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Are you a Positive Role Model for Innovation?

IdeaScale

Be willing to collaborate with other units and promote your team members’ ideas to others in the organization. You are welcome to download the entire chapter of Leading Innovation: Ten Essential Roles for Harnessing the Creative Talent of your Enterprise. Offer balanced feedback on new ideas (e.g., Be inquisitive.

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Are you a Direction Setter? How to Bring the Future into Focus

IdeaScale

One that offers the organization’s most creative people a sandbox in which they can operate. As a direction setter, you must go beyond the data and tell a compelling story about future potential that engages people more deeply and inspires them to bring their creative best. They work hard to create a compelling vision of the future.

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Innovation Management in 2023: Culture & Talent

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During our recent The Innovator’s Handbook 2023 launch event, Apoorva Shah (Vice President of Innovation at Wiley) and Cassandra Galloway (Head of Strategic Workforce Transformation at Zurich Insurance) dove into the crucial topic of innovation culture, as summarized below. What's needed to build high-performing innovation teams?

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Culture Creator = Sustainable Innovation

IdeaScale

Getting to a place where courage, creativity, and collaboration is the norm for addressing problems or pursuing opportunities can be difficult. Be a role model, and act in ways that promote a safe, trusting, and collaborative environment. It is often said, “the soft stuff is the hard stuff.” And the costs are real.

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Creating Innovation Connections as the Customer Advocate

IdeaScale

These insights can become the inspiration sparks of your group’s creative thinking. Strong innovation usually emerges from collaborative, hands-on or observational experiences that take place on the front lines with customers. Your team, unit, division, and even enterprise should know what is most important to your customers.

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The Innovative Mentor

IdeaScale

When is it time for individual vision and when is it essential to collaborate and build a strong team with a shared vision? Organization silos prevent cross-boundary collaboration and limit the scale, speed, and impact of innovation. When is it time to stick to an idea, and when is it time to listen to others and change course?

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Barrier Buster: Clearing the Way for Breakthrough Ideas

IdeaScale

Often, managers are required to play the role of a barrier buster to ensure the team’s creativity delivers bottom line results for the business. Organization silos prevent cross-boundary collaboration and limit the scale, speed, and impact of innovation. Idea champions are rarely recognized and rewarded for their efforts.