Ecosystems4Innovating

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Introduction to the Hierarchy: The Hierarchy of Business Ecosystem Needs is a construct of collaborative ecosystems, navigating complexity with agility, openness, and shared vision. Integrative leadership leveraging strengths from all layers Leadership drives the complete interconnected Ecosystem.

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Collaboration Design Leadership Competition 64

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 24, 2023

That group should possess a deep understanding of the existing organization’s strategy, business models, operations and culture and a wider appreciation of the innovation landscape, the “fields of opportunity” and the emerging practices of innovation management. What should be in a “typical” innovation mandate?

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Innovation Programs Technical Review Innovation Policies 189

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Within the value proposition, we actively shape these journeys, building adaptability, agility and innovation for long-term success in the changing business environment we all face today. A landscape and the navigation skills that provide the adaptability and agility needed for successful innovation in the current business landscape.

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Change Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Agile 173

Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

During our recent Innov8rs Learning Lab on Innovation Strategy, Leadership, Governance & Portfolio Management, we asked Christian Stumpf (Co-Founder & Program Manager TenneT PowerLab at Tennet) these questions. How to make them work? What is the best way to maximize their potential?

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Learning Management Video Project 104

Ecosystems4Innovating

JANUARY 30, 2024

Outcome: Market Leadership: Increased market share and competitiveness. Strategic decision-making for economic expansion and market leadership. Application: Implement agile development methodologies, allowing for the rapid integration of innovative solutions into the collaborative framework.

Collaboration 64

Collaboration Competition Guidelines Leadership 64

Planview

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Here is a brief look into this year’s winners: Chevron Nicolas Cooper, Portfolio Strategy Senior Analyst Chevron’s Environmental Management Company (EMC) manages remediation and asset retirement obligations for over 650 sites across the United States.

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Agile Technical Review Collaboration Project 59

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Moreover, through CVC, corporations can tap into the startup ecosystem , leveraging agility and innovative mindsets. Competitive Advantage Gaining a leading edge in the market by leveraging startup agility and creativity. Business Model Innovation Adopting novel approaches to business operations and customer engagement.

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Strategy Strategy Technical Review Agile 100

Planview

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

It’s true for all disciplines and describes the project portfolio management (PPM) market for several reasons. Consider these changes faced by PMOs in recent years: The call to infuse agility and become a modern PMO. Why is the project portfolio management market continuously evolving? That challenge will only intensify.

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Project Management Technical Review Generative AI 52

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 22, 2016

Research shows a lack of engagement in non-managers, also there are claims through studies that 7 out of 10 of employees do not understand how they can make a worthwhile contribution. The Executive Innovation Work Mat approach has seven domains that need specifically describing by the leadership of an organization for innovation alignment.

Leadership 100

Leadership Innovation Engagement Strategy 100

Tullio Siragusa

JUNE 7, 2022

Lack of leadership, poor organizational culture, and unprepared people lead to failed integration of mergers. The most common reasons for failure are: People struggle to work with long checklists since it is difficult to manage the details. Some activities require an agile approach rather than the waterfall model. ?

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Design Thinking Design Culture Project 156

Planview

JANUARY 30, 2024

Pulling from the survey responses of 600 executives, the report uncovers five areas of concern — alignment, accountability, resources, agility, and culture — and a recommended action for each area. Effective change management is required for sustained success in delivering strategic initiatives. Let’s get started.

Change 52

Change Report Survey Culture 52

Tim Kastelle

MAY 8, 2016

This suggests following a dual approach for balanced corporate innovation management. In the following, I will outline a model that attempts to help organizations implement a dual approach to innovation management. Therefore, it’s titled a model for integrative innovation management.

Innovation Management 100

Innovation Management Management Innovation Idea Management 100

ImagineNation

MAY 9, 2019

With a national election for a new Australian government about to take place in less than a weeks’ time, it raises key questions around the impact of collaborative, autocratic or competitive leadership styles. Many voters, like myself, to question as to what leadership style might be best for our country’s future.

