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Introduction
to Global Innovation
Why is global innovation an important topic for leaders and
managers today? What is the Global Compact and what is its
impact on global innovation? Global innovation today is not
just innovation writ large and worldwide, it is changed and
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What
is Global Innovation
What is meant by global innovation? Scouting the future and
scouting your way to success. "What's new?" has
more than one meaning! The drivers of innovation. |
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Evolution
of Global Innovation
The
technical/scientific drivers of global innovation. The social
and political drivers of global innovation. The connections
between Gandhi, Phil Knight, and the Global Compact. Global
innovation time-line. |
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The
E-Dimension
Corporate
investment in information technology. Destroying time and
space. Global innovations in infrastructure, the backbone
of organizations. Best practice: EDI at Standard Life. The
Internet's challenge. |
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The
Global Dimension
A
glass half empty and half full: global education. Global institutions.
Best practice case: the Integrated Rural Development (IRD)
program in Ireland. |
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The
State of the Art
Social,
political, economic issues. Emergent ideas and concepts for
the global innovator. Scouting: the simplest and most effective
ongoing innovation tool. What are the implications of these
new concepts and methods at individual and organizational
level? A look to the future of global innovation - likely
trends and developments. |
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In
Practice
US,
Europe, Japan, and Hong Kong - a Motorola Search Conference.
Australia - Cyclone Hardware P&N Tools. India - Hindustan
Lever. plan to the organization and implementing the plan.
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Key
Concepts and Thinkers
Joel Barker. Creative thinking/innovative thinking/"out-of-the-box"
thinking - Edward de Bono. Discontinuous change/innovation.
The Innovation Cycle. Intrapreneurial innovation.
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Resources
Government
agencies, associations, institutes, and centers. ISO 9000
and ISO 14000 related resources. Websites of publications
and other organizations. Websites for scouting the ÒplusÓ
aspects of global innovation. |
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Ten
Steps to Global Innovation
Determine where your organization is in its innovation cycle.
Trends and forces directly affecting our system. Our current
system: what to keep, throw out, create. Action planning to
identify goals, means to attain the desirable future.
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