Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

Corporate innovation is hard. More and more, we’re seeing innovation programs close their doors after only a few years, with few senior leaders in the organization recognizing any real value from their efforts. Vision & Leadership. No compelling vision or reason to innovate. Call your shot.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

The biggest challenges in corporate innovation and how to navigate them Corporate innovation is hard. More and more, we’re seeing innovation programs close their doors after only a few years, with few senior leaders in the organization recognizing any real value from their efforts. Vision & Leadership 1.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2020

I was often happy to take whatever innovation project the leadership team threw my way. And I have done it all – idea jams, hackathons, startup weekends, training workshops and innovation sprints. Leadership Support : Without explicit and visible support from our leadership, most innovation programs are dead on arrival.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Corporate innovation is hard. More and more, we’re seeing innovation programs close their doors after only a few years, with few senior leaders in the organization recognizing any real value from their efforts. Vision & Leadership. No compelling vision or reason to innovate. Call your shot.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 21, 2019

Fortunately, there are ways for senior executives to recognize their role in identifying areas of concern, communicating strategy, setting expectations and goals for innovation, and ensuring those efforts are headed in the right direction. It means that your organization has undertaken innovation with specific goals in mind.

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Imaginatik

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Many corporate innovation efforts suffer from a subtle defect: two competing innovation agendas that fight for control. Yet a two-track innovation agenda is among the most reliable killers of well-intentioned innovation programs. In most cases, the problem is never detected, and no one is to blame.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

In this article, we’ll explore several powerful innovation techniques—ranging from problem-solving frameworks and ideation methods to hackathons and structured innovation programs. Leadership support and alignment with broader business goals are also crucial.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

However, frameworks have built-in assumptions, such as, there’s motivation to innovate, and that the culture is aligned with an innovation effort. Frameworks assume: engaged leadership, talent on the team, day to day creativity, curiosity, and domain knowledge. An authentic desire to improve or invent.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 22, 2019

Eleven Innovation Bullets to Dodge, in no particular order. Lack of Managment support will effectively kill any innovation program no matter how well conceived. Design Thinking alone will not guarantee success (or any other framework, Agile, Lean, etc.). If you don’t have Talent, superior talent, you’ll fail.

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Matthew May

JUNE 26, 2015

After reading his 1999 book High Velocity Leadership , we invited Brian to guest speak about the Mars Pathfinder project, and he soon he became a regular fixture in the University of Toyota’s “lean” leadership curriculum. As Brian tells it in High Velocity Leadership : They were certain but entirely wrong.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Download this case study to save for your records or to show to your leadership team here: Download Case Study. An innovation sprint is a 3-5 day intensive, experiential engagement that focuses on teaching participants Lean Innovation methodologies while making impact on real business issues.

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Innovation 360

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Through government, NGO and private sector client and partner engagements, she has delivered everything from local, regional and global entrepreneurship programs and competitions, to bootcamps and accelerators, to mentor platforms and more in over 40 countries. Leadership. Innovation Management. Areas of expertise.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 11, 2020

Senior leadership must establish the mindset of, “We need to be entrepreneurial. If people are acting entrepreneurial in a grassroots way and leadership sees that this can be done, that's how momentum for change happens. For example, leadership might be a market segment, or one of the back office support functions.

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Innovation 360 Group

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Through government, NGO and private sector client and partner engagements, she has delivered everything from local, regional and global entrepreneurship programs and competitions, to bootcamps and accelerators, to mentor platforms and more in over 40 countries. Leadership. Innovation Management. Areas of expertise.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Hiring a professional facilitator can be a big help, but facilitative leadership is something that needs to be around 100% of the time. Poor knowledge of innovation process, approaches and frameworks. How can you innovate if you don’t actually know how it’s done?

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

This public* course is at a significant discount to on-site courses delivered directly to organizations by Gregg Fraley Innovation (GFi). The emphasis of this training is a firm grounding in innovation concepts and best practice. It builds awareness of the how and why of innovation programs. Why innovation?

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 13, 2016

Tim’s Comment: There’s one other way that this idea plays out too – figuring out how to use lean startup techniques inside of established organisations. The Stanford Social Innovation Review also looked at how to do this inside of not-for-profits.

