The Road To Innovation In The Middle East
How innovation pioneers such as 3M, Ericsson and DAFZA are navigating internal barriers to drive innovation in the Middle East By: Carlos Guevara and Dr. Hitendra Patel, with special collaboration of Dr. Saeed Al Dhaheri, Sudarshan Chakravarthi, Lisa Nyman, and Anthony Denatale About This Paper The 30th of November 2014, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Prime […]
What Is Not Working Well: The Main Barriers To Innovation
The Road To Innovation In The Middle East. Part 2 By: Carlos Guevara and Dr. Hitendra Patel, with special collaboration of Dr. Saeed Al Dhaheri, Sudarshan Chakravarthi, Lisa Nyman, and Anthony Denatale Many organisations in the Middle East region understand the importance and have started the journey of innovation. We have seen organisations seriously invest […]
What the most innovative organisations are doing to speed up innovation?
The Road To Innovation In The Middle East. Part 3 By: Carlos Guevara and Dr. Hitendra Patel, with special collaboration of Dr. Saeed Al Dhaheri, Sudarshan Chakravarthi, Lisa Nyman, and Anthony Denatale “We asked our clients and experts for their recommendations for organisations trying to master the art of innovation. Here is what they answered.” […]
Spot-Frame-Learn: From Emerging Technologies to New Business Models
By: Dr. Irene Spitsberg, the Managing Director at InnoVentures LLC Last week, I was co-presenting with Owens Corning’s innovation team at the IRI 2017 Annual Meeting in Boston. We shared a success story about building organization’s competency of integrating technology and business model innovation to drive business investment in new growth platforms and fast tracking ideas to […]
Top 10 Most Innovative Startups
Over the past decade the term startup has been a buzz-word with increasing frequency. The official definition of a startup is as following: Early stage in the life cycle of an enterprise where the entrepreneur moves from the idea stage to securing financing, laying down the basis structure of the business, and initiating operations or […]
Top 10 Sweet Food Innovations
Innovation in sweet foods is really tricky. For centuries people created traditions and customs around sweet foods, such as candies, cakes and pancakes. Even a slim change can be easily rejected when it comes to what is already delicious and sweet. Therefore introducing Top 10 Innovations in Sweet Foods should be seen a serious challenge […]
Top 10 Innovations For Women
Both women in innovation and innovation for women are life changers. Women around the world have worked hard to reach equality, representation in governmental institutions, human rights and peace. Today more than ever before, we are proud to name the greatest female innovators and thought leaders, who have brought their breakthrough ideas to the global […]
Top 10 Outdoor Innovations
The 20th of March officially marks the start of Spring in North Hemisphere. It is the time when people spend more time outdoors and try to live-up to the unexpected ideas that spring up in everyone’s head. Connecting these two – new ideas and time outdoors – we get plenty of amazing outdoor innovations. Top […]
Business Trends: Navigating the Next Wave of Globalization
Source: Deloitte University Press Today’s business leaders need clear, concise and well-informed perspectives on important dynamics that are currently reshaping the business environment. Deloitte’s Business Trends 2014 features nine trends all directly related to a major question for many organizations: What is going on with the global economy? These trends – firmly rooted in longer […]
The 6 Most Common Innovation Mistakes Companies Make
Source: Harvard Business Review The problem was clear. The executive team of a consumer healthcare company had concluded that the rise of new competitors meant the company needed to up its innovation game. The company had spent the past two decades focused on implementing Six Sigma processes across the enterprise and it was primed to […]