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Innovation Grand Challenge Winners Showcase Diversity of Digital Solutions for Industry and Government
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Amid more than 50,000 global innovators at this week’s Web Summit in Lisbon, three emerged victorious in our third annual Innovation Grand Challenge.
Six Digital Disruptors Emerge as Finalists in Global Innovation Grand Challenge 2016
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Six superstar startups rose to the top of the Innovation Grand Challenge_Ski Solution competition launched last May.
Building Blocks to Create Your Own Successful Internal Innovation Programs
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Since I started this blog series about corporate innovation and intrapreneurship, readers often ask which of my nine building blocks is most essential to mobilize an innovation disruption across an entire company. Which is the cornerstone? Which carries the most weight? Which is most disruptive? Which impacts cultural transformation? Which turns employees into entrepreneurs? My […]
Building Blocks for Your Own Innovation Disruption (Part 3)
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Are you ready? It’s time to complete the foundation and launch your own innovation disruption—companywide. This is the last of my three-part series. I lay out the final three building blocks needed to shake up bureaucracies and turn them into startup-like cultures. To transform employees into entrepreneurs. To fire up innovation. And to jumpstart disruptive, […]
15 Digital Disruptors: Announcing this year’s Innovation Grand Challenge Semifinalists
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Cisco proudly announces 15 Semi-finalists of the Innovation Grand Challenge
Pokémon Go: 5 Innovation Lessons from this Augmented Reality Check
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Whether Pokémon Go is a fad or new franchise, the social phenomenon shows how to spot, adapt, and lead market transitions.
Interview w/ Alex Goryachev, the Mastermind behind Cisco’s Grandest Innovation Challenge
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NOTE: The conversation below on how to ignite innovation first appeared on the web site of TeskaLabs, a Europe-based security startup selected to join the IDEALondon program, powered by Cisco, DJ Thomson and University College of London. A big thanks to Cindy Dam, TeskaLab’s marketing and community manager, for permission to re-post her Q&A blog. […]
Building Blocks for an Innovation Disruption (Part 2)
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Thomas Edison once said, “Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.” Yet even today, when there’s never been a better time to innovate, many still believe that all you need is the next brilliant idea to disrupt markets. Wrong. In today’s digital world, innovation takes as much perspiration, preparation and process as ever. […]
Innovation never stops, but entries for the 2016 Innovation Grand Challenge do
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Don't miss the August 31 entry deadline for the Innovation Grand Challenge 2016! #CIGC16
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