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APQC’s Resource Library is your source for timely and topical information to help you meet your most complex business process and knowledge management challenges. Explore our ever-growing collection of more than 8,600 research-based best practices, benchmarks and metrics, case studies, and other valuable APQC content.
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Costovation: Bring Innovation to the Cost Side of the Business
In this recorded webinar, Stephen Wunker from New Markets Advisors discusses with APQC's Marisa Brown why now is the time for organizations to use the tools of innovation on…
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The enduring promise of open innovation is to get work done faster, cheaper, and with better ideas. Unfortunately, many organizations struggle to build a culture that is…
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Today’s markets move and evolve with incredible speed. Keeping up requires embracing open innovation: the organization looks beyond itself for new ideas, strategies, and…
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APQC asked leading thinkers on innovation and disruption how organizations can recover from the events of the past year. Scott Anthony from Innosight and Stephen Wunker from…
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Organizations are seeking new and better ways to drive innovation, and many are looking to knowledge management (KM) for support. This article outlines ways to connect KM and…
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How KM Supports Innovation
The last year has solidified the need for organizations to innovate—not just their products and services, but also their business models, supply chains, and internal…
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Organizations can struggle with balancing the expansive potential of an open innovation program with the need to target investments. Efforts should align with organizational…
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Cast Wide Net for Open Innovation Partners
Open innovation programs benefit from deliberately approaching traditional and untraditional sources of ideas. An excerpt from APQC’s report, Open Innovation: Creating…
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Relationship management is a critical capability for open innovation. An excerpt from APQC’s report, Open Innovation: Creating Flexible Collaboration, this article reviews…
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Open Innovation and Intellectual Property
Organizations benefit from regularly clarifying how intellectual property (IP) concerns and open innovation programs align with organizational strategy—and then working to…
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Establish a Dedicated Open Innovation Team
Open innovation efforts falter without a dedicated, central team to connect the business with potential sources of innovation. An excerpt from APQC’s report, Open Innovation:…
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Seek Skilled Open Innovation Team Members
Open innovation efforts require a dedicated, central team to connect the business with potential sources of innovation. But this team needs a varied skillset beyond…
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Open innovation is a dynamic, recursive activity that presents unique management challenges. Organizations can instill structure by integrating open innovation with existing…
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As an organization’s open innovation program matures, it typically broadens its horizon for new ideas. APQC advises organizations to focus on specific needs, as well as…
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As the field of open innovation expands, the competition increases among organizations to tap into expertise and get a first look at quality ideas. Organizations need to…