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What is Innovation Ambition and what's yours?

June 04, 2019
Innovation isn't just about moonshots and disruptions. Expanding existing capabilities and realising smaller, less radical projects can still create value for your organisation. Here's how the three levels of ambition can help ensure balance in your innovation portfolio. Read More

How to generate ideas

May 30, 2019
The innovation process frequently starts with a new idea, a flash of inspiration or a fresh perspective that can be difficult to engineer. In this article we outline some tips on how to help your people flex their creative muscles. Read More

Food For Thought: Is Nutrition the Best Medicine?

May 28, 2019
With the rise of obesity, diabetes, arthritis, and other health woes, many individuals are turning to food rather than medicine to cure or relieve their ailments. This is not a new phenomenon. For centuries food has been used in lieu of medicine. Turmeric and curcumin have long been accepted as... Read More

#TeamAccolade,Innovation Management - Thanks for the Shout Out!

May 23, 2019
At Sopheon it's all about relationships and we love interacting with our customers in person and online. One of our newer customers, DSM – a leader in chemicals with headquarters based in the Netherlands – is implementing Accolade,Innovation Management and Martijn Antonisse, Program Manager for the... Read More

What are the three horizons of innovation?

May 15, 2019
We take a look at where the three horizons framework comes from and what it is, as well as some of the current thinking around it, to help you apply it to your innovation portfolio. Read More

Understanding Tech Scouting's Split-Competency Model

May 14, 2019
Imagine you are the leader of a newly formed External Technologies Sourcing team at a large company in the heavy equipment industry. A product group has come to you, asking for help. They are building a new generation of self-repairing machines. Progress has been made, but the product group lacks... Read More

Identify your business challenges and turn them into innovation goals

May 10, 2019
Determining your innovation goals can be a challenge in itself, so here are some tips to help you focus on the problems that really need solving. Read More

How Next-Generation Sequencing is poised to disrupt healthcare

May 01, 2019
Imagine going to see your doctor for chest pains, and walking out the same day with a diagnosis for a rare heart condition. That diagnosis would have taken weeks or months (at best) even a few years ago. But in this new scenario, it is now a routine outpatient test performed on-site, accompanied by... Read More

The emerging role of an innovation project manager

May 01, 2019
In another extract from his Guide To Managing Innovative Projects, David Richmond explores the role of an innovation manager in project delivery and the coordination of various teams and stakeholders involved. Read More

Five Principles of Effective Idea Development

April 30, 2019
Gartner research has found that 80% of executives say they have a gap in alignment between strategy and product development activity. Similarly, 79% of top managers say their company does not have enough high-value projects in their portfolio, according to research by the Product Development... Read More

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