Solving the worlds biggest challenges requires using the worlds best brains. To do this you have to ask the right question and come with the right problem and present that problem to the right audience. This presentation shares the approach and some of the examples of Grand Challenges successfully executed by NineSigma, the global leader in open innovation.
Using prize based competitions for implementing innovationsRick Wielens
This document provides an overview of NineSigma and their prize-based competition model for driving innovation. It discusses NineSigma's global network of over 2 million solution providers, their cross-functional team approach, and how they use alternative prize strategies to incentivize a diverse portfolio of winners. The document also outlines NineSigma's competition methodology, from program design through submission, evaluation, and award stages. Sample case studies and client examples are provided to illustrate NineSigma's approach.
The document discusses integrated assurance between the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) and Sellafield, a site undergoing nuclear decommissioning. The NDA's mission is to safely clean up nuclear sites and manage waste. Sellafield has a complex legacy. The NDA implements a gated process and integrated assurance approach to help projects successfully deliver objectives. Assurance plans consider multiple stakeholders and governance levels to focus on key risks and controls at decision points. This supports efficient use of resources and independence. The NDA sets requirements and guidance for subsidiaries like Sellafield, and works with them to determine the appropriate level of NDA assurance for priority programs and projects.
Project Assurance at Sellafield Ltd, Michael Magee, Malcolm Risely, APM Assurance Specific Interest Group, Integrated Assurance - how to achieve it real organisations conference
Enabling Change and Governance Specific Interest Groups (SIG) joint event
Wednesday 14th October 2015, London
Presented by Roger Garrini and Parag Gogate
An Assessment of Project Portfolio Management Techniques on Product and Servi...iosrjce
The crises of product and service innovation in most organisations due to global competition and
the need for scientific research in the project portfolio management discipline were factors that motivated this
research. The purpose of this study is to investigate how project portfolio management(ppm) contributes to
product and service innovation. A questionnaire was developed to gather data to compare the PPM methods
used, PPM performance and resulting new product success measures in sixty Nigeria organisations in a diverse
range of service and manufacturing industries. The study findings indicated that PPM practices have a greater
impact in the new product and services success rate. Also, business strategy method result in better alignment
of the projects in the portfolio. This conclusion is supported by the 0.630 Pearson correlations at 0.000
significance between percentage of successful products and PPM performance level. The results reveal that for
better innovation outcomes, management should place a priority on developing and improving PPM.
MyRBQM® Academy presents the Five-Belt Formula. The White, Green, Black, Gold and Master Belt certifications indicate the roles that individuals are qualified to play in conducting clinical trials and tutoring risk-based quality management practices. MyRBQM® Academy's belt certifications equip clinical research professionals to be active participants in optimizing their company quality culture and avoiding downtime.
This document proposes a COVID-19 Strategic Response Lab by Deloitte to help organizations develop strategies in response to the pandemic. The lab would guide participants through developing specific scenarios for their organization, identifying implications, and determining initial strategic actions. It would be conducted virtually over three interactive sessions to explore the tactical, short-term, and long-term horizons caused by COVID-19. The goal is to help organizations anticipate challenges, implications for their business environment, and identify appropriate strategies to ensure survival and recovery from the pandemic's impacts.
This document discusses nuclear professionalism in project execution at Sellafield Ltd, the largest nuclear site in Europe. It outlines Sellafield's project improvement strategy of "Doing the Right Project" through strategic management and programme management, and "Doing the Project Right" through the right processes and right people. It describes developing the right people through establishing a project manager career path, leadership training, coaching, an APM higher apprenticeship program, and support for APM accreditation. The goal is to develop a community of project managers effectively trained and supported to deliver Sellafield's complex nuclear projects.
Using prize based competitions for implementing innovationsRick Wielens
This document provides an overview of NineSigma and their prize-based competition model for driving innovation. It discusses NineSigma's global network of over 2 million solution providers, their cross-functional team approach, and how they use alternative prize strategies to incentivize a diverse portfolio of winners. The document also outlines NineSigma's competition methodology, from program design through submission, evaluation, and award stages. Sample case studies and client examples are provided to illustrate NineSigma's approach.
The document discusses integrated assurance between the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) and Sellafield, a site undergoing nuclear decommissioning. The NDA's mission is to safely clean up nuclear sites and manage waste. Sellafield has a complex legacy. The NDA implements a gated process and integrated assurance approach to help projects successfully deliver objectives. Assurance plans consider multiple stakeholders and governance levels to focus on key risks and controls at decision points. This supports efficient use of resources and independence. The NDA sets requirements and guidance for subsidiaries like Sellafield, and works with them to determine the appropriate level of NDA assurance for priority programs and projects.
