Categoria: innovation
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Despite mass investment, innovation centers are not making organizations more innovative
Capgemini’s Digital Transformation Institute has today released a new report, “The discipline of innovation: Making sure your innovation center actually makes your organization more innovative,” which highlights the prevalence of innovation centers and investigates their value to businesses. The report, which surveyed 1,700 employees at 340 organizations, found that firms are heavily investing in…
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Europe’s innovation comeback: continent gains a second chance
The years since the financial crisis have been miserable not only for growth in Europe but for dynamism and innovation — outstripped on all counts by Asia and the US. But as eurozone growth recovers, the continent is gaining a second chance. As the shock of the UK’s Brexit vote and the fragility of the banking…
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Innovation is key to breaking government’s age-old trade-offs
The warmth of mittens or the dexterity of gloves? Staying up late to binge-watch your favorite Netflix show or getting a good night’s rest for your big presentation the next morning? The health benefits of kale or the deliciousness of chocolate cake? These are just a few examples of trade-offs or opposing choices that…
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Why Collaboration Is Key To Brand Innovation And Impact: A P&G Case Study
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become widespread throughout the global business community. In fact, over 80% of S&P 500 companiespublicly share their brand-driven impact via CSR reports, a 400% increase since 2011. While it’s imperative that individual businesses leverage their expertise, financial clout, and supply chain to build a better world, isolated actions…
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Apple confirms plan to buy music recognition app Shazam
Shazam confirmed on Monday that it had “entered into an agreement to become part of Apple”. Deal would be iPhone maker’s biggest since $3 billion acquisition of Beats Electronics Apple on Monday confirmed its plan to buy Shazam, the UK-based music recognition app, in its biggest acquisition since the iPhone maker’s $3 billion deal…
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Athenry gets €4.5m food innovation campus as Apple ‘in limbo’
Regional development projects secure more than €30 million in State funding A new €4.5 million food innovation hub for Athenry is a “vote of confidence” in the town earmarked for Apple’s data centre project, says local TD Seán Canney. “Apple is not dead, but it is in limbo, and this shows that it is not…
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Where Innovative Business Leaders Look For Creative Ideas
In his new book about Leonardo da Vinci, Walter Isaacson compares his subject to another artist he once wrote about: Steve Jobs. Although the two men lived hundreds of years apart and found their success in different categories of work, both men had discovered the secret to creativity. Leonardo and Steve Jobs connected ideas from…
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The Hidden Pitfall of Innovation Prizes
Although companies use crowdsourcing more and more to fill their innovation pipeline, it is not so easy to get people to submit their ideas to online innovation platforms. Our data from an online panel reveal that 65% of the contributors do not come back more than twice, and that most of the rest quit after…
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Innovation requires experience
The centrepiece was the Innovation and Skills Plan, a series of proposals that included additional venture capital funding, new support for innovation in key growth areas and superclusters, and Innovation Canada, an initiative to bring siloed projects and funding programs for innovators under one roof. More recently, the government in its 2017 defence policy…
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How bad decision making could undermine good innovation
Here’s a scary thought for decision makers inside large organizations grappling with digital transformation. You can actually be innovative and have mechanisms in place to react to disruptive forces, and still get steamrolled as layers of internal management turn your creative ideas into something unrecognizable. Kodak is a company that’s always held up as the…
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