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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. It’s not uncommon for corporate boards to lack strong expertise in the areas of innovation and technology. Taking an innovation project from idea through execution is challenging, and there can be obstacles at several places along the journey.

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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. A lack of understanding innovation in all its forms is coming back to haunt them.

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Why We Are Entering A New Innovation Era.

Paul Hobcraft

I wrote this recently in a post entitled “ Bringing New Innovation is Stretching the Mind “ It opened with this view: “There is a profound shift taking place, relating to innovation. Each of these is a link to the post itself: Bringing New Innovation Together Is Stretching the Mind, Posted on October 25, 2016.

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These companies failed because leaders did not want to hear bad news: The Ostrich Effect

Idea to Value

We had a target to hit, and I was responsible for producing the reporting for the rest of the leadership team (of which he was one), but as time went on it became clearer and clearer that it would be impossible to hit the target, which would have an impact on the overall team budget. In essence, ignore problems instead of acknowledging them.

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The secret to this government department’s innovation success: Small teams

Idea to Value

Is it possible for government agencies to innovate? In the video above, Haley Van Dyck outlines how her teams at the United States Digital Service used the skills and techniques of Silicon Valley to effect real change in departments which were in dire need of innovation. Do you like insights into innovation like this?

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Four Innovation Paradoxes driving disruption

Innovation 360 Group

There are a number of well-documented key drivers for innovation and global disruption, as discussed in this blog. There are innovations in business models, in value propositions for underlying services and products, in sales and marketing, as well as in internal structures such as processes and organisations.

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Think Your Business Will Exist in 10 Years?

BrainZooming

.” Outgoing Cisco CEO, John Chambers, told the company’s customers that in 2015. Three years hence, is your leadership team challenging itself to think, plan, and innovate strategically to land on the right side of future success? Download your FREE copy of Disrupting Thinking.