Innovation Week # 29

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Featured Company GO! for Collaborative Innovation on Demand HYPE GO! is a new product offering from HYPE that gets you started right away for free with your innovation initiative. The versatile cloud-based collaboration platform has been infused with over a decade of best-practice experience and has been designed to meet the specific needs of smaller sized companies and teams. Read More How to Assess your Organization's Capability to Innovate In today's rapidly evolving world the ability to create new value and the ability to be innovative is now more important to an organisations survival than at any other time in our history and the ability of organisations to assign the right level of resources in the right manner is a critical to creating a successful innovation practise. Innovation is much more than just a random amalgamation of people, processes and measurement methodologies. Innovation is the embodiment of human creativity... Read more Innovate or perish. It's the new business reality. Is your company ready? Innovation isn't a natural mindset for most leaders—or for the companies they work for—but the good news is that innovation can be learned. Innovator's Accelerator is a new online learning program created by the world's leading innovation experts—Clayton Christensen, Jeff Dyer, and Hal Gregersen—that gives emerging leaders the tools and techniques they need to become innovators. Razor-thin margins. Increased global competition. A roller-coaster economy... Read more Crossed Signals: Things that Keep Us from Effective Collaborative Innovation Sometimes we plan to go from point A to point B, but wind up at point C. What happens when point C turns out to be a dead end? In this article innovation architect Doug Collins explores the crossed signals that can occur when organizations attempt to advance their practice of collaborative innovation, but find themselves someplace less promising. A lilac tree grows outside our bedroom window. Over the years, the tree has reached a height where a family of birds will take nest... Read more Featured Company Looking for a new way of getting high quality sales leads? Join our new and improved Resource Directory to capitalize on close to 100.000 unique monthly visitors looking for reliable innovation management service providers. Our directory is a great place for your company to get high quality sales leads. Don't miss out! Read More The Perfect Innovation Team In my new book 'The Innovation Expedition' I love to refer in discussions on innovation teams to The Mayo Clinic's Center for Innovation. The Mayo Clinic is a best-practice organization, which was researched in APQC's Innovation: Putting Ideas into Action 2009 study. It favors a specific combination of personalities when it builds innovation teams. The Mayo Clinic strives to include the following nine personality types when composing innovation teams:... Read more Why Innovate: The Link Between Strategy and Innovation The "why" of innovation is simple: change is accelerating and we don't know what's coming in the future, which means that we must innovate to both prepare for change, and to make change. The why of innovation is brutally simple: change is accelerating. If things didn't change, then your company could keep on doing what it's always done, and there would be no need for innovation. If markets were stable, if customers were predictable, if competitors didn't come up with new products and services, ... Read more Lo que las Empresas Visionarias Hacen Diferente Las compañías visionarias no sólo tratan de ver el futuro - crean el futuro. La historia de la innovación está repleta de ejemplos de errores de apreciación respecto a la dinámica de las nuevas tecnologías. Dos años antes de la quiebra de Polaroid, Morgan Stanley hizo la siguiente declaración: "Estamos actualizando a Polaroid para tener un mejor desempeño en los nuevos productos. Por supuesto, es mucho más fácil juzgar las predicciones fallidas en retrospectiva que hacer mejores evaluaciones... Read more 理解你的创新文化—来自瑞仕格的案例分析 创新管理公司很高兴通过向大家展示一个全新的案例研究，来强调创建创新文化过程中所面临的挑战—支持新产品/服务开发计划、促进思想活动、调动员工的参与度以及提升商业价值。在这篇文章中，HYPE创新的战略咨询主管柯林·尼尔森通过深入研究瑞仕格公司的协作创新案例，来说明挑战是怎样鉴定、管理并成功克服的。当被问及参与企业协作创新时，公司的员工是怎样的反应？ 当被问及参与企业协作创新时，公司的员工是怎样的反应？看到企业过去创新的失败，可能有一定程度的厌倦情绪？... Read more Training & Education: Innovators Accelerator Taught by the world's leading experts on innovation from Harvard and INSEAD, Innovator's Accelerator gives emerging leaders tools that will transform them into catalysts for change in your organization. Learn more Create. Share. Make Ideas Happen! Wazoku's Idea Spotlight is an idea management tool that helps businesses of all sizes to uncover, filter and prioritise the best ideas.  How could you be working smarter? Download one of our many free guides. Learn more Open Innovation Platforms: NineSigma Founded in 2000, NineSigma is one of the most experienced and advanced Open Innovation service providers and has been offering open innovation solutions long before it was an accepted management practice. Learn more Consultant Services: Ernst & Young Ernst & Young's Think Tank for Business Performance & Innovation, established in 2008, continues to thrive. It has proven to be an excellent networking platform for competency and sector insights and its collaborative environment is designed to stimulate innovation. 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