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DECEMBER 18, 2023

” This underscores the necessity of cultivating a progressive mindset within leadership before honing the requisite skillset for high performance. Overemphasising Conformity: Traditional business education often leans towards conformity, emphasising established norms and best practices.

Culture 69

Culture Creativity LEAN Agile 69

Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

Accelerating dynamics and pace of disruption in most industries, in particular triggered by the perfusion of new technologies, lead to decreasing life times of existing business models. Recent research has confirmed successfully disrupting as well as outperforming companies to be significantly more engaged in business model innovation.

Innovation Management 100

Innovation Management Management LEAN Technical Review 100

Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

I say ‘Leading FOR Innovation’ instead of the usual narrative of ‘Innovation Leadership’ because it’s not about making the leaders themselves ‘innovative’ but about leaders being able to build and lead an organisation where genuine innovation (not innovation theatre!)

Innovation 59

Innovation Culture Creativity Disruption 59

Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

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). Why can it be so hard for corporates to launch substantial new businesses? Business Building: Pros and Cons.

Innovation Management 52

Innovation Management Management Handbook LEAN 52

hackerearth

MARCH 5, 2018

They promote innovation leadership. Some common examples of diverse leadership roles that are reinforcing innovation in their respective companies include GE’s “Chief Experience Officer” and Taco Bell’s “Chief Food Innovation Officer”, among others. They adhere to lean principles of product development. They are tech-savvy.

Company 77

Company LEAN Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 77

Planview

JULY 15, 2022

The information collected in these Q&As will act as valuable assets for anyone wanting to make clear the real need for more adaptive product development and to show that an accelerated process is still highly possible, even in the face of consistent disruptions.

Product Development 52

Product Development Agile LEAN Survey 52

Planview

JUNE 3, 2022

At Planview, we believe that the real value of planning is the collaborative process itself, not necessarily the plans; deviating from the plan (or pivoting the plan) is neutral-positive, as long as it is intentional and informed and aligned with the strategic direction. Strategic drift is deviation from the agreed-upon direction.

Course 52

Course LEAN Agile Strategy 52

Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Vision & Leadership 1. Senior team not aligned or embracing Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. But if you don’t start believing that you need to disrupt yourselves before somebody else does, you’re likely going to get disrupted by somebody else.

How To 98

How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 98

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The significance of selecting the right corporate event speaker lies in their potential to spark new ideas, encourage collaboration, and drive the organization towards a culture of continuous innovation and growth. Thought Leadership Contributions to the discourse on innovation via publications, media appearances, etc.

Engagement 130

Engagement Technical Review Meeting Culture 130

Tim Kastelle

APRIL 30, 2016

Similarly, about 70 percent of disruptive innovators also lean toward a more centralized approach. Companies that cling to rigid innovation approaches are more likely to fail at creating space for disruptive innovation or nurturing new ideas. Engine 2 efforts are disruptive and potentially game changing. Source: Detecon.

Disruption 100

Disruption Innovation Survey Study 100

Innov8rs

AUGUST 22, 2023

It’s easy to set an ambition to create a pipeline and portfolio of new ventures and investments that disrupt existing markets and create new ones. To succeed with corporate venture building, lean on one of the main resources you already have: your people. Is leadership really on board, and do they put their money where their mouth is?

Marketing 52

Marketing Roadmap Disruption Management 52

Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

Vision & Leadership. Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. If you absolutely can’t get alignment across the senior leadership team, find the champion(s) that most align with your innovation thesis and partner with them to get some early success stories.

How To 109

How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 109

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The basics of innovation still form around building the engagement, leadership, and involvement , in constructing a culture, the climate and environment needed , so as to allow innovation to evolve and thrive. Then there is that need for a constant investment in people , in our networks and relationships , that all need to come together.

Technical Review 174

Technical Review Innovation System Change 174

The Inovo Group

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Collaborative Concept Evaluation to Enhance Decision Making under Uncertainty In the course of working with hundreds of companies on multiple innovation initiatives, the difficulties of getting a transformational new product, service or business model accepted within a company is a matter of fact. A set of concepts to be evaluated.

Leadership 52

Leadership Groups Product Development System 52

Innovation Excellence

JUNE 15, 2020

The consulting industry was already being disrupted before the coronavirus. Now the disruption is accelerating. I’ve already written about how the management-consulting industry is being disrupted by various trends like emerging technologies, the commodification of knowledge, and outdated business models.

Change 55

Change Software Review Disruption Technical Review 55

Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Vision & Leadership. Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. If you absolutely can’t get alignment across the senior leadership team, find the champion(s) that most align with your innovation thesis and partner with them to get some early success stories.

How To 83

How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 83

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 24, 2016

A Question: If you could ask those that lead innovation, your senior organizational leadership, a series of question that might help unlock innovation blockages, now would that be valuable? What would happen if you could get the leadership in a room together to discuss innovation which would allow innovation dialogues to emerge?

Innovation 145

Innovation Leadership Management Culture 145

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

The integrated framework was constructed in a collaboration with Jeffrey Phillips over at Ovo Innovation and then I added a post for building this integrated framework out from this by taking out specifically, the Business Case building as an important need. Valuing an integrated framework- introducing the Executive Innovation Work Mat.

Crowdsourcing 199

Crowdsourcing Innovation Engagement Design 199

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

Consultants are not addressing many of the changes occurring and ignoring opportunities to adapt to different circumstances, they are simply not putting up a strong case of their engagement by redesigning their business models or opening themselves up to different forms of collaboration. Consultants are far too cautious for their own good.

Innovation 60

Innovation Collaboration Technical Review Leadership 60

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Industry borders are blurring, there are increasingly smaller, agile and highly disruptive companies working to change the existing into the new preferred. Established players that continue to choose the familiar are at increasing risk of missing out. The whole concept of cross-industry is to seek out new ideas.

