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Balancing your innovation portfolio: Does the 70-20-10 rule still apply?

Idea to Value

One of industry standard answers comes from research by Deloitte Partners Bansi Nagji and Geoff Tuff, in their groundbreaking 2012 article in Harvard Business Review: Managing your innovation portfolio. But what does a well-balanced innovation portfolio look like? So what is the best new ratio for companies. Well, that depends.

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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

This is the list of sections and book summaries: Alltime Classics How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie – 1936 Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill – 1937 The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale – 1952 The One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson – 1981 In Search of Excellence (..)

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Leading Innovation = Managing Uncertainty

Strategyzer Innovation

At the strategy level, there are several frameworks that have been developed to help leaders understand their product and service portfolios and make decisions. These frameworks use different dimensions that hide in plain sight, the real challenge that leaders are facing - i.e. managing uncertainty. Managing your innovation portfolio.

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What is the ambition matrix and how does it work as part of an innovation portfolio?

Idea to Value

Originally developed by the strategy consultants at Monitor (now part of Deloitte) and made famous by a breakthrough article in Harvard Business Review by Geoff Tuff and Bansi Nagji, the Ambition Matrix is a tool which helps companies identify ways to execute their strategy around where to play and how to win.

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Can creativity and innovation be managed?

hackerearth

Can innovation be managed like a business process? Does “managing” innovation limit creativity, thus stifling innovative ideas? Many of the world’s leading innovative companies have been able to strike the right balance between fostering creativity and effectively managing innovation. Why manage innovation?

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5 Strategic Thinking Questions to Start Reimagining the Organization 

BrainZooming

You and others on your senior management team are beginning to see that strategic reality. Rather than starting by pushing your management team all the way out to a wildly reimagined future, start with where you are now. Need Fresh Insights to Drive Your Strategy? Suppose your organization is not going in the right direction.

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Agile Strategy – 16 Strategic Thinking Questions to Explore Disruptive Innovation

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Fanatics introduced disruptive innovation to its marketplace with an agile strategy. It also uses its agile strategy to market apparel for niche opportunities where it might sell as few as ten t-shirts. 16 Strategic Thinking Questions to Explore Agile Strategy and Disruptive Innovation. Developing an Agile Strategy.