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What Happened in the World of Corporate Innovation in 2024?

Innov8rs

At The Innovator’s Handbook 2024 Launch Event last year December, we invited several thought leaders and experts to share their predictions for what would happen in the world of corporate innovation in 2024, in short 8-min talks. That’s what we’ll discuss on 11 December 2024, when we launch The Innovator’s Handbook 2025.

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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower Innovation

Getting something to market and getting funding override any other concerns. Here’s a graphic from Socal CTO that illustrates the roles as they change over time: In its earliest days, a startup’s top need is often to produce a product. That’s why the CTO’s attention is on programming for the earliest stage.

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The Innovative Mentor

IdeaScale

Leaders can mentor innovators through any of the practical business steps in the value creation process itself: Connecting to emerging market trends and identifying the most significant opportunities. Barrier busters know the difference between the market saying “no,” and an organizational obstacle saying, “no.”. Decca Recording Co.

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

IdeaScale

This tells your market and your customers who you intend to become in this emerging future. 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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7 TENETS OF CREATIVE THINKING

Michael Michalko

Back when nobody in the world owned a personal computer, IBM’s market research experts speculated that there were no more than six people on earth who needed a PC. While IBM saw no market potential for PCs, two college dropouts named Bill Gates and Steve Jobs viewed the same data as IBM and perceived massive opportunity.

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When It’s Time To Scale

Innov8rs

Pilot results are strong, market potential looks promising, and leadership is excited. Despite having well-structured innovation programs, organizations often struggle to turn validated concepts into real market impact. This approach helps organizations expand into new markets without completely detaching from their strengths.

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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.