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No time to innovate - innovation fact 8 - creax innovation consultants

Innovation Fact 8 – Too busy to innovate

Planning is essential for innovation – the pull of the ‘urgent, not important’ of routine tasks is just too strong. It's time to take action…

Learn from the best: nature and biomimicry - innovation fact 13 - creax innovation

Innovation Fact 13 – Learn from the best: biomimicry

Biomimicry or learning from nature will only gain importance in the future. Before companies make any design decisions, they should ask: “How would nature solve…

Open innovation: overcoming the hurdles

We show some of the hurdles of open innovation and present some useful tips to overcome them.

Avoid innovation paralysis - Innovation a business discipline

Avoid innovation paralysis – why all companies can and…

A lot of business leaders know they want innovation, yet they struggle to define what it actually means to them. Simply put, innovation is about…

Keep it simple - innovation fact 7 - creax innovation consultacy

Innovation Fact 7 – Keep it simple

Keeping things simple has many advantages. Look at your products or services and ask yourself: “Does it really need to be this complex?” Can I…

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Innovation Fact 4b – Beware of the “not invented…

We tend to criticize and discard ideas that did not originate from us, consciously or unconsciously. Beware of this and always look at ideas and…

innovaton - the possibilities of metal foam

Cool, light, and strong: CREAX and Bekaert explore the…

Combining the advantages of metal with those of a permeable, lightweight material, metal foam lends itself to a wide variety of applications. Bekaert, a global…

Clarity in the Complexity of Innovation

Innovation is complex! In this series of blog posts Creax brings clarity by offering unbiased insights from over 54,000 research papers on #Innovation. We guide…

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Idea generation: Meet spiro, a new way of drilling

Isn’t it odd that you need a different drill bit for each hole you want to drill. We came up with Spiro, the drilling bot…

Organizational ambidexterity: Herding the cash cow while exploring unknown…

Organizational ambidexterity is a recent, emerging topic within the innovation management landscape that deserves a closer look. It also links to two other trending innovation…

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