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Innov8rs

OCTOBER 3, 2022

You won't get results from your innovation programs, processes and projects if the fundamentals are lacking. And it's your role as innovation leader, for your company as a whole, or for your department or region, to get them right. Assess whether your innovation programs create substantial value for your company.

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

These authors never talk about what happens after an innovation program reaches sufficient maturity that it’s ready to leverage the organization’s resources into a successful implementation. The “business as usual” program will always win. Breakthrough innovation programs take longer and have a lot more risk.

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Strategos

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

As a result, many companies end up executing the hottest and latest approach in innovation they have heard of or read about. Innovation labs, corporate incubators, startup collaboration, radical or breakthrough, open innovation, lean startup, co-creation, crowd funding etc. Innovation Agenda.

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eZassi

MARCH 13, 2018

Some of the leadership philosophies he explores include: Addressing hidden barriers to creativity, uncoupling fear and failure, preparing for unknown problems and ensuring that a company’s communication structure does not mirror its organizational structure. Why do so many innovation programs fail? Recent Posts. Follow Us.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

His groups whole-heartedly adopted and adapted Lean. His innovators and stakeholders curated and prioritized their problems/idea/technology before handing them off. Karl’s innovation pipeline had hundreds of employees going through weekend hackathons. Explicit top down support for innovation only takes a single-page memo.

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eZassi

MARCH 13, 2018

Some of the leadership philosophies he explores include: Addressing hidden barriers to creativity, uncoupling fear and failure, preparing for unknown problems and ensuring that a company’s communication structure does not mirror its organizational structure. Why do so many innovation programs fail?

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

This is where a properly designed Corporate Innovation program and structure come into play. The unfortunate reality is that most organizations lack the leadership capacity to envision clear new strategies in this way, as well as the organizational capacity to operate in this way.

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

These authors never talk about what happens after an innovation program reaches sufficient maturity that it’s ready to leverage the organization’s resources into a successful implementation. The “business as usual” program will always win. Breakthrough innovation programs take longer and have a lot more risk.

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Innovation Excellence

JUNE 5, 2017

Scott Bowden spends a great deal of time thinking about what he terms as “historical innovation,” which is the concept that one can improve the efficacy of modern innovation programs by studying examples of how people solved problems in the past , and applying those techniques to the challenges faced by current students of innovation.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

Broad Categories of Innovation At the heart of the innovation spectrum lie two broad categories that encapsulate the range of strategies businesses can deploy: incremental innovation and radical (including disruptive) innovation. Find out more on our product pages.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

Leadership through vision and influence, rather than command and control, is required. It requires a more deliberated approach, such as the lean startup process, design thinking or a combination thereof. Tip: Tim Kastelle has posted a worthwile series on how to implement lean startup for innovation initiatives.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

I’ll unpack the core principles of ‘Leading FOR Innovation’ and share approaches to help overcome the organisational antibodies that often stifle innovation, empowering teams to unleash bold ideas that can reshape your industry’s future.

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Legacy Innovation Group

MAY 27, 2021

This requires clear leadership , issuing a very clear mandate for each case – so that everyone knows their particular role and place in the future of the organization – whether that is contributing from the left, from the right, or from the center. Anthony Mills is a global authority on strategic innovation.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

This new–school view accepts the idea that we can be a part of creating the future, and so endeavors to do so through various forms of market leadership. Thus, we offer a final "thank you" to the formal profession of Innovation and its formal corporate innovation programs. Building the Bridge.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Steve Blank, father of the Lean Startup movement, stresses that you will never know enough about your customers if you are holed up inside a boardroom. Remedy: Educate leaders that judging ideas for new value propositions, business models, and growth engines requires evidence from the field rather than just “expert opinion” from leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. By comparison, think of the long strides many businesses have made in reengineering their supply chains, boosting product quality, and rolling out lean six sigma. A sharp, shared definition of innovation.

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eZassi

APRIL 2, 2025

Building Collaborative Success Through Innovative Strategic Leadership In todays fast-paced, interconnected world, industries are increasingly relying on consortia- collaborative alliances of organizations working toward common goals. Empowering cross-functional teams with autonomy can further accelerate innovation.

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eZassi

OCTOBER 29, 2024

A prime example is Toyota’s Lean Manufacturing system, which revolutionized the automotive industry by minimizing waste and maximizing value. Example : Implementing automation technologies in manufacturing to reduce lead times and enhance product quality is a modern form of process innovation.

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