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• 10 Tips for Successful Innovation Teams

  April 13, 2012

  Innovation projects are said to fail 90% of the time. Why is this? Part of the answer lies in the special “innovation teams” who are mandated with finding breakthrough growth in large corporations. Setting these teams up for success is vital, yet corporations often fail when doing this. This article provides a collection of ten tips that serve as a talent management roadmap for growth companies in search of high-performance teams that deliver.

• New European Policy on Social Enterprises

  December 10, 2011

  «Social enterprises are businesses that are not only seeking to include people or to share profits more fairly, but that also create jobs. They are businesses whose very ethos is grounded in responsibility and long term shared benefits. Being a social enterprise can in itself be a competitive advantage." (J-M Barroso, President of the Commission)

• New EU-funded project tests out smart grids of the future

  November 29, 2011

  As we increase our capacity to produce more solar and wind energy it is vital that we also increase our ability to effectively distribute it, and a new EU-funded project that aims to test these electricity distribution systems of the future has just kicked off.

• Importing Experts to Increase Exports

  November 22, 2011

  Skilled foreign employees help firms sell abroad

• Social Product Innovation Challenges: Strategy

  November 06, 2011

  by AMY KENLY A couple weeks ago I laid out the framework for the most common challenges companies face as they get started with their social product innovation initiatives. The most common challenges fall into five main buckets – strategy, people and culture, business processes, technology and sustainability. So let’s take a deeper look at developing a social product innovation strategy, the typical challenges and some ideas for overcoming them.

• The Global Innovation 1000: Why Culture Is Key

  October 25, 2011

  Booz & Company’s annual study shows that spending more on R&D won’t drive results. The most crucial factors are strategic alignment and a culture that supports innovation.

• How Can we Improve Creativity and Innovation Capabilities?

  October 08, 2011

  Get some hands on advice from this week’s expert Sven Andrén, the architect behind the Idea Management program at the Swedish MNC TetraPak. What is his take on the best way to reward employees that come up with ideas? How can we involve more employees in our idea generation? And is there a value of using different idea generation techniques or is the traditional “brainstorming technique” sufficient? Where can I find more idea generation techniques?

• Building World Class Innovation Programs

  October 07, 2011

  In the June issue of Harvard Business review, Intuit, the American software company, was labeled “a design-driven innovation machine.” InnovationManagement talked to Roy Rosin who was Intuit’s first innovation leader, building the company’s innovation programs and working with teams on creating new products and services.

• Who Innovates: Creating the Innovation Culture with Geniuses, Leaders & Champions

  September 29, 2011

  Organizations that are successful at innovation naturally develop a strong innovation culture. But supposing an innovation culture doesn’t yet exist in your organization. Then how can you develop it?

• Robotic Labor Taking Over the World? You Bet – Here Are the Details

  September 26, 2011

  Let’s not be silly here, robots don’t want to kill all humans…they just want to take all their jobs. The accelerating rise in robot labor of the past decade, and its expansion into all areas of production, have led many to worry about the future of human workers.