Project Assurance at Sellafield Ltd, Michael Magee, Malcolm Risely, APM Assurance Specific Interest Group, Integrated Assurance - how to achieve it real organisations conference
Enabling Change and Governance Specific Interest Groups (SIG) joint event
Wednesday 14th October 2015, London
Presented by Roger Garrini and Parag Gogate
An Assessment of Project Portfolio Management Techniques on Product and Servi...iosrjce
The crises of product and service innovation in most organisations due to global competition and
the need for scientific research in the project portfolio management discipline were factors that motivated this
research. The purpose of this study is to investigate how project portfolio management(ppm) contributes to
product and service innovation. A questionnaire was developed to gather data to compare the PPM methods
used, PPM performance and resulting new product success measures in sixty Nigeria organisations in a diverse
range of service and manufacturing industries. The study findings indicated that PPM practices have a greater
impact in the new product and services success rate. Also, business strategy method result in better alignment
of the projects in the portfolio. This conclusion is supported by the 0.630 Pearson correlations at 0.000
significance between percentage of successful products and PPM performance level. The results reveal that for
better innovation outcomes, management should place a priority on developing and improving PPM.
MyRBQM® Academy presents the Five-Belt Formula. The White, Green, Black, Gold and Master Belt certifications indicate the roles that individuals are qualified to play in conducting clinical trials and tutoring risk-based quality management practices. MyRBQM® Academy's belt certifications equip clinical research professionals to be active participants in optimizing their company quality culture and avoiding downtime.
This document proposes a COVID-19 Strategic Response Lab by Deloitte to help organizations develop strategies in response to the pandemic. The lab would guide participants through developing specific scenarios for their organization, identifying implications, and determining initial strategic actions. It would be conducted virtually over three interactive sessions to explore the tactical, short-term, and long-term horizons caused by COVID-19. The goal is to help organizations anticipate challenges, implications for their business environment, and identify appropriate strategies to ensure survival and recovery from the pandemic's impacts.
This document discusses nuclear professionalism in project execution at Sellafield Ltd, the largest nuclear site in Europe. It outlines Sellafield's project improvement strategy of "Doing the Right Project" through strategic management and programme management, and "Doing the Project Right" through the right processes and right people. It describes developing the right people through establishing a project manager career path, leadership training, coaching, an APM higher apprenticeship program, and support for APM accreditation. The goal is to develop a community of project managers effectively trained and supported to deliver Sellafield's complex nuclear projects.
Magnatas, LLC provides strategic guidance and consultation to life sciences companies, venture firms, and service companies. It uses a convergent approach that combines scientific and commercial data to help clients succeed. Magnatas has scientific expertise in areas like immunology and commercial experience in business strategy, operations, and new model development. Its goal is to help clients maximize efficiency and make timely, informed decisions throughout the complex process of developing an asset or service.
TIG recognized the value of Nutanix's hyper-converged infrastructure early on and established a relationship with Nutanix in 2012. As one of Nutanix's top partners, TIG has sold and implemented over 24 Nutanix solutions for customers and ensures that their expertise stays aligned with Nutanix's evolving platform. Nutanix is considered a strategic partner for TIG.
The three-day "Innovation Project Management" training will be held from April 14-16, 2010 at the Intercontinental Hotel in Shanghai. The training will be led by Ray Sheen and will provide attendees with tools and techniques for managing innovation projects, including identifying customer needs, developing project specifications, managing risks, and verifying final products. The agenda will cover fundamentals of project management, applying project management to new product development, and managing stakeholders, schedules, and risks. The training is intended for project managers, engineers, researchers, marketers, and executives.
The Connect Chicago Innovation Program is seeking collaborative new ideas to increase tech access, skills, and engagement in Chicago. Each application should come from teams of two or more partnered organizations. In 2018, one of these teams will be awarded (1) professional development support from City Tech to refine, workshop, and develop their proposed solution (2) up to $50,000 to support a pilot to test their collaborative idea.
Connect Chicago is a donor advised fund managed by the City Tech Collaborative which seeks to make Chicago the most digitally skilled, connected, and dynamic city in America. Connect Chicago is supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Microsoft, Comcast, Sprint, the Lenovo Foundation, Clarity Partners, and Gogo. For more information about the Connect Chicago Innovation Program, see the slides below.
The webinar covers:
• Why ISO 21500?
• What is PRINCE2 and the New Agile version of it.
• What are the advantages and value of each of the above?
• How do they both complement each other?
Presenter:
This webinar was presented by Orlando Odejide. He is an Enterprise Architect and Programme Director with over 15 years’ experience in the field of Computing and Information Technology Consulting. He has also trained over 2, 000 Professionals on (ITIL, TOGAF, Business Analysis, COBIT, CMMI, XBRL, ISO 20000, ISO 27001 and ISO 22301).
Link of the recorded session published on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ZML5eTxsEF8
This document provides an overview of NineSigma's services for running prize-based innovation competitions. It discusses NineSigma's global network of over 2 million solution providers, and how they use a combination of technical outreach and PR/marketing to identify potential solutions from diverse sources. The document presents several case studies of past competitions run by NineSigma for clients like Cisco and GE, and outlines NineSigma's typical competition methodology which includes program design, a submission period, closing and assessing submissions, and awarding winners.
The 18th Annual Awards for Excellence in BPM & Workflow recognize outstanding implementations from around the world that demonstrate innovation, successful implementation methodology, and business impact. A panel of expert judges will evaluate finalists across categories including Europe, North America, Middle East/Africa, Pacific Rim, and South and Central America. Winners will be announced at the awards ceremony.
