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12 Types of Innovation You Should Know in 2021

IdeaScale

Successful closed innovation requires protection, control, and ownership of intellectual property while still under development, through the use of special product development teams within a company. Social Innovation.

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11 female innovation leaders share their definition of innovation

Idea to Value

Agree on an internal definition at your company – solicit input from all over the organization, not just those in product development, IT and the C-Suite. Once you have agreement, align all innovation initiatives, metrics, rewards, organizational structure and investments to that vision.

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Redefining Business Models in the Age of AI: People, Purpose, and Profit

Tullio Siragusa

Employees who understand customer pain points, organizational processes, and product development are invaluable in designing new business models that incorporate AI’s capabilities while keeping humanity at the core.

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Open innovation for social change — OECD's global challenge

Be-novative

Open innovation is combining internal and external ideas to advance technology, product development, and so much more—including social good. Why crowdsource for social change? In today's digital age, the Internet connects the world like never before.

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15 most important Innovation Theories your company should be using

Idea to Value

Contrary to what some people say, it is not just about the “design stages” of product development (initial sketches, graphic design, prototyping etc). Instead, imagine it more as a collection of processes which lead to a better understanding of the needs of a user and ways to find solutions to those needs.

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Maximizing Venture-Backed Company Success: The Importance of VC Investment in Operating Partners

Tullio Siragusa

This could include areas such as sales and marketing, product development, or human resources. Startups often struggle with scaling and growth, and operating partners or fractional CxOs can help them to address these challenges by identifying areas where improvements can be made and providing guidance on how to implement them.

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Open innovation & crowdsourcing resources

Board of Innovation

Collective intelligence & prediction platforms Lumenogic – collective intelligence markets Ushahidi – crowdsourcing crisis information Kaggle – data mining and forecasting Google Image Labeler – crowdsourced image labeling 04.