Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

(including one that makes Radical Innovation easy) GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton You are a rolling stone, and that means you gather no moss!

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Top Questions about Innovation. What are the most popular or common questions people have about innovation? What are the frequently asked questions about innovation? We used our AI tools to identify the questions people ask about innovation the most and find the answers. Read on for the innovation FAQs!

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Innovation Excellence

JUNE 1, 2017

UNDP remains one of the few UN agencies that supports governments in setting up Public Sector Innovation Labs to experiment with new approaches to policy-making and that advises government partners on designing Open Innovation Prize Challenges.

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hackerearth

MARCH 29, 2018

Companies have been struggling to get their spend on innovation right forever. For small businesses and startups, finding capital for innovation can be a monumental task. For small businesses and startups, finding capital for innovation can be a monumental task. Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review.

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton If you’re like most people, you’ve faced disappointment. Maybe the love of your life didn’t return your affection, you didn’t get into your dream college, or you were passed over for promotion. And sometimes, that hurt lingers for a long time. Until one day, something happens, and you […]

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Open Innovation EU

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

In this strategy companies focus on social innovation, entrepreneurship, ideation and technology. Strategic focus lies on marketing, co-creation and business model innovation and open innovation. Focus on social innovation and ideation. A very nervous, and short-term focused market.

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Open innovation for social change?—?OECD’s OECD’s global challenge Open innovation is combining internal and external ideas to advance technology, product development, and so much more?—?including including social good. Why crowdsource for social change? The Collective Genius was unleashed.

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hackerearth

MARCH 28, 2018

After a not-so promising start at the beginning of this decade, India has been climbing up the Global Innovation Index ( GII ) rankings in the last couple of years—moving to from 81 in 2015 to 60 in 2017. According to a 2016 Capgemini study , India was the best innovation destination in Asia and the third best in the world.

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KindlingApp

APRIL 3, 2016

Perhaps no one is more committed to American innovation than the US government is right now. While most presidents leave a legacy they claim as theirs alone, Obama’s legacy of innovation and change in government is a call to action to the American people and depends upon citizens stepping forward and helping out. is within our reach.

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Mills-Scofield

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Ian Gonsher does research and teaches at Brown University focused on the design process and creative practice, including Design Studio and Entrepreneurship Engineering Design projects in the School of Engineering and Designing Humanity-Centered Robots in Computer Science with Michael Littman where Legos are prototyping tools.

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Innovators Alliance

MARCH 17, 2022

The business paradigm is shifting with an increased focus on ‘impact’ entrepreneurship. Innovative impact entrepreneurs develop not only a revenue model for their business, but also an impact model which encompasses the whole spectrum of impacts created by their business, upstream and downstream. Have you noticed?

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eZassi

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Invest in Intrapreneurs – Innovation Management Supports Your Organization’s Greatest Change Makers Intrapreneurs are those important team members with the optimism, intellect, initiative, and discipline to champion bright ideas and drive new project pipelines, establishing innovative change across the business.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In this article adapted from their new book, Jerry Davis and Chris White explore what makes some companies more fertile for social innovation — that is, the ongoing (rather than one-off) initiatives that have positive social impact while promoting the core mission of a business.

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton What if a tool had the power to delight your customers, cut your costs, increase your bottom line, and maybe double your stock price? You’d use it, right? That’s precisely the power and impact of Service Design and service blueprints. Yet very few people, especially in the US, know, understand, […]

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Social entrepreneurship has evolved a great deal since the late 1980s, when pioneers like City Year 's Alan Khazei and Teach for America 's Wendy Kopp took great risks to prove that innovative organizations could produce transformative social change.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 22, 2023

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton Being a leader isn’t easy. You must BE accountable, compassionate, confident, curious, empathetic, focused, service-driven, and many other things.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 18, 2023

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton You are a leader. The person in charge. That means you know the answer to every question, make the right decision when faced with every choice, and act confidently when others are uncertain. Insert uproarious laughter here). Of course not. But you act like you do because […]

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Over the major innovation cycles, the capitalist system has been resilient enough to absorb the effects of the crashes caused by pure speculation and turn them to its advantage. Some prominent economists predict a new period of secular stagnation as the last great phase of innovation-fueled growth (as they see it) dries up.

