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==2010 - 2015==
==2010 - 2015==
[[File:Innovation_tactics_in_2010.jpg|400px|right]]<u>Companies</u> discover that they <b>cannot manage the idea generation process</b>. Plenty of surveys (McKinsey, IBM CEO) indicate that most companies believe that innovation performance would improve with a better pipeline of big ideas (57%), yet only a third of these managers thought they had a good balance between idea generation and effective execution. The ideas trap is alive and well!  More and more companies realize that <b>gold ideas</b> upon which competitor capitalized,<b> were once in their baskets</b> also, but everybody inside their company was busy doing something else: the tasks from their job description. For this reason more market players started putting more pressure on tracking opportunities and equally on implementing those. <br><br>
[[File:Innovation_tactics_in_2010.jpg|400px|right]]<u>Companies</u> discovered that they <b>cannot manage the idea generation process</b>. Plenty of surveys (McKinsey, IBM CEO) indicated that most companies believed that innovation performance would improve with a better pipeline of big ideas (57%), yet only a third of these managers thought they had a good balance between idea generation and effective execution. The ideas trap was alive and well!  More and more companies realized that <b>gold ideas</b> upon which competitor capitalized,<b> were once in their baskets</b> also, but everybody inside their company was busy doing something else: tasks from their job description.<br><br>
<u>Consumers</U> are still ''playing'' with new mobile gadgets and new web tools which - some support their communication and make life more efficient, some however complicate is. Google Wave [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_wave]- though it promised to become the ultimate collaboration tool, it <b>did not manage to make complexity simple</b>.
Consumers had ever changing desires, but slow in implementation and in gathering market data, <b>companies did not manage to satisfy all these desires</b>.
At that time we were still ''playing'' with ever changing mobile gadgets and web tools: some supported efficient communication and made life more efficient, some failed to do so. Google Wave [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_wave]- though it promised to become the ultimate collaboration tool, it <b>did not manage to make complexity simple</b>.
<b>We are still in the search for a simpler life.</b>
<b>We are still in the search for a simpler life.</b>



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