ISPIM Prize for Excellence in Innovation Management awarded to Imagine with Orange

Nicolas Bry, ,

ISPIM_GrandPrize300ISPIM, International Society for Professional Innovation Management, is a network of researchers, industrialists, consultants and public bodies who share an interest in innovation management. Outstanding innovation management really matters, because great products and services are the result of excellent innovation management. Therefore ISPIM wants to reward the outstanding management work that innovation professionals do to deliver great innovation to the market.

We are proud and grateful to have been awarded 2016 winner by ISPIM professionals for the Imagine with Orange crowdinnovation platform!

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Imagine With Orange is a crowd innovation platform and a launchpad for entrepreneurs worldwide: imagine.orange.com.  Imagine helps ideators connect to an international innovation community.   The best ideas get the benefit of working directly with Orange experts, so local ideas can have a global impact.  “We were very grateful to present Imagine to an impressive audience of innovation professionals. Winning the ISPIM Grand Prize for ‘Imagine with Orange’ is a powerful recognition of Orange’s long-term commitment to open innovation.” said François Dufour who presented Imagine at the ISPIM Annual Conference in Porto, Portugal, on 20th June.

Nicolas Bry, founder and leader of Imagine with Orange (and friend of Innovation Excellence), added “The ISPIM Grand Prize gives us strong energy and inspiration to grow Imagine’s international community of ‘Imaginers’, entrepreneurs, and startupers”.

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The 2 other finalists were Huawei (Huawei Innovation Research Program HIRP) and SAP (Service Centre for Business Model Innovation).

 

 

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Published by Nicolas Bry

Nicolas is an International Innovation Executive, expert in corporate innovation programs, and innovation labs, designing place where good innovation thrives! He currently helps the 20 innovation managers of Orange Africa to develop their projects locally. Previously he created several open innovation programs: innovation with employees (Orange Intrapreneurs Studio), innovation with consumers (Imagine with Orange), innovation with entrepreneurs (Orange African Toolbox). Consolidating this experience with the ones of 40 corporations, he wrote in 2019 The Intrapreneurs' Factory, a practical guide to leverage intrapreneurship for your company. Passionate speaker (TEDx), Masterclasses lecturer @Google Academy and Tech/Business Schools, ISPIM Prize laureate for innovation management in 2016, Nicolas is writer of the innovation blog RapidInnovation.fr. Follow him at @nicobry.