
4 Types of Innovation and the Problems They Solve
The Harvard Business Review website noted that when you have a really tough problem, it often helps to expand skill domains beyond specialists in a single field. That, in essence, is the value of open innovation. Many believe it is just these kinds of unlikely combinations that are key to coming up with breakthroughs. In fact, a study analyzing 17.9
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Hard Truth About Business Model Innovation
The website Safairbooksonline posted a summary of the new book “The Hard Truth About Business Model Innovation” by Clayton M. Christensen, Emily Snyder, Derek van Bever and Thomas Bartman. The authors describe the development of a business model across time as a journey whose progress and
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Crowd Innovation
The Crowdfund Insider website noted that while during last century the “not invented here” syndrome was quite common, more recently corporate venture capital isn’t working properly and innovation is increasingly more often bought outside the company then achieved internally, thanks to fresher minds,
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Open Innovation: Helping Big Business Think Like a Start-Up
The Smart Company website reported that open innovation is a direct outcome of how social media is maturing and settling as a central play in organizational R&D. It also provides a brilliant opportunity to bring small and big business together. Open innovation presents a fabulous opportunity for
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Why It’s Time to Disrupt Old Business Models
An article on the GreenBiz website notes that it’s a hard sell to convince a CEO to change a business model based on threats or opportunities that have not yet materialized. Innovation, therefore, often remains piecemeal or incremental, rather than transformational, fundamental and system-wide.
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