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Innovation needs Time, Talent and Temperment

Jeffrey Phillips

The idea I'd like you to contemplate until my return is that we are all making innovation far too complicated, and we need to stop dressing up the activity with lots of talking points and stop working ourselves and our management into a tizzy about commitments and investments. Of course all of these are important.

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How Corporate Venture Builders Succeed (and Why They Even Care)

Innov8rs

It’s easy to say “we need a growth engine”. To succeed with corporate venture building, lean on one of the main resources you already have: your people. The Five Traits of a Corporate Venture Builder Most corporate venture teams don’t include natural entrepreneurs and great investors who “see around corners”. They: · Are doers.

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How to Set Department Goals: 5 Useful Tips

CMOE

Establishing the right department goal and roadmap is key to overcoming companies’ execution challenges and obstacles. Defining measurable goals allows you to track progress and make adjustments where necessary to stay on course. How can we leverage these assets? Weaknesses: What are we not doing well? The results?

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Expert Interview Series: Jennifer Riggins of Happy Melly On Growing Your Brand Using Collaboration And Innovation

IdeaScale

Don’t love the word “component” kicking off the first question – we aren’t talking about Ford’s pieces on an assembly line that have mostly been replaced by robots, we’re talking about human beings, usually working in knowledge and creative-based jobs, albeit toward a common goal.

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Purpose Driven Innovation

Gregg Fraley

Without a Clear Purpose, Innovation Drifts Off Course. It may seem obvious but unless you know who you are, and what your purpose is, as an organization you will flounder. If everyone else is jumping off the Design Thinking bridge shouldn’t we? Do Purpose First, Select a Framework, Then Do Projects. Which is best?

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Relating to the New Innovation Era

Paul Hobcraft

I firmly believe we are on the cusp of a new innovation era. When you step back and recognize all the different advancements we have making in designing tools and frameworks, in understanding innovation, it holds promise. Now we have to weave them together. Of course, much of what we have will still remain.

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The Problem With Problems

Leanstack

Front and center was this high-level roadmap along with a checklist: The rest of the links in the document were tactical how-to guides for attracting prospects, running interviews, testing offers, and designing MVPs. Taking the First Business Model Snapshot “Set a timer for 20 minutes and take a first snapshot of your idea on a Lean Canvas.”

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