X is here!
A good inventor is defined by how many tools he can readily deploy, and his experience in using these tools.”
– Moti Margalit, PhD, Xinova Innovator
Reinventing innovation takes gumption. And the right tools. Introducing the X innovator platform: launched Aug. 6, it’s already providing more transparency into the invention process and improving the overall Xinova innovation experience. Don’t miss Thursday’s upcoming webinar, where Kevin and Andy will tell you all about it.
The new innovator portal is about us giving you the tools you need to succeed. As Moti Margalit, PhD shares, inventing is all about framing ideas, developing tools—and telling a good story.
Featured RFI Break-n-Bite Snacks
What if a snack bar were savory, not sweet? We’re looking for a new savory snack experience that can be broken apart and shared in uniform pieces like a KitKat. Check out this snack-sized RFI, and share your ideas. published in August
NEW! Exploring Xinova’s New Innovation Portal Webinar
Diversify network talent? Check. Take on more problems? Check. Sort through solutions more efficiently? Improve the innovation experience? Added transparency? Adapt portal quickly to feedback? Check, check, check, check. The new platform enables all this as well as exciting future additions. published in August
Xinova Updates
No company is immune to market disruption
The whole concept of “too big to fail” is obsolete. Whole industries, not just companies, are being felled by young companies that didn’t exist a few years ago. published in August
How to innovate under mounting pressure
“I think the CTO job has actually gotten more complicated now,” said Martha Collins, CTO, HarbisonWalker International. “There’s a constant clash as we get to be more and more quarterly… every quarter is so important, and now every week is so important, and sometimes every day is so important.”published in August
Innovator Profile Series
-Moti Margalit, PhD, Xinova Innovator
If it’s a strong enough idea, the inventor can push the invention to an entrepreneur and he or she can make it into a good product… But the driving force for an inventor is that the idea is so good that it sells itself. Which of course never happens.”
Innovation Updates
The next 10 years will be about market networks
The last decade was about networks. The next decade will be about “market-networks,” a new innovation economy first described in 2015: “Market-networks will produce a new class of unicorn companies and impact how millions of service professionals will work and earn their living.” Xinova is positioned at the forefront market-networks. published in August