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The Importance of Collaboration in the Digital Economy

What’s the future for the connected car, for digital financial services, or for smart and sustainable cities in the new industrial reality? How are innovations and technical developments in 5G, the Internet of Things and spectrum management impacting on future networks and future businesses? And if meaningful, affordable connectivity is the single best bet for accelerating socio-economic development and meeting the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs), how can we ensure we reach the billions of unconnected most in need?

Ideascale2021-12-07T16:06:26-08:00October 27th, 2016|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, News|Tags: Collaboration, connected car, connectivity, corporate social responsibility, digital platform, emerging markets, emerging technologies, financial services, fintech, global market, globalization, ITC, public policy, SME, strategic partnership, Technology, trends|

What Effect has Digital Innovation had on the World and your Business?

The Internet has forever changed how we work with innovation. Author Marta Domínguez spent the last five years observing the causes and effects of the digital wave and has gathered a list of 22 impacts on the world and your business.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:22:11-07:00April 5th, 2016|Categories: Enabling Factors, Idea Management, Life Cycle Processes|Tags: business model, Change Management, Competition, competitive advantage, design, digital innovation, evaluating ideas, idea management, Ideation, pivot, startup, Technology, trend, trends, unicorn, value|

Shaping the Future

Think of the future. Go on! Now tell me honestly what is the furthest point in time that you imagined. If it was three years then I’m not surprised. After all, in business three seems almost to be some sort of talisman. We have three year business plans, 2-3 year product development cycles and of course there is that ubiquitous interview question about where you see yourself in three year’s time.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:22:32-07:00October 6th, 2015|Categories: Leadership, Organization & Culture|Tags: business model, business plan, Change Management, disruptive innovation, globalization, Innovation Culture, Product Development, product development cycle, thinking ahead, trends|

Follow the Crowd or Create the Marketplace

It’s follow my leader time for the world’s stock markets. Concerns over the state of the Chinese economy have seen markets plunge into freefall, only for some to bounce upwards again a few hours later. At the time of writing, markets are still in flux with analysts divided on the eventual outcome.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:20:55-07:00August 28th, 2015|Categories: Leadership, Organization & Culture|Tags: Change Management, china, crisis, economy, groupthink, Innovation Culture, innovation roadmap, trends|

The Future of Medtech – Applying the Power of Innovation

The share of profits from new products is particularly high in medtech compared to other industries; and Arthur D. Little’s recent global Innovation Excellence study demonstrates that a high performance innovation system generates significant and quantifiable effects on profitability and accelerated time to market for new product development. This viewpoint outlines the future of the medtech industry and its opportunities as well as how to address the challenges through implementation of a well-designed Innovation Management System.

Ideascale2019-11-28T08:03:47-08:00March 20th, 2014|Categories: Strategies|Tags: healthcare, healthcare innovation, in-depth article, Innovation Management, medical, medical innovation, medtech, strategy, Technology, trends|

Is The Nordic Model For Entrepreneurship, Innovation And Export Growth About To Be Disrupted?

In 2011 The World Economic Forum had focus on the Nordic Model as a case of a region, which had came out the financial crunch better than most other regions. In February 2013 The Economist had a feature article titled ’The Nordic Countries – The Next Supermodel" stating that politicians from both right and left could learn from the Nordic countries. The question is would Schumpeter agree today?

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:16:22-07:00December 18th, 2013|Categories: Enabling Factors|Tags: entreprenurship, in-depth article, innovation polices, intrapreneur, nordic, nordic manufacturing, nordic model, outsourcing, public innovation, R&D, schumpeter, trends|

The Limits of Industry-Centered Strategic Thinking in an Era of Convergence

A decade ago, when purchasing a new cellphone,informed customers would likely choose between Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, or perhaps even Siemens. Today, youngsters, hipsters, techies and executives alike opt for Apple, Samsung and LG. What happened?

Ideascale2019-11-28T08:02:43-08:00November 25th, 2013|Categories: Strategies|Tags: academic innovation, case study, cross industry innovation, industry convergence, industry innovation, nokia, strategic thinking, trends|

Brokers and Intermediaries for Open Innovation – A Global Market Study

Successful open innovation relies on intermediaries and platforms connecting an organization with outside solution providers, so called open innovation accelerators (OIAs). With more than 180 players, the market for OIAs however is getting complex and difficult to navigate. A recent study by RWTH Aachen compared these OIA market. In this report, we summarize some of the main findings.

