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Making global innovation work for global companies

While there is a significant body of research on the organizational climate that is conducive to innovation, most of this research has a strong 'western' bias, concept, practice or culture. How much of this 'climate' is easily translatable to the...

Catalogue: Innovate 2006

Authors: Sangeeta Gupta, Rajiv Inamdar

Company: Nielsen

May 10, 2006

Creative consumer

This paper is the story of the author's search for creative consumers, complete with investigations, detours, dead ends, findings and eventual breakthrough in identifying Creative Individualists, together with their intriguing implications and...

Catalogue: Innovate 2006

Author: John Kearon

Company: BrainJuicer

May 10, 2006

Platform for open collaborative exploration of product innovation opportunities

This paper describes the problems of identifying future innovation opportunities in domains, supporting emergent understanding of opportunities among collaborators and applying the knowledge about opportunities in the product innovation...

Catalogue: Innovate 2006

Author: Jokko Korhonen

May 10, 2006

Harnessing consumer insight to drive innovation

Why is innovation such a struggle? The greatest challenges most organizations face when innovating lie within their own organization, people and working practices.Successful commercial organizations tend to focus on quantitative metrics, are...

Catalogue: Innovate 2006

Authors: Aunia Grogan, Vivek Banerji

Company: McKinsey & Company

May 10, 2006

Innovation combining art, engineering and social-economy science

This paper presents two aspects of innovation for companies that fall into the class of 'solution providers'. The paper first provides a quantitative analysis of what drives the professional's perception of an innovative company.Data from an...

Catalogue: Innovate 2006

Authors: Howard R. Moskowitz, Alex Gofman, Iain Bitran

Company: Moskowitz Jacobs Inc.

May 10, 2006

What drives innovation?

An effort to understand innovation drivers - those factors that motivate and shape innovation efforts, and determine their success or failure - seemed to be a promising way to discover what factors make for success and failure in innovation.The...

Catalogue: Innovate 2006

Authors: Leyla Namiranian, Gwen Smith Ishmael, Renee Hopkins Callahan

Company: Decision Analyst, Inc.

May 10, 2006

How to tell snake oil from white elephants from real innovation in market research

This paper reviews the history of innovation and mistakes in order to use the power of hindsight to improve foresight, in particular to improve the chances of spotting whether a new idea is powerful piece of innovation or an expensive folly.

Catalogue: Innovate 2006

Author: Ray Poynter

May 10, 2006

Decoding innovation

What is innovation? How can it be researched? Semiotics views innovation as a linguistic and cultural phenomenon. It offers a chance to identify what innovation means to its users and to consumers; how they know it when they see it; how they agree on...

Catalogue: Innovate 2006

Author: Rachel Lawes

May 10, 2006

Igniting innovation in researchers

Innovation and differentiation are the buzzwords in any client organization - and if market research is looked upon as lacking the ability to provide creative solutions - or, even worse, as killing the creative spark - then we as an industry are in a...

Catalogue: Congress 2005: Making A Difference

Authors: Shashikala Raj, Anjali Puri, Tara Prabhakar

Company: Nielsen

September 21, 2005