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Constructing the innovation mandate

Paul Hobcraft

So often innovation struggles to be recognized for what it is. Innovation is a critical source of future competitive advantage. Resources : We will allocate [amount] of funding to our innovation program annually, and will dedicate a team of [number] full-time employees to manage and execute innovation initiatives.

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Powering Corporate Innovation in Finance: Industry Insights

Qmarkets

We often hear about sectors ‘facing disruption’, but few industries today are experiencing it at the same level as the finance industry. Fintech startups are changing the face of finance with new technologies that are making banking easier, faster, and more intuitive. Fintech doesn’t simply offer new features, it represents change.

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Deepening the Thinking Around the Innovation Mandate – part two

Paul Hobcraft

It should articulate how innovation will contribute to achieving these objectives, and what specific goals and metrics will be used to measure the success of the innovation program. The innovation mandate should clearly define the value goals for the innovation program and how they will be measured and tracked over time.

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From Innovation Theater To Growth Engine

Innov8rs

According to Tendayi, bridging the gap between innovation theater and real growth is all about having the following three pillars in place: Portfolio of innovation projects: first, companies need to focus on having a balanced portfolio of innovations. Do leaders (and teams) get excited about the wrong innovation programs?

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Unique Ways Successful Startups are Changing the Corporate Innovation Landscape

Idea to Value

For corporations looking to collaborate with startups, the following factors need to be considered: Corporations should be aware of their problems (both internal and external) and focus on optimizing for quality over quantity. This will allow the corporate to more rapidly apply the benefits of the collaboration and develop the business.

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Why Are We Making Innovation So Complex?

Paul Hobcraft

Can you imagine having the same number of people involved in innovation growth as we have that manage the finances of a business? In most companies, we have small, dedicated innovation teams of five to 10 people trying to take on this Herculean task of growing a business through innovation. Dedicated Innovation Team.

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16 metrics for tracking Collaborative Innovation performance

Hutch Carpenter

Innovation efforts come in a variety of forms: innovation and design labs, jobs-to-be-done analysis, corporate venturing, distributed employee experiments, open innovation, TRIZ, etc. In this post, I want to focus on another type of innovation initiative: Collaborative Innovation.