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Innovation Leadership

eZassi

Innovation Leadership – Strategies for Executives Despite a focus on disruptive innovation, collaboration is lacking between business units, and the necessary structures between corporate entities and partners are often missing, causing breakdowns in the innovation process and missed opportunities.

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Innovation Tours: Find Solutions Wherever You Go

Yet2

Outcomes One of our clients, a large consumer packaged goods company approached yet2 hoping to inform their senior R&D leadership on the connection between big data and healthcare in the Bay Area. The tour attendees included the company’s CTO and seven R&D Vice Presidents in different categories.

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The Importance of Persistence: Building an Innovation System for the Long-term

The Inovo Group

A successful, Fortune 50, corporate innovation group has been continuously creating strategic innovations for almost two decades – through numerous leadership and organizational changes. It can reveal what it takes for an innovation system to be persistent. Persistent innovation is the antidote. Highlights.

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JAMES GARDNER: How to Succeed at Crowdsourcing Innovation

Planview

Spigit CTO James Gardner, who this week is presenting at the Chief Innovation Officer Summit in NYC , knows a thing or two about how to be successful at crowdsourcing innovation. Do not make the mistake of imagining that the crowd is somehow inferior to experts or leadership.

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A Hands-Off Approach to Open Innovation Doesn’t Work

Harvard Business Review

For many business leaders — 85%, according to a recent Accenture survey — such open innovation is critical to their strategic plans. In particular, large companies want to partner with small firms that have developed advanced, game-changing technologies. Consider the task of scouting for partners.

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The death of the 20th Century corporation

Matthew Griffin

Your journey to reinvent your organisation using new 21 st Century principles will be difficult but with a clear vision and strong leadership you’ll find that you still have time to survive and that will be the topic of one of my future articles. The 20 th Century Corporation is dead and your organisation must learn and adapt or perish.

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The rise and rise of Entrepreneurs

Matthew Griffin

Transforming a large business takes time, leadership and a firm hand but managed correctly you can make the turn and still be in the lead. Disrupt yourself before someone else does and lead the new market rather than being relegated to being a footnote.