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The Top Five Innovation Skills for Generating New Ideas

Nature or nurture?The question is as old as the world.Are we born the way we are or are we raised to become the people w...

The Jugaad Approach to Innovation
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The Jugaad Approach to Innovation

Founded in 2003 by TED fellow Jessica Mayberry, Video Volunteers is an international not-for-profit media organization t...

How Gamification Can Enhance Innovation in Your Business
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How Gamification Can Enhance Innovation in Your Business

In his statement on gamification, Burke draws attention to the increasing use of gamification in various areas of life. ...

The Ten Types of Innovation Framework and How to Use It
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The Ten Types of Innovation Framework and How to Use It

Innovation tends to focus around product performance - new products, new updates, new features. That’s why companies oft...

How Your Organization Can Innovate in a People-Centric Way
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How Your Organization Can Innovate in a People-Centric Way

Editor's Note: This blog post was co-authored by Natalie Turner. When we talk about innovation, we often talk about harn...

How to Apply the Four Lenses of Innovation
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How to Apply the Four Lenses of Innovation

Rowan Gibson wrote a book called “The Four Lenses of Innovation: A Power Tool for Creating Thinking”. This is a book wel...

Building a Compelling Business Case for an Integrated Innovation Framework
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Building a Compelling Business Case for an Integrated Innovation Framework

All too often strategy is not influencing the behaviours and outcomes around innovation, it is simply allowing them to b...

An Introduction to Design Thinking for Innovation
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An Introduction to Design Thinking for Innovation

“Design thinking draws on logic, imagination, intuition and systemic reasoning to explore the possibilities of what coul...

The Rise of Platform Business Models
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The Rise of Platform Business Models

We have seen an incredible rise of platforms that have become part of our everyday lives. Whether it's Apple, Google, eB...

The Baldrige Framework: In Pursuit of Excellence
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The Baldrige Framework: In Pursuit of Excellence

The history of management is littered with outmoded fads, those tools that seem to have a short shelf-life. There are a ...

How Corporates Can Use the Lean Startup and Business Model Canvas
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How Corporates Can Use the Lean Startup and Business Model Canvas

The Lean Startup is a hot topic for organizations right now, so we asked a practitioner - Justin Souter, of Souter Consu...