Ideascale2019-11-28T08:00:54-08:00October 14th, 2013|Categories: Blog Archive|Tags: download, in-depth article, report, trends|

An Industrial Process for Driving Innovation and Start-Ups

Y Combinator is a remarkably successful start-up fund and seed accelerator. Since it was founded in 2005, Y Combinator has funded over 550 start-ups with a total estimated current value of over $11 billion. It has become the world’s most successful model for mass producing digital start-up companies. It is an industrial process for driving innovation and creating millionaires.

Ideascale2021-12-05T17:31:46-08:00September 19th, 2013|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: accelerator, incubators, paul graham, seed, seed funding, startup, trends, y combinator|

10 Prospects and Trends for Open and Collaborative Innovation

Over the last 5 years, Open Innovation has been evolving quite a lot in the ways it can be defined and implemented. Rather than proposing one more definition or describe one specific way to approach it, here is a set of trends I foresee based on the numbers of projects I have been involved in and the evolution of needs from organizations, would they be major corporations, SMEs or Public Services.

Ideascale2020-03-30T12:09:18-07:00September 2nd, 2013|Categories: Blog Archive|Tags: co-creation, collaborative innovation, idea management, innovation challenge, Innovation Culture, innovation platform, innovation success, intellectual property, meta challenge, Open Innovation, ROI, trends|

Leading Innovation in Multinational Subsidiaries – Part 3

The changing global economy creates special challenges for leaders of multinational subsidiaries. History shows that innovation is key to survival. This series of articles explores this challenge and offers subsidiary leaders a way to identify and implement innovative strategies to sustain local operations and create added value for their parent corporation. It also looks at how corporate managers can help drive more innovation from global subsidiaries.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:14:52-07:00August 28th, 2013|Categories: Strategies|Tags: BRIC, business development, global economy, innovation, migration, multinational company, Organization, subsidiary, trends|

Leading Innovation in Multinational Subsidiaries – Part 2

The changing global economy creates special challenges for leaders of multinational subsidiaries. History shows that innovation is key to survival. This series of articles explores this challenge and offers subsidiary leaders a way to identify and implement innovative strategies to sustain local operations and create added value for their parent corporation. It also looks at how corporate managers can help drive more innovation from global subsidiaries.

Ideascale2021-12-05T17:09:58-08:00June 28th, 2013|Categories: Strategies|Tags: BRIC, business development, global economy, innovation, migration, multinational company, Organization, subsidiary, trends|

Leading Innovation in Multinational Subsidiaries – Part 1

The changing global economy creates special challenges for leaders of multinational subsidiaries. History shows that innovation is key to survival. This series of articles explores this challenge and offers subsidiary leaders a way to identify and implement innovative strategies to sustain local operations and create added value for the corporation. It also looks at how corporate managers can help drive more innovation from global subsidiaries.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:15:09-07:00June 20th, 2013|Categories: Strategies|Tags: BRIC, business development, global economy, innovation, migration, multinational company, Organization, subsidiary, trends|

Ocean Mining – a race to the bottom

The blue economy, the term ascribed to a wide range of activities such as fishing, shipping, coastal tourism, energy, cable laying and mining, presents huge opportunities. Estimates of the current value vary from $6-$21trillion; a recent study put the value added arising from the EU opportunity alone at €500 billion, rising to €600 billion by 2020. Investment is growing, but also environmental concern. Deep sea mining is at present a small but increasingly significant element of that economy.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:13:35-07:00April 17th, 2013|Categories: News, Trend Alert|Tags: ocean mining, sustainability, trend, trends|

Tap here for a Smooth Experience

As innovative brands acknowledge that content is the currency they trade for consumer attention, the big question is how best to leverage this content. To date out-of-home media to shelf talkers have relied on consumers spending a certain degree of time and effort ‘grabbing’ their content. Near Field Communication (NFC) marketing is about to change that as it introduces a disruptive new way of grabbing and sharing content, with a simple tap of technology.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:13:36-07:00April 11th, 2013|Categories: Enabling Factors|Tags: content, disruptive technology, innovation tool, marketing, near field communication, Technology, trends|