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Guest Blog – Innovation is a Company Wide Responsibility

ImagineNation

These authors never talk about what happens after an innovation program reaches sufficient maturity that it’s ready to leverage the organization’s resources into a successful implementation. The “business as usual” program will always win. Breakthrough innovation programs take longer and have a lot more risk.

Company 40
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Why “Path-to-Value” is Crucial for Corporate Innovators

Imaginatik

Recent conversations with a new Imaginatik client, from late 2017, have stuck with me these past few months. It highlights the importance of a new concept that every corporate innovation leader needs to internalize: the Path-to-Value for each innovation. Executives are hoping for big things from the innovation group.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. Innovation at GE was on a roll. — In June 2017, the board “retired” Jeff Immelt and promoted John Flannery to CEO. Since then Flannery has replaced Immelt’s vice chairs responsible for innovation. Jeff Immelt ran GE for 16 years. Then it wasn’t.

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Companies betting big on open innovation

hackerearth

Also, Deloitte announced a partnership with McLaren Applied Technologies in mid-2017. Deloitte uses its expertise in various industries to connect the dots between innovative technologies or approaches and companies. Deloitte also has several Innovation Centers to tackle issues in various sectors.

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The role of hackathon in the process of innovation

hackerearth

According to the 2017 Global hackathon report , more than 50% of hackathons conducted worldwide are recurring. Companies such as Facebook and Cognizant use hackathons as tools for sustained innovation. Discovery is the act of choosing your area of focus for innovation. An innovation program cannot get agiler than this.

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Innovation is a Company Wide Responsibility

ImagineNation

These authors never talk about what happens after an innovation program reaches sufficient maturity that it’s ready to leverage the organization’s resources into a successful implementation. The “business as usual” program will always win. Breakthrough innovation programs take longer and have a lot more risk.

Company 52
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Are Legacy Approaches to Talent Inhibiting Your Innovation Efforts?

Swarmvision

This blog was originally published in InnovationManagement.se at on August 9, 2017. In the article, the author argues that companies need to take a fresh approach to innovation talent in order to realize stronger business results from innovation programs. What Is The Legacy Approach to Innovation Talent?