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Is Your Innovation Problem Really a Strategy Problem?

Tim Kastelle

They have responded to these changes in their competitive environment and have started to position themselves as the most innovative firm in their market. I’ve been teaching innovation courses to groups of their both their senior and future leaders for a couple of years now to try to help them build this innovation capability.

Strategy 249
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Innovation project or Innovation Capability?

Jeffrey Phillips

No, today I want to talk about the differences and problems when companies focus on innovation as a discrete project, versus what they really need, innovation as a competency or capability. Then, a problem or opportunity is defined, a team designated, and the proposition is defined as an innovation activity.

Project 209
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Putting Brainstorming in its place

Jeffrey Phillips

Strange that the activity that should be the easiest, most natural activity in an innovation process is singled out as the most complex, difficult and dangerous. But fact alone highlights how poorly understood the entire innovation process is. Brainstorming is a group technique to generate, socialize and evaluate ideas.

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What do we expect from Innovation? Mostly disappointment

Paul Hobcraft

I mean anyway “we really don’t believe in innovation, it all is full of risk, uncertainty and those unknowns and that is the last place to go when you are fighting in a different set of market conditions, isn’t it?”. So where does innovation sit within your organization? Two reports recently came out. Now that is shocking!

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Training is an Innovation Accelerant II

Gregg Fraley

When I step into a room to facilitate an innovation, strategy, or idea generation session I always find a great deal of energy. Inexperience in: the kind of divergent thinking necessary to innovate, in specific meeting behaviors and facilitation skills, and in innovation process, approaches and frameworks.

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Streamlining Success – How Continuous and Disruptive Innovation Examples Can Inform Business Transformation

Qmarkets

Sometimes it seems like organizations, even large enterprises, live and die by their ability to implement innovations that completely redraw the market landscape, putting them at the forefront. But do these disruptive innovation examples reflect the strategy that all companies should adopt?

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Is Your Innovation Problem Really a Strategy Problem?

Tim Kastelle

They have responded to these changes in their competitive environment and have started to position themselves as the most innovative firm in their market. I’ve been teaching innovation courses to groups of their both their senior and future leaders for a couple of years now to try to help them build this innovation capability.

Strategy 100