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Accelerating innovation at Lufthansa Systems

Posted on February 17th, 2017 by John Bessant

This case study explains how Lufthansa Systems have been mobilising internal entrepreneurship through the version of an accelerator programme.   Lufthansa Systems case

Storytelling

Posted on January 25th, 2016 by John Bessant

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Activity – Sources of innovation

Posted on May 11th, 2015 by John Bessant

Activity: Sources of innovation   Where do innovations come from? Use the chapter in the book on ‘Sources of innovation’ to give you some ideas. Try and generate a list to populate the table below with examples.     Source of innovation Examples R&D laboratories New drugs in pharmaceutical industry Market research New or improved

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Deep dive – Open and user led innovation – OUI

Posted on May 11th, 2015 by John Bessant

The innovation landscape has changed profoundly in the past decade and there is now considerable emphasis on opening up to new sources of knowledge and to the ideas of users in particular.  In this report you can find an overview of some of these key trends and the emerging properties which they offer. Open_Collective_Innovation

Deep dive – Absorptive capacity

Posted on May 8th, 2015 by John Bessant

Deep dive Absorptive capacity  This explores the concept of AC and its implications for building innovation management capability

Deep dive – Supply chain learning

Posted on May 8th, 2015 by John Bessant

Supply chain learning This deep dive explores the theme of shared learning and innovation across supply chains and suggests that the competitive advantage of firms like Toyota owes much to sustained implmentation of this approach

Managing knowledge spaghetti

Posted on April 19th, 2015 by John Bessant

In this video John Bessant talks about some of the challenges and opportuntties in the world of open collective innovation

Jimmy Wales and the birth of Wikipedia

Posted on April 7th, 2015 by John Bessant

In this TED talk Jimmy Wales explains some of the ideas behind Wikipedia and the use of open source approaches to its development

Blackstone entrepreneur’s network

Posted on April 7th, 2015 by John Bessant

Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network is an initiative to strengthen existing entrepreneurial ecosystems in struggling areas by building a network of master entrepreneurs and connecting them with a pipeline of potential high growth ventures

Activity: Using creativity tools

Posted on April 7th, 2015 by John Bessant

Activity: Using creativity tools   Choose a problem to work on or select one from the list below.   How to reduce waiting time in a busy coffee shop?   How to persuade people in a busy office to recycle more?   How to improve the flow of people round a busy museum/art gallery and

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