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

In a recent TED Talk, Ito reveals a revolutionary style of innovation that he and his colleagues discovered during a time when they had to take learning into their own hands. "Education is what people do to you; learning is what you do to yourself.” These are the wise words of Joi Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

And in the last decade or so, the genre has become even more refined: social enterprise, social entrepreneurship, L3C low-profit corporations, B corporations, the charitable endurance event industry, and more. Most major universities now have nonprofit management programs that didn't exist ten years ago.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

Scottish social entrepreneur Mick Jackson, founder of WildHearts in Action , is attempting to forge a generation that marries entrepreneurship to economic justice through microloan-based business competitions across British schools and universities that generate profits for microloans in developing countries.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Our research with members of the global C-suite, and with leading sustainability and innovation experts, has identified seven vectors of breakthrough change. Companies like Unilever are on an open innovation drive, while GSK and Novartis are focusing on access to medicines in poorer markets. Business would change the rules of the game.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Cloud computing, social media, new professional paradigms such as social entrepreneurship, below-the-line marketing and a host of novel realities have transformed the global context for Africans with their eyes set on continental and beyond-continental scale.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Social Media, Social Business, Social Innovation, Social Era — are they all the same, or are they quite different? Sometimes people use the term Social Capitalism to get to this same idea. And Open Innovation or Crowdsoucing are often linked to any of these three terms - enterprise 2.0,

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

from business to the social sector), longer-tenured people are less able to selectively transplant fragments from their experience that will help them innovate. At least when it comes to founding hybrid social ventures, a little bit of exposure to the business world enables innovation, but too much exposure may limit it.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2011

If you care about social innovation and haven't already heard about social impact bonds, let us be the ones to tell you about them. Using those investors' funds, a real-world test of the concept is done (not a trivial undertaking for a social innovation). If not, the investors are simply out the cash.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Consider Ashoka , which provides start-up funding and support for social innovators worldwide. Founder Bill Drayton led the way in fostering collaborative entrepreneurship for collective social change. Building community in the for-profit world, which lacks a grand social mission, might seem daunting.

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Many companies have a huge gap between their culture and strategy — a problem that only gets bigger in larger companies, especially when they are in transition. Management at all of these companies have a common reflex: Scream louder about goals and policies as the gap between culture and strategy widens. Continue reading →

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Emmanuel de Lutzel is VP Social Business at BNP Paribas, and an active a social intrapreneur. Based on intrapreneurs interviews and his own experience, he wrote the book ‘Transform your company from the inside: the social intrapreneur guide’, with Valérie de la Rochefoucauld-Drouâs in 2015.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2018

In a survey I conducted of the leaders of over 200 top-performing social entrepreneurships, 81% of them identified access to capital as their most serious concern. Fundraising is by far the biggest challenge for the sector, even for the most successful organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Most companies put innovation at the top of their agendas. But how many devote the energy and resources it takes to build innovation into the values, processes, and practices that rule everyday activity and behavior? Not many, as we argued when we launched the Innovating Innovation Challenge in October.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Big businesses struggling in an era of rapid transformation can learn a lot from the experiences of social entrepreneurs finding and adapting innovative solutions in difficult contexts. WISH and WISE. Empower Bottom-up Solutions. “Maybe what you think is the best idea you’ve ever had actually isn’t.”

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eZassi

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

What is Social Innovation? Social Innovation refers to the creation of new solutions—ideas, services, or models—that meet pressing social needs and improve individuals' and communities' quality of life. Genuine Social Innovation fosters a culture of sustainability vital for company survival and growth.

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