Creating a culture for innovation at Cancer Research UK383
Creating a culture for innovation at Cancer Research UK. At our Byte breakfast briefing event in September 2014, Janine Chandler, Head of Innovation Development, introduced the process and purpose of innovation at one of the world's largest charities - Cancer Research UK.
Turbo charging your creative marketing assets for global engagement - Ben Fus...Savage Marketing
This document discusses Wolters Kluwer's approach to digital content marketing. It introduces Wolters Kluwer as a 180-year-old company serving thousands of customers worldwide, including 93% of Fortune 500 companies. It then outlines Wolters Kluwer's goals of global engagement, transforming customer success, driving positive employee engagement, and achieving a strong ROI. The approach discussed leveraging digital video by interviewing thought leaders and customers, then repurposing the content across multiple channels. This allows economies of scale and amplifies the impact. Results included over 1.5 million impressions and expanding into 7 new territories while outperforming competitors.
This document outlines a marketing and communications strategy for Manufacturing USA. It establishes goals of creating awareness, fostering participation, and growing the program. The strategy takes an audience-first approach, identifying key audiences and their needs. It outlines guiding principles including the brand platform and strategic themes. Tactics discussed include developing messaging around the themes, choosing channels, and creating rollout plans. The strategy provides a roadmap for activating the brand through continued engagement, content development, digital presence, and outreach efforts.
Bus strseries unlockingvalue-sept2010 -psdsAnna Caraveli
The document discusses three management practices - open innovation, experimentation-driven discovery, and future-back migration mapping - that can help entrepreneurial businesses reduce risks and unlock value. It provides examples of how each practice has been successfully used: open innovation through crowdsourcing challenges like Netflix Prize and MIT Red Balloon Challenge; experimentation through tests by companies like Google, Best Buy, and McDonald's; and future-back migration mapping in Apple's development of the iPod ecosystem. The document argues that using these practices together in an integrated system can dramatically reduce risks for startups and help realize their full potential value.
Ottavo appuntamento di Exhibitionist, incontri tra innovatori di fiere ed eventi. Protagonista Stefan Rummel, Chief Strategy Officer di Messe München. Open Innovation per sviluppare il legame con la community.
This document provides information about the Growing Successful Entrepreneurs program run by The Royal Society of Edinburgh. The program offers a 12-month salary, business training, mentoring, networking opportunities, and up to £10K in funding to help innovators and researchers commercialize their ideas. Past fellows have founded over 100 companies in key Scottish industries and attracted over £63M in follow-on investment. The selection committee evaluates applicants based on the effectiveness of their technology, its market potential, and the applicant's commercialization plan and ambition to succeed.
ILRI Seminar_Presentation by AHall_Our search for effective research and inno...Food_Systems_Innovation
International agricultural research has long searched for effective models to connect research to innovation and impact with mixed success. This has led to a need to invest in understanding innovation practice through learning rather than reliance on universal models. The document argues that establishing a scientific basis to link multi-stakeholder partnership practice with impact requires a framework and evidence on what works. The CGIAR is well positioned to contribute knowledge on how innovation processes work and to develop practices that enable effective contribution to impact.
The document discusses funding and support opportunities from the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) in the UK for driving innovation. The TSB funds collaborative R&D projects through competitions, provides grants for R&D through the Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI), and notes European funding opportunities through the Eurostars program. The TSB seeks projects that have a clear commercial opportunity and technical challenge requiring innovative R&D to solve and benefit the UK economy. Applications are assessed based on the commercial and technical merits of proposed projects.
The document discusses a project between several microfinance institutions and the ILO to implement innovations aimed at improving working conditions and addressing child labour through quantitative impact evaluations, with challenges including sample size reductions due to economic crises, translation issues, and high researcher turnover.
Using Innovation Challenges to Drive Engagement, Creativity and EntrepreneurshipL Torres
The document discusses using prizes to foster innovation by addressing important problems. It notes benefits of prize challenges include establishing goals without choosing solutions, paying only for results, highlighting excellence, and stimulating greater private investment. Well-designed prizes can attract interest, change perceptions of what's possible, and improve skills. The document outlines considerations for prize design such as specifying clear outcomes, knowing the target audience, allowing for discovery, setting appropriate monetary awards, and establishing timeframes. It provides examples of existing prizes and discusses key stages in the prize design process from defining problems to evaluating outcomes.
- The document discusses the concept of innovation, providing definitions from OECD and describing the key components of innovation as newness, ideation, application, and benefit.
- It then covers different types of innovation including product, process, marketing, social, and organizational innovation. Different degrees of innovation are explored through examples relating to products and services.
- The presentation also summarizes innovation at 3M, outlining their strategies like the Rule of 15% and 25/5 rule, emphasis on seed capital and tolerance for failure, and their focus on connecting technology to markets through platforms and customer innovation centers.
For the course project, you will select a country of interest (Rwa.docxmecklenburgstrelitzh
For the course project, you will select a country of interest (Rwanda) and assess the international business potential of that country and compare its characteristics to the characteristics of the United States. You will write a paper based on your research over the course of next 5 weeks. Include the following sections in the paper:
· Executive summary
· Macroeconomic condition
· Political and cultural environment
· Operations, Marketing, and Human Resource considerations
· Overall recommendations and risk assessment for making business investments into this country
The following organizations gather and publish data relevant to your course project. Use these resources for research.
