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Innovation Models For Clean Growth
The BusinessGreen website looked at different approaches to driving sustainable innovation for big business. One approach is open innovation. Businesses often have an inherent reluctance to share ideas, but sustainable solutions frequently require fresh perspectives to maximize an idea’s potential. Collaborating beyond an individual company –
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World Open Innovation Conference
The World Open Innovation website announced the Fourth Annual World Open Innovation Conference which will be held Dec.13-15 in San Francisco CA. The conference will explore Digital transformations, led by GE’s Chief Digital Officer, Bill Ruh; consider organizational moonshots, led by Arati Prabhakar,
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The Future of Work and Commerce
The Brandchannel website reported that Mastercard is partnering with WeWork to see if its office space/sharing model can benefit from the global payments giant’s technology—and vice versa—and much more. The two companies are inviting startups to apply to their co-branded digitally connected
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Open Innovation in 60 Minutes or Less
The Digital@DAI website noted that when we do “open innovation,” it’s essential to define the problem we are trying to solve. And crucial to that process is crafting a good “Call.” Can this be done in 60 minutes or less? We started our workshop by giving participants an overview of open innovation
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Nestlé’s Work with Startups
The MarketingWeek website reported that while Nestle previously prided itself on “having all the answers”, it soon realized that in order to keep up with the outside world, it would have to look into creating more external partnerships. Startups could become our competitors, so we had to get into
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How Innovation Is Shaping The 21st Century Company
The Forbes Magazine website posted an article which noted that the broad logic behind open innovation is that it is increasingly difficult for a firm to continuously innovate and grow in isolation. It has to engage with different types of partners to acquire ideas and resources from the external environment
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Global Challenge Announces Final Awards
The BusinessWire website reported that the Tech for Integrity Challenge (T4I), a landmark effort to encourage technology innovators from around the world to create cutting-edge solutions to promote integrity, accountability and transparency in the public sector and beyond, announced final awards. The
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What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?
The Harvard Business School Working Knowledge website posted an article which noted that “We may see a sea change over the next decade or so, where more and more things that are considered creative breakthroughs will be made by people whose names are never going to be known as famous individuals. Those
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More Innovation Needed From Top Tech Companies
The Financial Times website posted an article which noted that big companies realize they have much to learn from the nimbleness and radical ambition of many start-ups. The move towards open innovation is a really interesting shift. The big companies are realizing they can’t do it by themselves any
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Open Strategy and Open Innovation
The Springer website posted an article which presents a systematic analysis of the similarities and differences between the fields of open innovation and open strategy. The article examines the concept of openness from a communication-centered perspective and compares processes of open innovation and
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