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Innovation Management in 2023: Leadership & Strategy

Innov8rs

With a potential recession in sight and inflation, layoffs, and other geopolitical issues challenging the ability to protect traditional forms of competitive advantage, innovation is our only option. What we've learned since then is that, just like everything else, competitive advantages have a life cycle. Those days are over.

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Are you a Positive Role Model for Innovation?

IdeaScale

However, there is one more very important aspect to innovation leadership. Being a good role model for innovation, or any other key leadership competence, means being conscious of your own behavior and recognizing where you are on your own developmental journey. There is no Innovation without leadership. Innovation is not easy.

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Creating Innovation Connections as the Customer Advocate

IdeaScale

As the customer advocate, you’ll need consistent habits that help you: Stay informed about customer satisfaction and the competitiveness of your offerings. In the next installment of the Leading Innovation series, we’ll dive deep into systems and processes with the architect leadership role.

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6 Agile Transformation Challenges Facing Post-Pandemic Leaders

Planview

Real Agile transformation requires buy-in at every level of the organization, consistently, over a long period of time – but specifically leadership. And it requires all of leadership to manage this change within the organization as they are learning themselves. Read Next: The Agile Manager’s Handbook.

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Culture Creator = Sustainable Innovation

IdeaScale

As products, technologies, business models become commodities over time, your corporate culture can become the source of reinvention and your only enduring competitive advantage. The importance of fostering beliefs and behaviors that encourage innovation within your team and organization cannot be overstated.

Culture 100
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Innovation Management in 2023: Open Innovation & Partnerships

Innov8rs

Ben Yoskowitz (Founding Partner at Highline Beta) and Helene Niklasson (VP Innovation Ecosystems and Partnerships and Head of CampX at Volvo Group) joined us for our recent The Innovator’s Handbook 2023 launch event. Yet the urge to boost, fund, and pilot sustainable innovation in their supply chains is stronger than the competition itself.

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Be the Architect: Designing an Integrated Innovation System

IdeaScale

What is your competitive Advantage over alternatives? In a large enterprise, each of these functions in the organization likely has its own set of leaders, so the Architect role requires building a leadership coalition that fully commits to and enables innovation. What is the full potential of the Opportunity ?

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