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So how do you manage exploiting and exploring for Innovation?

Paul Hobcraft

So how do businesses organise their structures to be able to simultaneously manage the needs to exploit and explore innovation? Many of our organisations struggle to manage both successfully as they tend to focus more on separation mostly in organisational structures alone as their attempt to become ambidextrous.

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So how do you manage exploiting and exploring for Innovation?

Paul Hobcraft

So how do businesses organise their structures to be able to simultaneously manage the needs to exploit and explore innovation? Many of our organisations struggle to manage both successfully as they tend to focus more on separation mostly in organisational structures alone as their attempt to become ambidextrous.

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11 female innovation leaders share their definition of innovation

Idea to Value

I spoke to 11 of the world’s leading female innovation experts to get their definition of “innovation” The variety in their responses may surprise you. In 2016, I wrote the article What is innovation? 15 experts share their innovation definition in order to answer the question of “What is innovation?”

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How to Explore in the Core

Moves the Needle

Dividing your company into execution mode vs exploration mode, as recommended by the multi-named mythology of “ambidextrous organizations,” “dual operating systems,” or “dual innovation,” will prevent you from competing efficiently in the digital age. What has your innovation team been up to if not digital transformation?

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The Current Horizon Planning Model is Broken

Moves the Needle

They can innovate in their core businesses and build new ones at the same time.” ( Alchemy of Growth , 1999). What stands out to me is the phrase “innovate in their core,” as this is exactly the opposite of the bimodal, dual operating, ambidextrous organization mythology of innovation. The problem.

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Innovation requires hands, heads, hearts

Jeffrey Phillips

Lately I've been reading a lot of white papers, blogs and tweets about the importance of ambidexterity in corporations. Innovators and analysts have apparently decided that trying to convince organizations to simply become more innovative is too difficult. Innovation distracts from highly efficient day to day operations.

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Exploring and Exploiting for Innovation (part 1)

Jeffrey Phillips

In so many ways it often feels like innovation is both wholly new, and ancient at the same time. Tools that we use to innovate aren't new, in fact many are very old, but put to appropriate use they help us create miraculous new things. Over the next few blog posts I'll be describing why I think this is so. But they aren't new.