Collaboration 40

Collaboration Leadership Creativity Culture 40

IM Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Susie shares what good leadership behaviour looks like, the problems with short-term thinking and how to carve out the necessary space for a strategic approach to innovation. Founder of Mulberry Retreats – focusing on leadership development. 14:00) On bad leadership behaviour and how not to fund projects. (16:00)

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Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Innovation Training 59

Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

As part of our recent The Innovator’s Handbook 2023 launch event, we discussed this (and more) with Frank Mattes (CEO at Lean Scaleup), Sean Sheppard (Managing Partner at U+), and Susana Jurado (Head of Wayra Builder at Telefónica). Why can it be so hard for corporates to launch substantial new businesses? Business Building: Pros and Cons.

Innovation Management 52

Innovation Management Management Handbook LEAN 52

Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

We all manage something or other, whether it’s other people, an entire organization, sales or even just ourselves. Managing suggests careful planning, a well-thought-out direction and a sense of control. What if we applied that definition of management to opportunity? Opportunity Manager Defined. Action, Not Reaction.

Management 44

Management Trends Disruption Agile 44

Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

At the beginning of 2013, Tim Kastelle and I identified four key issues in innovation management for the time to come. Leadership through vision and influence, rather than command and control, is required. Recently, experimentation in innovation management is particularly facilitated by intensified use of (rapid) prototyping.

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Innovation Management Management LEAN Technical Review 100

Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

Then, have a process for aligning strategy (which pulls you forward) with budgeting (which anchors you backward) with project governance (which is usually a total mess) with people’s incentives. She is consistently ranked among the Top 10 management thinkers in the world and was ranked #1 for strategy by Thinkers50. Twitter: rgmcgrath.

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Innovation Technical Review Creativity Leadership 246

Ecosystems4Innovating

JANUARY 10, 2024

Agile Decision-Making: Foster an agile decision-making process that allows for rapid adjustments based on feedback from various ecosystem stakeholders. Boundary-Spanning Leadership: Cultivate leaders who can span organizational boundaries, fostering collaboration while respecting the autonomy of individual participants.

Collaboration 52

Collaboration Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Agile 52

Planview

OCTOBER 19, 2023

“To serve citizens well, governments will need to be more integrated. William Eggers, Mike Turley, Government Trends 2020, Deloitte Insights, 2019 As the digital-first world further intensifies the urgent need for faster IT modernization across the U.S.

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Agile Software Tools Project 52

ImagineNation

JANUARY 4, 2023

We stated that innovation-led growth is absolutely critical and that people need to be enabled and equipped to adapt, connect and collaborate in new ways to kickstart change in agile, constructive, equitable, and sustainable ways to innovate in uncertain times.

Change 52

Change Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Culture 52

Christensen Institute

MARCH 22, 2022

A shared vision for 21st-century student success enabled these schools to effectively utilize “leadership tools” to rally and empower school stakeholders to solve emergent challenges. A mission-driven, agile culture that prioritized relationships was also a common feature of prepared schools. Click To Tweet.

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Technical Review LEAN Culture Agile 90

Ecosystems4Innovating

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Hence, it has all the technology, governance and structure to enable the group to communicate, exchange and build the (emerging) solution to work and then have the structure for it to (rapidly) scale. Organizations constantly search for Agility and Flexibility: A marketplace approach allows for agile evolution.

Design 64

Design Agile Software Review Technical Review 64

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Strategic leadership is prevalent and nurturing, and valued- what are ours? Impact of innovation expected through strategic leadership. Building agility and responsiveness to constantly changing market conditions. Connecting Knowledge Management with finding ongoing Business Value. The scale of innovation impact desired.

