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The Innovative Mentor

IdeaScale

Mentors see themselves as people developers. A mentor enables innovators to focus on their project results while also learning about themselves along the way. Learning how best to communicate and pitch their potential projects; and. A manager would work with them to develop the business case. Gaining customer insights.

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Barrier Buster: Clearing the Way for Breakthrough Ideas

IdeaScale

Innovation leaders must master a wide range of skills in order to enhance the innovation potential of their teams. Often, managers are required to play the role of a barrier buster to ensure the team’s creativity delivers bottom line results for the business. This is a classic example of a strength becoming a weakness.

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Culture Creator = Sustainable Innovation

IdeaScale

The importance of fostering beliefs and behaviors that encourage innovation within your team and organization cannot be overstated. A few of the early steps in playing the role of culture creator as a change agent include: Clarify your definition and expectations regarding innovation for your team. Radical ideas are not bad ideas.

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Innovation is a team sport

Cris Beswick

At OUTCOME , we believe innovation is a system game, meaning it’s a team sport. The challenge is that many organisations have lost sight of the true definition of a team. 1] Let’s also differentiate between a department or group inside an organisation, as a group does not necessarily constitute a team. Pearson/Prentice Hall.

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The LEAN Sprint

Leanstack

Many experiments invalidate a bad idea and leave you stuck. The challenge, of course, is that truly good ideas are rare and often indistinguishable from bad ideas at the outset. We have successfully applied LEAN Sprints internally in our team and across several dozen entrepreneurial teams at startups and large organizations.

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 2: Why Business Model Innovation Matters

The BMI Lab Blog

Learnings from sports competitions Competition in business is similar to sports competitions – there are winners and losers. Atomic habits: An easy and proven way to build good habits and break bad ones. Business model generation: A handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers. How to design a winning business model.

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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

Therefore, entrepreneurs should not learn from large corporations’ best cases on (innovation) management, but learn entrepreneurial thinking in a more Schumpeterian way. Is it easy to create autonomous team and projects? They call this actionable theory learning, as depicted in the following matrix (A.