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Dow and DuPont – Nobody wins when transactions replace leadership

Adam Hartung

From humble beginnings, DuPont became well known as a leader in Research & Development, a consistent leader in patent applications, and the inventor of products that proliferate in our lives from nylon to Teflon pans plastic bottles to Kevlar vests. And it is too bad the leadership wasn’t in place to save it.

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Part 1: Accelerating the impact of Innovation Campaigns

Values Centered Innovation

In a 2007 McKinsey Quarterly article on “Leadership and Innovation,” the authors made it quite clear that “Innovation is a core driver of growth, performance and valuation.” The leaders in Product Development? Organization Development? Part 1 of 3: Innovation is the core driver to meet critical business needs. Operations?

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The Case for Dual Innovation

Tim Kastelle

As recently outlined, I consider organizational ambidexterity to be a key innovation issue for organizations in 2016 and beyond. Two-thirds of all breakthrough innovators stated that all innovation and product development is controlled and driven by a centralized organization, at least in its initial stages. Source: Accenture.

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The Importance of Persistence: Building an Innovation System for the Long-term

The Inovo Group

A successful, Fortune 50, corporate innovation group has been continuously creating strategic innovations for almost two decades – through numerous leadership and organizational changes. It requires certain commitments and behaviors on the part of both company leadership and the strategic innovation group. Highlights.

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Management Innovation:  Busting Bureaucracy

Strategos

While most of the client work that Strategos does is aimed at business model innovation, in recent years we have developed a principle-based approach to Management Innovation (see Mercy Salaz’s blog, Scope Creep ) and used this approach on several internal processes and practices such as product development. Gary Hamel, Mar.

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The Case for Dual Innovation

Integrative Innovation

As recently outlined, I consider organizational ambidexterity to be a key innovation issue for organizations in 2016 and beyond. Two-thirds of all breakthrough innovators stated that all innovation and product development is controlled and driven by a centralized organization, at least in its initial stages. Source: Accenture.

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ikeGPS – How To Invest in Trends To Escape Your Core and Grow Explosively

Adam Hartung

It is possible to slingshot into leadership positions with new solutions, literally from out of nowhere. ikeGPS was started in 2003 as a government/military funded products research company. In early 2015 ideGPS announced that Stanley Black&Decker would brand and sell Spike via traditional retail.

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