Industry 215

Industry Trends LEAN Change 215

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 24, 2016

A Question: If you could ask those that lead innovation, your senior organizational leadership, a series of questions that might help unlock innovation blockages, now would that be valuable? What would happen if you could get the leadership in a room together to discuss innovation which would allow innovation dialogues to emerge?

Innovation 145

Innovation Leadership Management Culture 145

Innovators Alliance

AUGUST 8, 2022

Phillip founded PUBLIC in 2008 to disrupt the way companies think about doing “good”. They are looking for leadership to speak out and act as a beacon to propel action on important social and environmental issues. So a well defined purpose is critical to both deciding when to lean in and how to engage. 4 – Take a stand .

How To 52

How To Examples LEAN Policies 52

Qmarkets

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Rapidly changing customer behaviours, disruptive digital technologies, and the emergence of agile fintech start-ups means that disruption is an ever-present danger. There has never been a more critical time for financial firms to prioritize innovation.

Software Review 40

Software Review Crowdsourcing Technical Review Project 40

InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2021

As challenging as Covid has been, it has highlighted many flaws in our systems thus forcing innovation and disrupting industries, education not excluded. Then go beyond talking about it, and create opportunities for them to collaborate and work on their ideas. That’s where lean methodology comes up.

Learning 81

Learning Culture of Innovation Innovation Culture 81

Moves the Needle

MAY 12, 2016

There’s a pervasive myth that suggests that all big companies need to get better at disruptive or breakthrough innovation. At Intuit, MTN Co-Founder Aaron Eden started the snowball by running “LeanStartIN” workshops under the radar to teach lean startup to small handfuls of colleagues. They don’t. And they can’t anyway. No one can.

Company 64

Company Underperforming Technical Team LEAN How To 64

Tim Kastelle

MARCH 13, 2016

But incumbents would be willing to make changes if a new technology proves to be truly disruptive and the long-term benefits are worth it. Most companies will continue to favor a “safer” approach in the time ahead, even while facing disruption. Innovation is not accomplished solely by one company any more.

Innovation Management 100

Innovation Management Management Underperforming Technical Team Big Data 100

Guide 4 Innovating

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Many holding leadership positions in our organizations are uncomfortable with innovation, it is too intangible, it often seems to ‘sit’ outside the normal processes and structures. It becomes even harder when innovation is often added to increase a person’s responsibilities. This different way of thinking needs surfacing.

Innovation 74

Innovation Management Learning Culture 74

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

We do know we need to re-equip ourselves for constant disruption; we are really beginning to see a shift from the classic bell curve into more of a shark fin for adopting change. You often hear of volatile trading conditions, a more complex market and situations changing constantly and moving faster than ever.

Change 100

Change Design Agile Competition 100

Wazoku

OCTOBER 11, 2016

JG: Is it possible for the large incumbents to compete with nimble Fin Tech businesses or is it all about collaboration? Innovation whatever size of company you are requires collaboration. CB: As above one of the biggest blockers to innovation is a lack of ability to collaborate effectively.

Culture of Innovation 40

Culture of Innovation Innovation Collaboration Culture 40

Wazoku

OCTOBER 11, 2016

JG: Is it possible for the large incumbents to compete with nimble Fin Tech businesses or is it all about collaboration? Innovation whatever size of company you are requires collaboration. CB: As above one of the biggest blockers to innovation is a lack of ability to collaborate effectively.

Culture of Innovation 40

Culture of Innovation Innovation Collaboration Culture 40

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 10, 2016

The basics of innovation still form around building engagement, leadership, involvement, in constructing a culture, the climate and environment needed, so as to allow innovation to evolve. The shifts taking place has been hugely shaped in how digital transformation continues to grow in its importance.

Innovation 150

Innovation Change Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 150

ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

It’s tempting to blame such resistance as “aversion to change” and “closed-mindedness” but the real problem is that the Innovation Team was working in a walled-off garden, and no one benefits when any group is throwing things over walls instead of working collaboratively across fluid boundaries. Katherine lives in Camas, Washington.

Company 52

Company Innovation Programs Innovation Product Development 52

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 28, 2016

Finding time to read and extend our thinking is a real struggle and going that extra mile to read thought leadership views can be a step to far, I know but I can’t help myself, it is part of my job and certainly for me, many are really worth it. In that post I was recommending Deloitte and their thought leadership as a good place to visit.

Design Thinking 100

Design Thinking Design Analysis Learning 100

The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 16, 2019

A successful, Fortune 50, corporate innovation group has been continuously creating strategic innovations for almost two decades – through numerous leadership and organizational changes. It requires certain commitments and behaviors on the part of both company leadership and the strategic innovation group. Highlights.

System 53

System Innovation Groups Leadership 53

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Finding time is a real struggle and going that extra mile to read thought leadership views, long often drawn out reports or academic papers can be a step too far, I know but I can’t help myself, it is part of my job and certainly for me, many are really worth the read in a positive end result of new learning. Minimum Viable Transformation.

Design Thinking 100

Design Thinking Analysis Design Learning 100

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Industry borders are blurring, there are increasingly smaller, agile and highly disruptive companies working to change the existing into the new preferred. Established players that continue to choose the familiar are at increasing risk of missing out. The whole concept of cross-industry is to seek out new ideas.

Industry 100

Industry Trends LEAN Change 100

Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

Accelerating dynamics and pace of disruption in most industries, in particular triggered by the pervasion of new technologies, lead to decreasing life times of existing business models. Recent research has confirmed successfully disrupting as well as outperforming companies to be significantly more engaged in business model innovation.

Underperforming Technical Team 40

Underperforming Technical Team Big Data Innovation Technical Review 40