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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. Ultimately, you build a portfolio of innovation projects and some will succeed.

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The Innovative Mentor

IdeaScale

They take a long-term view of their staff and see innovation projects as an opportunity to stretch their employees’ capabilities and to help them achieve their aspirations. A mentor enables innovators to focus on their project results while also learning about themselves along the way. The M entor Role in I nnovation .

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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower Innovation

Instead, given a startup project, they’ll default to building everything in-house, using technologies that they’re already familiar with. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas Check out our blog post 53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators. Often, developers don’t think to answer these questions.

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The Connected Leader: Relationships that Produce to Results

IdeaScale

Being able to find, build, and test ideas through a network of diverse perspectives offers leaders, teams, and innovation projects the benefits of new insights and novel points of view, which increase the chance of uncovering real breakthroughs. Draw others in as joint sponsors for your teams’ projects. Networking is critical.

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Are you a Positive Role Model for Innovation?

IdeaScale

Almost any new idea and project eventually hits major obstacles or encounters people who say it could never work. when projects do not turn out as expected. Assign some of your best people to innovation projects. However, there is one more very important aspect to innovation leadership. Innovation is not easy.

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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.

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

IdeaScale

They help ensure that it’s clear where fresh ideas and breakthrough projects are needed most. 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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