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Creative Construction – Book review

The Inovo Group

Well-respected Harvard Business School professor and HBR contributor Gary Pisano has weighed in on the topic of large company innovation in his new book ‘Creative Construction’. He makes a compelling case that being ‘large’ doesn’t have to mean being non-innovative, or growing only through the acquisition of innovative start-ups.

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Successful Innovators Apply Multiple Leadership Styles Simultaneously

Innovation 360 Group

While much has been written on choosing the most promising innovation project and helping it succeed in the market after implementation, one crucial step in the middle hasn’t received enough attention: how to actually get the job done and done well. Radical Innovators more adaptive. The Fertile Field. The Pac-Man.

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The trough of innovation disillusionment

Paul Hobcraft

We are already in or heading for a trough of innovation disillusionment. Over time our organizations are finding increasing reasons to put off the more radical innovation that is needed. So we stay bored. Much has become totally underwhelming. Our business organizations are loving the ‘playing it safe’ routine.

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The New Innovation Need: Organizing within a Networks of Collaborators

Paul Hobcraft

We are fairly clear that incremental innovation is just not cutting through to give the types of growth expected. There are many outside our existing organizations, standing impatiently at the gates, waiting to come in and take over with market breaking concepts through different business models.

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The core principles of Leading FOR Innovation

Cris Beswick

Leaders who champion innovation understand its role in driving competitive advantage, increasing market share, and, often, creating entirely new markets. Embracing the reality of continuous volatility Remaining relevant means staying vigilant to the constant changes initiated by customers, markets, regulators, employees, etc.

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The New Innovation Need: Organizing within a Networks of Collaborators

Paul Hobcraft

We are fairly clear that incremental innovation is just not cutting through to give the types of growth expected. There are many outside our existing organizations, standing impatiently at the gates, waiting to come in and take over with market breaking concepts through different business models.

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Four reasons why corporate startups fail (and how yours can be succesful)

whataventure

This is when the idea for MOBIKO was born, as the team wanted to break up this “either-or” construct and create a sustainable and demand-oriented mobility benefit that serves all employees equally. For corporates, radical innovations are, in most cases, a nice-to-have or the cherry on top of the cake. DOWNLOAD GUIDE.