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11 female innovation leaders share their definition of innovation

Idea to Value

I spoke to 11 of the world’s leading female innovation experts to get their definition of “innovation” The variety in their responses may surprise you. 15 experts share their innovation definition in order to answer the question of “What is innovation?” What is your definition of “innovation”?

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Building the Innovation Business Case

Paul Hobcraft

The ‘ fit for purpose ‘ in strategic and innovation intent, definitions of success, the core values, sense of mission. In our view any initial innovation examination requires to explore four key ‘health’ indicators. What are the expectations and the environment you chose to compete in3.

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Confronting Your Darwin Effect through Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

The journey has forced me into terrain that presented diverse challenges to achieve fresh insights and traversed many a rugged landscape to get closer to my goal of offering organizations their innovation fitness and future landscape design, one designed to alter their present capabilities and capacity to innovate radically.

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The lost innovation pathway

Paul Hobcraft

I was recently working through a set of older presentation files and came across this extract concerning innovation again and thought I must share this. ” Innovation fits with a designer’s definition of design: the ability to move from the existing to the preferred. Credit Chrisnaton, Flickr. The Innovation Pathway.

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Please, we need a different Innovation narrative

Paul Hobcraft

The work undertaken is often seen as a drain, not repeatable, and poor on the efficient definition of understanding we have in place today as the work undertaken, not yielding the returns if the concept is more radical due to time horizons or business model constraints. Often innovation activity frustrates senior management.

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The Energy Transition Needs A Structured Innovation Process

Paul Hobcraft

All of us are at present, caught up in the terrible spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). Although we feel trapped in the present, worried over daily events and what they might mean, we must look beyond, we do need to look towards the future, to recognize there are challenges ahead but equally opportunities.

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You need a why and a how, not a what, for innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

Doing so without a definitive why and lacking the how is almost impossible. Supplemented with a definitive "how" Nietzsche is quoted as saying "if you have the why for your life you can endure almost any how". When you have a why (strategy) and a how (process) then innovation opportunities will regularly present themselves.