· United Nations
· World Bank
· International Monetary Fund
· European Union
· Asian Development Bank
· Central Intelligence Agency
· Trade Information Center
· Japanese External Trade Organization
· Lexis-Nexis
· Ernst & Young
· International Trade Centre
· Dow Jones
· DIALOG
Leading Innovation and Change: Best Practice Case Study
Client - a company synonymous with the term innovation. Since its inception, the company founders have instilled a belief in unique product creation, including life altering product innovations such as the light bulb envelope, TV tube, and optical waveguides. This concept of innovation has been deemed one of the company's most essential quality programs, bridging functional groups within the organization, renewing itself through continued time and iterations. For the client, innovation not only challenges traditional ways to thinking, but has become a key impetus to drive change. Innovation converts ideas into opportunities.
The client began its journey with the realization that the rate of new product development would be insufficient to maintain company profitability in the future. In the late 1970's and early 1980's there was a cycle of small pockets of promising technological advances, defensive moves, and diminishing returns. Previously the company's innovation processes had been defined only within the areas of research, product development, and engineering. The client began by analyzing past innovations and the successes and failures associated with each, and benchmarking their own best practices and lessons learned.
The client has defined innovative effectiveness as: requiring an understanding of overall corporate and business strategies; developing organizational roadmaps based on customers, the market, competitors, strengths and weaknesses, and resources; ability to evaluate, prioritize, and select projects; and executing the selected project well. The key elements of innovation intervention are: an innovation task force, composed of key innovators; the utilization of company history as a resource for innovation; a focus on strengths and resources in a project of paramount importance, referred to as "flexible critical mass;" and a two-and-a-half-day innovation conference for 200 company leaders which focuses on reintrodu.
Organised Health Technologies announced as the winners of the latest MediCity accelerator program for medtech, digital health and wellbeing start-up's in Scotland
Magnatas, LLC provides strategic guidance and consultation to life sciences companies, venture firms, and service companies. It uses a convergent approach that combines scientific and commercial data to help clients succeed. Magnatas has scientific expertise in areas like immunology and commercial experience in business strategy, operations, and new model development. Its goal is to help clients maximize efficiency and make timely, informed decisions throughout the complex process of developing an asset or service.
TIG recognized the value of Nutanix's hyper-converged infrastructure early on and established a relationship with Nutanix in 2012. As one of Nutanix's top partners, TIG has sold and implemented over 24 Nutanix solutions for customers and ensures that their expertise stays aligned with Nutanix's evolving platform. Nutanix is considered a strategic partner for TIG.
The three-day "Innovation Project Management" training will be held from April 14-16, 2010 at the Intercontinental Hotel in Shanghai. The training will be led by Ray Sheen and will provide attendees with tools and techniques for managing innovation projects, including identifying customer needs, developing project specifications, managing risks, and verifying final products. The agenda will cover fundamentals of project management, applying project management to new product development, and managing stakeholders, schedules, and risks. The training is intended for project managers, engineers, researchers, marketers, and executives.
The Connect Chicago Innovation Program is seeking collaborative new ideas to increase tech access, skills, and engagement in Chicago. Each application should come from teams of two or more partnered organizations. In 2018, one of these teams will be awarded (1) professional development support from City Tech to refine, workshop, and develop their proposed solution (2) up to $50,000 to support a pilot to test their collaborative idea.
Connect Chicago is a donor advised fund managed by the City Tech Collaborative which seeks to make Chicago the most digitally skilled, connected, and dynamic city in America. Connect Chicago is supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Microsoft, Comcast, Sprint, the Lenovo Foundation, Clarity Partners, and Gogo. For more information about the Connect Chicago Innovation Program, see the slides below.
The webinar covers:
• Why ISO 21500?
• What is PRINCE2 and the New Agile version of it.
• What are the advantages and value of each of the above?
• How do they both complement each other?
Presenter:
This webinar was presented by Orlando Odejide. He is an Enterprise Architect and Programme Director with over 15 years’ experience in the field of Computing and Information Technology Consulting. He has also trained over 2, 000 Professionals on (ITIL, TOGAF, Business Analysis, COBIT, CMMI, XBRL, ISO 20000, ISO 27001 and ISO 22301).
Link of the recorded session published on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ZML5eTxsEF8
This document provides an overview of NineSigma's services for running prize-based innovation competitions. It discusses NineSigma's global network of over 2 million solution providers, and how they use a combination of technical outreach and PR/marketing to identify potential solutions from diverse sources. The document presents several case studies of past competitions run by NineSigma for clients like Cisco and GE, and outlines NineSigma's typical competition methodology which includes program design, a submission period, closing and assessing submissions, and awarding winners.
The 18th Annual Awards for Excellence in BPM & Workflow recognize outstanding implementations from around the world that demonstrate innovation, successful implementation methodology, and business impact. A panel of expert judges will evaluate finalists across categories including Europe, North America, Middle East/Africa, Pacific Rim, and South and Central America. Winners will be announced at the awards ceremony.
