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Why we should focus on Innovation Governance

Paul Hobcraft

” We have just had our third short conversation of a five-part series on Innovation Governance. This specific conversation is all about the fit of innovation governance within our Executive Innovation Work Mat. This is the link on Innovation Governance to the conversation, just under 14 minutes to listen to.

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Our innovation era: creative destruction or destructive creation- which?

Paul Hobcraft

I keep coming back to the dilemma often faced in innovation- do we practice “creative destruction” or “destructive creation? Schumpeter saw “creative destruction” as the renewing, through innovation, society’s dynamics that would lead to higher economic development and welfare levels.

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Our innovation era: creative destruction or destructive creation- which?

Paul Hobcraft

I keep coming back to the dilemma often faced in innovation- do we practice “creative destruction” or “destructive creation? Schumpeter saw “creative destruction” as the renewing, through innovation, society’s dynamics that would lead to higher economic development and welfare levels.

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Balancing Function, Design, Process and Structure for Creative Tension

Paul Hobcraft

It is always our intention to offer some different thrôughts about the balancing of function, design, process, and structure and giving it equally the creative dynamic attention it needs. The importance of good governance and the proper functioning structure and the process can help absorb and translate these tensions.

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7 TENETS OF CREATIVE THINKING

Michael Michalko

What are the mental processes, attitudes, work habits, behaviors, and beliefs that enable creative geniuses to view the same things as the rest of us, yet see something different? You Are Creative. Artists are not special, but each of us is a special kind of artist who enters the world as a creative and spontaneous thinker.

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Building the use of the innovation work mat as a compelling business case

Paul Hobcraft

Leaders are constantly worrying over what is valued in the market, what products and services are essential to defend, those they need to promote and improve. This understanding does not come out of “thin air” It comes out of having an organization that is market aware and innovative in responding.

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Constructing the innovation mandate

Paul Hobcraft

We need to understand successful innovation actually touches all aspects of a business, by contributing to improving business processes, identifying new, often imaginative, ways to reduce costs, building out existing business models into new directions and value and discovering new ways and positioning into markets.