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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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Nothing new under the innovation sun

Jeffrey Phillips

I rise today to praise Innovation Leader and Innosight on their publication of the 2015 Innovation Benchmarking Report. From what I can see of this report it is an excellent synopsis of the state of play of innovation in 2015. The only real head scratcher, from my perspective, is what we are supposed to take away from the research.

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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 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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The Case for Dual Innovation

Tim Kastelle

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. Accenture: 2015 US Innovation Survey. decoupling of leadership, funding, staffing and metrics between exploration unit and core business.

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Will Jack Dorsey “Get It” At Twitter?

Adam Hartung

Facebook is so dominant that even muscular Google, with all its resources, abandoned its efforts to compete with the juggernaut by killing Google+ (which had 300M MSUs) earlier in 2015. Pinterest and Instagram are battling it out for leadership in photo sharing. Success will not happen by cutting costs in either.

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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.