And companies regularly boast about how they are spending millions (and sometimes billions) of dollars into research & development to come up with innovative new offerings.

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Can We Have One of These? A Product Innovation Platform

Paul Hobcraft

The Whitepaper called “ Product Complexity, Digital Transformation, and the Innovation Imperative- The race to reinvent how complex products are developed is here “ This made me a little jealous and a little wishing that ‘we’, across the whole of innovation management , could not have one of these platforms available today.

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What Is Corporate Social Innovation? Understanding the New Driver of Change

IdeaScale

For example, rather than saying your aim is to deliver nutritious food to the poor, you can say that the goal is to increase distribution of nutrients to a population with a particular income by 100% in the next 2 years. Set a benchmark and see if you manage to create enough value to achieve your goals. Let’s say you did. If so, how?