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Are you a Direction Setter? How to Bring the Future into Focus

IdeaScale

One that offers the organization’s most creative people a sandbox in which they can operate. As a direction setter, you must go beyond the data and tell a compelling story about future potential that engages people more deeply and inspires them to bring their creative best. Establishing a Future-driven Business Strategy.

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Creating Innovation Connections as the Customer Advocate

IdeaScale

These insights can become the inspiration sparks of your group’s creative thinking. Bezos took a strong stand that the company must not create a business strategy designed only to protect their existing business when their customers clearly wanted something else. Support staff to engage in open innovation with customers.

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The Innovative Mentor

IdeaScale

Innovators face a wide mix of business strategy and interpersonal challenges on their road to success. Leaders who have experience in these areas can offer timely guidance to help innovators successfully navigate this multidimensional path. The organization lacks proper incentives for innovation.

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Be the Architect: Designing an Integrated Innovation System

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Other times, by limiting responsibility for innovation for a specific department, organizations underutilize the creative capabilities of other employees. One example of a tool that cuts through the bureaucracy and enables employees at all levels to develop their innovative ideas is CO-STAR.

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Be the Architect: Designing an Integrated Innovation System

IdeaScale

Other times, by limiting responsibility for innovation for a specific department, organizations underutilize the creative capabilities of other employees. One example of a tool that cuts through the bureaucracy and enables employees at all levels to develop their innovative ideas is CO-STAR.

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Top 10 must-read books on Innovation

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Being innovative or creative looks like an inherent trait to most of us, doesn’t it? However, if you’ve been one of those lucky ones who had “creativity” as an academic discipline at school, you’d know that it can at least be nurtured. And now, we are back to finding ways to use our creative energies to build something of value.

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Awaken Your Inner Venture Capitalist

IdeaScale

Venture capitalists are good at finding, choosing, and bringing the creative ideas of others to market. If innovators “pitch” their ideas and value propositions, leaders in the venture capitalist role are the ones who “catch”; they are the authorities who will decide the fate of the innovators’ dreams.

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