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Uncharted Waters Disrupting the Corporate Boardrooms

Paul Hobcraft

When you read a report that has within its executive summary this: “ In combination the boards stand unarmed to enter the battlefield of future business creation in a disrupted world ” it makes you want to read on. This is a more than timely report in my view. Is radical innovation a bulleted point at board meetings?

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So Where Is Innovation Heading?

Paul Hobcraft

The importance of big data, the speed of technology adoption, mobile products, digital design, and technology platforms are at the heart of innovation. It will fundamentally change the type of resources innovation requires. The whole point for innovation today is digital has altered our understanding.

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Treat Your Innovation Pipeline just like your Sales Pipeline

Destination Innovation

Each sales person has to gather data and input their reports and forecasts. Lessons are learned, and changes are made to constantly improve the sales process. This is reasonably straightforward for incremental innovations but particularly hard for radical innovations. Does the customer need our product?

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Successful Innovators Apply Multiple Leadership Styles Simultaneously

Innovation 360 Group

In the recently published original research study , Cultivating Growth and Radical Innovation Success in the Fourth Industrial Revolution with Big Data Analytics , Dr. Soo Beng Khoh and Innovation360 CEO Magnus Penker set out to explore exactly how leadership styles are leveraged by successful innovators. The Explorer.

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Is Organizational Structure The Secret to Innovation?

Leapfrogging

To Bahcall, the goal is to create a structure where you get people motivated and incented to go for “loonshots,” crazy ideas that ultimately turn into big innovations. Bahcall’s book argues that the first step is to balance innovation with execution. Management Span: the number of direct reports that executives of the company have.

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Innovation cannot expand without the 4th Industrial Revolution

Paul Hobcraft

In a recent report, jointly from the World Economic Forum and McKinsey called the “ The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the factories of the future ” t hey made a number of observations. According to a recent Deloitte report: Most manufacturing lines still look a lot the same way they did 10, 20 or even 30 years ago.

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Exploring Innovation Challenges for CPG Brands

IdeaScale

Radical Innovations – like Campbell Soup’s Habit startup, which makes personalized food recommendations based on an individual’s DNA. Sometimes innovation means finding new applications by reformulating existing products. The Challenges of Funding Innovation.