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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

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W E OFTEN THINK of innovation as something visionaries draw out of thin air, like manna from heaven. Here’s an innovation story that’s closer to reality: It’s a story of loss, grit, and renewal. It’s also about a never-too-late approach to innovation that enabled a floundering business to launch a second golden age.

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Internal Crowdfunding Can Foster Innovation

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This effect was more pronounced for highly innovative ideas. Companies should also create a culture where failed ideas don’t have negative consequences for creators or investors, as innovation always carries some risk. They tended to favor ideas from colleagues at their own level in the company hierarchy.

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DNA Data Proposed To Reunite Separated Refugee Families

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Reuniting families Now, some experts propose using DNA data to help reunite families. Supporters of the Biden administration’s Family Reunification Task Force say it needs to do more, as some families are still not accounted for. The data used to find these families has been inconsistent, causing some to remain undiscovered.

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Businesses Are Unintentionally Limiting Their Innovation

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In their search for innovative solutions, businesses actively seek a variety of unique ideas. Limiting the future Many businesses and leaders may not realize that their past choices can limit the variety of proposals they get. Why does this happen? They start by wanting a wide range of ideas but end up with very similar ones.

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How Bad Ideas Can Be Weeded Out Of Open Innovation

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The study aimed to understand how open innovation platforms affect idea generation and whether the factors people consider for success change as ideas evolve. To do this, the researchers used data from the LEGO IDEAS platform, where users propose new LEGO sets, and the crowd votes to pick a winner. The long-term implications?

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Proposing New Ideas Helps Men More Than Woman At Work

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Machiavelli famously described the difficulties of proposing new ideas, for you will receive fervent opposition from those benefitting from the old ways and barely lukewarm support from those who might gain from the new. The post Proposing New Ideas Helps Men More Than Woman At Work first appeared on The Horizons Tracker.

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Innovators Tend To Overestimate Their Own Ideas

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Just as parents tend to think their own children are the most amazing things to walk the earth, so too do innovators have similarly distorted opinions of the ideas that form the basis of their innovations. Grasping the true value of ideas is essential for corporate innovation success. Overvalued. Avoiding overvaluing ideas.