innovation improvement

Five Lessons to Boost Your Innovation Practices

Innovation ain’t what it was. It was once the province of a department, with a clear remit: new product development. Today, it’s everywhere. It concerns not only products and services, but also processes, technologies, business models, pricing plans, and routes to market, even performance management practices – the whole value chain in fact.

Ideascale2021-12-02T16:03:00-08:00August 22nd, 2011|Categories: Strategies|Tags: Best Practices, Collaboration, company culture, Crowdsourcing, Innovation Culture, innovation improvement, Innovation Management, innovation value, Open Innovation, process improvement, top-down innovation|

Clinic of Innovation – Where Ideas are Born, Nurtured, and Grown

Health clinics are a common feature of most urban health care landscapes treating ailments and illnesses not serious enough to be treated by hospitals. But when was the last time you ran into a “clinic of innovation” – a clinic that treats ideas rather than patients? Chances are pretty low, unless you happened to be in Norway recently.

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:19:23-08:00August 30th, 2010|Categories: Evergreen|Tags: clinic of innovation, Crowdsourcing, idea development, idea improvement, Ideation, innovation development, innovation improvement, innovation research, patent, process improvement, research|