Christensen Institute

JANUARY 4, 2024

Innovations making career-connected learning more student- (versus employer-) centric. That said, career readiness may be one of the last-standing bipartisan issues in education, regardless of which party comes out on top. With that in mind, I’ll be watching innovations that put students at the center of career-connected learning.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 17, 2024

The Power of Team Innovation Keynote Speakers Keynote speakers hold a pivotal role in setting the tone and driving the theme of corporate events, conferences, and leadership programs. Their impact can often extend beyond the event, influencing long-term team dynamics and innovation.

Team Building 130

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Tullio Siragusa

JULY 31, 2023

The pursuit of personal fulfillment and passion often takes a backseat to the societal pressure to ascend the corporate ladder. The Choice to Step Down Senior executives, such as a Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), are at the peak of their career, wielding immense power and influence.

Guidelines 118

Guidelines Leadership Examples Culture 118

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

What to consider before you walk away from a corporate career.

Entrepreneurship 79

Entrepreneurship Management 79

BrainZooming

JANUARY 16, 2024

Here’s an admission: spending my corporate career at one company in the business-to-business world, we had to fight for focused time to innovate. This was especially true in the early years. It improved later when we had an Idea Magnet as our CMO.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Throughout his career, he has done ground-breaking research on how digital technologies are changing the world. His big idea is that “geeks” have created not only the technology that’s driving our future but also a management approach that defines contemporary corporate excellence.

Management 105

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Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Skill enhancement leading to diverse career paths. Incorporating Design Thinking into the Unemployment Phase Design Thinking isn’t just a buzzword for the corporate world; it can be a lifesaver during unemployment. Maybe it’s time for a career change or to dip your toes into freelancing?

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Viima

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

He originally earned a PhD in Chemical Engineering and later added an MBA from Wharton, and he has a long and storied career spanning over three decades. He’s been an entrepreneur, consultant, corporate executive, board professional, and a lot more.

Innovation 88

Innovation Leadership 88

Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Ariana Smetana, founder and CEO of AccelIQ Digital Could you tell us about your career journey and how you became involved in innovation? My career journey is rather unconventional, as I built my career by reinventing myself and transforming instead of remaining in the steady career climb in a corporate fold.

Open Innovation 105

Open Innovation Collaboration Innovation Technology 105

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

A former corporate leader learns how to plot a new career as an entrepreneur.

Entrepreneurship 89

Entrepreneurship Leadership Learning How To 89

Innov8rs

JANUARY 17, 2024

Never a dull moment in corporate innovation… so they say. Late December, we hosted a global conversation with leading experts sharing their perspective about what will (not) change for corporate innovation in 2024. The year 2023 brought many challenges to tackle, and yet as many opportunities to explore. Here's what they shared.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Ariana Smetana, founder and CEO of AccelIQ Digital Could you tell us about your career journey and how you became involved in innovation? My career journey is rather unconventional, as I built my career by reinventing myself and transforming instead of remaining in the steady career climb in a corporate fold.

Open Innovation 94

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Destination Innovation

DECEMBER 20, 2020

They may have heard stories of people whose careers ended when they tried something which went badly wrong. This perception may be wrong but, in corporate culture, perception is reality. .’ Employees think that experimentation and risk taking are discouraged.

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

One question many innovators face at some point in their careers is whether to work in a large, corporate organization, or in a small start up or consultancy. Today I want to revisit and update a blog I wrote a few years ago for LinkedIn that discussed some pros and cons of consultancy versus corporate.

Innovation 106

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Innov8rs

AUGUST 22, 2023

To succeed with corporate venture building, lean on one of the main resources you already have: your people. Based on his experience as a corporate innovation lead and startup founder, Christian believes in talent and teams first. Yet corporate venture builders by default have a unique profile as well. Can this be done better?

Marketing 52

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Could you tell us about your career journey and how you became involved in innovation? My career journey is rather unconventional, as I built my career by reinventing myself and transforming instead of remaining in the steady career climb in a corporate fold.

Open Innovation 52

Open Innovation Crowdsourcing Innovation Technology 52

Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Innovation teams have too little information or context about corporate direction, strategy, funding mechanisms or risk tolerance to decide whether or not the ideas they've created are useful or meaningful. FOMAD indicates career concerns Fear of making a decision is also generated when careers are made or lost on a big project.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Exercises Resources 221

Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Topics covered in today’s episode: 03:00 – what innovation managers do after they leave their position in corporations, and how long they stay in their positions. 08:30 – the new research on the makeup of innovation portfolios and time spent on innovations in corporations (core, adjacent, transformational innovations).

Innovation Management 146

Innovation Management Management Case Study Innovation 146

BrainZooming

MARCH 9, 2023

I guess it probably had to be early in my corporate career when market research became a greater focus in my job. I’m not sure when I first realized that one of my life’s passions was collecting questions. If you have questions that work in one situation, you definitely want to make sure you use them again.

