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Creative Construction – Book review

The Inovo Group

Well-respected Harvard Business School professor and HBR contributor Gary Pisano has weighed in on the topic of large company innovation in his new book ‘Creative Construction’. He makes a compelling case that being ‘large’ doesn’t have to mean being non-innovative, or growing only through the acquisition of innovative start-ups.

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Seeking more Energy Transition Ecosystem Success Stories in 2024

Ecosystems4Innovating

This is partly why I focus on the Energy Transition and Industrial Transformation for my innovation and ecosystem work. Let us remind ourselves where those collaborations between different stakeholders deliver real change in radical, innovative solutions.

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The trough of innovation disillusionment

Paul Hobcraft

We are already in or heading for a trough of innovation disillusionment. We are witnessing even more incremental creep; we have lost the effect of serendipity, the “wow” factor, the moment something happened that changed our world. Innovation gets exciting when you stumble across something, totally unexpected. So we stay bored.

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The New Innovation Need: Organizing within a Networks of Collaborators

Paul Hobcraft

Our existing organization needs to envisage a changing world full of disruption that calls for radical change. It ‘upends’ much, if not all, of how our business organizations have been organized around, mostly within themselves, it is needing radical change. The Status Quo is history.

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Seeking fresh winds and new directions

Paul Hobcraft

When you feel the force of change running through the organization, you tend to have that same sensation, to resist the force with all your energy. Ignoring the power of choice within change is dangerous. Constructing a climate for any transformation is hard. Context is the vital ingredient often never told for innovation.

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The New Innovation Need: Organizing within a Networks of Collaborators

Paul Hobcraft

Our existing organization needs to envisage a changing world full of disruption that calls for radical change. It ‘upends’ much, if not all, of how our business organizations have been organized around, mostly within themselves needing radical change. It calls for bold management to instigate such a transformation.

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The core principles of Leading FOR Innovation

Cris Beswick

At the helm of this radical evolution stand leaders who are pioneers, visionaries, and, most importantly, adept at catalysing novel ideas into reality. Above all, fostering the culture that innovation requires is an arduous undertaking, potentially the most demanding a leader may face. It’s for those that I write this article!