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Seeking out knowledge that feeds our innovations

Paul Hobcraft

We need to find the determination to underpin the capacity for innovation, lying within us all, and that comes from knowledge and education through collaborative learning. Organizations need to move well beyond their lazy reliance on best practice comparison and they need to find better ways to explore emerging practices.

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The Pirate Approach to Innovation Leadership: How Thinking Like a Buccaneer Can Create Value for Your Enterprise

Qmarkets

However, the good news is that there are a few attributes of the privateer persona that can and should be emulated to enhance your innovation leadership skills (and we should emphasize that this doesn’t involve getting anyone to walk the plank). Good innovation leadership means remaining focused on three distinct horizons.

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The Pirate Approach to Innovation Leadership: How Thinking Like a Buccaneer Can Create Value for Your Enterprise

Qmarkets

However, the good news is that there are a few attributes of the privateer persona that can and should be emulated to enhance your innovation leadership skills (and we should emphasize that this doesn’t involve getting anyone to walk the plank). Good innovation leadership means remaining focused on three distinct horizons.

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The State of Innovation Management in 2015 Just Released

Paul Hobcraft

These included leadership issues, concerns and needs, secondly the poor way we seem to be spending our innovation budgets, thirdly some handy lists of the benefits of collaborating seen from both the large and small organizations perspective.

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Are you having fun riding the innovation waves?

Paul Hobcraft

This certainly involves investing a lot into getting a certain clarity and perspective, through researching constantly, finding fresh insights, sifting through comparisons, discussing and exploring them, so as to eventually determine the value to specific challenging environments and different organisational maturity levels.

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Overcome resistance and capture growth in the Financial Services Industry

Innovation 360 Group

Those that follow this model often collaborate with FinTechs and start-ups through various means: innovation fairs, competitions, and small seed investments, to identify prospects. In addition, our research shows culture, leadership, and capability of handling uncertainty as top drivers of resistance. How has this changed?

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Expert Q&A: Michael Stilger on Performance Excellence and the Continuous Improvement Process

Qmarkets

The greatest success stories I’ve seen are ones where strong leadership establishes a culture of performance, quality, and innovation and embraces technology to deliver their goals and capitalize on the collective genius of their employees, customers and partners. Technology can be a blessing or a curse.