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Spotlight on Richard Chaplin, PM Forum and Managing Partners’ Forum

Red Star Kim

He introduced the sector’s first management excellence awards (securing the FT and Harvard as knowledge partners) whilst spearheading the innovative “unsung heroes” campaign for business support professionals.

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Capgemini Report on Innovation Centers: Top 5 Takeaways

Planview

Innovation has never been as misunderstood, challenging, expensive, or transformative as it is today. trillion spent globally on R&D in 2014 alone, it’s perhaps the most crucial initiative people can invest in. Here are our top 5 takeaways on innovation centers from a recent report released by Capgemini.

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Crowdsourcing at Work: Open Innovation with Unilever’s Foundry IDEAS™

Planview

Crowdsourcing solutions gives us the best chance of driving real, lasting change — in fact, 85% of the 2014 Best Global Brands have used crowdsourcing in the last ten years. Unilever Foundry is becoming a proven model for generating innovation and harnessing people’s ideas,” says Karen Hamilton, Unilever’s VP of Sustainable Business.

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Do You Capture All the Value

Customer Think

Stefan Michel of IMD gave an example of using carbon credits to pay for expensive LifeStraws that purified water (in HBR, October 2014). LifeStraws is an innovation that can create value if used (it is otherwise expensive for poor people) and […] Carbon credits came from not having to boil water using petrol or wood fires.

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Context and curiosity drive commerciality and pricing

Red Star Kim

This week’s PM Forum training workshop “Commerciality: Finance, Pricing, Innovation and Research” was attended by delegates from law, accountancy and insolvency firms. Second, I observed that often in professional services marketing and business development we have minimal involvement in research, innovation, product development and pricing.

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Getting to Yes Quickly: How Amazon Out-Innovates the Competition

Planview

How does tech titan Amazon out-innovate its competition time-after-time? They revolutionized the shipping and delivery business with Amazon Prime in 2005 and Prime Now years later in 2014. That’s a lot of innovation and disruption of an industry for one company. They do one thing more frequently than most. Final thoughts.

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5 Stages of Management Evolution

Flevy

Frederic Laloux, in 2014, started analyzing emerging organizations that were setting themselves apart from the established organizations in their style of management. Important innovations in this type of organization included Division of Labor and Command Authority. The focus of the organization is extremely reactive and immediate.