As Apple and Android devices ate into BlackBerry's market share, Mr. Lazaridis started looking outside for innovation, bringing in a new marketing team and other top executives.
Portentous as it may sound, the manifesto represents the distillation of several successful team-oriented techniques, and should inspire innovation groups outside the confines of software development.
While there is speculation about whether the company will now outsource more of its innovation to outside researchers, the company is already using Imaginatik software to collaborate on new products.
The caveat is that most of this entrepreneurship and innovation is occurring outside the United States.
Two recent surveys on innovation and global economics confirm the suspicion that interest in innovation is stronger outside the USA than inside.
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Being exposed to this tech culture allowed me to realize at an early age the impact of innovation and thinking outside the box.
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Game-changing innovation thus lies outside the performance envelope of firms built on hierarchical bureaucracy where the top is focused on short-term gains and the stock price.
The rub is that most of this entrepreneurship and innovation is occurring outside the U.S. Americans--the mainstream media and the political class, especially--are terribly parochial regarding this.
As esoteric as it might sound, the message has resonated with a globalized business community aware that more and more innovation is taking place outside of the workspace, and often online.
With the support of the CEO, the innovation initiative has made major advances in establishing a significant innovation operation with a strong outside-in orientation.
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Progress, Reuters news agency notes, has been slow on two trademarks of Mr Medvedev's modernisation drive: efforts to create a high-tech innovation incubator at Skolkovo, outside Moscow, and to turn the capital into a global financial centre.
More and more techie professionals I know are opting to spend more time outside the Valley and in these new emerging centers of innovation.
During a briefing today at its other Innovation Center -- the one located just outside of Boston -- we were told that plans are underway to expand the SF facility.
Further, we should create an Office of Innovation Assessment, with the job of staying current about innovation developments beyond science and technology, and outside our borders, and equipping Americans with the knowledge they need to stay competitive.
Technology is disrupting industries ranging from healthcare to journalism, but few outside of the financial industry may realize the extent to which innovation is changing the lives of traders.
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Inadequate information and incentives lead to inadequate innovation and change, and it will take pressure from outside the academy to change this.
There could be investment to add Journal news and opinion coverage, accelerate product innovation across print and online and help us play the leading role outside the U.S. that we have long played in our home market.
But industry experts say that the pace of innovation and competition in recent years has forced the company to bring in outside talent with fresh ideas.
What I know is that growth in emerging markets and new business models bring innovation to the center of the table to solve problems to those on the outside looking in.
There is still a lot of space for innovation in the world of food and agriculture, especially if you begin to think outside the box of American commercial agriculture.
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Effectively, the goal at Innovation Lab is to use its myriad coworking spaces to let new ideas flow freely, outside of the conventional rulebook.
Technology tools can facilitate innovation within the enterprise, and they achieve it by creating a platform for people, whether within or outside of the organization, to collaborate, share and analyze information, and innovate.
While creativity is clearly a valuable asset, unbridled creativity where random, disparate ideas abound outside of a sound decisioning and execution framework will create distraction and chaos much more often than they will lead to innovation.
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