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The answer is: 10 years to change a culture

Jeffrey Phillips

Many of us who work in the consulting and strategy space often talk about the difficulties in understanding and more importantly, changing a corporate culture. That is, we want the culture to adapt to market needs and changes that everyone can see but inertia keeps the company from making.

Culture 211
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Soren Kaplan’s April 2015 Leapfrogging Newsletter

Leapfrogging

Sustained competitive advantage comes from innovating how we innovate. The most innovative companies today realize that competitive differentiation comes as much from how they innovate as it does from what they’re innovating. 7 Millennials Who Are Too Busy Changing The World To Take Selfies.

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Sometimes, flat hierarchies can hurt innovation in Start-ups

Idea to Value

However, eventually as more employees join the company, the research shows that without management layers being added, employees become unable to organise themselves to actually deliver projects. It can be a fine balancing act, especially if the moment when the company needs to transition to adding managerial layers comes as a surprise.

Project 307
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What Does a Chief Innovation Officer Do?

IdeaScale

In this survey from 2015, researchers report that 43% of large companies have some sort of top innovation executive in place, which was up from 33% in 2011. A Chief Innovation Officer can look to an organization for guidance and principles, but they also have to create meaning and excitement around change.

Ideation 150
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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 2: Why Business Model Innovation Matters

The BMI Lab Blog

Learnings from sports competitions Competition in business is similar to sports competitions – there are winners and losers. But what is the “secret sauce” of winning athletes and companies? Together the changes in different dimensions of a company’s business model can add up to massive improvements.

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Innovation 2015 or Five Lame Excuses?

Gregg Fraley

Innovation ca feel a lot like that — your competition is a big tough impossible-to-beat player like Superman. Here’s the thing, like the inept and psychologically damaged journalist Jimmy Olsen, even a dysfunctional company that heretofore hasn’t managed to get innovation going can start now.

LEAN 40
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Getting Board Buy-In for Your Innovation Project

IdeaScale

For innovation to thrive in a company, it must be prioritized at every level. When there is company-wide buy-in for an innovation project however, these challenges can be overcome more easily, and there is far less chance for the project to go uncompleted. Want to know more about how innovation is changing business at every level?

Project 185