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Be the Architect: Designing an Integrated Innovation System

IdeaScale

The latest technologies break down traditional silos and allow for open innovation with large numbers of employees, as well as with suppliers, alliance partners, and even customers. A small group of innovation leaders from various disciplines to review ideas and give rapid responses for approval and resources.

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Be the Architect: Designing an Integrated Innovation System

IdeaScale

The latest technologies break down traditional silos and allow for open innovation with large numbers of employees, as well as with suppliers, alliance partners, and even customers. A small group of innovation leaders from various disciplines to review ideas and give rapid responses for approval and resources.

System 100
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Are you a Direction Setter? How to Bring the Future into Focus

IdeaScale

The underlying design and technical expertise that makes these products distinctly Apple remained constant. Innovators can benefit from clear directions about business strategy, degree and timing of innovation needed, how much risk to take, and how far to stretch.

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The Innovative Mentor

IdeaScale

Innovation means change, and change can be quite disruptive and emotionally charged. Innovation leaders help new ideas mature and create paths of least resistance so projects can navigate the political, economic, and cultural obstacles. Being able to gain concessions without damaging relationships is a valuable skill.

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Top 10 must-read books on Innovation

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This 2005 book is an excellent read to understand how corporations can tap into their potential and foster an innovation culture. The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen’s theory of disruptive innovation has been called “the most influential business idea of recent years.”

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

It has been a while since Henry Mintzberg developed his influential work that made us aware of the importance of structures in organization design. Structures are no longer of primary focus in design organizations. Let me show you how the focus of organization design has changed over the years: Scholar. It enhances productivity.

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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

Whereas Schumpeter describes an entrepreneur as disequilibrative – destroying the pre-existing stage of the equilibrium ((Kirzner, 1999) – Kirzner chooses to describe the role of the entrepreneur as more equilibrative – entrepreneurs systematically displace disruptive conditions in order to create stabilized market conditions (Kirzner, 1999).