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How to Embed Corporate Venturing into Your Innovation Program

Qmarkets

However, simply launching corporate venturing activities isn’t enough—embedding these efforts into an organization’s broader innovation strategy is essential for long-term success. The Strategic Importance of Corporate Venturing Corporate venturing is essential for companies looking to stay competitive and innovative.

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Discovery Driven Planning Template

Leapfrogging

It is particularly useful in situations where assumptions outweigh factssuch as launching a new venture, developing disruptive products, or entering unfamiliar markets. Corporations launching internal innovation programs. DDP provides an alternative that is better suited for exploratory initiatives.

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Innovation or Disruption: What’s Your Aim?

IdeaScale

The terms “innovation” and “disruption” are commonly used in today’s business world. Innovation takes a vision and turns it into reality. Disruption is innovation, but not all innovation is disruption, just like all squares are technically rectangles , but not all rectangles are squares. Innovation.

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The Problem with Corporate Innovation Programs | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

Corporate innovation programs are growing in popularity as more and more industry incumbents come face to face with the realities posed by disruptive innovators. In this article, we cover examples of innovative solutions to these problems. However this means a new set of problems arising.

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The Gremlin Strategy, or How to Ward Off Disruption

Matthew May

Brian would begin his story with how he was personally disrupted, in fact blindsided, by, of all things, one of his daughter’s kindergarten projects. It turned out that Dave Gruel had a real flair for the role, and spent his days and nights devising ways to disrupt the project. Enter what I call the “Gremlin” strategy.

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Why “Path-to-Value” is Crucial for Corporate Innovators

Imaginatik

Like many companies, Acme Corporation has a new (ish) corporate-level innovation program. Executives are hoping for big things from the innovation group. In recent years, more and more enterprises have begun building Innovation Labs, deliberately entering the disruption game. Let’s call them Acme Corporation.

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Why Are We Making Innovation So Complex?

Paul Hobcraft

Extracting innovation has become very complex. Competitors are disrupting – even ones who were not around 12 to 24 months before. We are fragmenting much within innovation. But by adopting too many, you fragment and possibly dissipate your innovation resources. Dedicated Innovation Team. Dedicated Innovation Team.