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Why Are We Making Innovation So Complex?

Paul Hobcraft

While most large companies want to become more agile and innovative, many of them fail to turn this wish into a reality. We fail to invest in foresight and insight, continually not adapting and adjusting our organizational skill set around a more agile, adaptive, highly responsive innovating and creative organization. Investment.

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Building the Core Competencies for Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

For me, the bedrock of innovation is built upon competencies, capabilities, and capacities and all these involve people as well as technology. The entrepreneurial skill set is how much agility, flexibility, change, risk taking, new knowledge, and expertise is gained and then applied to solutions pursued, that builds confidence.

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11 female innovation leaders share their definition of innovation

Idea to Value

In 2016, I wrote the article What is innovation? As one of the world’s top experts on innovation and growth, Rita’s work is regularly published in the Harvard Business Review. I think it’s also a concern when I hear about innovation being used purely in reference to technical developments, as that is just one potential application.

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How Chief Innovation Officer (CINO) may replace the traditional Chief Information Officer (CIO)

hackerearth

The 2018 Gartner CIO Agenda Survey demonstrates that technological innovation and digitalization are changing the way CIOs work. Technological advances necessitate CINO roles. When the Internet arrived 20 years ago, it necessitated roles such as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Chief Information Officer (CIO).

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The enemy is already within. The flood gates are open. Can GE recover?

Paul Hobcraft

This complexity of transformation, when you operate within any heavy industrial asset world, is a significant challenge, especially today when technology is fast displacing dated business models, technologies and ways of work at an ever-increasing pace. GE has been caught in this for some time. Could this have been foreseen?

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Are you having fun riding the innovation waves?

Paul Hobcraft

Then that constant investment in people, networks and relationships, that need to come together and, finally the structures, systems and governance that are flexible enough to make what we work upon as responsive, agile, adaptive, exploitive and exploratory, to end up with great new ideas, things and finally, winning successful concepts.

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Want a High-Performing Org? Learn from Gene Kim’s “Wiring the Winning Organization”

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Technology companies want to deliver products better and faster, but as it is, demand often exceeds capacity, visibility is limited, rework is too common, and investments lack focus. In their research, Gene and Steven reviewed common efficiency design systems like Lean, Agile, DevOps, and the Toyota Production System.