UAE Edition. Part 2 INNOVATORS AND THEIR ORGANISATIONS By: Rafael Lemaitre, ShiftIN Partners During our research we examined various factors at both the individual and organisation levels. For the individuals we analyzed their skills, domain knowledge, risk appetite, and attitudes while at the organisation level we looked at leadership styles, incentives, and processes. Characteristics Of […]
UAE Edition. Part 3 INNOVATION IMPACT By: Rafael Lemaitre, ShiftIN Partners Measuring the impact of innovations is not a straightforward task and is an area of high subjectivity. However, it is important to try to understand the perceived impacts that innovations have within the different entities surveyed. We asked the respondents if their organisations had […]
By: Courtney Wood, Ron Jonash & Mick Simonelli The emergence of disruptive digital technologies and changing customer expectations has made innovation an imperative for companies to remain sustainably competitive and stimulate growth. Realizing the benefits of innovation requires a systematic approach to not only generating novel ideas but converting them to meaningful business value. Rapid, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.” […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
