Susana Almeida’s Post

As ex-entrepreneur in digital tech, I was very pleased to share the stage with my colleague Moe Ba, ITU innovation expert, for this first Live Q&A, this time on digital innovation for sustainable development. What topic would you like to be discussed in another Q&A with an ITU expert? Put your favorite in the comments below. Some highlights from the recording below of our first Live Q&A: - Digital innovation is a productivity gainer (tech is not a root cause of change; tech is there to help you do a job) - Top 3 industries globally that urgently require sustainable development supported by tech: energy, transportation, construction - Make your small piece of the pie a big pie through collaboration to get complementary resources, opportunities and capabilities to drive digital innovation together (to mitigate silos in today’s specialized economy); no one can get innovative products to market alone - Policy needs to be agile to adapt to rapidly changing technology and provide support to innovators early in their journey; 90% of SMEs fail because they cannot figure out the right business model and collaboration with partners, including the private sector, to go beyond prototype #WTISD #InnovateForProsperity #innovation

I Think that corporates and startups should invest time in aligning their expectations and objectives. Corporates should understand that startups often prioritize market access over funding, while startups should recognize that corporates seek both internal improvements and new offerings for customers. A thorough onboarding process that fosters clear communication of needs and goals can prevent misalignments.

💡Ideas often strike spontaneously and in unexpected places – whether during coffee breaks, car rides, or walks. However, this is not the most reliable approach for creating innovations. Only when we cultivate, manage and implement ideas in a targeted manner, innovations are born. At VMT, we have a pretty cool system that makes us calculably creative. Here's an overview of how ideas transition from the brainstorming whirlwind in our innovation centre, Hive1, to reality underground: ➔ Cultivating ideas: In addition to our innovation hub, Hive1, where ideas spontaneously emerge, we seize every opportunity to gather insights from our staff: Guest lectures, innovation scouts, and brainstorming sessions encourage us to think beyond conventional boundaries. ➔ Managing ideas: We've devised an online form to capture essential details about these ideas, ensuring that creative sparks aren't lost but swiftly channelled into our innovation pipeline. Thus, each of us can easily become a contributor to our pool of ideas and a visionary. ➔ Realising ideas: While some ideas may dazzle us from a technological standpoint or push the boundaries of feasibility, the critical question remains: ❓Does our customer truly require it, and can we deliver such a product to market at an acceptable price? To confidently navigate this aspect of innovation management with a customer-centric approach, we've established the PDP (product development process). This structured framework for planning, development, and production ensures that only the most promising ideas transition from concept to reality The Hungarian American Nobel Prize winner Albert Szent-Györgyi puts it in a nutshell: ‘Innovation means seeing what everyone else sees but thinking what no one has thought before.’ That's why we at VMT don't leave innovations to chance. #guidedbyVMT #VMTGmbH #underground #innovations #surveying #automation

Want to listen to practical ways to adopt an experimental mindset as a startup? Join my cofounder James Lucas 30th April who is giving a talk about exploring ideas. Get your ticket here: https://lnkd.in/dR98Dzvd #ideavalidation #startupadvice #productmarketfit #experimentalmindset #productvalidation

If you're a member of the Cambridge University Behavioural Insights Student Society you've got a great speaker coming up tomorrow. Bushra Zafar will talk about what it's really like to be an Innovation Consultant at Innovia Technology. She'll cover the types of people she works with and the myriad of projects she's worked on. She'll also talk about what it's like to use her degree in unexpected ways. Make sure you ask her about what she would be doing with her degree if she wasn't an Innovation Consultant. You might find the answer rather different to what you're expecting! #behaviouralscience #behsci #Innovation University of Cambridge

💡 "Open innovation provides a vital way for corporates to break the boundaries they’ve set for themselves and draw upon a broader pool of talent and insights to solve innovation challenges" 📰 Check out this new article from Tobias Studer Andersson Nathan Furr and Andrew Shipilov on Open Innovation! 📢 And reach out if you are interested in participating in our 2025 Open Innovation Report which will seek to build on the insight we generated in 2023, shining a light on global trends around Open innovation, partnerships and ecosystems! #OpenInnovation #Ecosystems Sopra Steria Sopra Steria Next INSEAD

Australia is lagging in innovation. Innovation is all of us: will you step up? My friend Finbar OHanlon (MAICD) is leading a couple of sessions that can help transform your business: I have registered. Will you? Here are the May Workshops: 1. Applied Innovation Bootcamp: Unlock the secrets of applied innovation, including the 3 Zones of Innovation, Innovation Teams, 4 types of innovation, and the GInI Breakthrough Innovation Method. Book Now. Just $50 per ticket https://lnkd.in/gB-Hgjyj 2. GInI BMIn Business Model Innovation: Gain an accelerated understanding of the GInI BMIn Business Model Innovation framework, a powerful tool for transforming or developing a business model that can  seize rapidly evolving markets and maximise the use of new technologies. Book Now. Just $50 per ticket https://lnkd.in/gRKYz_qq And check Finbar's profile: https://lnkd.in/gKG647Mr 😀; he knows what he's talking about: he is a training partner of GInI - Global Innovation Institute. I'll see you there! Organised by APAC Innovation Institute, #innovation #GInI

The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (#EIT) is expanding its network with 11 new regional innovation hubs, bringing the total to 17 countries by the end of the year. These hubs, part of the Regional Innovation Scheme (#RIS), aim to strengthen #innovation in regions that need it most by providing training, #funding, and support to local entrepreneurs and innovators. With a focus on collaboration and connecting local ecosystems to a wider European #network, this expansion marks a significant step in boosting innovation across #Europe's emerging and moderate innovation regions. 💡More: https://lnkd.in/eRXfd4qj

May 17, 2024, WTISD - this year's theme: Digital Innovation for Sustainable Development. Cloopen empowers organizations to drive sustainable growth through digital innovation. #WTISD #DigitalInnovation #SustainableDevelopment #cloopen

🌟 We are happy to announce that we've made it to the Top 10 projects selected by UCL School of Management! Our project Steal Insight has successfully entered the final round of selection at the from UCL Accelerator! We developed a solution that helps to monitor and alert on the company stolen data. We monitor your company domains and emails daily. As soon as data is stolen, we identify the leak, alert you, and provide you with an action plan to mitigate the critical data leakage and prevent potential leakages based on the weaknesses of the current infrastructure. We also help you build a strong infrastructure! We are having final consultations with advisors and mentor to prepare for the speech with investors. A huge thank you to  - the best team working with me to bring the project to life: Yuliia Mianovska, Maryna Karpenko, Nataliya Yener and others,  - to our mentor, Oleh Khomiak for thoughtful and professional advice, - Nataliia Hrytsiuk, Ilaria Vilkelis, MBA, FRSA and Pierre-Jean Hanard for your time, invaluable insights, - and those IT Security professionals who participated in the survey and provided us feedback on the problem, solution and other valuable insights we have elaborated in the product. We are exited to pitch at the finals among other promising projects and looking forward to growing the project! #UCL #UCLAccelerator #StartupJourney #Innovation #NextGenerationOfEntrepreneurs #infostealers #StealInsight