Creative Thinking 52

Creative Thinking Creativity Marketing Strategic Thinking 52

IdeaScale

AUGUST 1, 2017

In a fast-paced corporate environment where there are many expectations and a steady stream of work, how (and more importantly) why, would you carve out time to contribute to your company’s new ideation platform? This customer in particular was interested in the impact of career advancement opportunities on participation volume.

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Crowdsourcing Ideation Innovation Management Engagement 223

Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 31, 2022

Except in pockets where companies or governments are simply unwilling to replace older technology (like COBOL), it is risky to bet your career or company on simply extending or maintaining current platforms. Only 20% of the people I've worked with in large corporations want to risk working on new products and services.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

For most corporations, failure is abhorrent, because failure signals a breakdown in an existing product, risk, an inability or unwillingness to follow an established process. Then, people go on to careers or professions, where they are expected to get the right answers, conform to existing processes and systems.

Learning 157

Learning Underperforming Technical Team Creativity Company 157

IdeaScale

JULY 13, 2021

Yet what Manuel Moreno, the company’s corporate director of innovation, noticed was that ultimately the approach was time and location dependent. They sent out emails, engaged with team huddles, put up posters, and engaged the c-suite to speak about it in their corporate messaging.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Tell us about your career journey to date? So far, I’ve only had one other corporate job before Planview; everything before was in the service industry or through college. I liked working on delivering a lot more than I like project management, so I knew I wanted something focused on problem-solving for the next step in my career.

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Planview

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Tell us about your career journey to date. People care about each other, and it doesn’t feel as distant as a large corporation. What is the biggest lesson you’ve learned as you’ve moved up in your career? A few years into my career, I quit my job and moved to Japan for three years. I love working from home.

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Design Collaboration Meeting Groups 98

IM Insights

AUGUST 23, 2022

Oliver is sharing insights from his accomplished career in corporate innovation. 01:00) Introducing Oliver and how his ambidextrous corporate abilities to successfully ‘explore’ and ‘exploit’ might be rooted in his upbringing and background. (06:30) 16:30) The influence Lean Startup had on our lives and careers. (20:30)

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Daniel Burrus

MARCH 16, 2022

If you have participated in my Anticipatory Leader System , it is likely clear to you: sales is an Anticipatory career. In many cases, your career itself is only successful if this connection between someone and their needs are met and maintained. So as mentioned above, sales is one of the most Anticipatory-minded careers out there.

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Trends Technology Disruption Change 79

Brunner

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Certainly, I didn’t think the next 30 years of my career would be devoted to it. An ‘Internet Tech’ Career Path: Dumb Luck or Planned Destiny? “For those of us who made a career out of internet tech, was it dumb luck to be in the right place at the right time?” I believe that it’s a mindset, not a skill set.

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Business and Tech

AUGUST 13, 2021

Former corporate banker and “Bachelorette” contestant Jason Tartick teaches millennials how to manage student debt and invest in their future. Can you give us a little background about your life as a corporate banker? As a corporate banker, I managed the finances of companies that earned revenues of over $100 million dollars.

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Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

MARCH 31, 2024

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Design Thinking 52

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The perception of a negative impact on our personal environment is forcing a rethink to reflect on making changes in jobs and careers, where and how we live, who we want to spend it with (or if we can), what and how we spend our free time and most importantly forcing us to question where we are going.

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Innovation Change Disruption Resources 328

Brunner

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Kimberly joined Brunner’s account management team in August 2022, bringing in-depth experience from roles she has held in corporate and nonprofit settings. She clearly belongs on the BMAA’s list and frankly will likely be named to many more lists before her career ends,” said Brunner Managing Partner Jeff Maggs.

Marketing 52

Marketing Meeting Industry Leadership 52

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Here’s how to build it into your corporate culture. Leading organizational change to create a corporate culture that delivers continuous innovation is one of today’s most strategic business imperatives. But how does trust relate to employees inside of organizations and corporate cultures?

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 25, 2018

I was shocked to see in my calendar that it’s exactly 30 years since I exited my corporate career as a top retail executive at the now defunct Coles-Myer Group. I also realized that it’s also my 30-year anniversary as a serial entrepreneur who is not only still in a SME business, but is ploughing.

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Groups Entrepreneurship Change Innovation Management 80

Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 8, 2020

What we may not appreciate is how similar Columbus's journey to success is to many who are trying to innovate in corporate settings. What Columbus shares with corporate innovators Columbus was actually a stranger in a strange land. In this way, Columbus is like a corporate innovator. He did not have the resources to do it.

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Innovation Project Resources Learning 167

Ankush Chopra

JANUARY 9, 2021

The Single Biggest Weakness of Corporate Training Programs But when it comes to in-house corporate training, case method is rarely used. This absence of cases is the single biggest weakness of corporate training programs. In my corporate career, I went through many training programs across companies.

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

But both U2 and Madonna have something to tell major corporations about how to stay relevant for decades: reinvent yourself. Paul Simon had to go to South Africa to revive his sound and career after decades in the music industry. If reinvention is important, how does a corporation reinvent itself? How do we reinvent?

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