Creating a culture for innovation at Cancer Research UK383
Creating a culture for innovation at Cancer Research UK. At our Byte breakfast briefing event in September 2014, Janine Chandler, Head of Innovation Development, introduced the process and purpose of innovation at one of the world's largest charities - Cancer Research UK.
Turbo charging your creative marketing assets for global engagement - Ben Fus...Savage Marketing
This document discusses Wolters Kluwer's approach to digital content marketing. It introduces Wolters Kluwer as a 180-year-old company serving thousands of customers worldwide, including 93% of Fortune 500 companies. It then outlines Wolters Kluwer's goals of global engagement, transforming customer success, driving positive employee engagement, and achieving a strong ROI. The approach discussed leveraging digital video by interviewing thought leaders and customers, then repurposing the content across multiple channels. This allows economies of scale and amplifies the impact. Results included over 1.5 million impressions and expanding into 7 new territories while outperforming competitors.
This document outlines a marketing and communications strategy for Manufacturing USA. It establishes goals of creating awareness, fostering participation, and growing the program. The strategy takes an audience-first approach, identifying key audiences and their needs. It outlines guiding principles including the brand platform and strategic themes. Tactics discussed include developing messaging around the themes, choosing channels, and creating rollout plans. The strategy provides a roadmap for activating the brand through continued engagement, content development, digital presence, and outreach efforts.
Bus strseries unlockingvalue-sept2010 -psdsAnna Caraveli
The document discusses three management practices - open innovation, experimentation-driven discovery, and future-back migration mapping - that can help entrepreneurial businesses reduce risks and unlock value. It provides examples of how each practice has been successfully used: open innovation through crowdsourcing challenges like Netflix Prize and MIT Red Balloon Challenge; experimentation through tests by companies like Google, Best Buy, and McDonald's; and future-back migration mapping in Apple's development of the iPod ecosystem. The document argues that using these practices together in an integrated system can dramatically reduce risks for startups and help realize their full potential value.
Ottavo appuntamento di Exhibitionist, incontri tra innovatori di fiere ed eventi. Protagonista Stefan Rummel, Chief Strategy Officer di Messe München. Open Innovation per sviluppare il legame con la community.
This document provides information about the Growing Successful Entrepreneurs program run by The Royal Society of Edinburgh. The program offers a 12-month salary, business training, mentoring, networking opportunities, and up to £10K in funding to help innovators and researchers commercialize their ideas. Past fellows have founded over 100 companies in key Scottish industries and attracted over £63M in follow-on investment. The selection committee evaluates applicants based on the effectiveness of their technology, its market potential, and the applicant's commercialization plan and ambition to succeed.
ILRI Seminar_Presentation by AHall_Our search for effective research and inno...Food_Systems_Innovation
International agricultural research has long searched for effective models to connect research to innovation and impact with mixed success. This has led to a need to invest in understanding innovation practice through learning rather than reliance on universal models. The document argues that establishing a scientific basis to link multi-stakeholder partnership practice with impact requires a framework and evidence on what works. The CGIAR is well positioned to contribute knowledge on how innovation processes work and to develop practices that enable effective contribution to impact.
The document discusses funding and support opportunities from the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) in the UK for driving innovation. The TSB funds collaborative R&D projects through competitions, provides grants for R&D through the Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI), and notes European funding opportunities through the Eurostars program. The TSB seeks projects that have a clear commercial opportunity and technical challenge requiring innovative R&D to solve and benefit the UK economy. Applications are assessed based on the commercial and technical merits of proposed projects.
The document discusses a project between several microfinance institutions and the ILO to implement innovations aimed at improving working conditions and addressing child labour through quantitative impact evaluations, with challenges including sample size reductions due to economic crises, translation issues, and high researcher turnover.
Using Innovation Challenges to Drive Engagement, Creativity and EntrepreneurshipL Torres
The document discusses using prizes to foster innovation by addressing important problems. It notes benefits of prize challenges include establishing goals without choosing solutions, paying only for results, highlighting excellence, and stimulating greater private investment. Well-designed prizes can attract interest, change perceptions of what's possible, and improve skills. The document outlines considerations for prize design such as specifying clear outcomes, knowing the target audience, allowing for discovery, setting appropriate monetary awards, and establishing timeframes. It provides examples of existing prizes and discusses key stages in the prize design process from defining problems to evaluating outcomes.
- The document discusses the concept of innovation, providing definitions from OECD and describing the key components of innovation as newness, ideation, application, and benefit.
- It then covers different types of innovation including product, process, marketing, social, and organizational innovation. Different degrees of innovation are explored through examples relating to products and services.
- The presentation also summarizes innovation at 3M, outlining their strategies like the Rule of 15% and 25/5 rule, emphasis on seed capital and tolerance for failure, and their focus on connecting technology to markets through platforms and customer innovation centers.
For the course project, you will select a country of interest (Rwa.docxmecklenburgstrelitzh
For the course project, you will select a country of interest (Rwanda) and assess the international business potential of that country and compare its characteristics to the characteristics of the United States. You will write a paper based on your research over the course of next 5 weeks. Include the following sections in the paper:
· Executive summary
· Macroeconomic condition
· Political and cultural environment
· Operations, Marketing, and Human Resource considerations
· Overall recommendations and risk assessment for making business investments into this country
The following organizations gather and publish data relevant to your course project. Use these resources for research.
