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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower Innovation

Increasing competitive advantage? Aspatore Inside the Minds Series, Leading CTOs Mark Minevich , The CTO Handbook Tom Berray and Raj Sampath, the Role of the CTO: Four Models for Success Werner Vogels – The Different CTO Roles Role of the CTO If you know of more resources on this topic, we’d love to hear from you.

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Creating Innovation Connections as the Customer Advocate

IdeaScale

As the customer advocate, you’ll need consistent habits that help you: Stay informed about customer satisfaction and the competitiveness of your offerings. Bring the “voice of the customer” into the decision making and idea generation. Set the expectation that creating customer value is everyone’s job.

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Are you a Positive Role Model for Innovation?

IdeaScale

Effectively playing all 10 roles helps leaders ensure their teams consistently delight their customers and outthink, outcreate, and outperform the competition. Leaders who don’t treat innovation as a priority simply cede opportunity to those who do. This was the final installment of the Leading Innovation series.

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Rethinking Innovation Value: Measuring Impact and Securing Executive Buy-in

Innov8rs

At the recent The Innovator’s Handbook 2025 Launch Event, Rita McGrath, a Strategy Professor at Columbia Business School, Tyler Anderson, CEO of Disruptive Edge, and Tendayi Viki, an Associate Partner at Strategyzer, discussed the need to rethink how the value of innovation can be measured and executive buy-in secured.

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Innovation Management in 2023: Leadership & Strategy

Innov8rs

With a potential recession in sight and inflation, layoffs, and other geopolitical issues challenging the ability to protect traditional forms of competitive advantage, innovation is our only option. What we've learned since then is that, just like everything else, competitive advantages have a life cycle. Those days are over.

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Culture Creator = Sustainable Innovation

IdeaScale

As products, technologies, business models become commodities over time, your corporate culture can become the source of reinvention and your only enduring competitive advantage. The importance of fostering beliefs and behaviors that encourage innovation within your team and organization cannot be overstated.

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Be the Architect: Designing an Integrated Innovation System

IdeaScale

What is your competitive Advantage over alternatives? He also is an accomplished speaker, certified instructional designer and trainer, and co-author of Creating Value with CO-STAR: An Innovation Tool for Perfecting and Pitching your Brilliant Ideas and The Global Innovation Science Handbook.

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