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

IdeaScale

In addition, leaders help innovators know how far to stretch: Are incremental solutions needed that can be implemented simply and quickly or should innovators reach for bold, disruptive ideas that enable the organization to stake out new territory? Establishing a Future-driven Business Strategy. The post Are you a Direction Setter?

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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? Innovation means change, and change can be quite disruptive and emotionally charged. Organization silos prevent cross-boundary collaboration and limit the scale, speed, and impact of innovation.

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Innovation Management in 2023: Venture Building & Scaling

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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). Beyond the hype, are we seeing investments in "business building" paying off?

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Barrier Buster: Clearing the Way for Breakthrough Ideas

IdeaScale

Innovation means change, and change can be quite disruptive and emotionally charged. The organization’s relentless commitment to operational excellence prevents anything new and disruptive from being tried and tested. Organization silos prevent cross-boundary collaboration and limit the scale, speed, and impact of innovation.

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Be the Architect: Designing an Integrated Innovation System

IdeaScale

An effective innovation architecture offers alternative routes for approval, funding, and implementation for a range of projects of various size, scope, and disruptive potential: For ideas that fit within the boundaries of their own departments, managers can set aside an innovation budget for ideas they expect will arise between budget cycles.

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Be the Architect: Designing an Integrated Innovation System

IdeaScale

An effective innovation architecture offers alternative routes for approval, funding, and implementation for a range of projects of various size, scope, and disruptive potential: For ideas that fit within the boundaries of their own departments, managers can set aside an innovation budget for ideas they expect will arise between budget cycles.

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The dos and don'ts of innovation shared by 10 global leaders

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Easily the first lesson in the innovation handbook, asking “why” and “what-if” will set the ball rolling. Companies such as the construction company Mirvac has separate spaces designated for innovation where people from diverse teams collaborate for projects and workshops, thereby accelerating transformation.