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Treat Your Innovation Pipeline just like your Sales Pipeline

Destination Innovation

Estimates for each of these questions enable a total sales forecast to be assembled and reviewed. The pipeline is regularly reviewed at executive level. Can we crack the technology? For each item in the pipeline we need an estimate of its cost to develop and projected payback. What are the barriers for each project?

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What do we expect from Innovation? Mostly disappointment

Paul Hobcraft

Those not involved directly within the innovation project constantly remain skeptical or require more proof. Technology trends lay in the seventh position in this “biggest strategic challenges.” Innovation is full of rhetoric and hot air. A promising idea did not foresee a roadblock that cannot be resolved.

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Balancing Innovation via Organizational Ambidexterity – Part 3

Integrative Innovation

O’Reilly and Michael Tushman review and condense the research done so far on the subject. One of the key findings of this paper is that “in uncertain [business] environments, organizational ambidexterity appears to be positively correlated with increased innovation, better financial performance and higher survival rates.”.

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Developing a new framework for risk and innovation.

Paul Hobcraft

Interestingly, the pace of innovation stands among the top three risks in 2015 and tops along with regulatory risk, the list foreseen in 2018. In genuinely new-business innovation projects, it is critical to release the leaders of the effort from the norms and metrics of the core business. Who is responsible for what.

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Developing a new framework for risk and innovation.

Paul Hobcraft

Interestingly, the pace of innovation stands among the top three risks in 2015 and tops along with regulatory risk, the list foreseen in 2018. In genuinely new-business innovation projects, it is critical to release the leaders of the effort from the norms and metrics of the core business. Who is responsible for what.

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Choosing your direction of travel

Paul Hobcraft

So from what I can see so far, change is highly constrained: Evolution is slow, revolution is seemingly non-existent due to narrow vested interests. Digital connections and technology platforms. When you think about how technology can bring the customer inside the walls, it offers up an exciting and potential collaborative space.

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Successful Innovators Apply Multiple Leadership Styles Simultaneously

Innovation 360 Group

While much has been written on choosing the most promising innovation project and helping it succeed in the market after implementation, one crucial step in the middle hasn’t received enough attention: how to actually get the job done and done well. Radical Innovators more adaptive. The Cauldron.