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The trough of innovation disillusionment

Paul Hobcraft

We are already in or heading for a trough of innovation disillusionment. We are witnessing even more incremental creep; we have lost the effect of serendipity, the “wow” factor, the moment something happened that changed our world. Innovation gets exciting when you stumble across something, totally unexpected. So we stay bored.

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The New Innovation Need: Organizing within a Networks of Collaborators

Paul Hobcraft

Our existing organization needs to envisage a changing world full of disruption that calls for radical change. It ‘upends’ much, if not all, of how our business organizations have been organized around, mostly within themselves, it is needing radical change. The Status Quo is history.

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The New Innovation Need: Organizing within a Networks of Collaborators

Paul Hobcraft

Our existing organization needs to envisage a changing world full of disruption that calls for radical change. It ‘upends’ much, if not all, of how our business organizations have been organized around, mostly within themselves needing radical change. It calls for bold management to instigate such a transformation.

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Seeking fresh winds and new directions

Paul Hobcraft

When you feel the force of change running through the organization, you tend to have that same sensation, to resist the force with all your energy. Ignoring the power of choice within change is dangerous. Constructing a climate for any transformation is hard. Context is the vital ingredient often never told for innovation.

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Successful Innovators Apply Multiple Leadership Styles Simultaneously

Innovation 360 Group

Leadership styles are critical to innovation efforts, especially when working with uncertainty. In the resulting report, they identified several factors that were positively correlated with the successful execution of innovative concepts. Radical Innovators more adaptive. The Fertile Field. The Pac-Man. The Explorer.

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The core principles of Leading FOR Innovation

Cris Beswick

At the helm of this radical evolution stand leaders who are pioneers, visionaries, and, most importantly, adept at catalysing novel ideas into reality. Above all, fostering the culture that innovation requires is an arduous undertaking, potentially the most demanding a leader may face. It’s for those that I write this article!

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Rethinking the measuring of innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Leaders want to hear this, the sad true is getting a ‘decent ROI’ for innovation constructed (note constructed) is really hard. If the innovation is new to the world, how can it have a clear financial return on investment until much later? We need to appreciate new innovation balance sheet thinking.