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Are you a Direction Setter? How to Bring the Future into Focus

IdeaScale

In addition, leaders help innovators know how far to stretch: Are incremental solutions needed that can be implemented simply and quickly or should innovators reach for bold, disruptive ideas that enable the organization to stake out new territory? The post Are you a Direction Setter?

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The Innovative Mentor

IdeaScale

Innovation means change, and change can be quite disruptive and emotionally charged. The organization’s relentless commitment to operational excellence prevents anything new and disruptive from being tried and tested. Being able to gain concessions without damaging relationships is a valuable skill.

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

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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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Barrier Buster: Clearing the Way for Breakthrough Ideas

IdeaScale

Innovation means change, and change can be quite disruptive and emotionally charged. The organization’s relentless commitment to operational excellence prevents anything new and disruptive from being tried and tested. Being able to gain concessions without damaging relationships is a valuable skill.

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Top Jobs to be Done Books (JTBD)

InnovationTraining.org

Another book by Clayton Christensen (and fellow author Michael Raynor), The Innovator’s Solution expands on the idea of disruption and how organizations can become disruptors themselves to drive innovation. The Jobs-to-be-Done Handbook: Practical Techniques for Improving Your Application of Jobs-to-be-Done. Get it here.

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Be the Architect: Designing an Integrated Innovation System

IdeaScale

An effective innovation architecture offers alternative routes for approval, funding, and implementation for a range of projects of various size, scope, and disruptive potential: For ideas that fit within the boundaries of their own departments, managers can set aside an innovation budget for ideas they expect will arise between budget cycles.

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Be the Architect: Designing an Integrated Innovation System

IdeaScale

An effective innovation architecture offers alternative routes for approval, funding, and implementation for a range of projects of various size, scope, and disruptive potential: For ideas that fit within the boundaries of their own departments, managers can set aside an innovation budget for ideas they expect will arise between budget cycles.

System 100