Technical Review 147

Technical Review Innovation Collaboration Roadmap 147

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 9, 2020

A tough part of managing within larger organizations is in reducing the layers and competing forces, the underlying tensions that innovation (uncertainty) brings out? To the shareholder demanding immediate results but also to the management to hide behind this to create unnatural built-in tensions and often create a shearing effect.

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Innovation Design System Creativity 253

ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Transformation and change initiatives are usually designed as strategic interventions, intending to advance an organisation’s growth, deliver increased shareholder value, build competitive advantage, or improve its speed and agility to respond to fast-changing industries, in a disruptive business environment.

Change 52

Change Technical Review Agile Creativity 52

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 20, 2016

This lack of alignment and top leadership engagement is one of the main issues on why many organisations seem to just simply ‘limp’ along in their innovation activity. Top leadership in organisations need to shape innovation and be more involved in its strategic design. Agility Innovation / Ovo Innovation All rights reserved.

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Leadership Innovation Strategy Strategy 113

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 20, 2016

If an organisation lacks top leadership engagement it becomes, for many, the reason why they seem to just simply ‘limp’ along in their innovation activity, delivering ‘simply’ incremental outcomes. Top leadership in organisations need to shape innovation and be more involved in its strategic design.

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Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Innovation Strategy 113

Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

At our recent Innov8rs Connect on Strategy, Leadership & Organization, Jeffrey Phillips (Senior Strategy and Innovation Consultant) discussed what it takes to build an innovation capability for continuous innovation. Yet sporadic innovation is not enough to keep up with changing markets and evolving demanding customer needs.

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How To Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Culture 59

ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Describing how innovative health systems, through necessity, constraints , and adversity have exploited this moment in time, to innovate: “The urgency of addressing COVID-19 has also led to innovations in biotech, vaccine development, and the regulatory regimes that govern drug development so that treatments can be approved and tried faster.

Technical Review 64

Technical Review Innovation Agile System 64

Integrative Innovation

MARCH 20, 2016

In previous posts, I have shared my view on important cornerstones for successful innovation management systems. As pointed out several times, balanced and up-to-date innovation management requires organizational ambidexterity, i.e. the capability to explore novel offerings and capabilities while simultaneously exploiting existing ones.

Innovation Management 40

Innovation Management Management Innovation Idea Management 40

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Jeff Horing, cofounder and managing director of private equity and venture capital firm Insight Partners, believes that the task of scaling up a rapidly growing technology company is so difficult and complex that it may require two CEOs. But they are manageable. Without innovation, inertia will govern speed.

Strategy 130

Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team LEAN 130

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

Those of us burdened with a legacy system and a management holding onto the past glorious days then your days seemed numbered. A key need of this digital transformation is going to be asking the question of how can we build in ‘greater agility’ and what is presently stopping us from achieving this.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Roadmap Agile Engagement 100

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Moreover, CVC initiatives can enable corporations to respond more swiftly to technological shifts by leveraging startup agility. The process includes reviewing legal documents, financial records, intellectual property, and conducting interviews with the management team.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Engagement Marketing Competition 100

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

This requires senior management attention because of the significant organisational impact. The leadership within an organisation provide the linkage into the strategy, provide the framework and set this in the context of the vision and goals needed to be achieved. The compelling value is in having an integrated innovation framework.

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Innovation Strategy Strategy Exercises 124

ImagineNation

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The outcomes included increased cohesion, collaboration, and agility, making them resilient and sustainable as high performing and fast-moving effective teams – who responded quickly to change, often in the face of disruption and adversity. Especially in a competitive and globalized world, where speed and agility matter most!

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Underperforming Technical Team Disruption Culture Leadership 45

Innovation Architecture

MARCH 5, 2018

The IAOIP, a non-profit professional society, seeks to raise the level of knowledge amongst the professionals working in the field of innovation management. People involved in innovation management will find the IAOIP a valuable resource. Some came from federal and municipal government. Some came from academia.

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Innovation Management Management Underperforming Technical Team Culture of Innovation 40