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The Importance of Staying Scrappy in an AI-Driven Era

Tullio Siragusa

Assign small teams unreasonable deadlines to build creative solutions. Empower Autonomous Teams While AI can optimize complex processes, unpredictability is best handled by empowered teams closest to the customer interface. Frontline teams must be trained as mini-CEOs, not just operatives.

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Innovation isn’t supposed to be fun

Idea to Value

The exact set of skills obviously depends on the innovation in question , but the key is having all of them within the core team, and in the correct proportion to what you’re trying to achieve. They’ve just done nothing about it – or have failed and eventually quit. So, make sure your team consists of “creators”, not “creatives”.

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Do you recognize your innovators leaders position?

Paul Hobcraft

Often innovation succeeds or fails by the personal involvement and engagement of a ‘selected’ few. He was constantly questioning the status quo and challenging (extremely hard) the team around him with constant how, what if, what else, why not type questions. So can you recognize the traits of your innovation leader?

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Four reasons why corporate startups fail (and how yours can be succesful)

whataventure

Four reasons why corporate startups fail. Especially in the case of corporate startups and intrapreneurship teams, there is a set of specific challenges that make the success of their idea even more difficult. You lack motivation in your team. and how yours can be successful). In the case of MOBIKO, the setting was similar.

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5 Ways Employee Engagement Impacts Continuous Improvement Culture

IdeaScale

Enable teams to streamline busywork. According to Accessperks blog, 97% of employees say they are happier and more efficient when they are tackling new, challenging work. If you want your team to adapt and grow your organization, employee engagement is a key factor to consider. De-Silo Your Teams. Transparent Autonomy.

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Design Thinking the People-centric Modern Organization

Tullio Siragusa

As an organization you might fail to solve problems effectively if you do not initially identify the issues impacting the people that make up the organization. This engagement must not be confine to just your team. Develop Design Thinking Skills on Your Team. Through empathy, we can design products, and services for people.

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Taking Final Ideas to Market is the Hardest Part

Paul Hobcraft

Much of Europe’s hard work in the discovery and validation stages fail to gain scale due to this lack of sustaining commitment until the concept is firmly established. Suddenly it is down to a small team to tackle this execution stage and all it means. So easy to say, yet it does seem so very hard to achieve.

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