· United Nations
· World Bank
· International Monetary Fund
· European Union
· Asian Development Bank
· Central Intelligence Agency
· Trade Information Center
· Japanese External Trade Organization
· Lexis-Nexis
· Ernst & Young
· International Trade Centre
· Dow Jones
· DIALOG
Leading Innovation and Change: Best Practice Case Study
Client - a company synonymous with the term innovation. Since its inception, the company founders have instilled a belief in unique product creation, including life altering product innovations such as the light bulb envelope, TV tube, and optical waveguides. This concept of innovation has been deemed one of the company's most essential quality programs, bridging functional groups within the organization, renewing itself through continued time and iterations. For the client, innovation not only challenges traditional ways to thinking, but has become a key impetus to drive change. Innovation converts ideas into opportunities.
The client began its journey with the realization that the rate of new product development would be insufficient to maintain company profitability in the future. In the late 1970's and early 1980's there was a cycle of small pockets of promising technological advances, defensive moves, and diminishing returns. Previously the company's innovation processes had been defined only within the areas of research, product development, and engineering. The client began by analyzing past innovations and the successes and failures associated with each, and benchmarking their own best practices and lessons learned.
The client has defined innovative effectiveness as: requiring an understanding of overall corporate and business strategies; developing organizational roadmaps based on customers, the market, competitors, strengths and weaknesses, and resources; ability to evaluate, prioritize, and select projects; and executing the selected project well. The key elements of innovation intervention are: an innovation task force, composed of key innovators; the utilization of company history as a resource for innovation; a focus on strengths and resources in a project of paramount importance, referred to as "flexible critical mass;" and a two-and-a-half-day innovation conference for 200 company leaders which focuses on reintrodu.
Organised Health Technologies announced as the winners of the latest MediCity accelerator program for medtech, digital health and wellbeing start-up's in Scotland
The document provides an overview of the Digital Supercluster program including:
- The program will invest $950 million from the federal government to drive growth through digital technology collaborations.
- Projects will be selected through a competitive process and receive matching funding if approved.
- The focus areas are technology leadership projects and capacity building projects. Technology leadership projects will transform industries through areas like precision health, digital twins, and data commons. Capacity building projects will grow skills, scale small businesses, and increase exports.
Digital Healthcare Revolution conference. 25.02.2016mckenln
The document outlines Oldham CCG's innovation strategy. Key points include:
1) The healthcare landscape is changing with new regulations, performance measures, and a focus on transformation. This presents both challenges and opportunities for Oldham CCG to improve population health.
2) Oldham CCG aims to build a culture that encourages innovation from members to empower communities, use resources effectively, prevent unnecessary costs, and improve care.
3) Oldham CCG will adopt an innovation-based approach, investing in good ideas through a "Dragons' Den" process to test projects. Successful innovations will be implemented more broadly.
4) Three innovation streams are proposed for ideas from various sources. Projects will be
How to Implement a Strategy: Transform Your Strategy with BSC Designer's Comp...Aleksey Savkin
The Strategy Implementation System offers a structured approach to translating stakeholder needs into actionable strategies using high-level and low-level scorecards. It involves stakeholder analysis, strategy decomposition, adoption of strategic frameworks like Balanced Scorecard or OKR, and alignment of goals, initiatives, and KPIs.
Key Components:
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Strategy Decomposition
- Adoption of Business Frameworks
- Goal Setting
- Initiatives and Action Plans
- KPIs and Performance Metrics
- Learning and Adaptation
- Alignment and Cascading of Scorecards
Benefits:
- Systematic strategy formulation and execution.
- Framework flexibility and automation.
- Enhanced alignment and strategic focus across the organization.
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This letter, written by Kellen Harkins, Course Director at Full Sail University, commends Anny Love's exemplary performance in the Video Sharing Platforms class. It highlights her dedication, willingness to challenge herself, and exceptional skills in production, editing, and marketing across various video platforms like YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram.
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Nine sigma grand challenges
1. GRAND CHALLENGES
ACHIEVE HIGH IMPACT OUTCOMES THROUGH FULLY MANAGED
GRAND CHALLENGES
Rick Wielens CEO Ninesigma Europe
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2. WHAT IS NINESIGMA‟S GRAND CHALLENGE?
