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How a Digital Workplace and Diversity Drive Innovation

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A key factor in Avanade's diversity efforts depends on our digital workplace, which provides a flexible and collaborative environment to help attract, develop and retain the best talent.

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Accelerating Innovation through Crowdsourcing: a case combining knowledge (2)

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Interest in crowdsourcing remains high, as evidenced from a Scopus search in January 2015 which found more than 3,000 articles with the keyword of crowdfunding (in title, abstract and keywords), with most of them in the subject area of computer science (69%) while only 6 percent where in the subject area of business, management and accounting. Subsequently, crowdsourcing activities are typically conducted via a web-based platform or system.

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Gulf Arabs race to release youth potential in age of cheap oil

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Like the prototype drone of Emirati student Talib Alhinai, the ambitions of young people across the Gulf Arab states need to soar if they - and their economies - are to prosper in the age of cheap oil.

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Stand up straight! Innovation needs a backbone.

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Innovation is a hot topic. It’s in the news constantly. Businesses are trying to be innovators in order to recapture revenues lost during the downturn. Industries are pursuing innovation in order to remain credible, current and meaningful. 

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Restoring Innovation and Creativity in American Education

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For the last two weeks, we've been examining some of America's greatest innovations—the things that have improved our lives.

But what about the future of innovation? Will the era of standardized testing and No Child Left Behind produce the kinds of out-of-the-box thinkers we need to keep innovating?

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The idea management wars

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You can blame Forrester and Gartner. They predicted every big company would have an idea management system in place within the next five years. Suddenly Innovation is the byword at every organization and executives are telling their directors to “Go out there and get us an idea management system”. Hurry up and don’t be too picky because that’s what Forrester and Gartner (and Aberdeen and Frost & Sullivan) says we’re supposed to do.

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Creativity, Innovation and the “Included Middle” logic

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The pressure of the post-modernism is establishing its bases on our general lack of ability to overcome a number of dualisms that have become ingrained in the modern way of thinking[1]. This is mainly due to the strong influence of past centuries’ scientific “Reductionism”, which postulated that any system – to be understood – had to be reduced to its minimum component elements.

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The state-of-the-art peace innovation that could finally resolve a 50-year war

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After five decades of fighting, Colombia and its guerrillas may be the closest they’ve ever been to peace. The parties signed an agreement on Dec. 15 to resolve the thorniest issue of ongoing peace talks: how to provide restitution to the millions of war-crime victims. 

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Innovation Metrics and KPIs: Are You Getting What You Pay For?

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Everyone’s pushing hard for innovation in science, technology, logistics and business planning but how do you know you’re getting the best return on your investment?

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The Art of Idea Harvesting: Organizing Ideas

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This activity consists of filtering, merging, ranking and/or clustering all captured ideas in order to prepare them for further processing. Depending on the innovation strategy and the expected outcomes, however, the organization (and processing) of ideas has to be managed in different ways.

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Innovating with Start-Ups

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While many companies seek to innovate like start-ups, companies like KBC Bank go further and tap into a broader set of opportunities by inviting start-ups to innovate with them.

Attend this live, interactive webinar to learn how the “KBC Start-it" program became the biggest incubator in the Benelux, and what are the most common legal pitfalls in innovation.

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The Art of Idea Harvesting: Description and Scope

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Idea harvesting is quite straightforward as a concept. It is about capturing and storing ideas as they emerge from different sources across and beyond the organization (i.e., ideation) and subsequently shaping them into high-value concepts (i.e., concept definition) ready for further exploration.

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How to launch your company's innovation contest in three easy steps

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What could be better than getting free ideas from your customers, partners and every literate smart puzzle solver who ever sits in front of a computer? By running an innovation contest, you can achieve several important things.

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The Most Fascinating Innovation News

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This biweekly mail offers you a quick look at the best open innovation articles of the last two weeks!

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Innovation: put your money where your mouth is!

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If you want to seduce your team to participate in the idea management process, they want to see ideas get moved to eventual production. To prove that the effort is worth everyone’s while.

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Concept of fridge-style full-size R2D2 droid

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The real man – the toy by the real man’s. No, it’s not a mistress, although the idea is very good, and the device under the name Aqua R2-D2. It is a full-size copy of the same name of the robot from “Star Wars,” which in this case is the self-propelled by the projector.

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When Treating Workers Well Leads to More Innovation

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There’s a reason companies like Google and Facebook offer their employees so many perks, according to new research: firms that treat workers better are more innovative.

In a recent working paper, currently under review by the Journal of Corporate Finance, researchers from Monash University and LaTrobe University in Australia compared a common measure of worker treatment to patent data, and found that companies with higher worker treatment scores produced more patents, and more highly cited patents. Not only that, firms with better worker treatment scores produced more relevant patents, ones that were more closely aligned with the firm’s existing expertise.

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