A LARGE SCALE TECHNOLOGY SEARCH THAT
ENGAGES TECHNICAL AND STAKEHOLDER
COMMUNITIES TO IDENTIFY TRANSFORMATIVE
TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES
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3. NINESIGMA OVERVIEW
OFFICES IN
USA, EUROPE, JAPAN, AUSTRALIA,
KOREA AND CANADA
37,000 + PROPOSALS
RECEIVED FROM 116 COUNTRIES
2,500 + OPEN INNOVATION
PROJECTS COMPLETED
DIVERSE CLIENTS
MULTINATIONALS, MIDDLE
MARKET, NONPROFIT, GOVERNMENT
2 MILLION + SOLUTION
PROVIDERS CONTACTED
PROGRAM MANAGER
EXPERIENCE: 28 YEARS AVERAGE
INDUSTRY EXPERTISE, 150
PROJECTS MANAGED
WE HAVE IDENTIFIED SOLUTIONS IN EVERY
MAJOR INDUSTRY AND TECHNICAL AREA
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4. OUR GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY NETWORK GROWS
WITH EVERY CHALLENGE
Over 2 million
solution
providers
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Industry
Academia
Labs & Institutes
Inventors
Continually
expanding
network
Providers in
virtually every
country
Viral networking
extends our
reach further
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5. GRAND CHALLENGE APPROACH
OUR DEEP EXPERIENCE ENABLES YOU TO ACHIEVE
YOUR KEY OBJECTIVES QUICKLY AND EFFICIENTLY
Unite diverse Sponsors to develop a
cohesive message and integrated goals
Grand Challenge teams with Program
Management and Technical Managers
Complete management of full
program execution
NineSigma‟s marketing team
complements your marketing program
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6. WHAT ARE THE ELEMENTS OF SUCCESS?
DUAL “CALL TO ACTION” STIMULATES
TECHNOLOGY EXPERTS & STAKEHOLDERS
INCENTIVES MOTIVATE PARTICIPANTS
AND MAXIMIZE STAKEHOLDER FOCUS
DUAL OUTREACH INCLUDES TECHNICAL
CAMPAIGNS + PR/MARKETING
JUDGING PANEL AND PROCESS
AFFIRM CREDIBILITY AND COMMITMENT
CLEARLY DEFINED TECHNOLOGY
OBJECTIVES ARE RESULTSFOCUSED, ACHIEVABLE, AND TIME-BOUND
NINESIGHTS COLLABORATION PLATFORM
IS THE GRAND CHALLENGE HUB
MANAGING THE COMPLEXITY OF GRAND CHALLENGES
IS NINESIGMA‟S CORE COMPETENCY
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7. DUAL OUTREACH + CALL TO ACTION
BREAKTHROUGH INNOVATION
GRAND CHALLENGE
Research centers
Corporations
Universities
Suppliers
Start up/
Entrepreneurs
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IDENTIFY
SOLUTIONS
Technical
Outreach
MESSAGE,
CAMPAIGN
& PRIZE
STRATEGY
PR
OUTREACH
The “Public”
Customers
Industry
Catalyst to
Stakeholders
Advocates
Government/
Military
NGOs
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8. WHAT CAN BE ACHIEVED WITH A
GRAND CHALLENGE?
Identify breakthrough, transformative solutions to a complex,
interdisciplinary challenge
Establish the Sponsors as leaders in their industry
Enhance public perception of the Sponsors
Demonstrate the power of uniting diverse Sponsors
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9. PROGRAM METHODOLOGY
Phase 1
Phase 2
PROGRAM DESIGN
Month 1-3
SUBMISSION PERIOD
Months 4-6
Phase 3
CLOSE AND ASSESS
Month 7-9
Phase 4
AWARD STAGE
Month 10-12
OUTREACH STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT
Identify Targets
Email campaign
Solution provider communication
PR and Advertising
NOTE: Actual timelines depend on program scope and Sponsor goals
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10. OUR HOLISTIC APPROACH
WE TRANSLATE EACH SPONSOR’S OBJECTIVE INTO AN
INTEGRATED TOPIC AND PRIZE STRATEGY
GOALS
OUTCOMES
STRATEGY
Technical outreach
to Solution Provider
Network
• Multiple
Vision
challenges
Visionary
• New
players
• Technology
focus
• Target
CAMPAIGN &
PRIZE STRATEGY
• Accelerated
• Phased
development
awards
• Diverse
stakeholders
judging
committee
Objectives
• Short &
Prize awards
long term
opportunities
Marketing outreach
to Stakeholder
Community
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11. GRAND CHALLENGE
HEAD HEALTH CHALLENGE
OVERVIEW & CHALLENGES
• The GE NFL Head Health Grand Challenge is a $60 million program that
includes research and challenges to develop new solutions to help
advance understanding of mild traumatic brain injury.
• The first $10 million Challenge invites proposals for scanning
technologies and biomarkers.
• A second $10 million Challenge with Under Armour launches Fall 2013 to
find, fund, and develop new solutions to diagnose and protect against
traumatic brain injury
APPROACH
• Because GE and the NFL bring distinct resources to their
partnership, NineSigma worked closely with GE and the NFL to align
their goals and design a challenge program that would achieve each of
their objectives
• With two challenge topics, and a diverse judging panel, the prize
strategy was a critical component that had to be defined and clearly
communicated to a broad technical and consumer audience
KEY TAKEAWAYS
• Translating each Sponsor‟s objective into an integrated topic
and prize strategy is a critical first step which determines the
success of the program
• Even a large scale, multi-year Challenge such as this can be
defined, scoped and launched in a short period of time when
there is executive buy-in and support
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12. GRAND CHALLENGE
NEW CARBON-BASED PRODUCTS & MARKETS
OVERVIEW & CHALLENGES
• Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCEMC) Corporation had
been actively running challenges to address incremental advances.
• CCEMC wanted to „elevate the discussion‟ and search for breakthrough
innovation; the Grand Challenge allowed them to do that.
• Grand Challenge is expected to identify multiple technologies that will
provide significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by
transforming carbon from a liability into an asset.
APPROACH
• NineSigma worked with CCEMC and its Board to define goals, hone in
on the need, and align all stakeholders around a common vision.
• NineSigma coordinated all aspects of Grand Challenge
messaging, PR, and outreach, coordinating with CCEMC and its
marketing agency partner.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
• Working with an organization that does not have in-house
technical leadership requires a different
approach, particularly in the discovery & strategy phase.
• Alignment around issues like prize strategy, confidentiality
and PR is critical when multiple stakeholders are involved.
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13. GRAND CHALLENGE
ASSEMBLING TOOLS TO FIGHT
BREAST CANCER
OVERVIEW & CHALLENGES
• Aspiration: To fight breast cancer.
• Challenge focused on mapping breast cancer
pathways, specifically to map the molecular/proteomic similarities
between breast cancer and other solid tumors.
• The Challenge was receiving low results and the quantity and
quality of proposals needed to increase.
RESULTS
• NineSigma was brought after Challenge launch and activated best
practices including outreach to broad technical and non-technical
audiences and a detailed communications strategy to ensure
challenge success.
• Ultimately over 500 proposals were received from 40 countries.
• Five winners were selected: each received $100k seed award in
addition to support through mentorships and access to GE
researchers and industry thought leaders.
“It is often challenging for early stage research to
grab the attention of seed investors. The challenge
has shown us that there are a remarkable number
of breakthrough ideas out there that deserve
promotion, investment and incubation.”
KEY TAKEAWAYS
• The right access to technical communities is key. In
addition there are fundamentals that must be followed —
including activities before, during and after the challenge.
— BETH COMSTOCK
CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER
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14. GRAND CHALLENGE
PROTEIN STABILIZATION FOR AN
EFFECTIVE AIDS VACCINE
OVERVIEW & CHALLENGES
• Each day, 7,400 individuals worldwide are newly infected with HIV. This is
one of the greatest medical challenges of the 21st century. IAVI has
focused on AIDS vaccine development for over 10 years.
• Breakthrough discovery: Naturally occurring antibodies neutralize proteins
on the surface of the virus, “disarming” the HIV, but the protein is too
unstable to be effectively targeted and needs to be stabilized.
• IAVI previously ran a search which focused on vaccine specialists only and
didn‟t receive any solutions of value.
RESULTS
• NineSigma identified the challenge as a protein “stabilization” problem, and
more than 30 proposals were submitted from protein researchers globally.
• A result of the quality and volume of responses, IAVI was able to go secure
additional funding from the Gates Foundation.
“NineSigma provided a number of promising new
approaches to protein stabilization that we had not
previously explored. We are confident that the
researchers they helped identify have much to
contribute to the development of an effective AIDS
vaccine.”
— WAYNE KOFF
CHIEF SCIENTIFIC OFFICER
OF IAVI
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• The search identified two scientists initially and eventually a third who will
receive a total of $875K to develop solutions for generating stable protein
complexes for use in AIDS vaccines.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
• Defining the problem differently opened up a new audience.
• NineSigma didn‟t go to the „usual suspects‟ — as a result, a
wealth of valuable proposals was generated.
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15. GRAND CHALLENGE
INNOVATIVE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES
OVERVIEW & CHALLENGES
• Current energy production methods are not sustainable to meet growing
global demand for affordable, reliable and accessible energy.
• LAUNCH was seeking breakthroughs in: energy efficiency, equitable
access, reduced GHGs, increased reliability, reduced cost, reduced
negative impact on human health and the environment, and positive
impact on living standards.
RESULTS
• NineSigma targeted public and private sector energy specialists plus
financial experts in modeling and private institutions.
• More than 160 proposals were submitted.
• 10 “Game Changing” solutions were selected including technologies like
prepaid electric storage units for rural areas.
• Winners received mentoring and access to new business
partners, government and potential funding sources.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
• The Grand Challenge addressed the goals of multiple
stakeholders including government and industry.
• The Challenge topic was broad yet also clearly defined the
need and criteria for solutions being sought which enabled a
high volume of quality proposals.
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16. GRAND CHALLENGE
SUSTAINABLE PACKAGING FOR
MICRONUTRIENT POWDERS
OVERVIEW & CHALLENGES
• Scientists Without Borders, Sackler Institute at the New York Academy of
Sciences, and Sight and Life were seeking sustainable and effective
approaches for delivering micronutrient powders (MNPs).
• MNPs are a critical tool in tackling global malnutrition.
• Current MNP packaging cannot be recycled, re-purposed, burned, or
composted creating large amounts of waste.
RESULTS
• 36 proposals were received from 15 countries over 90 days.
• One-third of the submissions were from solvers in developing countries.
• Scientists Without Borders selected three winners with solutions
involving: double-sack packaging, repurposing condiment
packaging, and the use of Chitosan setting solution.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
• The Challenge topic motivated solution providers, even
though the prize was modest ($25K)
• Engaging the right packaging and material
science, communities produced high quality outcomes
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